I am about to take you on a journey. The amount of enemies of cannabis in this country, abroad, and probably on other fucking planets is just unbelievable. I am not a doctor nor a healthcare professional, but if there were a cure for cancer, you better believe in the U.S. we wouldn’t have access to it. For anyone that understands how the American “healthcare” system works—well, it doesn’t “work” at all.
The American Sickcare System
Here is the reality that we face every day as American consumers. Depending on who you are, there is a good chance that between 50–90% of the food you eat is, on some level, poisonous. To the uninitiated, you may be saying, “bullshit.” Well, the cold hard fact is that as long as corporations have the money to lobby Congress into allowing toxic bullshit into the food system, they will continue to.
Many additives and preservatives that are allowed in our foods are largely illegal in Europe and in other developed countries. Here’s the really fucked up part: major conglomerates at the top of the American capitalism food chain—which are generally some sort of financial/capital/holding company or firm that owns food companies—create dyes, chemicals, and preservatives that cause diseases, usually some form of cancer. These same holding companies typically will own pharmaceutical companies that develop drugs that fight the very diseases they caused to begin with. You couple that with the sedentary lifestyle they are counting on for most Americans, and it’s a real recipe for disaster. As of today, the CDC claims that over 40% of Americans are obese, and the NIH claims that 74% of Americans are overweight.
The number one drug used in America isn’t nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, or even caffeine—it’s actually sucrose, more commonly known as sugar. And as anyone with a munchies sweet tooth can tell you, it’s addictive AF. The amount of added sugar in many FDA-approved products is just tragic.
If it wasn’t addictive enough, these previously mentioned companies continue to develop chemicals that are more and more addictive. The U.S. population is at the mercy of a corrupt government and the lobbying done by these corporations that perpetuate this corruption.
How Does RSO Fit in?
So how does all of this pertain to RSO or FECO? First, let’s define what RSO is. RSO stands for Rick Simpson Oil. Rick Simpson is a Canadian cannabis activist. In 2003, Simpson was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. Inspired by a 1975 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that reported THC killed cancer cells in mice, he decided to create a potent cannabis extract and apply it topically to the cancerous spots on his arm. According to Simpson’s personal accounts, the growths disappeared within four days.
My Personal Experience Producing RSO
I’ve been making RSO for over 15 years. For the simplicity of this blog post, I’ll give the Cliff’s Notes here on how it is made. Essentially, you soak cannabis flower in an extractor that is alcohol-based, ideally food-grade ethanol or Everclear. You then filter out the plant-based material, leaving behind the alcohol with dissolved trichomes. Then, through a slow heating element, you evaporate the remaining alcohol. What you are left with is a thick, dark, almost tar-like oil. You can use it as a sublingual or a suppository, but it is most commonly ingested.
This substance is incredibly psychoactive, but the point of taking it is to help with remission of cancer. Specifically, it has been shown to help greatly in shrinking tumors. If you were to Google the implications of RSO, you can see that the reefer madness machine is alive and well, as you will see very little positive ink on how this will help cancer patients. But when you talk to individuals that have used it and caused their own remission—of which I have talked with several people personally and talked to many others online about their success with the oil—the picture changes.
How Does RSO Work?
How does it work? That I do not understand, because I am not a scientist, and the scientific research on RSO’s efficacy is something that is still in its infancy. Hopefully, the recent executive order to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III will change that. However, if you look to the study mentioned above from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute concerning the killing of cancer cells in mice, you will find some very convincing data on RSO’s efficacy to treat cancer and cause remission. Click the link here to find the conclusions from that study via the National Library of Medicine and scroll down to the section headed “Anti-Cancer Effects of Cannabinoids.” In reading this article, you will have to have Google handy. I am not a doctor nor a biologist, so I would not want to give a dissertation on this article because it is very complex. But the study is there, and remission was shown in the cancer of lab mice in this study using RSO.
Mike Wise
I met Mike Wise at a 4/20 event in Denver back in 2017 and saw him speak on a panel. This guy is a cannabis activist and has a group on Facebook where people can go and discuss their experiences with RSO and can ask questions about how it works, etc. Find the link to the FB page here. This is one of a few pages you can find on FB on the subject, but this one is the most active and has the most members that I have found. And knowing Mike personally, I know he is doing this for the right reasons.
If you know someone diagnosed with cancer, please let me know, and we can see about saving them as opposed to using them as a stooge for our abysmal food and sick-care industries in the U.S.
One Love.
