The Real Story of Medical Cannabis: Myths Debunked – Dr. Gill CBD Supplements and Cannabis generally are those sorts of …
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Interesting but slightly contradictory. You are seeking quality evidence for benefit, but youve strongly condemned THC based on your observational and anecdotal cases of psychosis. In these cases did you allow for confounding factors? What proportion of total THC users that youve come across were those who had harmful effects? Were they as significant as say statins or even the covid jab etc etc. Medical opinion should be balanced but it rarely is.
I disagree. I have multiple sklerosis and without a healthy mix of THC and CBD i cannot function. The pain would otherwise require opiates. My short-term memory gets destroyed without cannabis. My left hand is not in constant tremor, because of cannabis. I can walk stairs if a good hand rail is available.
Only drugs from a pharmacy are acceptable for inhaling? The griphold of the pharmaceutical industry is worse than the Israel Lobby. Smoked cannabis used to be prescribed for asthma patients.
I spoke to my GP and they too didn’t know the Endocannabinoid system.
Me being an average joe knew about it 10 years ago.
I find it incredulous you have doctors out here having zero knowledge about this universal system yet acting omniscient about it being negative; compromised by medicine which is nothing less but prescribed drugs pushed by a corrupt pharmaceutical industry lobbying and greasing.
No wonder I have limited respect for complexed Doctors that sneer with such limited knowledge.
THC should be regarded in the same way that we regard alcohol. We put a percentage and a number of units on our drinks so that we do not drink a pint of 49% proof spirits. We literally measure spirits in fingers, why do we insist on saying "THC" like a 10% strain is the same as a 30% strain. We should be educated to know to sip our high thc content strains, and have a glass of low content strains. The way to get there is decriminalisation so that the purchasing is made available safely and with detailed content information. By the logic of some idiots making themselves paranoid being why we should keep weed illegal then really alcohol needs to go because hospitals are filled with drunks who constantly abuse it. If we have to pick one, why can't it be the one that isn't an overdose risk, and doesn't result in thousands of road fatalities. The fundamental understanding of cannabis use in terms of how we should safely administer doses and in what quantities is completely missing from our cultural discourse
This has always been a big personal interest of mine, simply because there is so little research about it. When I had cancer my uncle ‘convinced’ me to use CBD and THC oil while undergoing chemotherapy to help with nausea and to “get cured faster”. Mind you I was 16 at the time and these oils are technically illegal where i’m from, so I never discussed it with my doctor. I ended up only using it for about 3 months because I could no longer stomach the taste of it (thankfully). Honestly I used it because my uncle was so convinced by it and I figured I might as well give it a shot, but I never got any answers whether it would actually have any benefits. To be fair i didn’t really struggle with nausea, but I did have bad mental fog and to this day have chronic fatique among other things. Is it because of cannabis or because of chemo? Guess i’ll never truly know😅
Research the medical journal Cannabis & Cannabinoid Research; the most cited journal on the topic. Cannabis can effectively treat cancer…don't clutch your pearls, now…
Thank you for the information! Regarding THC as a dangerous drug – are the children with epilepsy who require 'whole plant' CBD which includes THC at risk? Is Sativex dangerous as it has THC?
Im on medical THC, its not very strong compared to smoking it directly. I take it for sleep and I would tick the box it works. I awake much more refreshed than I used to, even with sleeping pills. Cant comment on any other benefits, I haven't found any
Thanks for making this topic so accessible to non medical people such as myself. It was a great primer that provides me with a framework to incorporate new infomation as it comes to hand. Cheers.
At medical and personal standpoints, inhaling drugs are the worst one can do to his own body, especially if the narcotics are atomized. From a personal view, the drug is as "healthy" as he***n and coc***e.
Thank you Dr Gil for identifying your prejudice and correcting it with facts. I am believed to have fibromyalgia after doctors have ruled everything else out. CBD combined with regular sleep, low sugar diet, and aerobic exercise has had the biggest effect in relieving my symptoms without causing the extreme side effects that gabapentin & other similar drugs caused. So your hypothesis of the endocannabinoid system being out of balance is a very good hypothesis! Hopefully there can be many more studies on not just CBD but on CBG, CBC, and the other cannabinoids in the plant.
10:28 – 11:16 "Now, before i go any further down that line, i want to be very clear i've personally cared for many patients of whom smoking cannabis has been a terrible decision for them – and has left them, from a mental health perspective, with significant harms, many of those long-standing.
So, just because we've got a bit of knowledge about how cannabis might work on the body, doesn't mean it's going to magically change my mind, that, actually, all of these claims are true.
But, it does recognize that i need to open up to the idea that i really don't know as much as i thought that i did.
After all, there are many drugs, such as opiates, Gabapentin, Amitriptyline… which are incredibly useful medications. But, are, also, dangerous drugs of abuse."
Hey how you feel i yreat uou like a 5 year child cant even breath propper and slowly changeing color ? Would you like that doesnt matter if your a lawyer or law enforcement ? Well that is how it feels like trying to breath thruogh marijuana and cannabis without a gasmask boy or girl.. would you like to be that child and i be your parent chokeing you to death ? Would you like it ? I dont give a CARP IF YOUR OLDER THEN ME OLD MAN OR YOUNG MAN DAME WITH THE LADY'S OLD LADY AND YOUNG LADY ALL YOU ARE JUST A CHILD WAITING TO CHOKE YOU BAN THE MARIJUANA BULL CRAP I MAKE SURE YOU TIED TO A BUMPER OF A CAR TO THE END OF THAT EXHAUST PIPE WHILE ITS RUNNING .!
A cautionary note for anyone with hypothyroidism- there are studies suggesting that CBD lowers your TSH levels and/or interacts with levothyroxine. It messed with my last test and my dose was reduced, I stopped using it and now I'm forced to be very tired until my next test
According to the United Nations, 158.8 million people around the world use marijuana—more than 3.8% of the planet's population You are saying THC isn't safe, yet after alcohol and caffeine it is the most widely consumed substance on earth. THC is associated with exponenitally less harm than alcoohl of prescription medications. Characterizing CBD as safe and THC as dangerous is itself dangerous, especially as it is related to combining CBD with other prescription medications.
All medications (and herbs) have pros and cons and this THC bad, CBD good dichotomy is not the whole story.
Lastly, you need to cover other cannabinoids as well because cannabis is SO much more than THC and CBD
The endocannabinoid is best described as a "master regulatory system" and it's found in every vertebrate on planet earth! Cannabis is medicine, but it's an imperfect medicine. We must stay humble, curious, and honest! Thanks for the review!
I came here to argue ALL your points but you are so unbelievably biased and uneducated I don't think it would matter. I hope you don't do any more "research" on this topic. Please go back to "happily prescribing" your brainwashed clients with opiates and benzos you quack
I wish all YTers were honest and as transparent as you. You could have easily accepted that promo like most do without any real research on the product/service they are promoting.
I appreciate your commitment to an impartial assessment of this popular drug. I would welcome further videos on CBD. For the record I have tried tried it for anxiety and sleep and found it moderately helpful. However I found my concentration suffered somewhat. Probably best to use at bedtime after the day's tasks are done. Also I found its costs fairly high for 40 mg a day and hence not very affordable. Getting good exercise is free and hence a better long term approach for me.
I have ADHD and ASD, and CBD has absolutely changed my life, I can operate in the world without becoming over stimulated and having my mental health absolutely destroyed, I have lost weight, I have been more mentally stable, and I sleep much better at night. I was very skeptical at the beginning, but I was DESPERATE, I was going absolutely insane and I was willing to try anything, and I picked up bottle of CBD oil and followed a few suggestions I found on ASD forums, and man oh man, what a difference, wonderful stuff, love CBD. THC is not as pleasant to me, sadly.
I highly recommend watching videos by Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience at the university of California Berkeley. He talks indepth regarding the effects of CBD/Cannabis and what affect it can impose on our habits and sleep patterns.
Anything that interupts the natural evolutionary process of sleep and its stages e.g. rem & deep sleep, are highly suspect and need the utmost scientific expreimentations. I'm undecided on this issue as there are pros and cons to each side. Thank you Dr Gill
How come nobody talks about anandamide the sanskrit word for bliss , Raphael Mechoulam discovered this but not doctor is educated in this , I feel all doctors that have a opinion on cannabis should look in to this first blessed be
it would be fair for you to be more neutral when you facilitate so much prescription benzos and you should really tell people not to drink alcohol with the tablets but they all do and you know that
Interesting but slightly contradictory. You are seeking quality evidence for benefit, but youve strongly condemned THC based on your observational and anecdotal cases of psychosis. In these cases did you allow for confounding factors? What proportion of total THC users that youve come across were those who had harmful effects? Were they as significant as say statins or even the covid jab etc etc. Medical opinion should be balanced but it rarely is.
I disagree. I have multiple sklerosis and without a healthy mix of THC and CBD i cannot function. The pain would otherwise require opiates. My short-term memory gets destroyed without cannabis. My left hand is not in constant tremor, because of cannabis. I can walk stairs if a good hand rail is available.
Only drugs from a pharmacy are acceptable for inhaling? The griphold of the pharmaceutical industry is worse than the Israel Lobby. Smoked cannabis used to be prescribed for asthma patients.
i don't understand people who put taboccoe with they weed i smoke weed not taboccoe.😊
Do you know the numbers needed to treat with stating to prevent mi in primary prevention
If you admit you have a bias, conversation is over.
Thank you, this is great insight on this topic.
I spoke to my GP and they too didn’t know the Endocannabinoid system.
Me being an average joe knew about it 10 years ago.
I find it incredulous you have doctors out here having zero knowledge about this universal system yet acting omniscient about it being negative; compromised by medicine which is nothing less but prescribed drugs pushed by a corrupt pharmaceutical industry lobbying and greasing.
No wonder I have limited respect for complexed Doctors that sneer with such limited knowledge.
THC should be regarded in the same way that we regard alcohol. We put a percentage and a number of units on our drinks so that we do not drink a pint of 49% proof spirits. We literally measure spirits in fingers, why do we insist on saying "THC" like a 10% strain is the same as a 30% strain. We should be educated to know to sip our high thc content strains, and have a glass of low content strains. The way to get there is decriminalisation so that the purchasing is made available safely and with detailed content information.
By the logic of some idiots making themselves paranoid being why we should keep weed illegal then really alcohol needs to go because hospitals are filled with drunks who constantly abuse it. If we have to pick one, why can't it be the one that isn't an overdose risk, and doesn't result in thousands of road fatalities. The fundamental understanding of cannabis use in terms of how we should safely administer doses and in what quantities is completely missing from our cultural discourse
This has always been a big personal interest of mine, simply because there is so little research about it. When I had cancer my uncle ‘convinced’ me to use CBD and THC oil while undergoing chemotherapy to help with nausea and to “get cured faster”. Mind you I was 16 at the time and these oils are technically illegal where i’m from, so I never discussed it with my doctor. I ended up only using it for about 3 months because I could no longer stomach the taste of it (thankfully). Honestly I used it because my uncle was so convinced by it and I figured I might as well give it a shot, but I never got any answers whether it would actually have any benefits. To be fair i didn’t really struggle with nausea, but I did have bad mental fog and to this day have chronic fatique among other things. Is it because of cannabis or because of chemo? Guess i’ll never truly know😅
Research the medical journal Cannabis & Cannabinoid Research; the most cited journal on the topic. Cannabis can effectively treat cancer…don't clutch your pearls, now…
IDIOT
Thank you for the information! Regarding THC as a dangerous drug – are the children with epilepsy who require 'whole plant' CBD which includes THC at risk? Is Sativex dangerous as it has THC?
Seen many a life derailed due to smoking weed. Stay away if I were you. I would deem it unwise
Im on medical THC, its not very strong compared to smoking it directly. I take it for sleep and I would tick the box it works. I awake much more refreshed than I used to, even with sleeping pills. Cant comment on any other benefits, I haven't found any
Don't smoke it. Don't go near it if you have any kind of psychosis. But lets not forget……
No one has ever died from an overdose of Cannabis directly that we know of.
Let that sink in.
Thanks for making this topic so accessible to non medical people such as myself. It was a great primer that provides me with a framework to incorporate new infomation as it comes to hand. Cheers.
I'd love for you to research psychedelics and their therapeutic uses.
Great video, but food for thought. Imagine thinking an opiod is a better choice than a cannabinoid.
Every drug, pharmaceutical or not has pros and cons. You just have to figure out if the pros outweigh the cons for you. Marijuana is no different.
At medical and personal standpoints, inhaling drugs are the worst one can do to his own body, especially if the narcotics are atomized. From a personal view, the drug is as "healthy" as he***n and coc***e.
Thank you Dr Gil for identifying your prejudice and correcting it with facts. I am believed to have fibromyalgia after doctors have ruled everything else out. CBD combined with regular sleep, low sugar diet, and aerobic exercise has had the biggest effect in relieving my symptoms without causing the extreme side effects that gabapentin & other similar drugs caused. So your hypothesis of the endocannabinoid system being out of balance is a very good hypothesis! Hopefully there can be many more studies on not just CBD but on CBG, CBC, and the other cannabinoids in the plant.
10:28 – 11:16
"Now, before i go any further down that line, i want to be very clear i've personally cared for many patients of whom smoking cannabis has been a terrible decision for them – and has left them, from a mental health perspective, with significant harms, many of those long-standing.
So, just because we've got a bit of knowledge about how cannabis might work on the body, doesn't mean it's going to magically change my mind, that, actually, all of these claims are true.
But, it does recognize that i need to open up to the idea that i really don't know as much as i thought that i did.
After all, there are many drugs, such as opiates, Gabapentin, Amitriptyline… which are incredibly useful medications. But, are, also, dangerous drugs of abuse."
Hey how you feel i yreat uou like a 5 year child cant even breath propper and slowly changeing color ? Would you like that doesnt matter if your a lawyer or law enforcement ? Well that is how it feels like trying to breath thruogh marijuana and cannabis without a gasmask boy or girl.. would you like to be that child and i be your parent chokeing you to death ? Would you like it ? I dont give a CARP IF YOUR OLDER THEN ME OLD MAN OR YOUNG MAN DAME WITH THE LADY'S OLD LADY AND YOUNG LADY ALL YOU ARE JUST A CHILD WAITING TO CHOKE YOU BAN THE MARIJUANA BULL CRAP I MAKE SURE YOU TIED TO A BUMPER OF A CAR TO THE END OF THAT EXHAUST PIPE WHILE ITS RUNNING .!
A cautionary note for anyone with hypothyroidism- there are studies suggesting that CBD lowers your TSH levels and/or interacts with levothyroxine. It messed with my last test and my dose was reduced, I stopped using it and now I'm forced to be very tired until my next test
please make it short and informative
it would be good to hear your take on psilocybin
According to the United Nations, 158.8 million people around the world use marijuana—more than 3.8% of the planet's population
You are saying THC isn't safe, yet after alcohol and caffeine it is the most widely consumed substance on earth. THC is associated with exponenitally less harm than alcoohl of prescription medications.
Characterizing CBD as safe and THC as dangerous is itself dangerous, especially as it is related to combining CBD with other prescription medications.
All medications (and herbs) have pros and cons and this THC bad, CBD good dichotomy is not the whole story.
Lastly, you need to cover other cannabinoids as well because cannabis is SO much more than THC and CBD
The endocannabinoid is best described as a "master regulatory system" and it's found in every vertebrate on planet earth!
Cannabis is medicine, but it's an imperfect medicine. We must stay humble, curious, and honest! Thanks for the review!
This was super interesting and I found it informative, I'm gonna go smoke a bowl now 😁
I came here to argue ALL your points but you are so unbelievably biased and uneducated I don't think it would matter. I hope you don't do any more "research" on this topic. Please go back to "happily prescribing" your brainwashed clients with opiates and benzos you quack
Thank you for sharing a very balanced perspective.
So are they allowed to faulty label the product and say it’s something it’s not? Just wondering 🤔
I wish all YTers were honest and as transparent as you. You could have easily accepted that promo like most do without any real research on the product/service they are promoting.
It's so funny to me when people quit smoking cigs but they continue smoking weed like they're completely eliminating all harm by dropping cigs.
So much of what you have to say about THC is value judgement, which is hardly scientific.
I appreciate your commitment to an impartial assessment of this popular drug. I would welcome further videos on CBD. For the record I have tried tried it for anxiety and sleep and found it moderately helpful. However I found my concentration suffered somewhat. Probably best to use at bedtime after the day's tasks are done. Also I found its costs fairly high for 40 mg a day and hence not very affordable. Getting good exercise is free and hence a better long term approach for me.
I have ADHD and ASD, and CBD has absolutely changed my life, I can operate in the world without becoming over stimulated and having my mental health absolutely destroyed, I have lost weight, I have been more mentally stable, and I sleep much better at night. I was very skeptical at the beginning, but I was DESPERATE, I was going absolutely insane and I was willing to try anything, and I picked up bottle of CBD oil and followed a few suggestions I found on ASD forums, and man oh man, what a difference, wonderful stuff, love CBD. THC is not as pleasant to me, sadly.
I highly recommend watching videos by Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience at the university of California Berkeley. He talks indepth regarding the effects of CBD/Cannabis and what affect it can impose on our habits and sleep patterns.
Anything that interupts the natural evolutionary process of sleep and its stages e.g. rem & deep sleep, are highly suspect and need the utmost scientific expreimentations. I'm undecided on this issue as there are pros and cons to each side. Thank you Dr Gill
Thank you for being as unbiased as possible! It's refreshing to see such honest and educated content online!
How come nobody talks about anandamide the sanskrit word for bliss , Raphael Mechoulam discovered this but not doctor is educated in this , I feel all doctors that have a opinion on cannabis should look in to this first blessed be
it would be fair for you to be more neutral when you facilitate so much prescription benzos and you should really tell people not to drink alcohol with the tablets but they all do and you know that