Dear Mike: Sorry for taking it so lightly in this thread, also, sorry to hear about your dad.
If you wish to do what you've suggested, you'd have to do it outisde of Singapore where the law takes cannabis use not as a felony but a lighter sentence or even possibly look the other way (eg. Canada). If you cultivate the plant on a small scale, nobody will notice and you could carry on your harvests regularly; if you grow big, then you'd have to worry about the bad boys whose markets you're encroaching upon. The hemp plant has many uses and is making an impact on the green market (hemp oil, shirts, shoes, etc.) but the main big corporation the dealt it's death blow and outlawed its cultivation was probably DuPont when they started making ropes of Nylpon decades ago. Prior to that, most ropes were of hemp.
For Singapore at the moment, there are other natural herbal remedies to cancer and other illnesses that are legal. Try checking out Kampong Senang; they are a volunteer organization, many are survivors of cancer who have gone through the recommended chemo treatments and not convinced that will work for them. If you are really passionate about it, perhaps you might want to start a Cannabis Awareness Campaign here in Peesai? With the high medical costs in Sg, ganja (which is easily grown) will be an attractive option for many Singaporeans.
Cheers!
No problem. I lost him on the 15th this month. It have been over a week but it still feel surreal.. I keep feeling like my dad is actually off on his trip, just waiting for him to come home.... But he won't be coming home...
I still blame myself for being young and naive about cancer. He was diagnosed back in 2010 but we were noticing signs as since 2009 when he kept complaining about a shoulder pain. He went to the doctor in polyclinic multiple times only to be diagnosed with pulled muscles and given Panadol. By the time finally diagnosed with cancer, it was already stage 3. I was only 21 at the time.
Our first instinct was to go to hospital. Singapore have the best medical facilities in south east Asia after all. He got the standard radiotherapy chemotherapy treatment and the doctor convinced me that it was the only treatment available. It was really painful to see him undergo such treatment but "lan lan" still need to do.
But he never really got better. Over the months, I tried to learn everything I can about alternative cancer treatment. First there was DCA which have good track record against tumors but alas, illegal under HSA. Then there was Laetrile or vitamin B17 which is also illegal under HSA. Best we could do was to give him a proper diet and colostrum suppliment. We were not well connected so we couldn't find much alternative cancer doctor and the ones we found were obvious quacks want to cure cancer with massages.
By 2012, his cancer has reached stage 4 and was extensive. We also learnt about tumeric, dandelion tea and vitamin C infusion but it was all too late by then. I only learnt about cannabis as cancer treatment early this month and tried to search for some but it was in vain.
I realized many things throughout this ordeal. 1) Cancer is still a mystery disease in the eyes of Singapore doctors but there are some suggestions from outside Singapore that cancer is not a disease, it is a symptom of something else. Just like high blood pressure is not the disease but a symptom of narrowing arteries due to plaque.
Suggestion is that cancer is a deficiency of a hormone that causes apoptosis (natural cell death). Believe it or not, right now our body is making 50million cancer cells each day. But don't worry, our body naturally kill the cancer cell through apoptosis. But for some reason, cancer become deadly when apoptosis does not occur. Many theories arises but the Endocannabinoid theory is the strongest so far. Our body actually makes its own cannabis compound via the endocannabinoid system which regulate the immune system and cancer occurs when our body does not produce enough of the compound. Thus where cannabis comes in as a suppliment to the body.
Most Singapore doctors are excellent when it comes to fixing injuries and communicable diseases. But they suck when they come to lifestyle diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer because the problem is not in the disease, it's in the lifestyle.
2) Our HSA is just a carbon copy of FDA. I looked into why DCA and Laetrile is illegal in Singapore and what I found out shocked me. Our HSA just copies everything the FDA say, including the correct and the wrong laws. Laetrile is just an extract of the appricot seed and it's illegal in Singapore. We don't have corporate interest like America so the only reason why we follow such law is because they don't know/don't bother to research and just copy and paste from FDA, both the good and the bad.
