{"id":966,"date":"2012-06-18T07:24:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=17697"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:24:24","slug":"rick-simpsons-phoenix-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/rick-simpsons-phoenix-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Simpson\u2019s Phoenix Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/rick-simpsons-phoenix-tears\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/phoenixtearslogo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"phoenixtearslogo\" title=\"phoenixtearslogo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17728\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/rick-simpsons-phoenix-tears\/attachment\/phoenixtearslogo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17728\" title=\"phoenixtearslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/phoenixtearslogo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>For thousands of years man has used the hemp plant for medicinal purposes.\u00a0 This was until the early 20th century.\u00a0 At this time, the US government, and many others after it, made hemp products illegal.\u00a0 Part of the criminalization of cannabis included banning all medical uses for the plant.\u00a0 Now that doctors were no longer allowed to use an established and favored medicine, they had find new ways to treat diseases.\u00a0 Over the last century, those &#8220;new ways&#8221; have blossomed into the modern pharmaceutical industry, commonly called Big Pharma.\u00a0 Big Pharma is great at researching and offering treatments, but often they do not seemed focused on curing ailments.\u00a0 One man who is trying to make a cure is <a title=\"Rick Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/phoenixtears.ca\/message-from-rick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Simpson<\/a>. Mr. Simpson is shooting for the stars; he wants to cure cancer by using <a title=\"Phoenix tears\" href=\"http:\/\/phoenixtears.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Tears<\/a>.\u00a0 Phoenix Tears is an oil derived from the hemp plant.\u00a0 Using a straightforward, but risky method, Rick has produced a cannabinoid-laced hemp oil that he claims can cure many ailments including cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Rick is from a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada and over the years has been baffled by the rise and proliferation of cancer in people.\u00a0 He is also frustrated by the lack of success in Big Pharma&#8217;s efforts to help cure cancer.\u00a0 He is most emphatically against chemotherapy and radiation treatments.\u00a0 How does one cure cancer by killing off healthy cells and organs?\u00a0 In his film &#8220;<a title=\"Run From The Cure Movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cannabisculture.com\/articles\/5169.html\" target=\"_blank\">Run From the Cure<\/a>,&#8221; Rick details his successes and struggles to help his neighbors with their infirmities.\u00a0 The oil he produces, Phoenix Tears, has many uses.\u00a0 It can be ingested orally, inhaled with the use of a vaporizer, or used topically.\u00a0 He started using it himself when diagnosed with skin cancers on his chest and face.\u00a0 Doctors had removed one of his skin carcinomas, but it would not heal.\u00a0 So, after creating his first batch he applied it to his cancer spots, and within a short period of time, they disappeared.\u00a0 He had his doctor verify it, and he is cancer free today.<\/p>\n<p>After this first success, Mr. Simpson realized that he had something that had great potential to help mankind.\u00a0 He has tried, with very little success, to spread the word and knowledge of his medicine.\u00a0 In the ten years he has been working to aid humanity he has faced numerous obstacles.\u00a0 One-on-one he has had success. But each time he has faced an institution he has been rebuffed.\u00a0 The Canadian medical institutions have rebuffed his attempts to have doctors and experts look into Phoenix Tears and see what it is that makes it work.\u00a0 He has been arrested and harassed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). They have conducted numerous raids on his property, seizing and destroying the plants he cultivates to create the hemp oil (FYI, it takes one pound of high-quality cannabis to create just two ounces of Phoenix Tears oil).\u00a0 Legislators in the Canadian government refuse to heed his call to change the laws. Many politicians are in the pocket of Big Pharma (just as they are in the USA) and refuse to help him out.\u00a0 Even the Canadian Legion has shut its doors to him and those who believe in him.\u00a0 Other obstacles take the form of con men and scam artists.\u00a0 As word has spread about the potency of Phoenix tears, many greedy individuals and groups have tried to cash in on his name and product, selling substandard (if not entirely fake) concoctions to patients and stealing their money.\u00a0 To date, Rick has not taken one dollar from anyone he has helped.\u00a0 How can law enforcement claim this man is a drug dealer if he isn&#8217;t selling anything?<\/p>\n<p>He claims, and has the anecdotal evidence, to have cured cancer in several patients.\u00a0 Some had lung cancer, others skin cancers and brain cancers.\u00a0 The topical applications are especially potent against open sores from skin cancers and\u00a0 diabetic ulcers.\u00a0 It also helps people with migraines, nausea, chronic back pain, intestinal disorders (Crohn&#8217;s disease, IBS), glaucoma and many other disorders that cannabis has been known to aid.\u00a0 As great as this is, there needs to be more research done.\u00a0 But, as Rick has found out, the medical community won&#8217;t come anywhere near him.\u00a0 Marijuana is still illegal, so they won&#8217;t touch it.\u00a0 Politicians say the same thing and they&#8217;re the ones who make the laws.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a merry-go-round of misery and the only people who are working against it are the ones who are trying not to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/phoenixtearslogo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"phoenixtearslogo\" title=\"phoenixtearslogo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17728\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/rick-simpsons-phoenix-tears\/attachment\/phoenixtearslogo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17728\" title=\"phoenixtearslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/phoenixtearslogo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>For thousands of years man has used the hemp plant for medicinal purposes.\u00a0 This was until the early 20th century.\u00a0 At this time, the US government, and many others after it, made hemp products illegal.\u00a0 Part of the criminalization of cannabis included banning all medical uses for the plant.\u00a0 Now that doctors were no longer allowed to use an established and favored medicine, they had find new ways to treat diseases.\u00a0 Over the last century, those &#8220;new ways&#8221; have blossomed into the modern pharmaceutical industry, commonly called Big Pharma.\u00a0 Big Pharma is great at researching and offering treatments, but often they do not seemed focused on curing ailments.\u00a0 One man who is trying to make a cure is <a title=\"Rick Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/phoenixtears.ca\/message-from-rick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Simpson<\/a>. Mr. Simpson is shooting for the stars; he wants to cure cancer by using <a title=\"Phoenix tears\" href=\"http:\/\/phoenixtears.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Tears<\/a>.\u00a0 Phoenix Tears is an oil derived from the hemp plant.\u00a0 Using a straightforward, but risky method, Rick has produced a cannabinoid-laced hemp oil that he claims can cure many ailments including cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Rick is from a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada and over the years has been baffled by the rise and proliferation of cancer in people.\u00a0 He is also frustrated by the lack of success in Big Pharma&#8217;s efforts to help cure cancer.\u00a0 He is most emphatically against chemotherapy and radiation treatments.\u00a0 How does one cure cancer by killing off healthy cells and organs?\u00a0 In his film &#8220;<a title=\"Run From The Cure Movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cannabisculture.com\/articles\/5169.html\" target=\"_blank\">Run From the Cure<\/a>,&#8221; Rick details his successes and struggles to help his neighbors with their infirmities.\u00a0 The oil he produces, Phoenix Tears, has many uses.\u00a0 It can be ingested orally, inhaled with the use of a vaporizer, or used topically.\u00a0 He started using it himself when diagnosed with skin cancers on his chest and face.\u00a0 Doctors had removed one of his skin carcinomas, but it would not heal.\u00a0 So, after creating his first batch he applied it to his cancer spots, and within a short period of time, they disappeared.\u00a0 He had his doctor verify it, and he is cancer free today.<\/p>\n<p>After this first success, Mr. Simpson realized that he had something that had great potential to help mankind.\u00a0 He has tried, with very little success, to spread the word and knowledge of his medicine.\u00a0 In the ten years he has been working to aid humanity he has faced numerous obstacles.\u00a0 One-on-one he has had success. But each time he has faced an institution he has been rebuffed.\u00a0 The Canadian medical institutions have rebuffed his attempts to have doctors and experts look into Phoenix Tears and see what it is that makes it work.\u00a0 He has been arrested and harassed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). They have conducted numerous raids on his property, seizing and destroying the plants he cultivates to create the hemp oil (FYI, it takes one pound of high-quality cannabis to create just two ounces of Phoenix Tears oil).\u00a0 Legislators in the Canadian government refuse to heed his call to change the laws. Many politicians are in the pocket of Big Pharma (just as they are in the USA) and refuse to help him out.\u00a0 Even the Canadian Legion has shut its doors to him and those who believe in him.\u00a0 Other obstacles take the form of con men and scam artists.\u00a0 As word has spread about the potency of Phoenix tears, many greedy individuals and groups have tried to cash in on his name and product, selling substandard (if not entirely fake) concoctions to patients and stealing their money.\u00a0 To date, Rick has not taken one dollar from anyone he has helped.\u00a0 How can law enforcement claim this man is a drug dealer if he isn&#8217;t selling anything?<\/p>\n<p>He claims, and has the anecdotal evidence, to have cured cancer in several patients.\u00a0 Some had lung cancer, others skin cancers and brain cancers.\u00a0 The topical applications are especially potent against open sores from skin cancers and\u00a0 diabetic ulcers.\u00a0 It also helps people with migraines, nausea, chronic back pain, intestinal disorders (Crohn&#8217;s disease, IBS), glaucoma and many other disorders that cannabis has been known to aid.\u00a0 As great as this is, there needs to be more research done.\u00a0 But, as Rick has found out, the medical community won&#8217;t come anywhere near him.\u00a0 Marijuana is still illegal, so they won&#8217;t touch it.\u00a0 Politicians say the same thing and they&#8217;re the ones who make the laws.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a merry-go-round of misery and the only people who are working against it are the ones who are trying not to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[883,460,312,884,9,51,885,886,553,888,890,1,3],"tags":[3456,3034,2890,3457,2631,3458,3459,3126,3460,3461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}