David B. Allen M.D. How the science of the EndoCannabinoid System will change the practice of medicine and the economy Letter to the Mexican Government: My name is David B. Allen M.D. I am a board certified cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, and have board certification in General Surgery. I am a member of the ICRS […]
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Dr. Allen’s 16 Hour Dark Photoperiod
David B. Allen M.D. Cannabis plants need 12 hours of continuous darkness to produce flowers. Interrupting the dark cycle with light, even briefly, inhibits the plant’s ability to flower. This demonstrates that the enzyme system for flowering requires 12 hours of continuous darkness (or low light) to produce flowers. Plants in nature are not exposed […]
French Drug Trial Death Caused by Blocking the Endocannabinoid System
Media Statement; Kush Inc. David Allen MD Chief Medical Advisor. 1/17/16 Two pharmaceutical synthetic drugs aimed at blocking the function of the Endocannabinoid Signaling System (ECS) cause death, disease and dysfunction. The recent clinical drug trial in France that ended in death highlights the importance of a previously unknown regulatory mechanism that controls all […]
How to Make Flavorful and Potent Cannabis – Extended
(This is the extended version of an earlier article – Read it Here) Dr. David Allen The RTM (Rootless Transport Mechanism) or Dr. Allen’s Procedure and the simple principal of Osmosis and Tonicity The Rootless Transport Mechanism or RTM procedure is a way to flavor your cannabis any flavor you choose. With this technique I make […]
How to Grow Flavorful Potent Cannabis
David B. Allen M.D. msbluesman@cableone.net The Rootless Transport Mechanism There is an easy way to deliver substances to your plant leaves by capillary action. This can be done by bypassing the plants roots. Much like a rose or other flower in a vase of water, cannabis can uptake fluids and actually remain “alive” if the […]
LiftCannabis Forum, Vancouver Nov 12th
By Owen Smith LiftCannabis is hosting their third cannabis conference of 2015. Previous events have focused exclusively on medical cannabis in relation to the difficulties patients and providers were faced with under the conservative government. With a new government that promises cannabis legalization, this event and future events will engage the topic of general adult […]
Interview with Dr. Lester Grinspoon
By Patrick Dewals Dr. Lester Grinspoon is associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He researched the medicinal legitimacy of the marihuana prohibition forty five years ago and discovered that an immense chain of lies served as a base for sending millions of people to jail the last four decades and a […]
Cannabis and the Project of Enlightenment: Can We Make It Work?
By Judith Stamps ONE FACT, TWO RULES, AND A DEFINTION FACT: inequality in wealth and power is increasing in our world. The richest one percent of adults own over 40% of the world’s wealth (land, buildings, food, resources, machinery, weapons, technology, and cash), a figure that, according to Credit Swisse, will rise to over 50% […]
Cannabis Dependence
By Jerry Golick I received a number of responses to my Ten Reasons Canadian Physicians Will Come to Love Cannabis blog post. One reader asked me to justify certain claims I had made. To do so properly is a rather large project, so I have decided to to break my response down into a number […]
Portable Vaporizers
By Owen Smith The selection of vaporizers available to the general public has multiplied rapidly over the past decade. ‘Electronic cigarettes’ have become so popular that the Oxford English dictionary proclaimed ‘Vape’ as 2014 word of the year. As an alternative way of acquiring the active compounds from a plant, vaping provides a less harmful […]