well, I am pretty much disgusted with alcohol related illness and deaths..... I don't think that I am against it but I am against the over consumption... 

I have seen the damage alcohol does to the body over the last 12 months in a way I never even realised.. I am really shocked... i had no idea how bad it can be... 

but this is about the benefit of cannabis on people suffering severe illness... a bit different. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/10/health/medical-marijuana-child

Oakland, California (CNN) -- Six-year-old Jayden David violently shakes on the ground, his blue eyes vacant and then filled with searing pain.

The video shows an unvarnished look at a seizure, something Jayden once experienced routinely.

Not anymore, says his father, thanks to medical marijuana.

Before he started taking a liquid, nonpsychoactive form of marijuana, Jayden couldn't walk, eat solid food or take a bath.

He has Dravet's syndrome, a rare and catastrophic form of childhood epilepsy.

It has triggered seizures so frequent that 44 times he has been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, his distraught father by his side.

Jayden's doctors prescribed 22 anti-seizure pills a day, which controlled the seizures but left him immobilized due to the side effects.

"He's in pain and suffering and crying," said Jayden's father, Jason David. "You can't help him no matter what. What are you supposed to do? You have to do whatever it takes to save their life."

Before he started taking a liquid, nonpsychoactive form of marijuana, Jayden couldn't walk, eat solid food or take a bath.

http://iambillsmith.com/Charlotte.html

I found people dedicated to growing high CBD  strains of cannabis.

The CBD, or cannabidiol, is a property of the plant helpful with seizure control.

The THC in the plant, while having its own medical properties, is also known to give the psychoactive effect, the 'high'.

Hearing of some success with Dravet Syndrome and CBD, I searched out sources of high CBD:THC ratio plants, and found some as high as 30:1. sic (ie 30 CBD: 1 THC)

After getting the green light from our team of neurologists and pediatricians, we started Charlotte at low, non-psychoactive doses and charted her progress.

The first week she went seven days seizure-free, down from the 300 grand mals she had the previous week.

Three months into our journey and she was at a solid 90% seizure reduction.

She is pharmaceutical-free.

Before he started taking a liquid, nonpsychoactive form of marijuana, Jayden couldn't walk, eat solid food or take a bath.

I was talking to a woman at QandA that had a question to ask about hemp tincture and other hemp products. Alas she didn't get to ask her question either  😄

I was surprised at the uses she was suggesting for it. I'd not heard of the tincture or oil until that night.

Her question was about why it is still illegal in Australia to produce hemp products that have known health benefits.

Her question was about why it is still illegal in Australia to produce hemp products that have known health benefits.

politics you can read about it on the hemp foods australia website

legal link here http://www.hempfoods.com.au/legislation/