OMMP Pay if Forward

It's been over a year since I wrote to all of you or sent you a new List. In answer to your emails asking, What happened to the January 2019 Granny Storm Crows List"? To put it at its simplest, this has been a very rough year for me. Last fall, my disabled husbands health took a huge turn for the worse. His heart was failing. Much of my fall and winter was spent taking him to and from doctors, the ER, or worse, to the hospital. His last hospital stay was a two week long nightmare. His care was less than what he would have gotten at home. I finally got him out of there and back home. Toward the end of January, one day after our 51st wedding anniversary, he passed away at home, while holding my hand. My brain felt paralyzed and I just could not do anything. My closest friends and family all told me to just take care of myself- the world would survive without a January List. I took their good advice. Eventually, the numbing brain-fog began to wear off a little, but reading and sorting medical studies was still out of the question. So instead, I dove into the dull, mindless work of checking the links, one by one. It needed doing, and it gave me time to heal. To most folks, the List as appears as this huge, unchanging monolith of information, but it is constantly changing. Abstracts become full studies (and vice versa) changing their URLs, then there was that switch from http to https that made many links invalid, older links got deleted or archived, and I even had a whole site just vanish, so I had to find duplicates at other sites. By the time I had finished checking all the links, I had a huge backlog of new studies to deal with. I am still not quite caught up, but I am a full month past my usual deadline for the summer List, so ready or not, here it is! I hope you will forward it to your friends. Even just sending the link for the first section of news articles is a good way to help educate those new to Cannabis. As usual, I have divided up the List into sections. Once you open the links, on the left-hand side there should be a tool bar with a little ribbon-shaped icon, "bookmarks", click it for get the navigation index. My beautiful monster has grown to over 6,000 pages of links on just about everything related to Cannabis, so that index is very necessary. It's quite a change from the original 60 pages I shared on my 60th birthday! The first section is made up of mostly news articles. Its a good place to start your Cannabis education. Most of us "old timers" had to learn about Cannabis bit by bit from scattered sources. Ive made it a lot easier for you by adding a small Beginners section that gives you basic information on what can be a confusing and overwhelming experience. The news articles give you a short, understandable summary of the medical studies and their findings. Interestingly, Ive found that news articles often contain details that the official abstract may not cover, so they are worth reading. This section will also introduce you to interesting sites you may have missed. At the very bottom of this section is a mini-dictionary that gives plain English definitions for some of the scientific terms you may run into. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo2llys3ymk88c9/GSCL_2019_NEWS.pdf?dl%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1568087458597000&usg=AFQjCNHCW73e5Ul_9pxKpy5-xZy8x-OV-g" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo2llys3ymk88c9/GSCL_2019_NEWS.pdf?dl=1" style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#1155cc; font-size:small; text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo2llys3ymk88c9/GSCL_2019_NEWS.pdf?dl=1</a> Section 2 has the new studies from 2015 to mid-August 2019. Its the biggest section simply because new studies are coming out at an amazing rate. For students, medical professionals and patients, this can be the most useful section. Besides hundreds of recent medical studies, this section also contains a large Cultivation section with articles on Cannabis growing dating back as far as 1789, hundreds of recipes are in Methods of Use, and the History of Cannabis, both ancient and modern, is explored. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqr7n6twb48bm36/GSCL_2019_NEWSTUDIES.pdf?dl%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1568087458597000&usg=AFQjCNE9-2w24_iH8JJHYo6knG5Uu1akCg" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqr7n6twb48bm36/GSCL_2019_NEWSTUDIES.pdf?dl=1" style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#1155cc; font-size:small; text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqr7n6twb48bm36/GSCL_2019_NEWSTUDIES.pdf?dl=1</a> Section 3 is dedicated to the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) the endocannabinoids, their receptors and related enzymes. First are the newest studies and below them are two sections with the older studies. The information on Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency and Omega-3 is quite thought-provoking. In my opinion, the study of the ECS, and its genetics, is the future of medicine but I may be a bit biased. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/cl5nfihz15grdet/GSCL_2019_ECS%2520%252B%2520ECS%2520Genetics.pdf?dl%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1568087458597000&usg=AFQjCNEhxWYjyl62gEpr2mF_QStPew65mA" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cl5nfihz15grdet/GSCL_2019_ECS%20%2B%20ECS%20Genetics.pdf?dl=1" style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#1155cc; font-size:small; text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/cl5nfihz15grdet/GSCL_2019_ECS%20%2B%20ECS%20Genetics.pdf?dl=1</a> Section 4 begins with the Phytocannabinoids, THC, CBD and all their friends and relatives. Because of our illogical ban on actual Cannabis research, this section is far too thin. I expect this to change soon. Canada, Israel, Mexico and other medically legal countries will be doing more Cannabis research, while the US is falling behind. Then we jump to the synthetic cannabinoids, the Spice/K-2 drugs. In the lab, these are used to study the functions of a single type of receptor. The illegal Spice street drugs are usually made in countries where quality control is optional. And unlike natural Cannabis, these synthetic drugs have killed. Avoid them like the plague they are! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/adrvpmj4eey02zk/GSCL_2019_PHYTOS%252BSYNTHs.pdf?dl%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1568087458597000&usg=AFQjCNEKhdI7t7fVC27JQuS3imWn1MZLbg" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/adrvpmj4eey02zk/GSCL_2019_PHYTOS%2BSYNTHs.pdf?dl=1" style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#1155cc; font-size:small; text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/adrvpmj4eey02zk/GSCL_2019_PHYTOS%2BSYNTHs.pdf?dl=1</a> The last section contains the older studies from 2014 on back. Dont ignore these just because they are a bit older. There is a lot of good info in them! The "ancient" Pre-2000 studies can answer some of those basic questions like, Does Cannabis go bad? or How long should you hold your hit?, and youll even find a few Reefer Madness articles thrown in there for your amusement, or horror. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/3eg28t1dkdjrgtb/GSCL_2019_OLDER%2520STUDIES.pdf?dl%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1568087458597000&usg=AFQjCNESyccevITfFMdW8N_mNxwmbsdxZQ" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3eg28t1dkdjrgtb/GSCL_2019_OLDER%20STUDIES.pdf?dl=1" style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#1155cc; font-size:small; text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/3eg28t1dkdjrgtb/GSCL_2019_OLDER%20STUDIES.pdf?dl=1</a> On a final note, I find that I am still not quite back, either intellectually or emotionally, to where I should be, but I am healing. Keeping busy is the best medicine for me and my List keeps spreading the truth about Cannabis and how it can heal. And as my late grandfather once said, If the truth wont do, then something is wrong! My love to you all, Granny

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