One Woman’s Point of View: Medical Freedom For All By Yvonne Storkey

Dr Benjamin Rush, one of the people involved in the creation of the Declaration of Independence, wrote, ‘Un-less we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medecine will organize into an

undercover dictatorship.... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic.... The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom’.

Once again, the foresight of the Founding Fathers is proved; the question remains, What should this ‘special privilege’ look like? The current system, with even relatively basic medical care costing more than most people’s

homes and annual incomes, together with punishing insurance premiums, is obviously not working. Many people are simply not getting medical treatment at all, because they cannot afford to go to a doctor.

Which brings us to ObamaCare, the latest solution for medical care for all, and insurance companies which are no longer allowed to exclude pre-existing medical conditions from coverage. I worked in the insurance industry

for 15 years, and the reason why insurance companies exclude pre-existing conditions is not because they are mean, but because they cannot afford to include them and keep their premiums affordable. Insurance companies work on a balancing act between the money they receive in and the claims they pay out. They rely on sufficient ‘healthy’ people who will not have to claim from them, subsidizing those who fall ill. Not being able to exclude pre-existing condi-tions means that those people who need expensive medical care are guaranteed to apply for insurance, thus putting the ratio of claimants to non-claimants into serious imbalance. Insurance companies are not registered charities, they are businesses with a legal obligation to make profits.

So if the insurance companies cannot afford to provide the money for ObamaCare, maybe the government is mak-ing up the shortfall? The trouble with that is that government funding is by definition finite, limited. With more

and more people being diagnosed with major illness, the need for medical care is unlimited, infinite. Unlimited needs faced with limited funding go together very badly. It is inevitable that some people - particularly older people - will be allowed to die with little treatment, in order to help younger tax-paying people who have a better chance of contribut-ing more tax dollars during their lifetime. Critically ill people will be sacrificed, while accountants guess the odds for survival.

I have lived in a country with socialized medical care, and I can tell you categorically it is not the answer. There are always more needs than there are funds to address them, long waiting lists for expensive treatments, and the quality

of care steadily deteriorates.

I agree with Dr Benjamin Rush wholeheartedly, Medical Freedom for all is as essential as personal liberty and the right to pursue happiness. But the way our society is currently established, with money as its god, means that any

paradigm of Medical Care is doomed to fail. Medical care needs to be lifted beyond financial constraints altogether, otherwise it is just another oppression for the poor. I do not yet have a clear vision of how this may be achieved, although I do know there are a lot of dedicated vocational people in poor rural areas charging a pittance for their high quality services, a kind of underground care system. But if capitalist-driven healthcare and socialized healthcare are equally ineffective, isn’t it time to think outside the box? How long are we going to let human life and health be worth less than money?

Scientist Richard Brumfield has a vi-sion of making the idlyllic Hayfork

Valley a destination spot for those seek-ing relief from ailments such as cancer and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pul-monary Disease). He has developed a process utilizing hemp oil (from Can-ada) and marijuana grown in certain areas like Hayfork to extract a concen-trated non-euphoric compound using a cold, non-chemical organic process that has a healing effect for the afflicted. The result is a clear liquid with no psy-chotrophic effects nor side effects that helps patients heal and relieves their suffering. The patient does not get high and there is no reaction except a general feeling of well being after a small dose is put under the tongue 3 times daily. This process results in a formula that is totally organic with a rating lower than 0.03% THC which by Federal law (U.S. Code 21, subsection 1308.35(c)), can meet exemption from controlled substances made from THC and classi-fied as a non-euphoric substance after presenting rigorous scientific evidence of its effect on humans. The oral ad-ministration of the non-psychotropic cannabis plant constituent cannabidiol (CBD) is safe and well tolerated in hu-mans, according to clinical trial data published online by the journal Current Pharmaceutical Design (Kings College, London). Cannabinoids are a class of chemical compounds which mimic the actions of phytocannabinoids found in the nervous and immune systems of animals and that activate cannabinoid receptors. Among a long list of other benefits, cannabinoids exert palliative effects in cancer patients by prevent-ing nausea, vomiting and pain and by stimulating appetite. In addition, these compounds have been shown to in-hibit the growth of tumour cells in culture and animal models by modu-lating key cell-signalling pathways. Mr. Brumfield envisions guest quar-ters throughout the Hayfork area where patients can rest, breathe fresh moun-tain air and drink the exceptional wa-ters of Trinity while being treated. Un-der this protocol, patients’ feelings of depression and pain disappear and their appetite is stimulated. Mr. Brumfield believes Hayfork Valley could benefit from legal cultivation and laboratory processing & testing whereby patients will have the freshest and most concen-trated formula to imbibe. His formula is being tested by physicians in Or-ange County, Hawaii and at a School of Medicine on the east coast. Full Spec-trum Omega is a Phytocannabinoids Medicine company & includes both oral and topical. Non euphoric Phyto-cannabinoids products are currently in labeling and packaging stages. In Pat-ent No.US 6,630,507 B1 issued: Oct. 7th, 2003 the abstract states in part,“The cannabinoids are found to have particu-lar application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological dam-age following ischemic insults, such as strokes and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as

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Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV demen-tia.” In a CNN video: Marijuana & Alzheimer Researcher Dr Maria de Ceballos said: “These findings that cannabinoids work both to prevent inflammation and to protect the brain may set the stage for their use as a therapeutic approach for Alzheimer’s disease.” When one considers the possibility of making Hayfork a medical destination, look at Swtizerland.Switzerland puzzles many in medical tourism as it keeps in-creasing medical tourism numbers despite having some of the highest prices in the world.Lianne van den Bos of Euromonitor International explains, “The continued high prices in Switzerland, when compared to neighbouring European countries, is offputting especially for European tourists who see Switzerland as a high price country.But tourists coming from China, Asia and Middle East are far more concerned about quality. Medical tourism in Swit-zerland is seeing increased business from Brazil, Russia, India and China and Middle Eastern countries. Health and wellness tourism was one of the most profitable and grow-ing tourism segments in Switzerland in 2012 despite high prices and competition from other European countries hav-ing similar natural landscapes such as Austria or Germany. Medical tourism represents the fastest-growing health and wellness category in Switzerland over the past five years with around 5 % growth in 2012.”

If the efforts of Mr. Brumfield and others pan out, mari-juana cultivation for illegal activities may be a thing of the

past in Trinity county.

41,000 WOMEN A YEAR DIE FROM BREAST CANCER. Imagine if Trinity can save their lives? Imagine Hayfork becoming a medical treatment destination.

Cannabidiol (CBD) With respect to the medical potential of the cannabis, CBD may hold the most promise for many serious conditions. CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid that is believed to reduce the psychoactive effects of THC. Smokers of cannabis with a higher CBD/THC ratio are less likely to experi-ence anxiety. CBD may also inhibit cancer cell growth

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One Woman’s Point of View: A Healthcare Revolution By Yvonne StorkeyI thought long and hard about suggesting in my last Point of View that Healthcare needed to be taken out of the financial system altogether. In many ways it sounds impossibly naive, not to mention difficult to structure or manage. But then I realized that our whole society has to lift itself out of money being its central and most important aspect, or our species (and all others) will become extinct. If the whole planet only has value as far as its resources can be sold to make more money, then in a very short time we will finish the job of poisoning our air, water and food supplies beyond our ability to survive.Healthcare is the perfect place to start in removing our culture’s focus on money. I don’t think the American people realize that they are being deliberately made ill and kept ill in order for the pharmaceutical companies to make their next billion. Maybe people are so used to the long list of side-effects attached to any drug that they discount them as ‘normal’. There is nothing normal about suppressing one symptom by causing half a dozen more. And what those side-effects mean is that once you start taking drugs, the Drug Companies can keep giving you more drugs to treat the side-effects, in a self-perpetuating process. After all, how can a Drug Company make money if the population is healthy? It is in their interest to make you ill and keep you there.Ably assisting them in this goal is the FDA. The FDA is not here to protect the American people, it is here to promote the Drug Companies’ interests. Coinci-dentally, when top officials in the FDA finish their term of office, they almost inevitably walk into high-paying jobs in the pharmaceutical industry. Although not elected by the American people, the FDA has nonetheless passed a law which says that only a drug can treat a disease. This means that if your friend recom-mends you take an orange to heal your scurvy, a disease of vitamin C deficiency, the FDA would say your friend is practising medicine without a licence, because an orange is not a drug. The FDA could then imprison, fine, slander or legally harrass your friend into bankruptcy. Sounds unbelievable? Please believe it, because it is happening every day, where dedicated people are finding herbal, plant and food cures for major ‘incurable’ diseases like cancer, AIDS, MS, and they are being systematically persecuted, stamped out, or forced to practise their healing outside American territory. Their only crime is to have found something which works better than a pharmaceutical drug, which the Drug Companies cannot patent and make money on themselves.The reason why pharmaceutical drugs have such limited success, is 1) they are chasing symptoms, not finding causes, and 2) research is ‘reductionist’, focusing on isolating individual elements and compounds, and recreating them artificially. The ‘simplest’ chemical reaction within the human body actually involves such a vast mesh of interlocking effects and interdependencies, where the same chemical can have completely opposite properties at different points in the chain, that it is hardly surprising a reductionist drug is simply inadequate to fit in, and causes more problems than it solves. Since it is the Drug Companies primarily funding research, it is also unsurprising that reductionist methods are being perpetuated, even though they do not work.Whole foods and herbs have been our natural source of sustenance and healing for millennia for a reason. The body is designed to keep itself healthy. Whole foods and herbs contain the multi-diversity and complexity to help our bodies heal themselves.Even now, brave souls who are more interested in healing than the Sys-tem, are finding food, herb and plant-based solutions to the major degenerative diseases like cancer, and the FDA is systematically ridiculing them or trying to litigate them out of business. It is time we acknowledged the current healthcare paradigm is not working, and stopped permitting ourselves, friends and families to suffer and die needlessly in the Drug Companies’ pursuit of power and wealth.

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Yvonne - I first noticed a lump in my left breast early in ‘06, but did not have the money to visit the doctor, never mind treat it, so I let it be: I’d live or die. After 5 years I assumed it was benign, although it continued to grow slowly. In December ‘11 I learned of a program offering free diagnosis, and after a biopsy I was officially diagnosed as having a mucinous carcinoma (cancer), in clinical stage 3A (I also had lumps in the lymph nodes under my left arm). I was prescribed chemotherapy, radical mastectomy and radiation, but did not proceed with them, despite a letter from the diagnos-ing doctor telling me I would die if I did not go ahead with the treatment. It seemed to me the conventional treatments addressed symptoms more than curing the disease, with question-able success at that. Since I am lucky enough to have a slow-growing cancer, I spent the years since diagnosis researching my condition and alternative treatments. I have tried many differ-ent treatments within my very limited budget which, from my research, have been success-ful for other people. Unfortunately they did not work for me. In the summer of ‘13 the cancer on my breast started noticeably shrinking. At the time, I was combining acupuncture, chiropractic kinesiology (food-based cure through muscle-testing) and working through emotional traumas in my past. Unfortunately, in November ‘13 the cancer suddenly spread radically through the left breast, and became markedly more pain-ful. This happened not long after I had to stop the treatments because my seasonal job ended, and I could no longer afford them. I believe the stress of that was also a factor in the disease’s spread. I heard about NEPE 14 from a friend, and started using the topical lotion on the 3rd April, adding the oral elixir on the 6th April. I am using the topical treatment twice a day, and taking the elixir orally twice or three times per day, depending on my work schedule (the elixir has to be stored in a cold place - the freezer was recommended - and I have no facilities for

that at work). Owing to a misunderstanding in the prescribed amount to take, I used the first bottle of elixir in one week. I was taking two droppers-full of elixir each time, when I should have been taking two full drops. There was no euphoria or ‘high’ even at that massive over-dose, and it was comforting to know that it is not poisonous in overdoses. The same certainly cannot be said of chemotherapy and radiation.The active spreading of my cancer stopped at once. Before the elixir, I could feel a burning sensation in my healthy cells as the cancer cells took over, and this ceased immediately. In ad-dition, the cancer is receding, very slowly but surely: I can tell because the breast has more natural movement returning to it, as opposed to the immobile solidity of the cancer mass. Also, the increased pain which began in November ‘13 ceased as soon as I started using the topical lotion, even before I started taking the elixir. Nearly 2 weeks ago I noticed a pea-sized tumor at the bottom of the larger lumps under my arm, which was painful. When I applied the topical lotion specifically on that spot, it stopped hurting at once, and shrivelled up in under a week. The cost of cancer treatment is something to which I am particularly sensitive, since I live perilously close to the poverty line. I am still using the original lotion container I first bought, and there is probably a quarter of the bottle left. I have been using the second bottle of elixir, at the correct dosage, for over 3 weeks, with a quarter of the bottle still left. I do not earn enough to be able to afford to pay rent, if I don’t work I don’t eat, and yet I can afford this treatment. It is making a noticeable, benevolent difference to my cancer, in just a short time. Although in an ideal world I would take time off to recoup, I feel healthy and ac-tive, and can continue to work and earn my living during treatment. There must be literally thousands of women on chemotherapy who wish they could say the same.

Gerard - In 2009 I was included in Richard Brumfield’s case studies. I suffered from gout, chronic arthritis, hypertension, high choles-

terol, and joint inflamation. Due to previously prescribed pharmaceuticals I was retaining a lot of water and was very overweight. I used the 3 teaspoons of the oil daily with no change in diet or exercise and I began to feel better right away. When my gout flared, I simply soothed the area with the lotion and the pain stopped on contact and the gout was gone within 3 days! I lost weight even though I continued to eat ice cream daily as well as other fatty foods which I craved. Within 6 months, I had lost 25 pounds and the weight continued to come off until I felt like lightning in a bottle! I felt that the oil supple-ment maintains one’s lymph glands and nodes. It seemingly allows the body to turn fat into muscle, much like a “Fountain of Youth”. Before I was a walking disaster, could barely walk from the gout. I had burned myself at a campfire and I put some of the lotion over the burn and within 24 ours there was new skin beneath the burn healing differently than I have ever seen before. It also took the heat and pain away immediately. My eye sight has improved and my opthamolo-gist confirmed improvement of vision in my left eye. In fact, my doctor of many years did not even recognize me! He wanted to know what could have caused it and I told him I was taking a cannabis elixir for two years. I cannot express how the weight loss and youthful feeling has given me my life back.

Richard Brumfield

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Woodrow- On May 10th, I dis-covered a sore on my chest. At first I thought I had just gotten a bug bite

and that it had infected, but then it just started getting bigger. By May 15th, I had to leave for a road trip from Hay-

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cancer tumor - May 15th 2014fork, California to Wilmington, North Carolina. It was painful and the pimple sized sore had quickly grown into a golf ball sized mass pushing painfully against the other body tissues. It was a

cancer tumor - May 17th 2014dull pain with a lot of pressure. I tried using a gold hemp oil on it. I contacted Richard Blumfield and sent him a picture of it. He told me to try using some of the topical lotion (Hemjoba Pain Relieving Lotion) he developed. I did as instructed and the pain was minimalized and the mass began shrinking. Within days a green pus glob came out the top like a

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volcano erupting. As I was on the road, I would clean it at truck stops with just water and apply the lotion that kept it moist. The lotion appeared to be acting like a bandage seemingly cleansing the area of contaminants almost absorb-ing them. No scab formed but rather it healed from the inside out. After the first week of using the lotion, there was

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no pain at all. There was just a pink hole that continued to appear as if it had been washed and flushed. When I returned to Hayfork, two physicians examined the healed area and reviewed the pictures I had taken to document the transforma-tion. They told me that the growth had been malignant melanoma-- a “death sentence”. Now all I have is a very small pink scar.

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One Woman’s Point of View: Trinity Health Care Central ? By Yvonne StorkeyThe same reasons that make Trinity County popular with tourists apply to this county becoming a center of healthcare and recovery from illness. Its natural beauty provides a perfect backdrop conducive to recuperation - the healing power of nature has long been known. However, that does not mean there is only the potential to rent out a few cabins here, or fill up the off-season Bed & Breakfasts.Being diagnosed with a major illness, particularly a life-threatening illness, is a very big thing indeed. For most people, it will change their whole life. We have a culture today which tends to tuck death out of the way as something we don’t like to talk about: as such, this could be the first time a person has to get up close and personal with the fact of their own mortality. Even though intellectually, everyone knows they will die, somehow we manage to live as if we will go on indefinitely - I’ve heard it quaintly described as ‘living as if we have another life in the bank’.Once we have moved through the denial phase, another frequent response is blame, of oneself or another, God or circumstance. Why me, why now pity parties are hard to avoid. Personally, with a really slow-growing cancer, I find it hard not to blame myself for not having cured it yet, after all these years. There is an irrational conviction that if I just hit the right combination of treatments the cancer will vanish: this despite the fact that many people die, even with apparently excel-lent treatment and good prognoses. Rather like in a war zone, some people die and some people survive, and apparently the only explana-tion for which category you fall into is that it was ‘your time’.And let us not forget the often painfully unhelpful response of family and friends. In this world of the ruling Dollar, it is appalling how fam-ily and friends can descend like vultures on roadkill, in anticipation of an inheritance. Even without such overt abuse, friends often fade away because they cannot take the reminder of their own mortality, or do not know what to say to you to make it better. Family can become overnight ‘experts’ on your condition, and ruthlessly criticize your choices for treatment. One of my personal favorites is my sister-in-law, bless her, who is convinced I have a death wish, just because I do not want chemotherapy, surgery and radiation.Even if your nearest and dearest are supportive, it is a stressful time. Mood swings are inevitable, for even the most cheerful person. Although your own situation is in hiatus, life still goes on for depen-dants and family, with its usual accompaniment of challenges and dramas. It can feel as if you are carrying the world on your shoulders.There is a strong evidence in alternative therapies that one’s biology reflects one’s biography, that is, that dis-ease in the body can be a di-rect result of unprocessed emotional response to life events or child-hood traumas. For someone who embraces this, there is the complex and intimate challenge of facing oneself, exploring painful emotions and trying to work through issues to a point of peace and acceptance. At the very least, life-threatening illness tends to make one reflect on priorities - if in the worst case scenario I have little time left, is this how I want to live my life? How can I bring greater meaning into my days left? Whether my death is next week or forty years from now, how do I want to be remembered?So you can see, the counselling/coaching opportunities alone are end-less. If Trinity were to become a center for health care, the housing of people, and their physical care, are just the tip of the iceberg. Review-ing one’s priorities entails a seeking and opening up, an exploration of dreams goals and lifestyle, which could mean anything from ‘living large’ risk sports to arts and crafts. There is no doubt Trinity County’s economy could be revitalized year round by this.

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