Cannabis and Longevity
by Chris Bennett - Wednesday, October 21 2009One of the things I’ve found with working in extensive research projects, as I have over the years with three books and various articles, is that right up until publication I always seem to find new bits of information, as with this recent find I somehow missed regarding the record-holder for world’s oldest woman.
In 1939 Joges Candra Ray, an Indian researcher who wrote a paper identifying the ancient Vedic Soma as cannabis, pointed too ancient references regarding longevity from Soma’s ingestion. and other researchers have commented on this and a connection to cannabis as well:
From CANNABIS AND THE SOMA SOLUTION (Trineday, 2010)
In the article Beliefs about Aging and Longevity in Ancient China, Alain Corcos notes: "The sacred intoxicating drink, named haoma by the Iranians and Soma by the Aryans in India was believed to cure disease and to confer immortality. Hemp was an active ingredient of both drinks" (Corcos, 1981). Interestingly, the Anandakanda (Root of Bliss) a considerable text of 6900 verses on tantric alchemy and yoga, which is thought to have originated around the 12th or 13th century AD, has similar references to cannabis and these are believed to have been based on the descriptions of Soma.
[T]he Anandakanda describes rejuvenation treatment based on cannabis. This involves treatment over a long period in a specially constructed hut (kut.i). This procedure is strongly reminiscent of a similar rejuvenation procedure described in the earliest Sanskrit medical literature, one that requires not cannabis but the unknown plant Soma. And that procedure itself echoes a rite of ritual rebirth that dates from the mid-first millennium BC. (Wujastyk, 2001)
Here ancient wisdom and modern science may concur. In a recent news story "Expert Testifies Cannabis Helps Slow Aging", Dr. Robert Melamede, a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs biology professor, and former head of the UCCS biology department stated that:
"You can look at the harm caused by free radicals as biological friction or biological rust and the endocannabinoid1 system minimizes the impact of that and directly acts as an antioxidant as well as modifying the biochemistry in a way that minimizes the impacts," said Melamede outside court Thursday, likening endocannabinoids to humans like oil is to cars. He said if you don’t have lubrication in your car, your car breaks. In the human body, the damage comes in the form of age-related diseases.
"I’m saying what science has now shown is that marijuana and cannabinoids are effective anti-aging agents which means that they are effective in minimizing the onset and the severity of age-related illnesses which include cognitive dysfunction things like Alzheimers, cardiovascular disease, be it heart attacks, strokes, or clogged arteries," he said. (Newham, 2008)
In reference to this, it is worth noting that the world’s oldest woman was a copious cannabis smoker, and attributed her great age to her use of the herb:
I'M 120 BUT MY JOINTS ARE OK
A GREAT-great granny reveals how she has lived to be 120 ... by smoking CANNABIS every day.
Fulla Nayak - believed to be the world’s oldest woman - puffs "ganja" cigars and drinks strong palm wine in her cow-dung hut in India.
She lives with her 92-year-old daughter and grandson, 72, by the Indian Ocean.
1Endocannabinoids are indigenous cannibinoid like substances in the human body. Cannibinoids found in cannabis are able to mimic the similar endocannibinoids in the human body.
keep on toking
thanks mon for the news and keep on toking to add years to your life, i appreciate this blog and your research.
toke on!
Wikipedia names the world's
Wikipedia names the world's oldest woman as Jeanne Clement, died in 1997 at age 122. So Fulla Nayak was not the record holder, but she came close, probably the second-oldest.
I'm surprised you missed this story when it was in the news a few years ago. I wrote many letters about it to the Toronto Propaganda Star, which were not published, of course.
Tnx Chriss, nice piece of
Tnx Chriss, nice piece of research.
Though now I def also expect to find some correlation between "ThinkFree-manship", "Cannabis" and "Longevity".
Lets see if we can beat this Lady with at least ten more years this way.
:)
(No wories Man, just kidding while trying to provoke ;)
Fulla herself put eher age
Fulla herself put eher age at 125, but her "voter's card" listed her age at 120. Who knows when they even issued those cards though in India, and she could well have been right about her own age.
i found an article online
i found an article online stating fulla nayak was issued a voter registration card in 1995 with her age being 120
Multiple sources list her
Multiple sources list her age as 125 when she died.....ridiculous, definitely gonna keep puffing now.
Thank you so much for that
Thank you so much for that Chris..
Thanks for all your hard work Chris...
"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Rev.22 [2]
World's Oldest Pothead? Nov 22, 2006
Fulla’s current age, as per a voter photo identity card issued by the government in 1995, is 120 years. Fulla loves to smoke ganja and cigars and take palm juice.
KENDRAPADA (Orissa) A 125-year-old woman, said to be one of the oldest women in India, died at her home in Orissa, her family said Sunday. Fulla Nayak, a resident of Kanarpur village in the coastal district of Kendrapada, died of old age complications on Saturday. According to her 72-year-old grandson, Fulla was 125. But as per a voter photo identity card issued by the government in 1995 she was 120 years.
Tree of Life
"And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gen.2 [9]
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Gen.3 [22]
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Gen.3 [24]
Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life By Ravi Chopra
Source: Earthtimes.org October 15, 2005
A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers results appearing in the 'Journal of Clinical Investigation' have actually given a fillip to the traditional and mythological view that associates the addictive weed in some ways with immortality... continued cannabisnews/21194
Previous studies show chronic administration of other illicit drugs such as opiates, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine suppress neuron generation. Researchers therefore believe marijuana may be the only drug that enhances adult neurogenesis and can modify behavior.
US Patent 6630507 -
US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html
Abstract
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant
properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH3, and COCH3. ##STR1##
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