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10 Biggest Pot Myths, Debunked by Science

Paul Armentano, AlterNet Waking Times By any objective analysis, cannabis and cannabinoids exceed the FDA’s existing standards for medicine. Medical cannabis opponents are fond of promoting many myths and misconceptions about the herb. Here are the facts. 1. Medical cannabis is too dangerous to recommend as a medicine The cannabis plant and its biologically active constituents, known

The Natural News Food Lab – Corporate Food Checkmated

Jeffrey Jaxen, Contributor Waking Times Shortly after Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) appeared on the scene with his website Natural News, it quickly became a leader in virtual alternative health news for a growing number of people who were hungry for knowledge about their food, health and wellbeing. Those who no longer trusted big corporations

5 Diseases Proven To Respond Better To Cannabis Than Prescription Drugs

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times The reason cannabis is so effective medicinally is directly related to its ability to interact with receptors in the body which inhibit inflammation and prevent disease. Cannabis does this so well, that few drugs can compete with its level of potency which come essentially with no side effects. These

Effective Autism Treatments Being Dismantled by FDA

Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times The Pharmaceutical industry is about to embark on multiple medical interventions for autism including vaccines (yes, vaccines) as well as different drugs to treat the disorder. In an effort to to sway opinion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching a series of campaigns to mislead consumers who

Intravenous Vitamin C – A Cancer Killer The FDA Wants Banned

Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Vitamin C has a broad spectrum antioxidant function with the ability to protect cell structures and DNA from free radical damage. Vitamin C is remarkably safe even in enormously high doses. Compared to commonly used prescription drugs, side effects are virtually nonexistent. No matter how high the concentration, vitamin

7 Ways the FDA is Failing to Protect: Who Needs the FDA?

Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Some cynically refer to the FDA as the Fraud and Death Administration. Harsh, but many see that name as a bit more than an accurate description. It is certainly the hub of the Medical Mafia wheel. A few years ago, during the height of the occupy wall street mania,

Do You Need a Medicine, or a Healthicine?

Tracy Kolenchuck, Contributor Waking Times Healthicines increase healthiness. Medicines decrease illness. It’s easy to say, but it can be very difficult to understand clearly. Are “alternative medicines” healthicines or medicines? Are vitamins healthicines, or medicines?  Are herbal medicines healthicines or medicines. Let’s begin with some simple examples, where the lines are very clear. An apple a

FDA Concedes Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Must Be Phased Out

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Antibiotics are added to animal feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other food-producing animals to make them gain weight faster or use less food to gain weight. The United Nations and World Health Organization have both stated that humans are building up dangerous levels of resistance

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6 Astounding Parallels Between Vaccines and GMOs

Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Have you ever considered the similarities between vaccinations and genetically modified foods (also referred to as GMOs)? Both of these ‘innovations’ illustrate clearly our human desire to fix what doesn’t necessarily need fixing, manipulate what doesn’t suit us, and take control over what is mysterious and seems uncontrollable. They also

FDA Approves Investigational Studies on Drugs Developed From Cannabis

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Just last year, I reported on a British company, GW Pharmaceuticals which was in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents. It was only a matter of time before a medication was formulated on the powerful properties of Cannabis. In response

Despite No Safe Level, 140 Countries Sign UN Mercury Treaty Ban Excluding Vaccines and Some Cosmetics

Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times More than 140 nations have agreed on the first legally binding treaty to curb mercury without setting meaningful controls and reductions on specific cosmetics or vaccines because “no effective safe substitute alternatives are available.” Earlier this year, delegates at UN talks in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the

Medical Authority’s System Kills: FDA-Approved Drugs Kill over 100,000 People Annually

Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Greed, fraud, and corruption within Big Pharma and the FDA are the constructs of deception, with the mantle of authority leading to over 100,000 American deaths each year from correctly prescribed FDA approved pharmaceutical drugs. That’s an earlier conservative figure based on Dr. Barbara Starfield’s study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association July

How Inorganic Arsenic Accumulates In The Meat of Chicken Then Sold At Your Grocery Retailer

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Poultry has become one of the most contaminated sources of meat available to humans, particularly due to approved arsenic-based additives which 80% of all chickens consume in their daily diet. Until recently, chicken producers would routinely supplement poultry feed with a growth-promoting arsenical drug called roxarsone, which helps give

FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma

Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info Waking Times The FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon’s blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big Pharma. Nature’s gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost

Should We Get Raw Milk By Prescription?

Raluca Schachter, Guest Writer Waking Times If I ever travel to other US states I’d like to be able to buy raw milk by prescription. Since you can easily get many things by prescription these days… All kind of dangerous substances. FDA says raw milk is “dangerous”. So I bet I could get it by prescription!

War on Health – The FDA’s Cult of Tyranny

Waking Times In War on Health – The FDA’s Cult of Tyranny, film producer and health activist Gary Null exposes the FDA as an organization that is merely a tool of big business and an agency that is actively attempting to destroy public.  With plans to prevent the American population from having unregulated access to vitamins,

Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances

Sayer Ji Waking Times  According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.” The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate,


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