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Episode 1: The Sacred Plant… Examined

Stephanie Lay: 00:00:01 When you're a parent, you never lay in bed saying, oh please give me a child with a disability. Please let that happen. To be able to breathe, to be able to sit down, and not worry if you're going to have to jump up to go save your child from putting his head through the wall, those are things that money can't buy. Money can't buy that. Those years were hard, but now they're better.

Cannabis Patient: 00:00:38 I just want to emphasize, I owe my life to this plant. I owe my life to it. I certainly owe my quality of life to it, if I don't owe my actual life to it. Because this was my only option.

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:00:55 I've never seen this, in the course of two years, the girl's out of the wheelchair. She's running, skipping, swinging, going tubing in the summer behind a boat. She's tying her own shoes, zipping up her zippers, coloring within the lines. It's just incredible, for someone like me that's interested in healing and in development, to see an explosion of life like that, is a testament to what's possible with everybody else.

Joey Ajluni: 00:01:22 Because of the cannabis, I've been very, very well at reading. I started the year like at a Kindergarten reading level, and now I'm in fourth grade, with a seventh-grade reading level. Yeah, cannabis has made a big, big drastic change for me. I know a lot of people don't like the plant, 'cause they think it's pretty bad. If they make it into medicine, it can help, if you use it the right way.

Elizabeth Crutchley: 00:01:46 I had no life. And there's so much I wanted to do and my kids were little. And I want to do so much with them, and they were used to, "Mom is whacked out on pain pills. Mom is in bed.

Elizabeth Dost: 00:01:58 You cannot have a war on opioids and not safe access to cannabis because what happens to people that are in chronic life-limiting pain when they have nothing to take for it anymore? What happens to them? And who makes that decision?

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:02:21 'Cause if you need people to suffer, for your business to make money, there's something dark about that. There's something really wrong about that. I left health care because I understood that the sick care system had infiltrated and turned healthcare into something really ugly.

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Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:02:38 In the church, a lot of Christians speak that it inherently is an evil plant. Which, I don't believe. That's not what the bible says about God's healing plants of the world. So, I had to do my own research.

Nick Polizzi: 00:02:52 A lot of this knowledge is being lost, out of sheer ignorance. Because the true knowledge is being kept from us. By the powers that be, who have a lot to lose by this information getting out.

John Malanca: 00:03:08 Hello, and welcome to season two, The Sacred Plant, Healing Secrets Examined. I'm your host and advocate, John Malanca. I am honored to guide you through seven episodes of groundbreaking information, about this healing plant, that has the power to end suffering for so many people.

John Malanca: 00:03:23 If you're new The Sacred Plant community, it's great to have you here. Welcome back to our existing community members. Who without your support, this season two would not have been possible. Thank you to those who wrote to us with stories about how The Sacred Plant series brought relief and healing, to you and your loved ones, after watching season one. Nothing touches me more than to hear these stories, because this is why we do this.

John Malanca: 00:03:46 The Sacred Plant's company's mission is to help billions of people become healthy, happy, and pain-free. We educate and empower people by exposing the truth about this ancient medicine, that's been used by civilizations for over 5,000 years. But tragically, the gifts of this amazing plant had been covered up by greed and corruption. And, there's been a hidden political agenda to discredit plant medicine.

John Malanca: 00:04:08 The Sacred Plant has been particularly demonized, because it's one of the most powerful plant medicines, and it threatens a billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. For those of you who are new to the community, The Sacred Plant is Cannabis Sativa, also known as Medical Cannabis.

John Malanca: 00:04:23 As you watch this breakthrough series, you'll discover that cannabis works miracles on many conditions. Including cancer, chronic pain, autism, autoimmune diseases, and much more. Many of these diseases are normally treated with

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experience pharmaceuticals, that have devastating side effects.

John Malanca: 00:04:39 Now, let's hear from some of our experts about why the cannabis plant is so healing, but also feared and misunderstood. How did the stigma and misconceptions about this plant come about? John Easterling, known as Amazon John, for his work with indigenous plants, is married to singer, actress and four-time Grammy Award winner Olivia Newton-John.

John Malanca: 00:04:59 Olivia has credited Cannabis for helping her treat her recurrence of her breast cancer. We'll hear more about Olivia's experience with The Sacred Plant, in episode four.

John Easterling: 00:05:09 So as a plant medicine guy, I was very eager to engage in cannabis. Specifically as a plant medicine, like all the other ones I've been dealing with for several decades. Really looking at that, and began growing some for my personal use, and researching that. That has really evolved. This is an extraordinarily important plant.

John Easterling: 00:05:32 As a plant, I think it's important for people to look at it as what it is. It's a plant. It grows out of the ground. Just like another hundred thousand species of plants growing, naturally in our world. Yet, the history of cannabis is really interesting. We've had a relationship with plants, humans have had a relationship with plants since the beginning of time. Since we came out of caves.

John Easterling: 00:06:01 We're dependent on plants. We're dependent on plants for food, for medicine, for shelter. So, we've always had this relationship. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. The plants take in the carbon dioxide and give us back oxygen. So that's an extraordinary part of that relationship.

John Easterling: 00:06:24 Our relationship with cannabis goes back to, the first recorded use, back to 1500 BC in China. In their pharmacopeia, they're mentioning cannabis. So, if you look at central Asia, where cannabis looks like it actually originated, everywhere mankind has moved he's taken cannabis with him. This is one of the plants that he's taken all over the world.

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John Easterling: 00:06:49 So, we've had a continuous relationship with cannabis for thousands of years. Until recently, it's been temporarily interrupted, for about the past hundred years. But, when you think about it, it seems so absurd to me. I mean, it's so primitive. Even as a caveman, if I come out of my cave, I've got access to the whole plant kingdom. Now the idea that we're taking one plant, and kind of restricted its use, it just seems a little bit absurd.

John Easterling: 00:07:20 So, I'm so happy now, that we're reestablishing and re-engaging our relationship with this plant. Because it has so many benefits, that have been recognized for a long, long time.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:07:30 I think that cannabis is one of the most potent, medicinal drugs out there. It's sacred in the context of its ability to heal you physically, it'll heal you psychologically. So, there's definitions that people in the herbal and theogen world would hold, because of classifications that come. I think that cannabis has tremendous value and it's sacred in that context.

Dr. Greg Gerdeman: 00:07:58 I think that access to cannabis as The Sacred Plant, is something that is a birthright of humans really. Which is to say, that natural medicine should be accessible. But, cannabis is sort of the queen of herbal medicines. It's traveled all around the world, because cannabis has been cherished by humans, and human societies, from earlier than our history.

Dr. Greg Gerdeman: 00:08:32 The human, cannabis relationship hasn't been one of biological, mutualism. Possibly, coevolution. Humans have helped cannabis thrive, and reproduce, and spread. Cannabis helps humans thrive, and reproduce, and have quality of life. That, to me is as natural, a birthright as you get. It's like we should have access to clean water. We should have access to clean cannabis, for those who need it.

John Easterling: 00:09:02 Even in the early American colonies, when they were first settled in Massachusetts, in Connecticut, and several of these colonies, it was actually required that you grow cannabis. Because it was so important. The American flag is made out of what? It's made out of hemp. Some people suggest that The Constitution is written on hemp paper.

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John Easterling: 00:09:23 That relationship has been with us for a long, long time. In 1918, you had several drug companies, Park Davis, Eli Lilly, they had medicinal preparations made from cannabis. They were easily available in drug stores for people. Then came 1937, where you had the Marijuana Tax Act, which essentially cut off our relationship with cannabis.

John Easterling: 00:09:52 Then later, that was removed, in the 1970's that was removed. In lieu of that, it was placed on a Schedule 1, as a Schedule 1 drug. Meaning, that it has no known therapeutic benefit and a high potential for abuse. Which is really interesting, because later on the United States government got a patent for cannabis, for its antioxidant activity for its therapeutic benefit. It remains on Schedule 1 right now, to this day. Hopefully, that's gonna change.

Dr. Greg Gerdeman:00:10:26 What's never been scientifically supported, is the key tenet of The Controlled Substance Act, that putting cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, that it has no safe medical use. That's never been based in science, ever.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:10:42 How did we get to this point? One of the other things that was going on at that time is that we had Lyndon Johnson. Who, had come up with getting rid of a lot of the laws that allowed for discrimination against African Americans. So, the drug laws were able to be used in a discriminatory fashion against African Americans, and against Hispanics. I think that's part of it.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:11:12 The other thing is, we need to go back to The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which almost certainly was done at the behest of the petrol, chemical industry in general. And, Lemont DuPont in particular. Clearly, it had nothing to do with medicine. Because the American Medical Association complained in their testimony, that they were not told about this law. They were not asked to contribute to it.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:11:37 The American public in the 1930's, knew what cannabis was. They knew what Hemp was. But, they didn't really know what marijuana was. Marijuana was a foreign sounding word so they could use that word to demonize cannabis and hemp. Which almost everybody knew about and was not afraid of. So, this was a way of confusing the American public. This was nothing but a political ploy, that had to do with greed.

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Dr. Patricia Frye: 00:12:12 When it did go in front of Congress, the only person there that advocate for it was the legislative council from the American Medical Association. He was like, what is marijuana? These Doctors don't even know this is up for discussion. Because nobody's ever heard this word before. The plant is cannabis. What is marijuana?

Dr. Patricia Frye: 00:12:37 I share that with people, that it's been used in traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, in ancient Islamic medicine. We've used it in Europe, and here in the United States. That there are a lot of issues that didn't have a thing to do with medicine, or physiology, that made it illegal and has kept it illegal.

Alan Lehman: 00:13:02 One of the issues that I feel very strongly about dealing with, is the social control and the racist issues, that go along with early prohibition. It's a little bit disconcerting to find out this history. Then you realize, people haven't really been dealing with the plant itself.

Alan Lehman: 00:13:21 People haven't been dealing with the use of the plant. It's more about people and people's color, and why are they here in the country. What are they doing? What are we afraid of? That's just part of the stigma, that needs to get over.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:13:33 People do have an enormous amount of misinformation. Part of this shows how successful the propaganda campaign has been. If you stop and think about things, in the early part of the twentieth century, there were 30 over the counter preparations - you know, things you could go into the drug store and buy, like aspirin, with no prescription - that contained cannabis.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:13:58 In the 1920's American doctors wrote about three million prescriptions a year, that contained cannabis. I think the reason is, is that our drug laws have an incredibly strong basis in greed, and discrimination, and demonization.

Nick Polizzi: 00:14:14 I think the biggest misconception about cannabis, and all plants that have potential psychostimulant, or psychoactive effects on the body, is that they're somehow drugs. That for some reason, because they do, do that, they're bad and should be stayed away from. So many of the plants, including coffee, has an effect on our brain and can be considered a drug. But, for some reason, there are certain ones that are

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accepted, and certain ones that aren't. It is just part of this malaise that we're in as a culture.

Nick Polizzi: 00:14:47 I believe, it's something that has much deeper roots than just innocent stigma around something. Usually, that stigma started by someone. Usually, that kind of conception, that's taught in textbooks, that's reinforced by the news, is serving a much larger plan.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:15:06 One thing that breaks my heart, is that in the church especially, and I'm talking to Christians here. 'Cause I've been a devoted Christian for 15 years. I see a lot of fear, that has led to judgment. That has led to uneducated, and I use the word ignorant because it's uneducated judgment against a lot of natural therapies.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:15:25 It took me about 5 to 10 years, up until just letting God just work on my heart, and not being so judgemental. Letting the research speak to me, in the fact like okay. Did God really create this thing? Then why is it really bad for me? Then I started thinking about this. 'Cause I started thinking about other plants.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:15:43 I started to think about what other natural therapies are out there. Being in the essential oil world, cannabis kept on coming back because of cannabis oil. I was faced with it over, and over, and over again. So, I had my proverbial coming to Jesus moment about cannabis. I didn't make a judgment call against it.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:15:58 Was it bad because I abused it? Was it bad because I used it the wrong way? Or, was it bad because it inherently is evil. In the church, a lot of Christians speak, that it inherently is an evil plant. Which, I don't believe. That's not what my bible says about God's healing plants of the world. So, I had to do my own research.

Jonathan Otto: 00:16:21 It's interesting, the bible happens to a message really interesting. It says, "The heart is deceitful above all things desperately wicked. Who can know it?" I'm not worried about plants, I'm worried about how they manipulate things. How they destroy things and manufacture them. How they use them.

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Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:16:39 I think cannabis has been demonized for a number of reasons. One, there's a very strong case for cannabis and hemp as a textile and a fuel. Some of the things that happened with oil politics back in the day that have really challenged the use of it, and just favored one party over another.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:16:58 But also, cannabis has a lot of value medicinally, and psychologically in my opinion. I think that anything that gets you to question reality doesn't necessarily work for the powers that be. I believe that people can free their mind with the THC side of cannabis. I think that people can liberate their health with the CBD side of cannabis.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:17:23 I don't think any of this should be just dragged out and judged on the street. I think people can make decisions on their own, and the government shouldn't be involved at that level in people’s lives.

John Malanca: 00:17:35 Right now, I'd like to introduce you to my dear friends, Mike and Callie Hyde. Mike and Callie's son Cashy was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain tumor when he was 18 months old.

Kalli Hyde: 00:17:47 He started getting sick around 20 months. He was just sleeping a lot, lethargic. We kept taking him into the doctor. They kept saying he had mono. Just let him sleep, let him rest. So that's what we did. We did that for about six, seven weeks. Brought him in every couple weeks and she said the same thing.

Mike Hyde: 00:18:09 I just didn't like her answers, and that's when we said, "Well then, do a CAT scan." They were reluctant. They were like, "Well, he has mono." We were like, "No, do a CAT scan." So, they took Cash back, and did a CAT scan, and came back apologizing to us. You could tell they were very upset. They were like...

Kalli Hyde: 00:18:38 She was like, "I'm so sorry." She said it like four times, "I'm so sorry." We're like, "What? Get to the point."

Mike Hyde: 00:18:45 She was like, "Cash has a four-centimeter brain tumor in his brain. We need to get him out of here right now, and get him to another hospital that can actually facilitate this." That moment is when our lives changed forever. Looking back on it now, it

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seems like a dream, a nightmare. Did that really even happen?

Mike Hyde: 00:19:18 That's when life changed. That's when they told us that he had a peanut brain tumor. It was part of the blue cell cancer group, highly rare and malignant. We started with a low dose chemo. Cash went blind 'cause the tumor was just causing so much pressure on his optic nerve that he couldn't even see.

Kalli Hyde: 00:19:38 'Cause it grew after they removed the 10%. It grew back the 10%, plus another centimeter. It grew back plus, so then he went blind.

Mike Hyde: 00:19:53 That's when we started the chemotherapy with him two weeks after the surgery. About a month into it, we're getting close to his birthday, he was able to start seeing again. Because initially, the chemo worked very well. The cancer responded to it, it gave us all a lot of hope that we might be on the right path.

Mike Hyde: 00:20:16 As they started giving him his nausea and pain drugs fentanyl, fentanyl is so scary on a little kid. 'Cause it stops your respiratory system if you have too much. I felt like Doogie Howser, 'cause I was sitting there just watching all these doctors, watching all these nurses. Writing everything down, what doses he's getting.

Mike Hyde: 00:20:36 We were charting everything, and we had this whole book of literally his whole first year of cancer. There was several times, where they would give him fentanyl, and he would die. He would code blue, and they'd have to come in and resuscitate him. That's when we decided to get him his medical cannabis card. When we first got there, I asked doctors, 'cause I was already looking into medical cannabis for other cancer patients.

Mike Hyde: 00:21:06 I'm saying, "Hey, have you guys heard of this?" The answers you'd answers you'd get back were, "You're talking about something federally illegal. We're federally funded, we can't have this conversation." Like, "This is what we know." I was like, "What about all those research?" They were like, "We don't know what you're talking about."

Mike Hyde: 00:21:25 It was very troubling. I said, God, is there anything you guys can do for Cash, he's really sick. He's not sleeping. He's

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vomiting 8 to 10 times a day. He's miserable. He's hallucinating on Ketamine. The nausea, pain cocktail they had him on was, Ativan, Zofran, Phenergan, Dilaudid, Morphine, Methadone, Ketamine, these crazy concoctions of drugs.

Mike Hyde: 00:21:54 They were just giving it to him every two hours, he was getting something. They call it the nausea and pain cocktail.

Kalli Hyde: 00:22:01 At first, we just went with it because he was in so much pain. He was throwing up, the Zofran helped here and there. They just kept adding things, and it was just overwhelming. Hard to keep track of what. It didn't seem to help at all, really. He still was throwing up. He was still in pain. He didn't sleep.

Mike Hyde: 00:22:25 We needed to get some medical cannabis and try this as a nausea and pain drug. 'Cause all the research I had done, left me with this confidence that we could replace these nausea and pain drugs, give him a better quality of life, and stop his heart and respiratory system from failing.

Mike Hyde: 00:22:43 Everything I read, even the patent that the government has on it as a neuroprotectant and an antioxidant, was that if he had some medical cannabis in him, it may protect his brain and his body from any type of ischemic insult. Since he had already had seizures, and he'd already had respiratory failure, this is getting real.

Mike Hyde: 00:23:05 The doctors told us, they said, "Mike, Cali, Cash has a stage four tumor. It's inoperable, it's wrapped around his optic nerve. We're doing high dose chemo, and bone marrow transplant. This is the roller coaster. This is the reality of where Cash is right now.

Mike Hyde: 00:23:26 In fact, we're not even fighting cancer anymore. Right now, we're on a timeline of organ failure. Chances are, Cash is going to die in the next two weeks. Not from cancer, but from organ failure and drug overdose. That's when I told them. I said, "Well then, I want to start weaning him off of these drugs."

Mike Hyde: 00:23:51 They looked at me like I was crazy. They said, "Mike, we can't wean him off of these drugs. He'll go through withdrawal. That's not part of our protocol, this is our protocol." I said, "Well you just told me he was going to die in the next two

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weeks from organ failure, and drug overdose from these drugs."

Mike Hyde: 00:24:08 "If you read the side effects of these drugs you're giving him, the most common side effect is nausea. Which we're giving him to, for nausea. It just goes down from there, organ failure, cardiovascular failure, respiratory failure. How do you guys know that you're not making Cash sicker, with all this cocktails that you're giving him? If you tell me that he's gonna die from organ failure, then as his parent, I want to wean him off of these drugs."

Mike Hyde: 00:24:38 The first day we did it, we were so scared. We go into the hospital room, Cash is laying there in the bed. The doctors start weaning him off of his drugs, and we started sneaking cannabis oil into his g-tube [gastrostomy tube]. That first day that we gave it to him, he slept like what, eight hours?

Kalli Hyde: 00:24:55 Yeah.

Mike Hyde: 00:24:55 Literally a solid eight hours after...

Kalli Hyde: 00:24:59 Never sleeping more than probably 20 minutes at a time.

Mike Hyde: 00:25:03 Yeah, months of

Kalli Hyde: 00:25:00 ... sleeping more than probably 20 minutes at a time.

Mike Hyde: 00:25:03 Yeah, months of no sleep.

Kalli Hyde: 00:25:05 Eight hours of sleep. He woke up, and he asked for a grilled cheese sandwich, which he hadn't ate in...

Mike Hyde: 00:25:09 Four weeks. He hadn't had a bowel movement in four weeks. He's like-

Kalli Hyde: 00:25:14 He scarfed it down, and we were like-

Mike Hyde: 00:25:17 He wanted to eat. We were just blown away by it. We went from being scared to, "Oh my god, we just helped Cash out. This actually worked." Seeing him wanting to eat-

Kalli Hyde: 00:25:29 We got a couple laughs out of him and some smiles and-

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Mike Hyde: 00:25:33 It was amazing. It was the most amazing night ever. From that point forward, we kept weaning him off of all these drugs each day, and it wasn't us weaning him off. It was the medical staff at Primary Children's Hospital that weaned him off of those nausea and pain cocktail. For the first time ever in history at their hospital had anybody done high dose chemo and weaned off of this nausea and pain cocktail.

Mike Hyde: 00:25:58 They thought they were making him sick with the nausea and pain cocktail, and in fact, they would say to us, "Well, you two were right. We were making Cash sick with all these drugs. Look how amazing he's doing." At that point, we were just blown away by what it did for him, and we were like, "Man, we need to tell all the parents on this unit," because we were friends, we were family, with numerous families that were going the same thing.

Mike Hyde: 00:26:25 Then that fear factor kicked in, and it's like, "Well, we can't tell anyone because if they find out that we're down here breaking state and federal law, giving him a scheduled substance, not only are they gonna lock us up, they're gonna put Cash back on nausea and pain drugs, and we're not gonna be able to take care of him. We still had Coltan too to worry about, and so that fear factor was the first time, looking back, that I made decisions that affected other people out of fear, and I really wish I could go back and just tell it then what was going on.

Mike Hyde: 00:27:05 We got Cash good enough to do his final round of chemotherapy, basically. 40 days-

Kalli Hyde: 00:27:10 He was cancer-free.

Mike Hyde: 00:27:11 40 days later-

Kalli Hyde: 00:27:12 He was cancer-free.

Mike Hyde: 00:27:13 40 days later, they pulled him out of there, and they said that he was a boy still and a Christmas miracle. They took that life support out of him, and his lungs had healed, and his brain wasn't damaged. The first thing he wanted to do ... What did he want?

Kalli Hyde: 00:27:28 He wanted that baby from Toy Story.

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Mike Hyde: 00:27:32 He wanted the baby. He wanted the baby from Toy Story, so we went and got Cash a little baby and brought it to him in the ICU, and he just laid there on the bed with this baby, and he was so happy. That was our first year fighting cancer.

John Malanca: 00:27:54 You just heard the first part of Cash Hyde's story. In episode four, we will focus on cancer, and Mike and Kalli will share with you the rest of their journey with Cash. Unfortunately, Cash's battle with cancer was not over yet. Not enough people are aware of the healing powers of this plant. Too many of us have bought into the stigma and misinformation campaign started by our government in the 1930s. That's why we at The Sacred Plant have dedicated this up-to-date life-changing series, which we share for free.

John Malanca: 00:28:26 This is a continuation of season one, which has been seen by nearly a half a million people in over 190 countries. As many of you requested, we've also designed this season to give more detailed guidance on how to find and use this medicine properly. In season one, we talked about the politically-motivated campaign behind discrediting cannabis as a medicine and placing it in the schedule one category as a controlled substance.

John Malanca: 00:28:50 As John Easterling pointed out, the United States government put cannabis in schedule one, but also filed a patent on the plant's medicinal properties. How can that be? Let's revisit a scene from season one that shocked many people. Cancer patient Patricia Crone went to Washington D.C. to uncover a copy of that patent.

Patricia Crone: 00:29:09 Here I am in Washington by the National Institutes of Health, NIH. More than 80 Nobel Prizes have gone to scientists doing research funded by this institute. One of those scientists who worked right here and who got a Nobel Prize was Julius Axelrod, who specialized in neurotransmitters, in how cells talk to each other. Later in life, he participated in a study of cannabis that the government deemed to be so significant, so important, that they took out a patent on the findings.

Patricia Crone: 00:29:47 It says in its abstract that cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative

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diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and HIV (related) dementia. It has more about how it's good for people who have undergone cancer chemotherapy or radiation, and other sources of oxidative stress. What we have here, it seems, an official recognition by the U.S. government that cannabis has medical uses.

Dr. Chintu Sharma: 00:30:30 At the same time, it was cannabis, medically taken off of the U.S. Pharmacopeia in 1942, kind of taken out of our history books as something that's illegal and bad, and just the act of allowing people to have this alternative decreases the use of these medications that are killing people.

Dr. Chintu Sharma: 00:30:53 Yes, the first opportunity that came up to do it, I jumped on. Am I gonna advocate for this? Yes. Am I gonna go to the state house and talk? Yes. Am I gonna find patients and find doctors and speak to them as well? Yes. I'm here for the whole game because, in the end, we all survive.

Dr. Chintu Sharma: 00:31:14 If the drug company can come into my clinic and bring drug A, B, and C, and launch million-dollar campaigns to sell me on the latest drug, if they can advertise all this stuff, then why do we have such abnormal and just unequal representations of another medication?

Dr. Chintu Sharma: 00:31:38 The fact that we have to treat it as a sacred plant, and the fact that we have to jump through all these hoops is wrong. People should have access. They definitely should have access. All this science, all this knowledge, if it's to be harnessed to its full potential, will help people. It may actually prevent a lot of poor outcomes, a lot of complications, a lot of falls, a lot of real major disasters.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:32:02 The medical system is advertising for itself. You turn on the TV, it's all pharmaceuticals showing happy people walking around after taking their drug. This is an information war, the battle for the minds of humanity, and so ... The way you live life, is everything, so your operating system, if you're eating well, if you're healthy, if you're taking natural herbs and supplements and things to stay healthy, is a lifestyle choice, but the other model, which is, "Eat what you want, and my pill will fix it," is being jammed down everyone's throats. Every TV across the land has to convince you that this way of living is normal, and so people have fallen for it. Because people have fallen for it, there's a trillion-dollar industry that's thriving.

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Dawn Steenstra: 00:32:57 I've been a very staunch advocate for the plant and for the freedom of the plant for everybody to be able to use it as they see fit. The safety margin is ridiculous compared to other drugs that we give pharmaceutically. I myself am a pain patient. I've been a pain patient since a car accident in 1999, and it's been awful. I've been on narcotics for years, for 18 years, and benzodiazepines, and it turns out that we find out now, I think since I've gotten off of them, using cannabis and cannabis derivatives, that they're not supposed to mix the opioids and the benzodiazepines 'cause, oh my god, they can be deadly.

Dawn Steenstra: 00:33:43 This type of thing, it's kind of really disturbed me what's happened to the healthcare system in America because it used to be a culture of we wanted to make people well. Now, it's more we wanna keep people just sick enough so that they have to revolve in and out of the hospital, and they get their money for whether it's cancer treatment or whether it's treatment for another disease process.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 00:34:04 The pharmaceutical industry is a business, and so healthy living leads to healthy people, and they make their money off of disease. There's a business model built on working off people who are sick. If you're chronically sick, it means you're a customer for life. It's a very paternalistic system, where the doctor tells you what to do, and you go, you fill your prescription, and maybe you feel better, usually not. If you don't take your health into your own hands, you are dead. That's how dangerous it is to be told what to do and to fall into this trap of this medical-pharmaceutical complex. It's a trillion-dollar industry. No one wants to kill the golden goose, even if it's leading to suffering and death.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:34:53 You're telling me a weed, a plant, that I could grow in my backyard, which if used properly, harvested properly, that has medicinal benefits known to fight cancer, helps seizures, helps children with autism, ADHD, and chronic pain conditions, just to name a few, to take that away from me, how does that not burn the blood in your body? How does it not just make that blood in your body just boil over with anger and frustration that we have a system that's saying, "You can't do what you need to do to take care of your health?" I don't know. There's no other way of looking at it. There's absolutely no other way of

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looking at it besides it was a decision made by the powers that be that has been necessitated by greed and by control.

Susan Meehan: 00:35:41 I think access to the sacred plant of cannabis is ... To not have access to this plant is tantamount to a crime, and I think that it is a crime that there were 23 other drugs tried on my child before cannabis was even mentioned. Before someone said, "You know, maybe you should try marijuana," they tried 23 deadly, addictive, horrible drugs on my daughter, some of which nearly killed her, literally, put her in cardiac arrest, and then there's this other option that maybe you should consider, called marijuana. For them to have tried all of those other things before anyone mentioned cannabis is a crime, and I think that we need to fix this. This plant was bastardized in the 1930s by the United States government, and we need to fix that stigma and bump that stigma. It's wrong, and it's a crime that this plant is held from the people.

John Malanca: 00:36:47 That was Susan Meehan. In episode three, where we cover autism and epilepsy, you will hear Susan's amazing story about her daughter, Cyndimae.

John Malanca: 00:36:56 Understanding the political history of cannabis, is so important in overcoming the stigma. It gives us context as to how the sacred plant became demonized and why the government has been so short-sighted about it. Thankfully, modern science is starting to break through political agendas. You may remember from season one that science has discovered that human beings have an endocannabinoid system. That means our bodies are hardwired to interact with this plant. As our experts explain, the endocannabinoid system is what allows this plant to be effective for treating such a staggering array of diseases.

John Easterling: 00:37:32 We each have an endocannabinoid system, which was discovered just ... I'd say 15 years ago. This endocannabinoid system, we've got receptor sites practically in every cell of our body for cannabinoids. Cannabis is the richest source of cannabinoids. It's got over 144 known cannabinoids. The ones that are most known are THC, CBD, but there's also CBG, CBN, 144 different cannabinoids in the cannabis plant.

John Easterling: 00:38:12 Also, you have a full profile of terpenes in the cannabis plant. Now, what's important about an endocannabinoid system? The endocannabinoid system actually interfaces with our

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neurology, our metabolic processes, pretty much every function that we have in our body, the endocannabinoid system influences, so that when we re-establish some of those connections to that endocannabinoid system, we actually feed the endocannabinoid system with a cannabis product, we're actually changing so many things in our physiology and the way we express ourselves. I believe we have the ability to express ourselves in a much higher potential by using cannabis.

Elizabeth Dost: 00:38:58 One of the most fascinating slides that I saw was they put up the Chinese acupuncture body, with all the acupuncture points, and they took the endocannabinoid system, and they lit it up, and you have the CB1 and the CB2 receptors, and they're in different parts of your body. What they did was they overlaid it on the acupressure points, and they just about matched.

Elizabeth Dost: 00:39:22 The first use of pain was about 4,000 years ago by the Chinese, of cannabis.

Jonathan Otto: 00:39:28 There's an endocannabinoid system in the brain and an endocannabinoid system in the gut. This is just basically recognizing something that is a part of what I believe is the creation narrative, which is that it was designed for the body, that it was designed to heal, that it was designed so there would be a natural synergy between those things, and that they're there for us to heal.

Dr. Eric Zielinski: 00:39:51 There's a scripture in the Bible that says, "The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations." I can think of no other substance on the planet that exemplifies that than essential oils. Cannabis has essential oils in it, and cannabis has other properties in it that are very healing, that I believe God has given humanity. When we talk about whether or not cannabis is sacred, of course. Cannabis is sacred because it was given by God to bring us healing and to help us because again, "the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations."

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:40:18 When people hear about cannabis being able to do so many different great things, it can help with neurological conditions and psychiatric conditions and gastrointestinal, it can help with cancer, it can help with everything, it sounds too good to be true. It should sound that way to anyone who has a critical mind because most often, we don't find medicines that do all

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of these different things. The reason that cannabis can is because its primary mechanism of action is interacting with our endocannabinoid system. This is a physiologic system that we all have in our bodies that's always working. From the time before we were born to our very last breath, our endocannabinoid system is functioning to restore and maintain balance at a cellular level.

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:41:06 This is why when something's wrong in the gut, endocannabinoids are released in order to restore balance. When something's wrong in the brain, the same process happens. If you look at all the various tissues of the body, they all have their endocannabinoid system that's hard at work, always, keeping things in balance. This is why you take this plant that, especially THC, acts very similarly to our endocannabinoids, and we introduce it, it can augment that system, make it function and perform even better in its major role to restore balance.

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:41:38 That's why we can have so many different things respond to cannabis, but that's not the only mechanism of action of this plant. For example, there's a lot of antimicrobial properties. The plant produces these cannabinoids and terpenoids compounds to protect the female flowering reproductive structures from pests, from mold, from bacteria, from ultraviolet light, so we have these antifungal properties, antibacterial properties, antioxidant properties, and also a lot of anti-inflammatory properties that are distinct from our endocannabinoid system.

John Malanca: 00:42:13 Dr. Dustin Sulak mentioned that cannabis can restore balance in our bodies. In episode six, we'll show you how the sacred plant works preventatively to improve overall wellness. In episode five, we'll explain how the medical cannabis program works in Dr. Sulak's home state of Maine. Now, let's hear more about the therapeutic compounds in the sacred plant called cannabinoids and terpenes. In order to properly use cannabis as medicine, it is crucial to understand which compounds work best for your body and your particular illness. It's also important to understand how they all work together in what is known as the entourage effect. This entourage effect describes the way that cannabinoids and terpenes work together more effectively than any one molecule on its own.

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John Easterling: 00:42:59 The world is abuzz with this new research now that the doors have opened again, and the more it's researched, the more jaw-dropping benefits we're seeing with cannabis. First of all, there was mostly study for the THC, the tetrahydrocannabinol, because that's the psychoactive component, and people would think that's why people were doing it. The terpenes, which are essentially essential oils, they give it the smell factor ... You have cannabis that smells kind of skunky. You'll have cannabis that smells like a diesel fuel. You'll have cannabis that smells very floral, almost like lavender. You'll have cannabis that smells very citrusy. That's all about the terpenes expressing themselves.

John Easterling: 00:43:53 These terpene profile are really important. As cannabis went around the world, you had different strains that have evolved that have different profiles of cannabinoids and different profiles of terpenes. For human ingestion, they all connect into the endocannabinoid system and then express themselves. There's different strains, for example, that would be better for anxiety or stress or a social mood disorder and depression. Then you get into therapeutic value of eliminating pain or being valuable for cancer. A lot of these terpenes are what actually help the cannabinoids to express. The terpenes I think will be one of the next major areas of discussion and study. Now, a lot it's really about the cannabinoids.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:44:47 In 1999, Mechoulam postulated the entourage effect. By that, he meant the combined effect of all the therapeutic constituents of the plant. We know that there are 113 different cannabinoids. We know that some of them have therapeutic effect. We also know that there are over 200 terpenes and that some of them have a therapeutic effect. The entourage effect is the totality of all of the therapeutic constituents that are in the cannabis plants.

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:45:22 This isn't just a single molecule, and that's why it's so different than a lot of what we're used to in medicine. We have one molecule, one mechanism of action. That's what's kinda required to get through the FDA drug approval process. Here we have the exact opposite, something that would be considered a dirty drug, meaning it hits so many different targets in the body. It's doing lots of things all at once, and it's got many, many applications in various realms of medicine.

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Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:45:49 Mostly, the dirty drug is not appreciated in medicine because it tends to be dangerous. We use it for one thing, and it creates all these side effects with its other mechanisms of action. That's not the case with cannabis. What we're almost always seeing are side benefits. We try to do one thing with cannabis, like help with someone's pain, and suddenly, we're helping with their mood, and we're helping with their sleep, and we're helping with their digestion.

Dr. Dustin Sulak: 00:46:14 That's the beauty of this medicine. Lots of mechanisms of action. I suspect that we actually just know the tip of the iceberg about how cannabis is working in the body. I think there's a lot more to discover, and there's parts of the plants that aren't being used very commonly, for example, the roots; the acidic cannabinoids, which are starting to become used a little bit more; but there's a lot of potential there. This plant still has more to offer us.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:46:43 We're not set up in this country at this time to deal regulatorily with plants, with plant-based medicine, with herbal-based medicine. This is a problem. The doctors were being trained in the beginning of the 20th Century that the manufacturing pharmaceuticals were easy to understand because they only had one molecule, whereas coffee as 880 molecules, a tomato 380, and cannabis has 550.

John Easterling: 00:47:16 Drug companies look at that, and they say, "Wow. This really works. This is amazing. We need to make a drug out of this." The same things happening today I think in cannabis. People are saying, "Oh, look what CBD does, so I'm gonna make a CBD isolate. I've got 99% pure CBD, so I don't have any THC. I don't have any of the other cannabinoids or terpenes. I have something that should be really effective." The problem is you don't get the same effect. In the industry, people are really understanding this. In Israel, they understand this very, very clearly in the research they're doing.

John Easterling: 00:47:53 There's that entourage effect where you have even minimal amounts of THC or CBG, CBN, and the terpene profiles. So many plants have been made into drugs, and oftentimes, you end up with the side effects and things like that, where historically, you didn't have those side effects. You had the benefit. Our body understood the chemistry of that, was able to break it down, utilize it, eliminate the difference, and so I'm

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... We started going to isolates. I don't get very excited about that.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:48:32 I've been doing this since 2001. I have hundreds of patients that come back and see me each year. I don't think that they would come back and see me and pay my fee every year if it wasn't working for them. I think the other thing that's very convincing is a number of people who tell me that they have decreased their reliance on prescription medication and/or have actually stopped taking some of their prescription medications.

Dr. David Bearman: 00:49:07 Most people who have pain have a 30-50% decrease in their opiate dose. Some patients are able to stop using opiates all together. Of course, the other thing that we know about cannabis is that it is extremely useful in terms of intervening in the opioid epidemic that we're having.

John Malanca: 00:49:30 As Dr. David Bearman mentioned, the opioid epidemic has destroying families all over this country. In episode two, we'll look at the ways that cannabis can help reduce this epidemic, as it is already doing in some states. We have an incredible second season lined up for you. Let me give you an overview of what you can look forward to in the next seven episodes.

John Malanca: 00:49:51 In episode two, Stopping pain, insomnia, anxiety, and autoimmune conditions, you'll learn how the sacred plant addresses multiple symptoms at once and helps patients get off addictive pharmaceutical-

John Malanca: 00:50:00 Symptoms at once. It helps patients get off addictive pharmaceutical drugs.

David Patton: 00:50:05 Everybody needs to know what it's like to get up and not suffer, and get up and have a life, and enjoy everything around them. I mean, I had to take so many pills a day, I had to have a machine tell me each time a day to take my meds. With the medical marijuana program, if I start hurting, I can go to the bathroom, anywhere, put two drops of that tincture that they make under my tongue, and guess what? I'm right back out there with my family, and nobody ever knew nothing. It ain't about taking this to get high, it's taking this to live.

Catherine Lewis: 00:50:48 After a year, we saw such improvement, he was off all his pharmaceuticals, that we started looking into this as a lifestyle

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change and instead of it being the last resort, we're reaching for that first.

Catherine Lewis: 00:51:06 Instead of going for Tylenol, Ibuprofen, or the pharmaceuticals they give after surgeries, go for cannabis.

Sarah Seagal: 00:51:15 I don't understand why it's classified in the same category as heroin. I mean, people are dying left and right, I just buried my nephew three days ago because of heroin, and we've got to start using all of the tools we have. It's really time for it to change like we're at the point with this crisis where we just can't afford to shove people into boxes anymore because of our own discomfort, you know? Or because of the things that we don't understand because of our own fear.

John Malanca: 00:51:47 In episode three, Ending suffering for our children, autism, seizures and more, you'll be amazed to see autistic and epileptic children experience miraculous improvements after western medicine could not help them.

Rebecca Gonzalez: 00:52:02 About ten days after starting his first dose of CBD only, he started speaking in about six to seven-word sentences. So he would basically say, I want more, or I need mom or those types of things. And then about two weeks after I was sitting in the bedroom and I'm folding laundry, and he comes in with a laundry basket, and he steps in it, and then he puts it on his head, and he said, “look, mom, I'm an astronaut in a rocket ship.”

Rebecca Gonzalez: 00:52:26 And that was going from little language to full sentences, and I was just, it was amazing.

Joey Ajluni: 00:52:34 Cause the cannabis, I've been very very well at reading, I started the year like at a kindergarten reading level, and now I'm in fourth grade with a seventh-grade reading level. So, yeah cannabis has made a big big, drastic change for me.

Susan Meehan: 00:52:49 The first time we tried THCA, it was almost a miracle. THCA stopped her myoclonica where nothing else had ever stopped her mycolonics, she literally had over a thousand myoclonic jerks an hour, and this THCA nearly instantly stopped Cindy-May's myoclonic jerks, which was a miracle in itself.

Casey Maddox: 00:53:13 We're standing here with our back to our kid playing, and three years ago, we didn't know if we'd ever be able to do that.

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We didn't know if he'd be able to walk without us having to hover right over him. Or learn, or go to school to do anything, and now he can come out here and run and play like he wants to, he's living an average normal life that everybody hopes their child would live. And that's because of the medical cannabis oil. It's been a miracle drug for us.

John Malanca: 00:53:41 In episode four, Treating cancer part two, we'll go deeper into the cancer and cannabis connection, we'll even continue the journey from our first season to show you how the sacred plant works against cancer.

Olivia Newton-John:00:53:53 And also I don't like taking prescription meds, I don't feel good on them, and I know their not good for you. And so I was willing to try it, anything at that point, and it worked. I think everyone should have the choice to use a plant, particularly if it's a sacred plant, and if there are wonderful benefits for it, I think you should have the opportunity to try it and find out for yourself.

Olivia Newton-John:00:54:20 And I think it's wonderful that there is this educational tour that people can learn more about it, and learn the myths and the debunking that needs to be done around the plant that's helped so many people.

Shannan Ajluni: 00:54:31 So even before starting chemotherapy, before seeing my oncologist, I knew it was coming, I'd seen it with my baby, I'd seen it with my friend, I'd seen my father-in-law had gone through cancer, all through all this time and I knew, so I immediately started the cannabis.

Shannan Ajluni: 00:54:51 That was how I started taking, and it got me through ten months of chemo, I was able to participate in Christmas with my kids, New Years, Easter, my birthday.

John Malanca: 00:55:05 In episode five, Accessing the sacred plant, the unjust laws and how to navigate them, I will show you how the medicine is rowed and processed, and what to do if you live in an illegal state. You'll meet patients who fought for legal access and won.

Elizabeth Dost: 00:55:21 We really want to keep compassion in the use of marijuana in Massachusetts, and so we're trying to change part of the stigma is not only with cannabis, but part of the stigma is that people actually do suffer and in this in 2018, why do people

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suffer. There's no reason for it, we know how to quell suffering.

Steph Sherer: 00:55:48 I think what people have to understand, at the core of the medical cannabis movements, at the core, is the fact that there are not mainstream medications that work for us. If there was a medication that would work for my condition, I would not have been doing this for the last 16 years.

Bob Jordan: 00:56:06 That started our journey on activism, and we got active, and we've been saying for however many years it's been now, that this, the main point we've been trying to make for all these years, is this is medicine, this plant is medicine. This is a miracle plant.

John Malanca: 00:56:24 In episode six, Extending the quality and quantity of life for us and our beloved pets, we'll explore how the sacred plant works for wellness and prevention, and we'll show you the benefits of cannabis for seniors, and for treating your pets.

Barbara Blaser: 00:56:38 And when I was in Illinois, a big thing that we had was called aging in place, that seniors don't want to go to nursing homes, they want to age in place. And cannabis is something that can allow you to do that, it can allow you to sleep, it can allow you to eat, it can allow you to be pain-free, you can successfully age in place, and I see my life as a mitzvah to help people do that.

Charlyn Belluzzo: 00:57:07 And with this particular disorder, it isn't something that he's just going to get over, that it could be triggered at any time, so what really spoke to us with cannabis is if it were a reliable, something that we could use to actually soften the reaction of those nerves.

Marlene Kinley: 00:57:25 Six months of-

David Kinley: 00:57:27 Well you have seven grand mal seizures in the first four months before we put him on the CBD, and THC. And we kept a log after that, and within four months, they had stopped completely.

John Malanca: 00:57:43 In episode seven, Treating PTSD, selecting your medicine, dosage and a qualified doctor, we will look at the incredible way that the sacred plant helps veterans and trauma victims with PTSD, we'll also explain how to find a cannabis doctor,

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and walk you through the process of buying medicine at a dispensary.

Ralph Slawter: 00:58:01 It you know, it does relieve it. It relieves all the pain, suffering. I notice it, I notice marijuana more for nightmares. Last week I was in Vietnam, it must have been all night, it had to have been all night, and it's hard to put up with, it is, hard to put up with.

Ralph Slawter: 00:58:28 Can't get rid of it. It calms me down, it takes the stress out of my muscles, I don't tighten up all the time, it just really relaxes me.

Barbara Blaser: 00:58:42 So I might meet with you and say what are you treating, here's what, and nurses can't suggest, we can't recommend, I can say well here's what I use, and then I can bring you to a budtender who will then walk through.

Barbara Blaser: 00:58:55 So a patient might say, you know I hate the taste of such and such, and they'll say well we have this other tincture, that's maybe an alcohol-based, but that's where the magic happens is back here at the bud bar.

John Malanca: 00:59:08 And as you may remember, from season one, the reason that my wife Corinne and I founded our non-profit organization United Patients Group, was because of a similar experience we had with our own family. In season one, we shared the story of Corinne's dad, Stan Retainer, who was in hospice and given weeks to live, when Corinne and I decided to give him cannabis as a palliative measure, it unexpectedly saved his life, and almost eight years later, Stan continues to live cancer free.

John Malanca: 00:59:39 But this past year, unfortunately, cancer struck our own family again, and it was with my wife Corinne, as she was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.

John Malanca: 00:59:48 You know we haven't looked back, it's been wonderful, doing season one, when we first started doing season one, Corinne wasn't sick, and she got sick, she was diagnosed June 29th, you know the seven-part doc-series had already aired, and that was actually the very first night we did the live Q and A show, and we found out about two hours before that show, that Corinne had a four-centimeter mass in her pancreas.

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John Malanca: 01:00:21 And I remember we were at our office, planning out our anniversary as well as my birthday, and the phone rang and it was our doctor, and we just thought you know, the stomach issues was an ulcer or something like that, because we were on top of our health, and our doctor said, guys, you have a four centimeter mass in your pancreas, and I remember just the look on each other’s face was like oh my, what does that mean?

John Malanca: 01:00:46 And so they said it's pancreatic cancer, and I just felt just the world drop on us. That was June 29th, and I didn't stop, there wasn't a day that I didn't stop, but June 29th to October 19th trying to beat this bloody disease.

John Malanca: 01:01:13 We used a lot of modality, we did use cannabis, we did a lot of, we did not go the chemoradiation route, we did get opinions, from Stanford, UCSF, General. We worked with a lot of integrated oncologists, different modalities, you know and like I said, there was no doubt I thought, you know this isn't the end of our story, God is not gonna, we saved Stan, we've saved hundreds and hundreds of other people, we have an incredible story of what we started with United Patients Group, and we're gonna continue on, and you're gonna get better as well.

John Malanca: 01:01:59 I don't want to say I, I don't know why it didn't work on Corinne, but I do know pancreatic cancer is one of the worst of the worst, and the symptoms came and they, I got four incredible months with Corinne, and it was... Awful as it was, it was so special, we just, our love we just found this other dimension that we didn't even know we even had.

John Malanca: 01:02:32 You know I just got back from a couple conferences, and a lot of people still don't know of her passing, and they come up to me, where's your beautiful wife? Where's Corinne? Where's Corinne? I look at them and I have to share this and it just... They're in shock. I'm still in shock.

John Malanca: 01:02:57 But when we jump back into filming season two, it has been very therapeutic, we've traveled the country, we've met so many patients, so many patients, and their stories, they've shared their stories with us, and that's been very therapeutic, and I share Corinne's story with them, and some people know me, some people don't, but when I share, with these patients

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that are opening up to me, I say I just want to let you know my background and who you're meeting with, and some of these people had never seen the sacred plant.

John Malanca: 01:03:41 And so I shared, and they're in shock, they said oh my gosh, I can't believe that you're continuing on, and so... But yeah, it keeps me going, it keeps me going, I guess this is part of my grief counseling, you know? I do go to a grief counselor once a week, I do a lot of praying, but I do, I continue on with everything I do to honor Corinne as well, but it's keeping me going.

John Malanca: 01:04:19 And I could share everything that we've done, and I don't know if you guys know and Deron you were talking about your mother-in-law, I just lost my wife to pancreatic cancer. So it's tough that we spent eight years saving people's lives, my father-in-law's still alive, and I couldn't save my wife. So I'm doing this as therapy for me, keeping her name out, out in the public and keeping her alive so...

Beth Shields: 01:04:56 What a beautiful way to honor your wife.

John Malanca: 01:04:58 And tomorrow's five months of her passing, so it's a... It's tough. So you talking about lung cancer, which is part of my family, my father-in-law, how United Patients Group has started, you talking about your mother-in-law, with pancreatic, and faith is what's kept me going, and I've had a lot of discussions with god, but for you guys to come in here and share your stories, it doesn't, there's no prejudice on what happens to any of us, you know we just had a mother in here that had two children that were, one had a stroke I believe at birth and the other one has constant seizures, and she has her hands filled, it's like what did she do to deserve this? What did we all do? So.

Deron Cloud: 01:05:50 And I think, when you tell your story, it's moments like this when I realize... I'm not crazy.

James Grill: 01:06:00 We've all been there.

Beth Shields: 01:06:01 We all know, you're not alone.

Deron Cloud: 01:06:03 I'm not alone. And the fact that you can come back after this time, and still find the strength, is a testament to how strong what's happening is going on. Forgive me but...

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John Malanca: 01:06:17 Hey I cry every day, Corinne and I cried every day with all the patients we worked with daily. From around the world.

John Malanca: 01:06:22 You know but the one thing I do like is that I will always have... The two of us on tape with the sacred plant season one, you know? And that's something, took me a while, I hadn't listened to it, but I had listened to it after she passed and I watched all the episodes of the two of us and to see her interacting with me, to see her talking, it was a gift, it really was a gift.

John Malanca: 01:06:54 Manny Goldman is the founder of the Sacred Plant company, he's created a valuable platform for educating people about the healing properties of cannabis. It's been a privilege, and a pleasure to work with Manny on both season one, and season two of the Sacred Plant.

Manny Goldman: 01:07:08 I became interested in educating people in the sacred plant when I actually gained the knowledge. So I was completely ignorant about it, I just judged it for what I heard for my whole life, right? Pot smokers, weed, this this this, and I just didn't give it much attention, I was like oh that's recreational, you wanna get high that's your business, but I'm not interested.

Manny Goldman: 01:07:26 And then all of a sudden I found out all these stories about people who are actually healing chronic diseases that medicine or other plants couldn't heal. And then I started hearing all these things about patents from the US government, and it's schedule one, and with meth, and heroin and all sorts of stuff and I'm like oh my god, so I'm just not one that allows myself to sit around and let this injustice happen, right? I just decided I'm going to use all the resources I have, I put all my life savings, I put all my resources, all my relationships, into moving this forward.

Manny Goldman: 01:07:58 I felt suffering, I felt pain, I have family members in pain, and in order to help one person get out of pain, that's my life's work, that's my mission.

Manny Goldman: 01:08:07 There are a few ways that you could support us. One is watching, you support with your time. It's one thing. Gain the value of watching this series, watch it for free, you'll get educated, empower yourself so you could empower others. That's one.

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Manny Goldman: 01:08:20 Number two I ask that you share the message, right? We have links below for Facebook shares, and email shares, all types of stuff, help get the message out to as many people as possible. Be bold, be brave, be courageous, and get past that stigma of cannabis, right? It's time that we let go of all that.

Manny Goldman: 01:08:36 Feeling judged by our loved ones because we're talking about cannabis, this is not the drug that you've been known to use, this is medicine, this is straight up medicine.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 01:08:46 You're watching this right now, here's a choice you have to make in your life. Are you going to live a life of complacency, and allow the system to continue to perpetuate and do these things and put us in this prison, this dominance of their drugs, their messaging, their control, or are you going to understand that this is your chance to break the mold, to share this with the people in your life that need it.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 01:09:16 You know people right now that are suffering, you know people that are struggling in life, and you now know of a solution that may help them. So, you're not going to see this on TV, because this isn't a multi-billion dollar industry bombarding the minds of humanity through the traditional media channels, so you seeing this right now have a responsibility to share it with the people in your life that need it.

Dr. Pedram Shojai: 01:09:44 And if you don't do it, it's not going to happen, you wanna see a better world? The action starts with you right here, right now. Support the mission, get involved, share this content, help people help the world, help push this mission to a place where we can help more people.

Jonathan Otto: 01:10:02 The Sacred Plant is such an incredible resource, they're incredible human beings that are uniting together to help share information that has saved lives, that will save lives, that will continue to save lives because they're giving people truth. People are not being paid or forced to share the information that they are, and many of them are being forced to go into hiding, or they would become outlaws because of their belief, and their understanding of the power of what the Sacred Plant cannabis [inaudible 01:10:35], and I strongly urge you to be a part of that mission and share this resource because somebody you know will have their lives changed by this, and

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in my lab there's been nothing more gratifying than being a part of that change.

Jonathan Otto: 01:10:46 So I implore you to be a part of the change, don't be a part of the despondency, the complacency, just the system, don't be a part of the deception, don't just buy into that deception, be a part of the solution. This is a part of the solution, get behind this cause, share this with your family, with your friends, with those that you don't know about, a stranger within your gates, share this resource because it will save and change lives forever.

Jonathan Otto: 01:11:16 And that is the happiness that you and I long for in this world and in our own lives. Share it today by clicking the links below, and get this out to those you care about the most.

John Malanca: 01:11:26 The unfortunate truth is that we're all going to watch people we love get hit with chronic diseases. According to the stats, a shocking one in three women, and one in two men will get cancer in their lifetime. One in three seniors are dying with Alzheimer's, and autoimmune diseases on the rise all over the world, with over 70 million Americans alone facing debilitating and life-shattering symptoms of arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. Over one billion people worldwide are in chronic pain every day, and the pain medications themselves may be inflicting irreparable damage.

John Malanca: 01:12:04 We all need the tools to prevent, treat, and beat these illnesses, and that is why we're making this vital information available to you, and everyone all around the world for free. Please tell your friends and family to watch this series while it's still airing. If you enjoyed our first episode, I encourage you to share this series widely with your loved ones. Education is the first step in making sure everyone has access to the sacred plant.

John Malanca: 01:12:32 In our next episode, Ending suffering for our children, autism, seizures and more, you'll meet patients who are using the sacred plant to reduce their intake of prescription drugs. After years of laying on the couch taking over 30 pills a day, David went back to work. He is now off pharmaceuticals and using only cannabis extracts for his MS and chronic pain.

John Malanca: 01:12:54 Elizabeth and Holly were able to treat their Crohn's disease, and Fibromyalgia, with the Sacred Plant. Karen who worked

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with Dr. Allen Frank well to relieve her insomnia, anxiety, and depression, Sarah is using the Sacred Plant to help her Lyme disease, and Scott explains how it saved him from a life of drug addiction.

John Malanca: 01:13:11 For years, cannabis has been labeled as a gateway drug, but now many experts believe that cannabis could actually be an exit drug and a solution to the current opioid epidemic that is taking thousands of lives. I look forward to seeing you again for episode two, until then, God bless.

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