when I talk with people about cannabis
they think they know everything about it
everyone is familiar with the use of
cannabis in medicine and I guess part of
you are familiar with the use for other
purposes in the last three years I’m
managing one of the biggest and most
advanced laboratory in the world for
cannabis research if there is something
I learned in these three years is that I
don’t know anything and that we are just
starting to scratch the beginning of
understanding this complex plant people
are saying cannabis can kill cancer
cells what’s the meaning of it does it
kill all types of cancers which cannabis
in my lab alone I have more than 550
different strains of cannabis which one
of them affect which types of cancer the
truth we don’t know that cannabis can
really treat cancer or other diseases
yes I assume it can a good friend of
mine the head of the pain department in
one of the biggest hospitals in Israel
told me that when he started to treat
with cannabis one of his first patient
was an old lady they suffer from pain
from chronic pain and nothing else
helped her so he started to treat with
cannabis and after a few weeks he called
her and asked her how she was feeling
Oh doctor it’s great it’s amazing it’s
totally changes my life he was surprised
or weenie that it really eliminates the
pain oh no doc
for the painting didn’t help but now my
grandson coming to visit me every
evening so how cannabis is affecting us
so powerfully on the cannabis flowers
there are cells that produce unique
compounds these compounds called
cannabinoids and these compounds are
unique
since our body can produce similar
compounds actually in our body we have a
special and important system called the
endocannabinoid system this system
regulate relax eat sleep forget and
protect all these important processes
and cannabis compounds affect our body
through this machinery I will give you
one example there is two ways to feel
hunger one it through our stomach and
one through our head when we are not
eating for a long time our stomach
shrink and we feeling hungry but how
many times do we eat even when we are
not hungry we’re finishing a huge meal
we cannot breathe with totally full and
then come the dessert it is not your
blame it’s all the endocannabinoid
system believe me using cannabis in
medicine it’s not something we invent in
the last year’s did you know that
cannabis is one of the ancient plant
human being used as a medicine the
Chinese use it thousands of years ago as
a major medicine the Egyptian use it to
treat glaucoma on information till 1937
more than 100 illnesses were treated
with cannabis
if you will open a medicine book from
1920 and they did it important half year
ago you will find out that the whole
chapter is dealing with cannabis and
illnesses so think about it it’s crazy
for 5,000 years it was the major
medicine for mankind and in the last 80
years it just disappeared
so how cannabis came back to the medical
arena Charlotte Figi
was born in 2006 in Colorado when she
was three years old
sorry when she were three months old she
started to suffer from seizures she had
more than 50 seizures a day till she was
five years old she already tried every
medicine on earth and nothing helped her
by then she already lost her ability to
walk talk and eat she was about to die
when she started to use cannabis it’s
totally stopped her seizures from 50
seizures a day to one or two seizures a
week and then totally eliminated shall
not use cannabis with very low amount of
THC the only compound that have
psychoactive activity in the in the
cannabis so actually he didn’t made her
to feel to be high or stoned but it
still eliminate the seizures two months
ago a guy came in my lab with a small
bottle in his in his hand and asked for
my help this guy Daniel told me that his
wife had a small car accident four years
ago and since then she started to suffer
from seizures for a whole year she was
in and out the hospital tried to find a
medicine
to help her to reduce the seizures after
one year a friend of Daniel came with an
extract that he did from cannabis and
when Dania suave started to use it
it stopped totally her seizures after 14
months this extract start to run down so
Daniel came back to his friend to made a
new one unfortunately the new one didn’t
work at all Daniel’s wife used cannabis
with low TT in high CBD like shallow but
we have hundreds of strange like that
every one of them contain different
combinations of cannabinoids so actually
it’s a different medicine how can repeat
how can we repeat the treatment for two
years Daniel did hundreds of extract and
did three months ago bingo he succeed to
find the one that reduces wife seizures
again when we started in my lab to work
with cannabis and to check how its
affect cancer we find out that there is
a specificity between the types of the
cannabis and its ability to attack
cancer cells cannabis number one will
kill colon cancer but will do no harm to
prostate cancer but cannabis number two
will do no harm to the colon cancer but
will kill the prostate cancer but what
are the differences between cannabis
number one to cannabis number two what
are the differences between the cannabis
the Daniels wife is using now to the
hundred she tried in the last two years
you will be surprised to learn that
nobody in the world can give you this
answer even though there are over than
100 cannabinoids and a total of over
than 500 active compounds in the
cannabis we are we are able to identify
just fuse them physician prescribed
cannabis all over the world
but on this prescription there is no
specificity to the types of the cannabis
not dosage or where was where of
administration how can we repeat a
success treatment if we don’t know what
are the compound the active compounds
that affect the patient in order to
answer part of this question we develop
in my lab a unique method to under fight
all the active compounds of cannabis
today we are not blind anymore on top
our basic research in cancer and in in
oral disease we are doing we are running
the database project in this project
today in Israel every cannabis that the
patient can get in Israel every time
that a girl pick a batch or make an
extract it’s coming through my lab first
and we’re doing full identification on
the other hand we are following up on
the patient and trying to understand
which type of cannabis effect which
types of disease
the idea is to merge these two arms and
to say in these 30 strains these 30
strains elevate appetite in 80% of the
patient what are the common compounds in
these strains that are not existing the
strength and not elevate appetite and to
this to take to animal model clinical
trial to make it evidence base two years
ago we started to treat autistic kid
very severe autistic kids in Israel with
cannabis these kids most of them didn’t
communicate at all most of them not even
in I contact this kid are very violent
for themselves and the surroundings
sometimes walking with their hand tied
some time walking with the helmet on the
head because they can knock the head to
the wall and team they’re fighting these
kids getting cannabis with very no
amount of THC the
only psychoactive compound so they are
not stoned or high but still we see a
phenomenal result most 78% success with
these kids on many parameters the
cannabis reduce anxiety in these kids it
reduced violence it’s improved their
sleep think about the child 17 years old
they still seven times a night waking up
every night with shouting and now he’s
sleeping all night but even the most
incredible thing it’s improved in the
communication a mother called me and
told me that her her son 19 years old
kid was hospitalized for four years
because his was very violent but two
months just two months after he started
to get cannabis he was released home
because there was nothing to do with him
in the hospital anymore when he came
home it was an evening so his mother
asked him what he wants for dinner and
for the first time the first time in his
life he looked in her eyes and said in
egg this mother told me that you don’t
understand it’s not that my child is
normal now he didn’t ask scrambled egg
with onion but when from the moment he
was born I’m reading stories to these
kids I’m talking with him I’m asking
questions he know what it is an egg he
knows what he wants to eat I didn’t
waste all my life these things changed
this family’s life two months ago the
companies that supply the extract the
cannabis extract to these families had
the problem with the crop it’s a plant
it didn’t grow well so they had to
create to produce an extract with
similar strain again high CBD low THC
ratio 20 to 1 so similar that this
company
so that they can say that it’s actually
as the original one but after few days
the dream crashed these kids become
violent again one kid went through went
through the window when the window was
closed and cut his body all over one kid
jump on his mother 17 years old kid jump
on his mother and beat her in a way that
she had to get medical care and father
called me less than two weeks ago and
told me that his son had such a burst of
violence that in order to control him by
accident his broke his both hands since
we have in our database exactly what
these kids got before we were able
immediately to identify the changes
between the original strain to the
strain they are getting now and to
direct them to a different company that
has similar cannabis to the original one
for the first time we were able to help
these kids to get the right treatment
for the first time we are able to help
Daniel’s wife to understand what she is
getting and to repeat the success
treatment I am a scientist I have a
laboratory for cancer research in the
Technion the Technology Institute of
Israel I am NOT a big fan of cannabis
and if it was a spinach of petunias was
better for me it was much easier but it
is cannabis and what I did learn in the
last three years that this plant have an
enormous potential to treat many
illnesses whether we like it or not it
is here and it’s not going we cannot
take it away any more from the kids that
have 200 seizures a day and now there
are seizure free we cannot take it away
anymore
the autistic kids that it changed their
life and their family’s life we cannot
take it away anymore from the PTSD
patient that for years didn’t sleep a
whole night and now we can came back to
normal life we need to understand that
cannabis won’t go anywhere it’s give
hope to many people today it should be
another option in the toolbox of the
physician to treat the patient it is our
responsibility to learn how to use it
better and how to precise it it’s our
responsibility to take it to the next
level we the scientist the physician the
community oh it to our patients thank
you very much
[Applause] [Music]
they think they know everything about it
everyone is familiar with the use of
cannabis in medicine and I guess part of
you are familiar with the use for other
purposes in the last three years I’m
managing one of the biggest and most
advanced laboratory in the world for
cannabis research if there is something
I learned in these three years is that I
don’t know anything and that we are just
starting to scratch the beginning of
understanding this complex plant people
are saying cannabis can kill cancer
cells what’s the meaning of it does it
kill all types of cancers which cannabis
in my lab alone I have more than 550
different strains of cannabis which one
of them affect which types of cancer the
truth we don’t know that cannabis can
really treat cancer or other diseases
yes I assume it can a good friend of
mine the head of the pain department in
one of the biggest hospitals in Israel
told me that when he started to treat
with cannabis one of his first patient
was an old lady they suffer from pain
from chronic pain and nothing else
helped her so he started to treat with
cannabis and after a few weeks he called
her and asked her how she was feeling
Oh doctor it’s great it’s amazing it’s
totally changes my life he was surprised
or weenie that it really eliminates the
pain oh no doc
for the painting didn’t help but now my
grandson coming to visit me every
evening so how cannabis is affecting us
so powerfully on the cannabis flowers
there are cells that produce unique
compounds these compounds called
cannabinoids and these compounds are
unique
since our body can produce similar
compounds actually in our body we have a
special and important system called the
endocannabinoid system this system
regulate relax eat sleep forget and
protect all these important processes
and cannabis compounds affect our body
through this machinery I will give you
one example there is two ways to feel
hunger one it through our stomach and
one through our head when we are not
eating for a long time our stomach
shrink and we feeling hungry but how
many times do we eat even when we are
not hungry we’re finishing a huge meal
we cannot breathe with totally full and
then come the dessert it is not your
blame it’s all the endocannabinoid
system believe me using cannabis in
medicine it’s not something we invent in
the last year’s did you know that
cannabis is one of the ancient plant
human being used as a medicine the
Chinese use it thousands of years ago as
a major medicine the Egyptian use it to
treat glaucoma on information till 1937
more than 100 illnesses were treated
with cannabis
if you will open a medicine book from
1920 and they did it important half year
ago you will find out that the whole
chapter is dealing with cannabis and
illnesses so think about it it’s crazy
for 5,000 years it was the major
medicine for mankind and in the last 80
years it just disappeared
so how cannabis came back to the medical
arena Charlotte Figi
was born in 2006 in Colorado when she
was three years old
sorry when she were three months old she
started to suffer from seizures she had
more than 50 seizures a day till she was
five years old she already tried every
medicine on earth and nothing helped her
by then she already lost her ability to
walk talk and eat she was about to die
when she started to use cannabis it’s
totally stopped her seizures from 50
seizures a day to one or two seizures a
week and then totally eliminated shall
not use cannabis with very low amount of
THC the only compound that have
psychoactive activity in the in the
cannabis so actually he didn’t made her
to feel to be high or stoned but it
still eliminate the seizures two months
ago a guy came in my lab with a small
bottle in his in his hand and asked for
my help this guy Daniel told me that his
wife had a small car accident four years
ago and since then she started to suffer
from seizures for a whole year she was
in and out the hospital tried to find a
medicine
to help her to reduce the seizures after
one year a friend of Daniel came with an
extract that he did from cannabis and
when Dania suave started to use it
it stopped totally her seizures after 14
months this extract start to run down so
Daniel came back to his friend to made a
new one unfortunately the new one didn’t
work at all Daniel’s wife used cannabis
with low TT in high CBD like shallow but
we have hundreds of strange like that
every one of them contain different
combinations of cannabinoids so actually
it’s a different medicine how can repeat
how can we repeat the treatment for two
years Daniel did hundreds of extract and
did three months ago bingo he succeed to
find the one that reduces wife seizures
again when we started in my lab to work
with cannabis and to check how its
affect cancer we find out that there is
a specificity between the types of the
cannabis and its ability to attack
cancer cells cannabis number one will
kill colon cancer but will do no harm to
prostate cancer but cannabis number two
will do no harm to the colon cancer but
will kill the prostate cancer but what
are the differences between cannabis
number one to cannabis number two what
are the differences between the cannabis
the Daniels wife is using now to the
hundred she tried in the last two years
you will be surprised to learn that
nobody in the world can give you this
answer even though there are over than
100 cannabinoids and a total of over
than 500 active compounds in the
cannabis we are we are able to identify
just fuse them physician prescribed
cannabis all over the world
but on this prescription there is no
specificity to the types of the cannabis
not dosage or where was where of
administration how can we repeat a
success treatment if we don’t know what
are the compound the active compounds
that affect the patient in order to
answer part of this question we develop
in my lab a unique method to under fight
all the active compounds of cannabis
today we are not blind anymore on top
our basic research in cancer and in in
oral disease we are doing we are running
the database project in this project
today in Israel every cannabis that the
patient can get in Israel every time
that a girl pick a batch or make an
extract it’s coming through my lab first
and we’re doing full identification on
the other hand we are following up on
the patient and trying to understand
which type of cannabis effect which
types of disease
the idea is to merge these two arms and
to say in these 30 strains these 30
strains elevate appetite in 80% of the
patient what are the common compounds in
these strains that are not existing the
strength and not elevate appetite and to
this to take to animal model clinical
trial to make it evidence base two years
ago we started to treat autistic kid
very severe autistic kids in Israel with
cannabis these kids most of them didn’t
communicate at all most of them not even
in I contact this kid are very violent
for themselves and the surroundings
sometimes walking with their hand tied
some time walking with the helmet on the
head because they can knock the head to
the wall and team they’re fighting these
kids getting cannabis with very no
amount of THC the
only psychoactive compound so they are
not stoned or high but still we see a
phenomenal result most 78% success with
these kids on many parameters the
cannabis reduce anxiety in these kids it
reduced violence it’s improved their
sleep think about the child 17 years old
they still seven times a night waking up
every night with shouting and now he’s
sleeping all night but even the most
incredible thing it’s improved in the
communication a mother called me and
told me that her her son 19 years old
kid was hospitalized for four years
because his was very violent but two
months just two months after he started
to get cannabis he was released home
because there was nothing to do with him
in the hospital anymore when he came
home it was an evening so his mother
asked him what he wants for dinner and
for the first time the first time in his
life he looked in her eyes and said in
egg this mother told me that you don’t
understand it’s not that my child is
normal now he didn’t ask scrambled egg
with onion but when from the moment he
was born I’m reading stories to these
kids I’m talking with him I’m asking
questions he know what it is an egg he
knows what he wants to eat I didn’t
waste all my life these things changed
this family’s life two months ago the
companies that supply the extract the
cannabis extract to these families had
the problem with the crop it’s a plant
it didn’t grow well so they had to
create to produce an extract with
similar strain again high CBD low THC
ratio 20 to 1 so similar that this
company
so that they can say that it’s actually
as the original one but after few days
the dream crashed these kids become
violent again one kid went through went
through the window when the window was
closed and cut his body all over one kid
jump on his mother 17 years old kid jump
on his mother and beat her in a way that
she had to get medical care and father
called me less than two weeks ago and
told me that his son had such a burst of
violence that in order to control him by
accident his broke his both hands since
we have in our database exactly what
these kids got before we were able
immediately to identify the changes
between the original strain to the
strain they are getting now and to
direct them to a different company that
has similar cannabis to the original one
for the first time we were able to help
these kids to get the right treatment
for the first time we are able to help
Daniel’s wife to understand what she is
getting and to repeat the success
treatment I am a scientist I have a
laboratory for cancer research in the
Technion the Technology Institute of
Israel I am NOT a big fan of cannabis
and if it was a spinach of petunias was
better for me it was much easier but it
is cannabis and what I did learn in the
last three years that this plant have an
enormous potential to treat many
illnesses whether we like it or not it
is here and it’s not going we cannot
take it away any more from the kids that
have 200 seizures a day and now there
are seizure free we cannot take it away
anymore
the autistic kids that it changed their
life and their family’s life we cannot
take it away anymore from the PTSD
patient that for years didn’t sleep a
whole night and now we can came back to
normal life we need to understand that
cannabis won’t go anywhere it’s give
hope to many people today it should be
another option in the toolbox of the
physician to treat the patient it is our
responsibility to learn how to use it
better and how to precise it it’s our
responsibility to take it to the next
level we the scientist the physician the
community oh it to our patients thank
you very much
[Applause] [Music]
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