The Best Thing Since Aspirin

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a pyro.

And by a bit, I mean… well, kind of a lot. I didn’t just play with matches or use a magnifying glass as a laser beam to cut swathes through ant colonies — I actually made my own firecrackers out of raw materials available at the local hardware store.

This stage of my life lasted from when I was about 13 and discovered that you could use readily available chemicals to do some really fun stuff in the backyard, until I was 17, when that preoccupation finally landed me in the hospital.

I still remember that day with amazing clarity.

It was mid-spring of my junior year in high school. AP exams were coming up the following Monday.

My grandfather, who lived with us at the time, had been working on our large, heavily wooded rural property for several weeks to excavate a swimming pool-sized reservoir and then dam up our creek in order to create a pond.

Nobody was sure why he was doing it, but when a 95-year-old Siberian puts his mind to something, it’s not really an option to stand in his way.

So I figured since this excavation was going to happen either way, why not make it a bit more interesting?

I decided to cook up a little explosive charge to loosen the ground for him and his shovel. I’d done it before plenty of times.

In fact, two years earlier, I’d done a project for my ninth grade public speaking class on “how to blow up a mailbox” — using a real homemade explosive device.

This was the age before 9/11, so these things were treated with amusement by most teachers, and my video got me not just an A but also a mixture of admiration and notoriety from my entire school.

So I figured I’d simply repeat my formula, only on a bigger scale.

The first step? I had to grind up some black powder.

DON’T TRY THIS… ANYWHERE

My usual method — one I’d picked up from the Anarchist’s Cookbook years earlier — was to break up large chunks of powder (derived from some model rocket engines I’d bought at a hobby shop) into fine powder for maximum combustion efficiency.

Doing this is reasonably safe (again, do NOT attempt this ever — I will not take responsibility for blown off appendages or torched garages), provided you add just a bit of water so that the grinder stays moist and no sparks are produced.

This time, for some reason, I became distracted and forgot this key step. And as I started grinding and the sound of the whirring motor blended with the sound of pulverizing powder chunks, I distinctly remember having a premonition…

A premonition of a flash.

It wasn’t a very good premonition, though, because it came only seconds before the event it was foreshadowing.

It wasn’t so much of a report as it was a quick, loud whoosh. The flash filled my field of vision, followed immediately by the smoke it left behind.

I remember screaming even before I felt the pain or looked at my left hand.

The skin peeled off like a glove. It was as if my entire palm had turned into a blister, which was then singed off — leaving nothing but a raw, lightly burned second skin layer underneath.

It was a severe second-degree burn — more painful than a third-degree burn because it kept the nerve endings intact.

I remember calling my dad, a doctor, and he told me not to let my grandfather attempt to treat me. As he said this, my grandfather was already applying some sort of exotic Russian cream from a heavy aluminum tube to my wounded hand, all the while cursing at me in his calm, measured tempo.

Within an hour, I was in the hospital, in shock from the pain, going in and out of consciousness…

Until they finally stuck that needle into my arm and switched on the euphoria with a burst of medical-grade morphine.

Everything became calm and normal after that — pleasant, actually, despite the now minor annoyance of having a catcher’s mitt-sized bandage from my wrist to my fingertips.

It Hooks You Slowly

“This feels kinda cool,” I remember telling my dad as he was driving me home.

“Just don’t tell me you like it, please,” he said with a stern look. We’d just left the pharmacy with a week’s supply of Vicodin to keep the pain under control.

By the time my pills were gone, the pain was mostly gone too — the wound scabbed over and healing on its own with just minor daily care.

What was a close encounter with teenaged stupidity could have turned out way worse for me — as it does for thousands of people annually who get put on limited painkillers for injuries ranging from muscle strains to bone fractures to anything else causing constant discomfort.

It could have ended in addiction, organ damage, and the slew of complications that arises therefrom.

It’s a double-edged sword for a class of drugs that has been indispensible to medicine for more than a century and a half.

Before the adoption of painkillers, the function of dulling pain was performed by alcohol — which was administered during medical procedures such as amputations. Otherwise, there was nothing at all.

Of course, this was not practical. Alcohol causes bleeding, for one thing. And it certainly cannot be used on an ongoing basis the way morphine or its derivatives are.

Prior to opiates, there simply was no effective way to dull pain on an ongoing basis.

After opiates, the world would forever have to bear the cross of addiction.

But there simply was no way out of it. Pain itself can be deadly. It can cause blood pressure to drop to dangerous levels as shock sets in.

The Time is Here

Today, however — for the first time since the advent of opiate-derived painkillers — there is an alternative.

It’s been called the “best thing since Aspirin” by doctors, but in fact, it’s far more than just a painkiller.

It’s been shown to lower blood pressure, relieve nausea, help insomnia, increase appetite, and even counteract some of the side effects of chemotherapy.

And it doesn’t have real side effects of its own.

Most importantly, it’s not addicting, and it doesn’t affect the liver — the two biggest drawbacks of traditional pain relievers (even the over-the-counter variety).

This amazing molecule is called “Delta-9,” and incredibly enough, it’s 100% natural. Derived from a plant, it can essentially be used in a non-refined form or concentrated into pharmaceutical-grade medicine.

The options and applications for “Delta-9” are highly varied and extremely safe. In fact, there still hasn’t been a single death attributed to its misuse — something that cannot be said for any mainstream pharmaceutical.

The problem? (Of course there’s a problem…)

The problem is that due to its near-universal practicality and its low risk of usage, it poses a real threat to the Big Pharma establishment.

So much so, in fact, that the powers that be have been actively petitioning for the prohibition of “Delta-9” in all of its forms for decades.

But after years of legal battles and legislative false starts, the tide is finally turning.

“Delta-9” is finally starting to make its way into mainstream medicine — where it will become the biggest thing to come along in perhaps a generation.

My colleague and investment director of The Crow’s Nest, Jimmy Mengel, has recently investigated a trio of industry-leading, forward-thinking firms that are on the forefront of bringing the “Delta-9” revolution into commercial reality.

They’ve been making news for weeks now, and the stigma of years of big-money propaganda is finally vanishing.

Moreover, the smart money is already piling in behind it.

In fact, last week at the World Money Show in Orlando, the topic of “Delta-9” was easily the single biggest draw for attending investors.

The companies Jimmy profiled in his detailed report stands as one of the best ways to leverage this industrial trend into fast, strong profits.

I urge you to take a look at it immediately.

It’s available instantly and absolutely free of charge right here.

Fortune favors the bold,

Alex Koyfman

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