Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Cure for Cancer in Our Generation!

This can either be a great day for this generation, or, a mark against us in our ignorance.
Marijuana, as it turns out DOES cure at least five types of cancer:
BREAST
SKIN
PROSTATE
LUNG
BRAIN
As well as, when used in conjunction with smoking, calms the tremors in MS patients, CP patients, and even improves the memories of Alzheimer patients. 
Unlike Surgery or radiation treatments, both quite steadily used by doctors and hospitals, and chemo therapy which basically kills an entire segment of the patient with the hopes of reviving the patient but not the cancer. All the methods used by the medical establishment to cure cancer quite barbaric and medieval when compared to eating a pea sized solution of good marijuana, which, by the way, will NOT get a person high, but the active ingredient makes the body create the very chemical needed to kill the cancer cells.
In essence, marijuana helps the brain to create these cancer eating cells much as the blood system creates white blood cells to battle infection.

And, as I am not a doctor, perhaps you would like to know just who  states this?
Harvard study released on April 17, 2007 shows that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread!
Researchers at Harvard tested the chemical THC in both lab and mouse studies. They say this is the first set of experiments to show that the compound, THC actually naturally produced receptors to fight off lung cancer.



Harvard.
that's right up there with smarter than I, as well as PROVEN results on rats and mice. But the testing has been progressing steadily and the answers are turning up consistently that the THC in marijuana can and does cure cancer...


The ominous part is that this isn't the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE of HEALTH to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice - lung and breast cancer and a virus-induced leukemia.


So, in an ex-president Nixonesque move, the NIH actually tried to create damaging reports of marijuana and THC, only to find themselves converting doctors and physicians who did the studies into believers that, indeed, the THC content of marijuana 
DID IN FACT CURE CANCER !
Now, you may ask why did I say "Nixonesque" and I will tell you.
Because ex-President Nixon commissioned a bulldog of a Republican to do the most extensive study ever done on marijuana. Raymond P. Shafer did exactly that, his commission and team collected evidence from medical studies, law studies, arrests tallies, environmental studies, and in the end found that marijuana was being used as a political tool of pandering to the public. 

The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse was created by Public Law 91-513 to study marijuana abuse in the United States. While the Controlled Substance Act was being drafted in a house committee in 1970, Assistant Secretary of Health Roger Egeberg had recommended that marijuana temporarily be placed in schedule I, the most restrictive category of drugs, pending the Commission's report. On March 22, 1972, the Commission's Chairman, Raymond P. Shafer, presented a report to Congress and the public entitled "Marijuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding" which favored ending marijuana prohibition and adopting other methods to discourage use. The Commission's report acknowledged that, decades earlier, "the absence of adequate understanding of the effects of the drug" combined with "lurid accounts of [largely unsubstantiated] Marijuana atrocities" greatly affected public opinion and labeled the stereotypical user as "physically aggressive, lacking in self-control, irresponsible, mentally ill and, perhaps the most alarming, criminally inclined and dangerous." However, the commission found that the drug typically inhibited aggression "by pacifying the user... and generally produced states of drowsiness, lethargy, timidity, and passivity."
After the Commission's widespread study and analysis, it concluded that "Looking only at the effects on the individual, there is little known danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of the natural preparations of cannabis.
Specifically, the Commission recommended "a social control policy seeking to discourage marijuana use, while concentrating primarily on the prevention of heavy or very heavy use." The report noted that society can provide incentives for certain behavior without prosecuting the unwilling, citing the example that "the family unit and institute of marriage are preferred means of group-living and child-rearing in our society. As a society, we are not neutral. We officially encourage matrimony by giving couples favorable tax treatment; but we do NOT compel people to get married."
The Commission recommended decriminalization of simple possession;
The criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only with the greatest reluctance.
The commission found that the constitutionality of marijuana prohibition was suspect, and that the  executive and legislative branches had a responsibility to obey the Constitution, even in the absence of a court ruling to do so:
 While the judiciary is the governmental institution most directly concerned with the protection of individual liberties, all policy-makers have a responsibility to consider our constitutional heritage when framing public policy. Regardless of whether or not the couurts would overturn a prohibition of possession of marijuana for personal use in the home, we are neccessarily influenced by the high place traditionally occupied by the value of Privacy in our constitutional scheme.
The Commission also found that "the use of drugs for pleasure or other non-medical purposes is not inherently irresponsible; alcohol is widely used as an acceptable part of social activities." 


And so we come to my original statement up there...
Will we be regarded as the generation that found the cure to cancer as well as re-ushered in freedom, as well as open the door to countless jobs?
OR
Will we be remembered as we remember curmudgeons who claimed that the horse and buggy will ALWAYS be the chief means of travel, and that MAN Can Never Fly!




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