Dr Chalmers Path to Pro - Youre being lied to about cannabis
There’s a lot of talk about cannabis being linked to car accidents and health problems, but the facts don’t always tell the full story. It takes a closer look at how those claims are often misrepresented and why current laws and testing may paint an unfair picture of cannabis use.
It also touches on the bigger picture how industries and politics might play a role in keeping cannabis restricted. By comparing the effects of cannabis and alcohol, it invites people to think more openly about what’s really behind the headlines and how much control individuals should have over their own choices.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:04 - Misleading statistics about cannabis and car accidents
01:23 - Zero tolerance laws and misleading comparisons with alcohol
02:47 - The push to blame cannabis for heart issues
03:45 - Cannabis as a threat to alcohol and pharmaceutical industries
04:45 - Alcohol industry’s influence on legislation
06:17 - The government’s manipulation and the “war on drugs”
07:35 - Cannabis safety vs. alcohol dangers
08:51 - The core question: Who owns your body?
10:11 - Monopolies, profit motives, and government control
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] All right. So I’ve seen lots of stuff out there about how horrible and dangerous and scary Canada says. Laura Ingram came out and was talking about how 42 percent of all fatal accidents, you know, we’re finding, you know. Very high levels, you’re finding levels of cannabis higher than the the state legal limits for cannabis. So obviously, you have cannabis is causing all these cars. All right, let’s walk through that for just a second. First of all, the metabolites of cannabis, the things that you’re testing for, uh, stay in your system for days, sometimes weeks. So if you have a gummy the night before, and then you’re in a car wreck the next day, because some idiot is playing on a cell phone and not paying attention and hits you and causes a car wreck that kills somebody and they test that person or like, Oh, this person saw this cannabis in their system. There’s obviously the cannabis, not the person jacked around the cell phone because I’m going to tell you maybe I’m biased, maybe I am wrong, you guys tell me what you think. I think most car wrecks are caused by people jacking around on their cell phones now. I don’t think it’s from other stuff, I think it is mostly cell phone stuff. But here’s the problem, if someone gets killed in a car wreck, who maybe was jacked around on there cell phone, I mean they caused the car wreck but they had a gummy the night before, they are still going to test positive for cannabis.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:23] Now, here’s the thing, the statement of above what the state is legal. Legally allows, a lot of people think it’s like alcohol. Well, alcohol, you can have two drinks and still drive and you’re legally okay. That’s not how it is with cannabis. Most states have a zero tolerance policy. So if you take a gun in five days ago, but there’s still just a littlest tiniest bit in there, they’re gonna tell you that you’re over the legal limit. It’s not that people are smoking weed and then going and driving and causing 42% of all all traffic actions that cause fatalities. It’s it’s not what’s going on. What they also didn’t study was how many of those people were also drinking alcohol. How many of us were also on Xanax or also on any prescription medication that would also impair functional functional use. All right. So what they’re doing is they’re trying to demonize cannabis. Now, Dave Asprey posted a video about how... You know, oh, lots of heart attacks and young people are being traced back to cannabis. People that like teenagers have been smoking weed for a long time. And there’s not really anything in cannabis that would precipitate cardiovascular events. However, a lot of young people just got a COVID vaccine. And we know for a fact that COVID vaccines radically increase myocarditis and heart attacks and strokes.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:47] So it seems to me that maybe the medical community is trying to pawn off a lot of the damage they intentionally caused with the COVID vaccine that created the heart attack issues on cannabis. Because again, cannabis is a big, big, big threat to both alcohol and pharmaceuticals. I did my TED talk on replacing opioids with cannabis. Cannabis can replace opioids 64% of the time. So 64% of the time we can have a safer alternative to opioids that doesn’t cause the addiction and the death and all those other things, but we don’t because, you know, farmer needs to make their money and the FDA needs their kickbacks. So that’s really what’s going on there. You know, cannabis at low doses is great for anxiety. So you know that we have the actual functional use for anxiety besides the drugs that don’t really work that well. So, yeah, there’s a whole lot of things that cannabis would really, really be beneficial for that would radically reduce, you know, income for pharma. Now, here’s the other thing. If you guys have been tracking this, a lot of young people have started deciding that they don’t want to drink alcohol anymore. The amount of alcohol sales in 20 to 30 year olds, and actually 15 to 30 years olds, but we’re only counting the 21 year olds is radically reduced because people are opting to do something besides consume alcohol. I gave up alcohol and all I do is use cannabis now.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:05] Which is again, why in Texas, the alcohol community gave Dan Patrick gigantic amounts of money so that he would stand up and try to make hemp and stuff like that illegal. Well. You know that’s what we’re getting at. So what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to decrease the amount of cannabis use, re-establish and increase the sale of alcohol because these politicians are getting funded by alcohol groups and by pharmaceutical groups and that’s really where this is. So you’ve got to make the argument, you know, all these people are like, oh, cannabis is so terrible, it’s so terrible. It’s going to destroy everybody. You have to make the argument that alcohol is safer, significantly safer than cannabis, because we’ve all agreed that society has agreed that and politicians have agreed that alcohol is fine to sell as long as you’re 21. So there you go. Well, and let’s walk through that for just a second. No official research, just what you’ve personally seen and talked about with your friends and bring this up and talk about this with your friend and kind of get a poll and figure out for yourself where things lie and you can blame it directly on this. Like I was watching this guy’s podcast this morning and so I had these questions.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:13] All right. How many of you that you’ve heard of or known about have gotten drunk and gotten into a fight? Okay. How many people do you know who smoked weed and then the weed precipitated into didn’t get in a fight. How many people are angry potheads? How many who are angry drunks? So, you know, and you know how many people have smoked too much weed and then just sat down and not done anything which would mean they’re not getting in a car and driving versus how many who have drank too much and then decided they had all the confidence in the world and they’re gonna go drive all over the place. It happens a lot. I know that I have made that decision that that by the way, wrong decision multiple times when I was younger. So, you know, I think at the end of the day, we need to start kind of really looking at this stuff and being like, all right, hold on now. I know the government does nothing but lie to me. So the government’s not coming out and saying that cannabis is causing heart attacks, which it has never done before. But we’ve just been all forced to take this COVID vaccine that does cause heart attacks. And we’re trying really hard not to tell everybody how unbelievably damaging and deadly the COVID vaccine was.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:17] So we have to blame it on something else. Maybe that’s the thing. Maybe it’s not. Uh, but take that question to advisement and then maybe they’re trying to twist and manipulate statistics so that cannabis looks a lot worse so they can maintain their, their, they’re governments and their control over. Plus you also have to understand a lot of money is spent on this war. So all the people who are, you know, making political decisions about where this money goes, all the People who are actively enforcing it, all the people who were running little programs against it and all these things, all of these things are against it, not because it’s bad, they’re against it because if cannabis has proved to be not that bad, all of these things go away, all this money, all his power go away. So you also have to understand the system is set up to maintain itself. And so if things change... Wow, all of a sudden, what ends up happening is that all these institutions with all this money and all this power and all these things, they also start to dissipate. So this is a much, much, much bigger argument than just what’s going on with just the cannabis. Um, you know, when I did my TED talk on it, I had to research the hell out of it. And it is very, very safe. One of the other big things, and this is little neuro for you, maybe this is more than you want to know, cannabis won’t kill you like alcohol will.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:35] If you drink enough alcohol, there are receptors in the pons, which is in your brain stem, that regulate you breathing. And so what ends up happening, just like opioids, if you consume too much alcohol, you literally shut off the thing in your breathing that tells you to breathe. So you just stop breathing and die. So that’s why a lot of people, when they get drunk and they pass out, they die. However, there aren’t no receptors in pons for cannabis, which is why you can’t smoke yourself to death, but you can drink yourself to that. So let’s factor that in when we’re trying to say that cannabis isn’t safe enough for people to use or to be legal. And then on that last piece, I’d also like to ask again, who owns my body? Who owns your body? Does the government own your body or do you own your body? Because if you own your body, you get to make this decision for yourself. If the government doesn’t see your body the government gets to make this decision the same exact decision with ivermectin when they decided that ivermectin was too dangerous for you to have during COVID? Because really they wanted you to die of COVID so they could get their COVID vaccine pushed forward. But still, at the same time, why do we let people dictate what we get to put in our bodies if we own our bodies? This is a question I think we really need to start asking the government. Hey, government, who owns my body? Do you own it or do I own it?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:51] Because if I own it, I get to make the decisions about what goes in it. If you own, it you get to make those decisions. I would really like us to finally ask that question because I would I’d like the government to tell us. Who the government thinks owns our bodies. This is supposed to be a free country. However, there’s a whole lot of rules and laws about the things we’re allowed to put in our bodies and we’re not allowed to but in our lives. So, you know, and this goes through testosterone. This goes through ivermectin. This goes to the flukin. This goes for a lot of different medications that are prescription only and held back on the shelf that you’re away from us that we should have access to on a daily basis. Little things on this one. So when you see these things about how all the new research study proves that cannabis is the worst thing in the world, probably a lot, I’m just saying. So take a look at it, read it. If you guys have any of these other things and you’re wondering what it means or what it says from a medical standpoint, from a physiological standpoint, send it to me. I’ll take a at it and we’ll go back over this. But, you know, like I said, there’s a giant push to keep cannabis illegal and wonder who, think about that. Who’s trying to keep it illegal? Remember the guys who are selling medicinal cannabis and that you know, they get the license to sell cannabis They also don’t want it legalized because they have a monopoly Only they can sell it only they can profit off of it when you allow other people have access to it The market opens up and prices start to fall.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:11] The best example of this from a medical standpoint is Ozempic. So Ozempics is actually semiglutide. Semiglucide has been around for a long time. You can get semigglutide for two to three hundred dollars a month. However, when they said, oh, no, now it’s prescription. It went to thirteen hundred dollars a month because there’s no more market. There’s no way for the body, for the marketplace to dictate price. Now, since it was handed a monopoly, the pharmaceutical companies get to radically increase the price. So that’s the other side of this so make sure that you start to understand all the aspects of things The government is never ever ever going to do something because it’s worried about your health or your safety It’s always gonna do things just worry about its profits in its power. Keep that in mind. Alright, you guys have a fantastic day You guys have any questions in a set questions at ChalmersWellness.com or drop in the comments I’d love to see what you guys think about this one online because this is a thing We should all really start talking about specifically the who owns my body comment. Talk to you later. Have a good day
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