📹 Watch the full video here or on YouTube after reading — it will bring these ideas vividly to life.
📘 What This Post + Video Cover:
1️⃣ The ancient biological bond between cannabis and the human body
2️⃣ How the endocannabinoid system (ECS) works — and why it matters
3️⃣ Evolutionary science behind our responsiveness to cannabinoids
4️⃣ A look at THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids through a medical lens
5️⃣ Historical suppression of cannabis and the AMA’s forgotten protest
6️⃣ The real science behind cannabis and driving performance
7️⃣ The Rick Simpson Oil protocol — promise vs limitations
8️⃣ What we’re still getting wrong in modern medicine
🌱 Is It Really Just a Plant?
If the human body contains a system with receptors that respond perfectly to a compound found in cannabis… is that coincidence? Or evolutionary design?
This isn’t stoner speculation. The endocannabinoid system is real. It regulates pain, appetite, inflammation, sleep, mood, and even memory — and it’s older than the human spine. It’s been identified not only in mammals but also in sea urchins, leeches, and even a freshwater polyp.
Cannabis doesn’t just “happen” to interact with our bodies. There’s increasing evidence that we’ve evolved together, locked in a biochemical dance stretching back over 1.2 billion years.
That’s older than flowers. Older than dinosaurs. And yet modern medicine, until recently, pretended it didn’t even exist.
🧠 Why Would a Plant Fit So Perfectly Into Our Biology?
Every other medication on your shelf works despite your biology. Cannabis works with it.
CB1 and CB2 receptors exist throughout the body: in the brain, immune system, gut, reproductive tissue, skin.
Your body produces its own cannabis-like chemicals — anandamide (“the bliss molecule”) and 2-AG.
These chemicals talk backwards across neurons (retrograde signaling), fine-tuning your nervous system in real-time.
That means your body doesn’t wait for permission — it makes cannabinoids on demand, when you need them most.
And when cannabis enters the picture, it doesn’t “override” your system — it joins the conversation. A plant that doesn’t sedate or numb, but modulates, adjusts, and tunes.
That’s not folk wisdom. That’s precision pharmacology.
🔥 So Why Was It Banned?
The American Medical Association opposed the cannabis ban in 1937. Yes — opposed it. Their representative testified that cannabis had vast, untapped medical value, and that criminalizing it would destroy scientific progress.
Congress responded by… ignoring them. Then misquoting them. Then prosecuting doctors who kept prescribing it.
By 1939, over 3,000 physicians were charged for continuing to use cannabis therapeutically.
What followed was a chilling effect on research, propelled not by science, but by racist propaganda, political grandstanding, and pharmaceutical interests keen to suppress unpatentable compounds.
Let that sink in: The most ancient medicine in our shared evolutionary history was outlawed based on lies.
🚗 What About Driving? Is It Safe?
New research (Marotte et al., 2025) takes an honest, controlled look at a major public health concern: cannabis and driving.
The result? For regular users who abstained for 48 hours, no residual driving impairment was detected on driving simulation tests. Even among heavy users.
Is that the final word? Of course not. Simulators aren’t highways. But this research challenges the common knee-jerk assumption that cannabis users are automatically unsafe drivers days after use.
We need real-world science, not 20th-century talking points.
🧪 What About Rick Simpson Oil? Miracle or Myth?
Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) has become a grassroots legend — a homemade high-THC extract touted for everything from chronic pain to late-stage cancer.
But here’s the rub: It’s based almost entirely on anecdote. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. But it does mean patients are self-titrating, often without medical guidance, and facing serious variability in potency and preparation.
Still, when formal science is suppressed, stories fill the vacuum.
And when thousands of those stories claim reversal of life-threatening disease, it’s no longer fair to dismiss them. It’s our responsibility to investigate them.
🧪 Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) – Quick Recipe Overview (Reviewed in full in the video @ 35:08)
⚠️ Safety First:
• Use food-grade ethanol (e.g., Everclear, whole grain alcohol)) — never isopropyl.
• Only perform this process outdoors or in extremely well-ventilated areas.
• No open flames. This process involves flammable solvent evaporation.
🌿 Ingredients & Supplies
1 oz (28g) dried cannabis (preferably indica strain, high-THC)
500 mL high-proof ethanol (95% grain alcohol like Everclear)
Bucket + wooden utensil
Cheesecloth or fine filter
Rice cooker or crockpot (non-sparking, with warm setting)
Coffee warmer or small heat plate (optional, for final step)
Syringes or glass jar for storage
🧪 Basic Steps
Soak & Crush:
Place cannabis in bucket. Cover with ethanol. Mash and stir for ~3 minutes.
Strain:
Pour liquid through cheesecloth into a second container. (Optional: repeat with fresh ethanol for second wash.)
Evaporate Solvent:
Pour liquid into rice cooker. Heat gently (below 230°F / 110°C) until solvent boils off, leaving behind thick oil. Use low or warm setting.
Finish & Store:
Once bubbling stops, allow to cool slightly. Draw into syringes or store in dark glass container. Refrigeration optional.
⚖️ Dose Starting Guidance:
Start very small: size of ½ grain of rice, 3x/day.
Gradually increase every 4 days, as tolerated.
Full treatment course = 60 grams over ~90 days (for serious conditions, per Simpson protocol).
🧬 Medicine or Mirror?
There’s a provocative idea I want to leave you with:
What if cannabis isn’t just a tool for health… but a mirror for the medical system?
A mirror revealing:
how research gets funded (or doesn’t)
how public narratives are shaped (and distorted)
how far modern care has drifted from evolutionary design
The ECS is not a fringe system. It is the master regulator. And the fact that it was ignored in medical training for decades should raise every eyebrow in the room.
This plant — and this system — deserve better.
And so do the people looking for relief.
💬 Share Your Thoughts
Had you heard of the endocannabinoid system before?
Do you think cannabis and humans co-evolved?
Do we need a new model for medical discovery — one that allows nature to lead?
👇 Drop a comment. Let’s get real about what science should look like.
📽️ Then go watch the full video — it brings these ideas alive in a whole new way.
🎬 YouTube: “Built for Cannabis? The Billion-Year Bond Between Plant and Person”
🧠 Did you Know?
1. Certain cannabinoids, including CBD and THC, have been shown in preclinical studies to induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) in cancer cells without harming normal, healthy cells. (Reference 1) | {Reference 2)
Cannabis compounds like THC have been shown to have 20x the anti-inflammatory potency of aspirin, without the GI side effects. (National Academy of Sciences, 2017) (Reference 3)
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) exists in all vertebrates and some invertebrates, including sea urchins, leeches, mollusks, and hydra (Reference 4)
Anandamide (“the bliss molecule”) is a naturally occurring endocannabinoid that binds to CB1 receptors and modulates mood, pain, and neuroprotection. (Reference 5)
CB1 receptors are the most abundant G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in the brain. (Reference 6)
The ECS employs retrograde signaling — endocannabinoids are released from the postsynaptic neuron and travel backward to modulate presynaptic neurotransmitter release. (Reference 7)
CBD has demonstrated neuroprotective antioxidant activity, with potency comparable to or greater than vitamins C and E in specific neuronal models. (Reference 8)
Cannabis use is associated with a 64% reduction in opioid use among chronic pain patients. (Reference 9)
Cannabis was listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia from 1851 to 1942 and was widely prescribed by physicians for over 80 conditions, including pain, inflammation, and convulsions. (Reference 10)
The American Medical Association officially opposed the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, warning it would hinder medical research. (Reference 11)
THC-related driving impairment is generally limited to the first 4–6 hours after inhalation; residual impairment is not consistently detectable after 24–48 hours. (Reference 12)
🗳️ Quick Poll (Click Below to Share Your Take):
😄 Humor Break:
Why did the ECS break up with opioids?
Because it found someone more receptive.
Big Pharma spent 80 years telling us cannabis was dangerous. And now they’re selling us synthetic versions of the same thing — at 200x the cost and 0.1x the entourage effect
Your body makes its own cannabinoids. Which means technically… everyone is already on weed. Some just outsource the supply chain
The ECS communicates backwards across neurons. Which makes it the only biological system that says, ‘Wait, let me revise that thought real quick
People say cannabis affects memory. Maybe. But only because it’s trying to help you forget how broken the healthcare system is
We banned the plant, fired the doctors, and still couldn’t stop the ECS from doing its job. Evolution: undefeated
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