My Experience with Rick Simpson Oil

[painretreat]

I see this step as, A Big One, in honestly with medications..in the future.:rasta: pr


Medscape Medical News
Final Sunshine Regs: Physicians Win Some, Lose Some

Robert Lowes
Feb 06, 2013


Medscape: Medscape Access
The medical profession caught a few breaks in the long-awaited final version of federal "sunshine" regulations that require drug and medical device makers to disclose what they give physicians in the way of money, food, and coffee mugs.

In general, however, the fine print promises to make the lives of many physicians a little more complicated.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for disclosing "transfers of value" by drug and device makers to spotlight possible conflicts of interest that may compromise education, research, and clinical decision making, all to the detriment of patient care, as officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) put it. Final regulations released February 1 spell out exactly what these companies must do.
One break for physicians is that payments to speakers at accredited continuing medical education (CME) events need not be reported, even though a drug or device company funded the CME activity. The payment is off the radar as long as the manufacturer does not select the speaker or pay him or her directly (that role belongs to the CME provider).
In December 2011, CMS originally proposed making such payments reportable. Organized medicine objected, saying that the world of CME is already well policed to root out conflicts of interest and that the regulations would scare off physicians and industry from accredited CME activities.
Electronic Pizza Records?
CMS also loosened the rules on how food — lavished on physicians and their medical practices by industry — must be accounted for. For example, a drug company's buffet line at a bustling medical conference will not count as a transfer of value, and the cost of a drug representative pizza lunch at a group practice will be assigned strictly to those who wolf down the slices — physicians and medical assistants alike. (Under the proposed version, a $100 pizza lunch for a 5-physician practice was automatically divvied up as $20 for each physician, whether or not any of them partook.)
But there is no getting away from complications: CMS advises physicians that if they do not want to receive drug representative meals and have them reported under the sunshine regulations, they "simply should make clear to applicable manufacturers that they do not accept them." In other words, give notice. It is up to the manufacturers, after all, to track who eats what.
However, CMS also says that physicians may need to maintain their own records of what they receive or do not receive in case drug and device makers get it wrong. The agency estimates that it will take a medical practice employee about 5 hours a year to do the sunshine bookkeeping for a single physician, who will need about 1 hour on average to review it.
"We Do Not Have the Resources"
The ACA requires drug and device makers to report any transfer of value to a physician that is worth $10 or more. It can be a speaker's fee or honoraria, a research grant, or an in-kind item or service such as food, travel, lodging, and entertainment. Transfers less than $10 — think a Starbucks latte — are not reportable unless they add up to more than $100 over the course of 1 year. Excluded altogether are product samples, educational materials meant for patients, and short-term loans of medical devices.
Drug and device makers also must reveal whether a physician or his or her family members have an ownership stake in the company beyond publicly traded stock.
CMS has laid out a timetable for this exercise in transparency. On August 1, drug and device makers should begin compiling information on transfers of value to physicians during the last 5 months of 2013. They must forward this data to CMS by March 31, 2014. The agency, in turn, will release the data in a searchable format on a public Web site by September 30, 2014.
The American Medical Association and other medical societies have worried that erroneous information about how much physicians receive from drug and device makers could hurt their reputations and careers. Anticipating that problem, the ACA gives physicians and industry 45 days to review the data for mistakes and submit any corrections before CMS posts it online. Under the final regulations, if a physician and a manufacturer disagree about what changed hands, CMS will publish the manufacturer's data but flag it as disputed. The data can be revised on the CMS Web site, but only at 12-month intervals.
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Organized medicine had asked CMS to dispense with the 45-day period for review and correction and instead update its Web site on a year-round basis as manufacturers and physicians resolve data differences. The agency replied in its final regulations that "we do not have the resources to make continual changes to the Web site."
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Ignorance of Sunshine Requirements Widespread
A recent survey of more than 1000 physicians by the information technology company MMIS shows that much of the medical profession is unfamiliar with the ACA's sunshine provisions even though they have been in the news for several years. More than half said that they did not know that the law requires drug and device makers to report how much they are giving physicians in money, goods, and services, according to an MMIS press release issued yesterday.
That news came as a rude shock, because 63% of those surveyed told MMIS that they are "deeply concerned" that these payments will be available in a public, searchable database. Twenty-one percent said that they will severe a relationship with a company that submits inaccurate information to CMS.

[GrowGoddess]

Back to the patient: We are making progress. He gives an update. He has made his own oil for the first time. Very impressive for a first attempt. I walked him through the process online.

A note from the patient:

It's been a month since I posted. A sample of my tonsil tissue was sent to Mayo and came back positive after coming up negative here. I allowed them to take the lymph node a few weeks ago and it came back positive, as well. Squamous cell carcinoma - tonsil primary with metastasis to at lest one node - T1 N1 - stage 3 at least.

The local hospital had me lined up for two kinds of chemo, surgery and radiation before the tonsil and lymph node biopsies. A needle biopsy had found cancer already. I took the surgeon up on a offer for a second opinion at U of M. They knew going in that I am anti chemo and radiation, so I got a surgery only option. Of course, if tissue samples go to pathology and come back positive they will push radiation.

So, I have accepted the opportunity that I have to contribute to this cause. I began my oil treatment on Christmas Eve, before the tonsil and lymph node biopsies. I have about 11 grams to go to finish up my 60 gram dosage and at a gram per day now, I will have completed the treatment in less than two months. I intend to continue taking a gram per day for another 30 days at least, if my project worked today. That will get me close to a 90 gram treatment, if things work out. I look at it as insurance. The oil has helped many symptoms that I don't want back, anyway.

Surgery is scheduled for mid-March. If everything comes back negative, the only thing that the doctors will be able to say is that the two biopsies must have removed all of the cancer, I had unnecessary surgery and I don't need radiation and chemo. I will post the results of my biopsies here, before April.

My project today was to make my own first batch of oil. I only have sativa to work with, so no testing tonight! The run went easier than expected. It demands attention and care. It's messy working with something like runny molasses until it hits air temperature and turns into gum. I'm sure that there is a gram left on my equipment that will just become part of my next batch. I set the orange cap from an oral syringe in the cup for color reference, but it's shaded. The oil turned out more amber than I expected from my first ISO quick wash. This is the last little bit to pick up.
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I am very proud of my "pad-wan learner" patient.

I will be making an additional 30 grams of oil for him so it will be about 90 grams of my oil before his next surgery with another biopsy.

Anyone who reads this, please pray with me that by the grace of God the next biopsy comes up negative.

[GrowGoddess]

Now it is my turn. I have upped the offer to a free 90 gram (cc's) treatment.

Here is the 30 grams of oil I made for him, and I did my best. I used some of my best buds, 10 ounces.

The oil is just about ready here.
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Here the oil is finished. It tastes and vapes awesome! The little drip on the toothpick, I ate it and it made me feel goooood. Must always test before giving to a patient. I ended up with 36 grams, so I get to keep 6 grams for myself.
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Will be reporting back as soon as I hear something new or after the biopsy.

[painretreat]

It is too bad we cannot inject Cannabis Oil in the sites of biopsies from cancer.
I hope I live long enough to see the day, M.D.'s use a scalpel in one hand and rso in the other. When they remove a tumor, to replace it with the cannabis oil? I always fear 'biopsies' because the cancers' rate of spread, increase's. Rather nice to see this patient has the right medicine, rso, in his system.

Do Biopsies Spread Cancer? -- SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

If cancer hates oxygen why does it seem to spread once an operation begins

While thinking of oxygen and rso:weedpoke:, I now realize, why the THC is so important with the CBD's. Makes more sense!

:rasta: pr

[GrowGoddess]

In two or three more weeks we should have the biopsy results from my new cancer patient. He has consumed about 90 grams of oil to date.

While I have been waiting, I had to do something with my time. I decided to make a small batch of oil. Took some pictures and thought I would share them.

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[GrowGoddess]

When I made this batch of oil, I made two separate batches using the same bud material.

The first quick wash is the lighter colored oil on the left, which is a higher quality oil. Then I washed the material again with a longer soak time, which produced a darker oil on the right.

I put a flashlight behind the syringes so the color difference and how transparent the oil is.

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[GrowGoddess]

The patient has been confirmed cancer free. No chemo, no radiation, only minor surgery and RSO.

I will fill in the details at another time, need to take a mental break.

The important thing is that the patient is cancer free, happy, and healthy.

If we are lucky, the patient will post his story in his words here for us to read.

Either way, details will be coming soon.

[Weezard]

Joy!

And we recently received the scan results for my glioma patient.

"there is redemonstration of changes of the left parietal craniotomy with underlying left parietal mass resection cavity. The resection cavity has similar appearance versus prior scan. Associated ex vacuo dilation of the left lateral ventricle is unchanged. The extent of surrounding T2 hyperintensity is also not appreciably changed. The nodular, interrupted enhancement along the anterior margin of the resection cavity is redemonstrated. The extent of enhancement is not significantly changed since the August 2012 study, though the areas do appear slightly more nodular. Tis is well demonstrated on sagittal postcontrast image and axial postcontrast image. No new areas of enhancement are identified. The usual major intracranial flow voids are present. No acute infract or infracranial hemorrhage is identified. The tiny extra axial fluid collection deep to the craniotomy site is unchanged.
The globes are intact. No abnormal orbital masses are identified. The visualized paranasal sinus and satoids are unremarkable. No osseous lesions are identified.
Enhancement is again noted along the deep anterior margin of the left parietal resection cavity. While there has been no significant change in extent of enhancement, the enhancement does appear thicker and more nodular. "

A remarkably good scan report.
It has been a year since the debulking surgery and there is still no new growth!
He is doing a gram a day of Skunkpharm's Holy anointing oil and several courses of Temecazol.

He has already beat the odds of the TMZ alone treated patients, and is feeling well.
The only symptoms are from the chemo and the effects of the surgery,
And they are improving daily.

More test results coming in June!

Aloha nui,

Weezard

[Marzfisch64]

Yuck! Rick Simpson Oil is gross!

How about this??
http://boards.cannabis.com/concentra...available.html

[GrowGoddess]

Yuck! Rick Simpson Oil is gross!

How about this??
http://boards.cannabis.com/concentra...available.html

My oil is not yucky. This is about as good as it is gonna get my friend.

Vape it, smoke it, eat it: tastes like ganja period.

Medicinally speaking, it does not matter if the oil tastes yucky. My first batches that were yucky tasting were just as potent as my most recent batches. You cannot judge the potency by the taste or color. You can tell by looking at it if it is going to taste good or not. The oil in this picture was produced with 99% isopropyl alcohol as the solvent. This oil tastes great!

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