CHAPTER 5 ~

CANNABIS LITERALLY GIVES US LIFE

This chapter covers the following sections:

v  The effect of Cannabis on human fertility.

v  The role of the EC system in the survival of the human foetus.

Science has proven that our EC system and Cannabis control the activities of our hormonal system, and so Cannabinoids also play an important role in the secretion of hormones related to reproductive functions. Tests involving the production and release of oxytocin have given scientists hope as they pursue studies of the role of Cannabinoids in hormone release in the treatment of fertility problems.

Does Cannabis affect fertility?

Almost every week I get at least one or two mails from frantic young men asking me if smoking Cannabis will make them sterile?  Under pressure from their own families, the first thing I tell them is to take a look at how many children Rastafari families have and then think about that? My own grandchildren were all fathered by Cannabis-smoking fathers. People have been using Cannabis to get pregnant for literally thousands of years, and many of us are here because of Cannabis. This whole story of men becoming sterile was always part of the anti-Cannabis marketing strategy to put the fear of god into young men and give young women a reason to blame anyone but themselves for not falling pregnant.  In my experience, most fertility problems lie with the female who, most of the time does not consume Cannabis, and this is often the first problem.

Take a look at the FASEB Journal (The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology). There you will see clearly how our Cannabinoid receptors regulate even the creation of sperm. [80] (sciencedaily.com, 2016) THC from Cannabis is what activates this process. There’s another study in Italy where PH.D Doctor Paola Grimaldi is doing some amazing research at The Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, School of Medicine at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Rome. Her studies prove that Cannabinoids increase sperm count. [81] Dr Paola Grimaldi, 2013

It is true that with all the toxins we are exposed to, that there is an increase in fertility problems. If anything in this world contributes to human sterility it is cigarettes, alcohol, stress and hard street drugs. In the old days, before the internet when this type of information was not even in the library, I could not have explained to you in a scientific way, how I knew that if we gave an infertile couple some Cannabis they would most often be able to conceive a baby successfully within one moon cycle, where they had been trying for years without success. It all has to do with the fact that Cannabis plays a crucial role in the activities of the Endocrine system by controlling hormone absorption and release. [82] (Komorowski et al 2007)

One of the most important medical mysteries of our time is the question as to why a woman’s body does not reject and release the foetus and terminate pregnancy.

Scientists in the fields of transplantation immunology and reproductive biology have been baffled for decades as to why a mother’s immune system does not reject the developing foetus and placenta as alien tissue?

The foetus and the placenta both express antigens that are different from the mother’s, and in terms of what we know about medicine, the maternal immune system should by rights reject the foetus as a foreign invader to the mother’s own immune system. Half the genes of the foetus from the father could carry a genetic code which could be a threat to the mother or the child or both.

The human body is designed to reject alien matter when invaded. This usually manifests as fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, which is sign that the body is trying to find ways to get rid of the bacteria or virus or foreign matter. In my opinion, this is exactly why some women and even some men suffer from ‘morning sickness’. This is likely to be the woman’s body trying to reject the foetus in the first trimester. For some miraculous reason the mother’s body does not reject the foetus. Instead her system changes direction from attacker to protector, thus ensuring continuation of life. How does this happen? How is this possible? And what has this got to do with Cannabis?  Believe it or not, it is only through the study of Cannabis medicine and the discovery of the EC system, that scientists can now explain this mystery.

What happens after conception?

Exactly six days after conception…one day before implantation in the uterine wall... the day before fertilization…something very mysterious happens in the woman’s body, which highlights something very important about our relationship with the Cannabis plant. The cluster of cells that develops to become the human embryo is referred to as a blastocyst. We all start off as a blastocyst, and on the day before it reaches the uterus for implantation, on the 6^th day, this blastocyst starts to produce an enzyme. This enzyme controls the genes which control the mother’s killer T cells ensuring that these ‘killer’ cells are never actually summoned to the fertilisation site. This is what prevents an immune reaction against the soon-to-be embryo. [83] (Dr. Michael Roizen, 2019). The controlling genes are automatically turned off at the beginning of pregnancy.

If the Killer T cells were actually sent to the tissue in the uterine wall then serious complications would occur, like premature labour. The mother’s body would continuously try to abort the foetus and this can continue until well after the 20^th week of pregnancy. The mother’s blood pressure would continue to rise and she could develop blood clotting and eventually kidney problems. Pregnancy has always been risky, but yet this foetal rejection does not often happen. Why is this? [84] (Wolter, 2013)

What exactly stops these killer T cells from naturally trying to attack human life potential?

One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the immune system is how it defends itself against the implantation of foreign tissues and toxins in the body. It produces substances known as chemokines. These chemokines are a small branch of the cytokine family, and cytokines control the release and absorption of our hormones. It is these chemokine’s which the genes use to send the T cells to any site of injury or disease, and this is the most important part of our immune response system. It is our genes that produce these chemokines, which are turned off during pregnancy, and which protect the unborn baby.

Human genetics and DNA are controlled by our hormones. The pregnancy hormones progesterone, estradiol and human chorionic gonadotropin are the hormones that control these genes and prevent the T cells from doing their job to eradicate foreign tissue. We now know that the EC system controls and repairs human DNA, and so it should not surprise us that the embryonic implantation process is controlled by our own Endocannabinoids, Anandamide and 2-AG.

This is what takes us straight to the EC system, and this is the link to our human companion plant. Plant-derived THC and CBD from the Cannabis plant supplement these two Endocannabinoids. [85] (Mei-Rong Du, 2014)

This is how we are now able to explain scientifically how a small amount of Cannabis can help a couple to fall pregnant because the number one reason for failed conception is an underdeveloped EC system. There are many studies you can examine with fairly large groups of healthy women, some groups as large as over 100 women. All these studies have proven that low Endocannabinoid activity could be related to spontaneous abortion in women with low expressions of Anandamide and 2-AG.  

Our own Endocannabinoids are responsible for controlling the genes that would usually send out the killer T cells to expel the foetus. The EC system continues to block this process throughout pregnancy. Anandamide occurs naturally in the uterus, and binds to the cannabinoid receptors in the uterine wall to completely terminate the action of the T cells in the uterus during pregnancy. [86] (E.Trabuccoa et al 2009)

It is fascinating that our EC system controls the protection of the unborn human child after fertilisation. But even more interesting is that Cannabinoid signalling is scientifically proven to be involved in the muscle contraction and relaxation of the fallopian tubes, which is responsible for moving the fertilized egg through the fallopian tubes into the uterus. [87]  (Horne AW1, 2008) THC found only in Cannabis has a much higher binding affinity to the Cannabinoid receptors than our own Endocannabinoids. [88] (Pertwee, 2007) This explains why Cannabis is so helpful in achieving conception and the creation of life by ensuring the continuation of life inside the uterus until birth and beyond.

So, yes, absolutely by influencing the finely balanced relationship between our Endocannabinoids and their receptors in the fallopian tubes and the uterine wall, Cannabis literally does give us life. It does this through its activity in the Endocrine system by controlling our hormones and genes. In plant language I can only imagine how Cannabis would love to say to us, that if only we had believed in her sooner so many lives could have been saved because no other plant can do this for humanity. So again we can see how it is the regulatory role of our EC system over our hormone system which bears witness to the magical and mysterious healing properties of the Cannabis plant, including the very gift of life.