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Este vídeo foi gravado na Chapada dos Veadeiros de Goiás, onde tivemos o Primeiro Seminário com o Tema Libertando-se do Tráfico - Cultivo caseiro de Cannabis medicinal que tem a participação especial de 4 integrantes, são eles: Emílio Figueiredo, Mauro Chaiben, Sergio Vidal e André Kiepper. Gravação e edição: Gabriel Rosa, Sergio Rastafári - Vinicius Páginas, Marcelo Dharana. Agradecimentos especiais ao Gabriel Rosa (Film Maker) e Sergio Rastafári (Co-Produção). Todos os custos e despesas do evento do seminário e de viagem dos integrantes e hospedagem foram custeados pelo Ativista Cultivador de Estrelas! Evento Realizado em defesa da luta dos usuários e futuros usuários de Cannabis Medicinal vulgo Maconha. Para que todos cultivem a sua medicina em paz, seja qual o seu contexto de uso, crença e fé! Liberte-se do tráfico de Cannabis medicinal! Não Compre Não financie! www.libertandosedotrafico.com.br https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4czCd_fQjw

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Salve, companheiros! Estou para cortar um Skunk#1 para a produção de óleo, segundo a receita de Rick Simpson. Minha planta está com 50 dias de flora, ainda com os tricomas branquinhos. Estou com algumas dúvidas, pois tanto no site dele quanto nos vídeos postados, ele não deixa algumas questões claras: 1 - A planta deve ser colhida com 50% dos tricomas âmbares? Ou por ser medicinal deve ser deixada mais um tempo? 2 - Devo colher e fazer o óleo imediatamente, com a planta fresca ou deixar ela curando normalmente antes da produção do óleo? Esse óleo será usado por minha esposa, que têm dois caroços na tireóide e os médicos estão querendo que ela os retire imediatamente. O próprio Rick Simpson, por e-mail, nos recomendou a ingestão de pelo menos 60g do óleo, em um prazo de 90 dias. Fiz essas mesma perguntas que postei aqui para ele mas até agora não recebi resposta... Abraços a todos!

...AS ESTUFAS Gregorio gosta de fumar maconha e acha que, se todo mundo saísse do armário, as drogas seriam legalizadas. "As drogas só são ilegais, como o aborto só é ilegal, porque todo mundo que pratica não diz que pratica. Porque ou você prende toda a classe artística, ou pelo menos 90% da classe artística e também a classe política, ou você faz uma limpa. É a mesma coisa a operação Lava Jato. Por que a Lava Jato talvez não vá pra frente? Porque vai ter que prender todo mundo, cara! Você vai prender quem usa droga? Ou quem faz aborto? Você vai atrás? Não vai sobrar um." Quando contou à família que fumava maconha, lá pelos 14 anos, o pai retrucou: "Porra, fuma comigo, cara. Fuma em casa, fuma com a sua avó". A avó, conta Gregorio, começou a usar maconha, por recomendação médica, aos 80 anos. "Tipo... Mudou a vida dela. Ela disse: 'Que pena que eu comecei a fumar tão tarde'. Porque deu uma alegria para a velhice dela, e ela viveu até os 94, fumando baseado." Mas agora há um novo problema rondando a erva proibida. "Tenho amigos que plantam em casa", resume. Mas, como num filme B policial, esses amigos estão sendo presos, um atrás do outro. "A polícia bateu na casa deles por causa da conta de luz." Como é, Gregorio? "A luz aumenta, por causa de estufa. Eles percebem quem tem estufa porque o uso da luz tem picos de horário. De noite, em geral, o cara tem um pico, e a polícia saca por aí que o cara planta." "Sou contra o tráfico, contra você comprar com essa galera aí na rua, até pela qualidade, a qualidade é horrível. Os meus amigos plantam uma maconha de nível altíssimo. Mas tenho cada vez menos amigos que plantam..."... http://app.folha.uol.com.br/#noticia/577017

Que jah ilumine voces sempre, TAMO JUNTO...

Ficou muito legal, parabéns!

Eu sou completamente explanado no sentido de que sou maconheiro e não grower, sou proprietario de uma loja street e trabalho com várias marcas que fazem campanha pro-maconha como 420 Friends e Kanhamus, em anexo a loja tem uma tabacaria que trabalha com toda a linha de bongs, dixavadores, sedas etc... em breve quero ampliar para produtos de cultivo, mas esse a mulher ta dizendo que vai me entregar demais kkkkkkk Ou seja, a cidade toda sabe minha posição em relação a isso e não tenho nenhuma vergonha, se você é um maconheiro explanado você tem a obrigação de estudar a saber defender nosso ponto de vista pois você sera confrontado várias vezes por probicionistas e senão tiver respostas sólidas será facilmente engolido por eles, eu adoro esfregar fatos na cara dos probicionistas e com a tecnologia do celular eu mostro os fatos na hora com a internet kkkkk, probicionista que fala besteira na minha frente passa vergonha!

Salve irmaos, Ontem fui la na Pf depor, estava bem apreensivo, mas fui preparando meu pisicologico para nao fica mt nervoso na hora, a esposa de um grande brother foi comigo, ela é advogada. Cheguei la, dei meu nome e me pediram para aguardar. Fui chamado entrei na sala sentei em uma mesa e aguardei uns minutos e chegou um escrivão, super educado e descontraido, nao deixou o clima ficar tenso em momento nenhum. Eu estava na Pf de Brasília, e o escrivão me disse que o delegado do parana que gostaria que ele recolhesse as perguntas e mandasse para ele, nem falei com o delegado de brasilia. Ele começou e me perguntou, minha ocupação, meu endereço, respondi e ele foi anotando exatamente o que eu falava, ai me perguntou se eu tinha o costume de fazer compras internacionais, respondi que nao ( a verdade), depois me perguntou se eu ja havia feito ou fazia uso de algum intorpecente, respondi que ja havia feito, mas nao fazia mais. Ai veio a parte das sementes, me perguntou se era minha a encomenda, eu respondi que sim, depois me perguntou qual destino eu daria as sementes e o porque que eu comprei, respondi que comprei por curiosidade, e que nem havia pensado em como plantar aquelas sementes, mas se fosse para algum uso seria pessoal. Depois ele imprimiu, me deu uma copia, pediu para assinar a copia que ficou com ele, e pronto, falou que eu podia embora, ai perguntei para ele o que iria acontecer agora, ele me respondeu com essas palavras : '' Agora vc vai para sua cara, esquece isso e vai viver sua vida, todos os dia temos varios e varios casos como o seu aqui, isso que estamos fazendo é só uma burocracia padrao, mt provavelmente sera arquivado.'' Despedi, fui embora, ainda nao matei minhas plantas e estou na duvida ainda se mato ou nao... sera que esse delegado do parana vai continuar investigando? acho que vou arriscar e continuar com as plantinhas e vamos ver o que da... Agradecimento especial aos irmaos do CJGR em especial o Emilio, que me deu a maior força e dicas fundamentais para que eu conseguisse manter a calma e nao apavorar! Tamo junto Growroom, mais uma vez obrigado por tudo!!

Primeiro parabéns pelo tópico interessante. Difícil ver um tópico que preste neste subforum nos ultimos tempos... Eu sou bem discreto, gostaria de levar uma vida em que fosse possível ligar o 'foda-se' e sempre gritar em voz alta o que penso (não só sobre maconha), mas à medida que os anos foram passando vi que não é bem assim nos caminhos que escolhi. Quando adolescente, até os 20-pouco era bem mais paloso. Hoje a profissão trouxe um ambiente bem conservador, e com o tempo a gente vai fazendo "amizade" com colegas de trabalho e no dia-a-dia quando menos espera está fingindo ser outra pessoa... é mais ou menos assim. Entre amigos todos sabem que fumo. Namorada também, óbvio (ela não usa). Minha mãe é muito cabeça aberta e sabe (tivemos uma boa conversa e foi ótimo). Meu pai é coxinha e nem sonha...

Aqui em casa só faltam saber minha Filha de 2 anos e meu filho de 8 saberem, Minha mãe que veio me visitar do Brasil(moro na Alemanha), já sabe desde que eu tinha 16 anos que fumo, mas nunca ficou muito aberto este assunto, chegou a achar um toco prensado no Freezer quando ainda morava com ela, me deu um sermão, mas depois devolveu. Quando fui pegar ela no aeroporto, logo entramos no assunto da Maconha. Eu disse que fumo todos os dias e que me ajuda com as dores nas pernas e bacia(Fui atropelado por um caminhão tinha 11 anos de idade). Ela ficou meio assim, mas eu falei que eu li muito a respeito e que tem muitos Países legalizando para o uso medicinal. A erva me ajuda contra minha Ansiedade, me acalma(pois sou muito nervoso), me faz esquecer dos problemas que temos em nossas vidas, e é claro o principal: AJUDA A AMENISAR MINHAS DORES. A minha esposa apesar de já ter fumado comigo(quando eramos namorados), é contra que eu fume (diz que fico muito chapado e esqueço muito das coisas e também tem medo que eu perca meu trabalho ou seja preso) apesar de minha esposa ter Esclerose Múltipla ainda é do contra até pra tomas o óleo de CBD. Mas aqui na Alemanha o sentido está mais para a regulamentação do estado. Mas melhor o controle pelo estado do que a proibição de uma erva que só geraria mais desconforto da sociedade(se repreendida) com os crimes do tráfico e roubo ligados a todas as drogas ilegais do mercado. Na europa já vemos vários paíse com modelos de regulamentação (Cannabis Clubs, Venda em farmácias com prescrição médicas e até mesmo alguns países com a regulamentação recreativa). Aqui na Alemanha (Berlim e Hamburgo) já tem Coffe Shops mas a venda é apenas para pessoas da comunidade local. (isso em bairros onde de qualquer maneira todo mundo fuma em qualquer lugar). Mas voltando ao assunto do Gregório Duvivier sobre a Estufa. Por um lado foi bom pois assim talvez mais pessoas importantes na área da sociedade mostrem suas caras, mas por outro lado este assunto talvez caia na boca de pessoas que só querem nosso mal estar. Abraço a todos Growers do nosso mundinho afora

JOGOU A REAL LOGO. ehehe Esculachou de vez com todas as letras. Representou o movimento do plantio para consumo próprio. att

Esses artistas globais, todos eles fumam do bom e do melhor, só homegrown certeza... do prensado eles passam é longe! Massa o Gregório Duviver abrir o jogo assim sobre o uso e sobre o plantio da erva... No fundo, concordo com ele: se todo mundo que fuma e planta abrisse o jogo, e principalmente se a classe artística comprasse essa briga, ia ficar difícil pros gambé prender todo mundo! Só acho que ele não precisava ter entregado assim de bandeja o lance da conta de luz... tudo bem que a polícia não é besta e manja disso, mas quanto menos gente souber desse detalhe, melhor! Já pensou se essa informação se espalha demais? Qualquer porteiro ou zelador de prédio vai querer ficar bizoiando o relógio de luz dos outros... aí não dá, né!

11/12/2014 - MPF/DF pede liberação de uso medicinal e científico da cannabis no Brasil Ação civil foi proposta nesta terça-feira, 9 de dezembro, e será julgada pela Justiça Federal em Brasília 11/12/2014 10:39 O Ministério Público Federal no Distrito Federal (MPF/DF) ajuizou ação civil contra a União e a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) para permitir o uso medicinal e científico dacannabis no Brasil. A medida foi proposta nesta terça-feira, 9 de dezembro, à Justiça Federal do DF. O objetivo é assegurar o direito à saúde de diversos brasileiros que sofrem de doenças graves, incapacitantes e degenerativas, cujos sintomas, em muitos casos, podem ser aliviados apenas com o uso de substâncias derivadas da planta. A ação partiu de procedimento preparatório instaurado no MPF/DF para apurar a omissão da Anvisa na regulamentação do emprego medicinal dos canabinoides, substâncias extraídas das espécies dacannabis, especialmente para o tratamento de patologias que não respondem ao tratamento feito com os medicamentos convencionais disponíveis atualmente no mercado. A investigação teve início após a repercussão do caso da menina Anny Fischer, moradora do Distrito Federal de cinco anos de idade (também contado no documentário “Ilegal”), que foi a primeira a obter autorização judicial para importar o “óleo de CBD”, produto extraído da planta, comprovadamente capaz de cessar as dezenas de crises convulsivas diárias que a acometiam em razão da Síndrome de CDKL5. Autores da ação, os procuradores da República Luciana Loureiro, Anselmo Henrique Lopes e Ana Carolina Roman afirmam que “tradicionalmente, a discussão de qualquer tema que envolva acannabis – em nosso país e em grande parte do mundo ocidental – atrai resistências e bloqueios, não raramente decorrentes de ausência de conhecimento aprofundado sobre o tema, sobretudo informações de caráter científico”. Luciana Loureiro acrescenta ainda que “é preciso desmistificar o tema do uso medicinal da cannabispara analisar a questão com base nas evidências científicas existentes, sem prejulgamentos não fundamentados”. E, para o MPF, há evidências científicas de que a cannabis possui um vasto potencial terapêutico, podendo ser utilizada com sucesso para tratamento de doenças gravíssimas, incapacitantes, degenerativas, incuráveis e fatais, como as epilepsias refratárias (como a de Anny Fischer), dores crônicas ou neuropáticas, mal de Parkinson, esclerose múltipla, mal de Alzheimer, para diminuição dos efeitos colaterais decorrentes de quimioterapia e de tratamento de Aids e hepatite C etc. Uso controlado – A planta, o medicamento ou produto adequados para cada paciente deverão ser objeto de criteriosa avaliação e decisão do médico responsável e receitados de forma restrita, como ocorre com a morfina ou outros remédios. A utilização da cannabis será rigorosamente controlada e as autoridades competentes continuarão punindo quaisquer desvios que venham a ocorrer, considerando que o uso recreativo permanece ilícito. Para o MPF/DF a prescrição médica deve ser detalhada, indicando, entre outras coisas, qual a concentração dos componentes da planta é a mais indicada para cada caso. O THC e o CBD, por exemplo, estão entre as diversas substâncias presentes na cannabis que podem ser utilizadas no tratamento medicinal - o primeiro causa efeitos psicotrópicos e o segundo, não. Base científica – Na ação, o MPF cita estudos que estabelecem que, para os casos de crianças que sofrem de epilepsia gravíssima e de difícil controle, extratos da planta com altos níveis de CBD e baixos níveis de THC têm sido os mais efetivos (e já são utilizados por centenas de pacientes, mediante autorização judicial ou da própria Anvisa). Já para os casos de controle da dor ou de efeitos colaterais da quimioterapia, é preciso usar a planta ou seus extratos com doses maiores de THC, ou mesmo o THC sintético, comercializado há décadas em países como EUA, Canadá, Dinamarca, Austrália, Reino Unido e México. O uso da cannabis, sobretudo nos casos de doenças gravíssimas e incuráveis, para as quais a medicina atual não se mostrou eficaz, poderá garantir saúde e qualidade de vida a esses pacientes, superando eventuais riscos ou efeitos colaterais, defendem os membros do Ministério Público. De acordo com o MPF, a ciência tem demonstrado que a cannabis não é mais tóxica ou perigosa do que dezenas de medicamentos hoje comercializados (dentre os quais os antiepiléticos, antidepressivos, remédios para controle de dor, como a morfina, e mesmo alguns anti-inflamatórios e antibióticos). Além desses pedidos, o MPF também pretende que a União e a Anvisa iniciem estudos técnicos para avaliação de segurança e eficácia dos medicamentos e produtos já existentes no mercado internacional à base de canabinoides, bem como da cannabis in natura, a exemplo do que ocorre em países como o Canadá, EUA, Holanda e Israel. Leia a íntegra da ação. Processo 90670-16.2014.4.01.3400 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Fonte: http://www.prdf.mpf.mp.br/imprensa/11-12-2014-mpf-pede-liberacao-de-uso-medicinal-e-cientifico-da-cannabis-no-brasil E aí galera, será que esse é o momento de um grande passo para nós? Vamos acompanhar, torcer e vaaaai Cannabis!!!

Segundo médico e deputado federal, usar drogas nunca foi nem será utilizada para tratar qualquer doença por Osmar Terra* 25/10/2014 | 17h01 Existe um movimento bem articulado para conquistar a legalização das drogas, hoje ilícitas, no Brasil. Ele se constitui num verdadeiro Partido Pró-Drogas, que se manifesta de maneira planejada e utiliza uma tática progressiva. O primeiro passo seria a descriminalização do uso, depois a liberação da maconha, e, logo após, a legalização de todas as drogas, deixando que o mercado regule seu uso. É uma cruzada que interessa a uma pequena, mas influente, parcela da sociedade, e que conta com parte da grande imprensa nacional. Essa parcela aglutina usuários que não querem correr riscos, filósofos da liberdade individual acima de tudo e poderosos interesses comerciais. Na última edição do caderno PrOA, foi publicada uma entrevista com o diretor do filme Ilegal, Raphael Erichsen, na qual, a título de preocupação com o tratamento para doenças raras em crianças, o cineasta tenta justificar a liberação da maconha. Argumenta no filme que essas crianças deveriam ter o acesso ao “canabidiol”, molécula presente na composição da planta da maconha, para seu tratamento. Exibe o desespero de mães que buscam tratamento para seus filhos para, de forma sub-reptícia, passar a ideia de que então é importante legalizar a maconha (não só o canabidiol), para uso medicinal. Logo depois, por que não?, liberar seu uso recreativo. O argumento central, mas dissimulado, é o de que existe uma molécula na droga, com efeito medicinal, e que por isso a droga é remédio e deveria ser liberada. Nada mais falso. No cigarro de maconha, existem mais de 400 substâncias que causam danos à saúde. Uma delas, o THC, causa transtornos mentais agudos e crônicos, desencadeia a esquizofrenia, incurável, e transtornos de humor como a depressão, com risco maior de suicídio. É causa importante de interdição de adultos jovens. Reduz reflexos, a memória, a inteligência e a capacidade de trabalho. Seus usuários têm mais dificuldade de conseguir emprego e de chegar ao curso superior. Quando conseguem, ficam entre os mais baixos salários (conferir os estudos de Ferguson, D.M., 2013, e Ferguson D.M. & Broden, J.M., 2008). Pesquisa do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre mostrou que a maconha é a droga mais envolvida em acidentes de trânsito com vítimas fatais, o álcool ficou em segundo lugar. (Pechansky e colaboradores, 2010). Além disso, a maconha causa dependência química, e quanto mais jovem o usuário, maior o risco. A dependência química também é uma doença incurável, e no caso da maconha, atinge 50% entre os que usam diariamente na adolescência (NIDA, 2010). Sem falar que a maconha usada hoje é uma variedade 10 a 20 vezes mais potente que a maconha de 15 anos atrás. Segundo a UNDOC, órgão da ONU, 83% dos dependentes de crack e heroína começaram nas drogas ilícitas com a maconha. Estudos da Fundação Britânica de Pneumologia (2012) mostram que o cigarro da maconha causa mais câncer de pulmão nos seus usuários que o de tabaco. Um dos maiores psiquiatras brasileiros, Valentim Gentil Filho, professor titular de Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina da USP escreveu em artigo para a edição número 148 da Scientific American (de setembro de 2014): “Um dos possíveis facilitadores dessa atitude liberalizante em relação à cannabis é que seus efeitos agudos e transitórios sempre chamaram mais a atenção que as ações permanentes e irreversíveis. Talvez por isso se afirme que a maconha é menos prejudicial que o álcool e o tabaco. Na realidade, a discussão sobre drogas ilícitas tenta transmitir uma mensagem de segurança que as evidências absolutamente não justificam.” Assim, afirmar que fumar maconha pode ser tratamento é uma manipulação absurda. Isso não impede, porém, que uma molécula da planta, como o canabidiol, não possa ter efeito benéfico em alguma doença rara. Se comprovado, ela deverá ser retirada da planta, isolada e utilizada para aquela finalidade específica, como um comprimido ou líquido. É muito diferente de fumar maconha “para se tratar”. Só para lembrar, a morfina é uma substância derivada da papoula, a planta que produz a heroína. No entanto, é utilizada em casos específicos de dor intensa. A bradicinina é uma substância com excelentes resultados em hipertensão arterial e vem do veneno da jararaca. Mas ninguém receita injeção de heroína para tratar dor, nem picada de jararaca para “pressão alta”! Uma coisa é usar determinada molécula de uma planta para fins medicinais, outra coisa é usar isso como desculpa para se drogar. Usar drogas nunca foi nem será tratamento para qualquer doença, muito pelo contrário. Quanto à exploração emocional do sofrimento alheio, para empurrar de contrabando a legalização das drogas, mostra que o Partido Pró-Drogas não tem nem terá limites éticos ou morais para conseguir seu intento. Cabe ao restante da sociedade ficar alerta e contra-argumentar, quem sabe também com um filme, mostrando a relação verdadeira e direta da maconha e outras drogas com a destruição física e mental de milhões de brasileiros, história que bem poderia ser contada por suas famílias devastadas pelo sofrimento. * Médico. Ex-secretário estadual da Saúde e deputado federal (PMDB-RS) Fonte: http://zh.clicrbs.com.br/rs/noticias/proa/noticia/2014/10/osmar-terra-afirmar-que-fumar-maconha-pode-ser-tratamento-e-uma-manipulacao-absurda-4628158.htm l

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/01/24/the-president-forgets-to-lie-about-marijuana-and-prohibitionists-are-outraged/ The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama’s recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are so dangerous that they cannot be tolerated, and the government has scientifically identified them. In reality, the distinctions drawn by our drug laws are arbitrary, and marijuana is the clearest illustration of that fact. “As has been well documented,” Obama told The New Yorker’s David Remnick in an interview published on Sunday, “I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” When Remnick pressed him to say whether marijuana is in fact less dangerous than alcohol, the president said yes, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” Judging from survey data, that is not a very controversial position. According to a recent CNN poll, 87 percent of Americans think marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, and 73 percent say it is less dangerous. Yet Obama’s statement does seem inconsistent with his administration’s stubborn defenseof marijuana’s placement on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category supposedly reserved for drugs with a high abuse potential that have no recognized medical value and cannot be used safely, even under a doctor’s supervision. The administration concedes that chemicals in marijuana have medical utility, but it argues that they should be taken in isolation, not by smoking, vaporizing, or ingesting the plant. The administration also maintains that marijuana’s popularity as a recreational intoxicant demonstrates its high potential for abuse—if you define abuse to include all nonmedical use, as the government does. Both of these claims are debatable, to say the least. But marijuana’s Schedule I status seems especially vulnerable when you consider the safety prong. Alcohol, despite its familiar hazards, can be consumed safely, even without medical supervision. If marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol, it necessarily follows that it also can be consumed safely. And if marijuana does not belong on Schedule I, then by definition it should not be banned. As you might expect, survey data indicate that people who believe marijuana is safer than alcohol are especially likely to support legalization. In a 2012 surveyby Public Policy Polling, 92 percent of respondents who strongly agreed that marijuana is safer supported legalization, compared to 24 percent of those who strongly disagreed. Increased understanding of these drugs’ relative hazards seems to be one of the main factors driving up support for legalization, which according to several recent polls is now favored by most Americans. You can see why pot prohibitionists reacted with dismay to Obama’s comment—not because it was false but because it was true. As measured by acute toxicity, accident risk, and the long-term health effects of heavy consumption, marijuana is clearly safer than alcohol. That does not mean smoking pot poses no risks, or that drinking is so dangerous no one should ever do it. It simply means that the risks posed by alcohol are, on the whole, bigger than the risks posed by marijuana. So if our drug laws are supposed to be based on a clear-eyed evaluation of relative risks, some adjustment would seem to be in order. Patrick J. Kennedy (Image: CNN) No, no, no, say the prohibitionists. Patrick J. Kennedy, the former Rhode Island congressman who chairs the anti-pot group Project SAM, says, “We take issue with the President’s comparisons between marijuana and alcohol.” Yet Kennedy does not really explain why. Here is the closest he gets: “Two wrongs don’t make a right: just because our already legal drugs may have very dangerous impacts on society it does not mean that other drugs should follow the same path.” The first “wrong,” according to Kennedy, was repealing alcohol prohibition. Having made that mistake, he says, we should not compound the problem by legalizing another recreational intoxicant, even if it is less hazardous than alcohol. That argument can be challenged on practical and moral grounds. If marijuana is a substitute for alcohol (as some evidence suggests), legalizing it could lead to a net reduction in drug-related harm. And even if you accept the paternalistic premise of the war on drugs, it does not seem fair to treat suppliers of one drug as criminals while treating suppliers of a more dangerous one as legitimate businessmen. Yet Kennedy’s argument is a rhetorical tour de force compared to the protests lodged by other prohibitionists. Writing in The Washington Times, former Oklahoma congressman Ernest Istook complains that “pro-pot proponents…adopt an extremely narrow definition of marijuana’s dangers by [focusing] solely on whether it is ‘toxic.’” Istook is alluding to the fact that it is fairly easyto consume a fatal dose of alcohol, while there has never been a documented death from a marijuana overdose. That fact does seem pretty important in evaluating the relative risks of these two drugs, but it is not the only consideration. “Pro-pot proponents” also note that marijuana impairs driving ability less than alcohol does and that heavy drinking causes devastating organ damage unlike anything seen with marijuana. Istook trots out the old canard that “marijuana smoke has significantly more carcinogens than tobacco smoke,” implying that marijuana poses a bigger cancer risk. But the typical pot smoker absorbs much lower doses of combustion products than the typical cigarette smoker does, and the epidemiological evidence linking pot smoking to lung cancer, unlike the evidence linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, is equivocal. Furthermore, there are other ways to consume cannabis (vaporization and edibles) that do not involve inhaling smoke. Istook claims “adolescent use of marijuana…causes permanent brain damage”—an unproven assertion based on correlational evidence that does not necessarily indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. Public health officials also warn that adolescent brains may be especially vulnerable to the effects of alcohol. That concern is not usually considered an argument for banning alcohol consumption by adults. Still not convinced that the president was wrong when he said marijuana is safer than alcohol? He can’t be right, Istook says, since “the official National Drug Control Strategy from drug czar R. Gil Kerlikowske lists marijuana as one of the ‘four major drugs (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine).’” There you go: Since marijuana is a popular illegal drug, it cannot possibly be safer than alcohol. Istook closes with a sneer that was already old when he was elected to Congress in 1992. If you disagree with him about marijuana’s dangers, he says, you “must be smoking something.” Simply citing risks posed by marijuana, even if they are well established, does not prove it is more dangerous than alcohol—a basic logical point that the president’s critics do not seem to understand. “President Obama is surrounded by a myriad of experts who have voiced serious concerns about the harms of marijuana,” says the Drug-Free America Foundation, “so either he is seriously ill-informed about the issue or is completely ignoring warnings from his highly esteemed advisors.” Drug warriors also were irked that Obama, rather than reiterating hisopposition to marijuana legalization, seemed curious to see how the experiments in Colorado and Washington turn out. Expressing concern about the racially disproportionate impact of pot prohibition, he told Remnick “it’s important for [legalization] to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.” A few days later, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney emphasized that “the president’s position on these matters hasn’t changed” and that “he’s not endorsing any specific move by a state.” Rather, “he’s talking about the issue of disparities in prosecution of our drug laws that an experiment like this may be addressing." Still, Obama’s openness to the possibility that marijuana legalization might be something other than a disaster is too much for those who view the plant as inherently evil. “His laissez-faire attitude about legalization has drug policy and prevention experts scratching their heads in confusion as to why the president will not give clear guidance,” complains the Drug-Free America Foundation. “His lack of a formal position on what he is or is not supporting is an irresponsible move for such a person in the most highly regarded position in this country.” The drug warriors’ confusion reminds me of that Star Trek episode in which the robed agents of repression who enforce a brutally blissful dictatorship, having been freed from the mind control of the computer that runs their society, wander around crying, “Landru! Guide us!” On the subject of marijuana prohibition, it is long past time we started thinking for ourselves instead of relying on a government that has been lying to us for 77 years.

The Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner | Posted: 11/05/13 EST 18 Milestones That Led To Our Marijuana 'Tipping Point' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/marijuana-history_n_4175633.html 5-11-13 At a recent speech in Denver, Drug Policy Alliance executive director Ethan Nadelmann declared that we've hit "the tipping point" on marijuana policy. With Colorado and Washington getting ready for the first ever legal, regulated, recreational marijuana retail market for adults in the U.S.; with a majority of Americans recently saying for the first time in U.S. history that marijuana usage should be made legal; with a coalition of conservative Mormon mothers fighting for safe access to medicinal cannabis for their children -- it's hard to to disagree with him. Although much of this is recent history, it has been a long road to what very well may be the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition in America. Here's a look back at the major milestones that helped bring the United States to its "tipping point." 1. A long, long time ago, a plant grew on planet Earth. The cannabis plant has a long history. It's widely believed that humans' first contact with the plant was roughly 10,000 years ago in China, where some of the earliest archeological evidence of hemp first originated. For thousands of years, the Chinese used it to make rope, paper, clothing and medicine. During the second century A.D., Chinese surgeon Hua T'o even used cannabis as an anesthesia. 2. America's founding fathers were quick to celebrate its benefits... In the 17th century, American farmers were required by law to grow hemp in Virginia and the other colonies. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, and Benjamin Franklin owned a mill that is rumored to have used hemp paper. Meanwhile, his own newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, espoused the benefits of the crop for multiple uses. For hundreds of years in the U.S., hemp was used to make rope, sails, lamp oil and clothing, until production dropped to zero in the late 1950s over anti-drug sentiment and competition from synthetic fibers. 3. ...and so were our Mexican neighbors. In the late 1800s, marijuana was sold in many over-the-counter medicinal products. During the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Mexican immigrants fleeing their home country to the U.S. began introducing the recreational use of marijuana to American culture. Early prejudices about the Spanish-speakers became associated with marijuana use and crime, and the seeds to various stigmas about the drug were planted. 4. The "Summer of Love" brought smoking pot into the mainstream... George Harrison pays a surprise visit to San Francisco's famed Haight-Ashbury district on Aug. 8, 1967. (AP Photo) As the good vibes from the "Summer of Love" spread out from San Francisco, the 1960s counterculture movement blossomed and marijuana use among the anti-establishment became the norm. Led by poet-activist and "Marijuana Newsletter" publisher Ed Sanders with beat poet Allen Ginsburg at his side, the 1960s saw one of the first ever organized public protests against restrictive marijuana laws. Though the event itself was dubbed "LeMar" (Legalize Marijuana), it later formed the basis for the California-based pot reform group Amorphia. 5. ...and policy organizations came on board. Oregon became the first state to reduce the penalty for marijuana possession in 1973, and that same year, The Shafer Commission recommended that small quantities of marijuana should be legalized. President Richard Nixon ultimately rejected the advice of the commission. But the early 1970s still saw the creation of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law (NORML), a Washington D.C.-based lobby dedicated to drug policy reform; the People's Pot Conference, the first political pro-reform conference; Cheech & Chong, a comedy duo whose material revolves around drug use and much more. Marijuana had begun to go mainstream. 6. High times called for High Times. Acceptance for marijuana use grew in America by the mid-1970s, and the plant even got its own lifestyle magazine. Called High Times, the debut issue was published in 1974 and sold 45,000 copies. High Times is exclusively devoted to the promotion of pot culture and the drug's legalization to this day. 7. One man fought for his right to use medical marijuana -- and won. Glaucoma sufferer Robert Randall smoking marijuana he was prescribed legally to treat his illness. (Photo by Terry Ashe//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Robert Randall became America's first legal medical marijuana patient in 1975, growing the plant himself in Washington, D.C., and using it to treat his glaucoma. 8. San Francisco became the first city to allow medical use... Leave it the home of the "Summer of Love" to become the first city to pass an ordinance that gave medical patients access to marijuana. In 1991, in a historic first, San Francisco did just that. 9. ...the rest of California soon followed its lead... Dennis Peron, leader of the campaign for Proposition 215 and founder of the Cannabis Buyers Club, right, smokes a marijuana cigarette next to Jack Herer, of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1996, in San Francisco. (AP photo) Voters passed a ballot initiative in California that legalized the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana for medical purposes. 10. ...and so did 20 other states. Since 1996, 20 other states and the District of Columbia have followed California's lead, each passing some form of medical marijuana law. 11. Over the same time period, studies emerged showing cannabis can help fight cancer... A pair of scientists in San Francisco found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer. A more recent study from the UK found that compounds derived from marijuana can kill cancerous cells in individuals with leukemia. 12. ...and help treat epilepsy. After using cannabis oil to treat her debilitating seizures, six-year-old Charlotte Figi saw her seizures fall from around 300 a week to just three over an eight-month period. 13. Then in 2012, the impossible happened... People attending an Amendment 64 watch party celebrate after a local television station announced the marijuana amendment's passage in Denver, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2012, voters in both Colorado and Washington approved ballot measures that legalize marijuana for recreational use for adults in each state. The first recreational marijuana shops will open in both states in 2014. 14. ...and the government said, "yes you can-nabis!" Attorney General Eric Holder (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) The United States government took a historic step back from its long-running drug war in August, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults. 15. Hemp laws expanded to unlikely states... A commercial hemp field. Kentucky, a state not exactly known for embracing hippies or marijuana culture, legalized industrial hemp production in early 2013. North Dakota and West Virginia also have hemp laws on the books. 16. ...and the crop sprouted in U.S. soil once again. Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin harvests hemp on his farm in Springfield, Colo. Loflin planted 55 acres of several varieties of hemp alongside his typical alfalfa and wheat crops. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda) Farmers in Colorado made history in 2013 when they harvested a hemp crop -- the first in the United States since 1957. 17. Marijuana is now largely considered to be "the next great American industry"... A marijuana grow facility. Cannabis business is "the next great American industry," CEO Troy Dayton of The ArcView Group said during a recent investor meeting in Denver that resulted in over $1 million poured into startup marijuana businesses in Colorado. A study in November showed that legal marijuana is among the fastest-growing markets in the United States, and it's poised to outpace the expansion of the global smartphone market. 18. ...and a clear majority agrees. For the first time in U.S. history, more than half of Americans think that marijuana usage should be made legal, according to a recent Gallup poll. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now back legalizing marijuana. That represents an eight-point increase from the previous record of 50 percent in 2011, and a 10-point increase from November 2012, just after Colorado and Washington voted for legalization. Also on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow $13.7 Billion Saved On Prohibition Enforcement Costs The government would save an estimated $13.7 billion on prohibition enforcement costs and tax revenue by legalizing marijuana, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/economists-marijuana-legalization_n_1431840.html" target="_hplink">according to a paper endorsed by 300 economists</a>. $500 Million In Tax Revenue For Washington State It's estimated that Washington's legalization of marijuana could bring the state an<a href="http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/marijuana-legalization-decision-washington-colorado-oregon-can-pot-stimulate-the-economy" target="_hplink"> additional $500 million in tax revenue</a>, WPTV reports. $60 Million Saved By Colorado Legalization Colorado's pot legalization legislation, Amendment 64, is estimated to create <a href="http://csbj.com/2012/11/02/marijuana-economic-stimulant-or-just-a-can-of-worms/" target="_hplink">$60 million for the state in combined savings and additional tax revenue</a>, Colorado Springs Business Journal reports. Legalization Could Reduce Marijuana Prices Marijuana users could see substantial savings due to marijuana legalization, as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/legalizing-marijuana-washington-colorado_n_2088375.html?1352310298" target="_hplink">prices could fall by up to 100 times</a>, perhaps freeing up some cash to spend on other things. Huge Prison Cost Savings Inmates incarcerated on marijuana-related charges cost U.S. prisons $1 billion annually, according to a 2007 study, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/47815/" target="_hplink">AlterNet reports</a>. Marijuana Prohibition Costs Taxpayers $41.8 Billion A Year Including lost tax revenues, a 2007 study found that enforcing the marijuana prohibition costs tax payers $41.8 billion annually, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/29/marijuana-laws-work-biz-cx_qh_1001pot.html" target="_hplink">Forbes</a> reports. California Marijuana Crop Worth $14 Billion A Year Marijuana growers account for <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1884956,00.html" target="_hplink">$14 billion a year in sales in California</a>, making it the state's most valuable cash crop, TIME reports. Illegal Marijuana A $36 Billion A Year Industry It's estimated that <a href="http://madamenoire.com/106691/capitalizing-on-the-billion-dollar-marijuana-industry/" target="_hplink">illegal marijuana is a $36 billion industry</a> in the U.S., MadameNoire reports. Dispensary Ads Boost Newspapers' Revenue The <em>Sacramento News and Review</em> saw a big boost in ad revenue when it offered advertising space for more than 60 medical marijuana dispensaries, enabling the publication to hire three additional employees, <a "http://www.news10.net/news/local/article/144285/2/Marijuana-ads-mean-big-money-for-weekly-newspaper" according to News 10. Mendocino Zip Tie Program Raised $600,000 Mendocino County, California's zip tie program aimed at regulating medical marijuana growing by charging permits for each plant raised <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/medical-marijuana-license-mendocino_n_1193198.html" target="_hplink">$600,000 in revenue in for the Sheriff's department</a> in 2011. Oakland Raised More Than $1 Million In Marijuana Tax Revenue The city of Oakland, California raised $1.3 million in tax revenue from medical marijuana dispensaries in 2011, 3 percent of the city's total business tax revenue, according to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/cities-turn-to-a-crop-for-cash-medical-marijuana.html?_r=1" target="_hplink"><em>The New York Times</em></a>. Colorado Pulls In $5 Million From Pot Sales Tax In 2011, Colorado pulled in $5 milllion in sales taxes from medical marijuana businesses, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/cities-turn-to-a-crop-for-cash-medical-marijuana.html?_r=1" target="_hplink"><em>The New York Times</em></a> reports. Legal Marijuana Could Be $100 Billion Industry Economist Stephen Easton estimated in 2010 that <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2010/03/legalize_mariju.html" target="_hplink">legal marijuana could be a $45 to $100 billion industry</a>, <em>Bloomberg Businessweek</em> reports. Each weGrow Center Creates 75 Jobs When hydroponic marijuana growing supply chain weGrow opens a new store it <a href="http://aznow.biz/small-biz/wegrow-phoenix-opens-cultivates-opportunities-arizona)" target="_hplink">creates an estimated 75 jobs</a> indirectly, according to AZBusiness Magazine. 14 Reasons Why Marijuana Is Good For The Economy 1 of 15 AP Fullscreen  Play All $13.7 Billion Saved On Prohibition Enforcement Costs The government would save an estimated $13.7 billion on prohibition enforcement costs and tax revenue by legalizing marijuana, according to a paper endorsed by 300 economists.

Spain Study Confirms Cannabis Oil Cures Cancer Without Side Effects Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/spain-study-confirms-cannabis-oil-cures-cancer-without-side-effects/#0tPxZ7yjDZYq8F1Z.99 By Mark Sircus Ac., OMD The medical science is strongly in favor of THC laden hemp oil as a primary cancer therapy, not just in a supportive role to control the side effects of chemotherapy. The International Medical Verities Association is putting hemp oil on its cancer protocol. It is a prioritized protocol list whose top five items are magnesium chloride, iodine, selenium, Alpha Lipoic Acid and sodium bicarbonate. It makes perfect sense to drop hemp oil right into the middle of this nutritional crossfire of anti cancer medicines, which are all available without prescription. Hemp oil has long been recognized as one of the most versatile and beneficial substances known to man. Derived from hemp seeds (a member of the achene family of fruits) it has been regarded as a superfood due to its high essential fatty acid content and the unique ratio of omega3 to omega6 and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) – 2:5:1. Hemp oil, is known to contain up to 5% of pure GLA, a much higher concentration than any other plant, even higher than spirulina. For thousands of years, the hemp plant has been used in elixirs and medicinal teas because of its healing properties and now medical science is zeroing in on the properties of its active substances. Both the commercial legal type of hemp oil and the illegal THC laden hemp oil are one of the most power-packed protein sources available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in many nutritional and trans-dermal applications. In other chapters in my Winning the War on Cancer book we will discuss in-depth about GLA and cancer and also the interesting work of Dr. Johanna Budwig. She uses flax seed oil instead of hemp oil to cure cancer – through effecting changes in cell walls – using these omega3 and omega6 laden medicinal oils. Actually there is another way to use medical marijuana without smoking the leaf. According to Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, “The usual irritating and toxic breakdown products of burning utilized with smoking are totally avoided with vaporization. Extraction and inhaling cannabinoid essential oils below ignition temperature of both crude and refined cannabis products affords significant mitigation of irritation to the oral cavity, and tracheobronchial tree from pyrollytic breakdown products.[iii] Dr. Mikuriya continues saying “The usual irritating and toxic breakdown products of burning utilized with smoking are totally avoided with vaporization. Extraction and inhaling cannabinoid essential oils below ignition temperature of both crude and refined cannabis products affords significant mitigation of irritation to the oral cavity, and tracheobronchial tree from pyrollytic breakdown products.” Rick Simpson, the man in the above mentioned videos, has been making hemp oil and sharing it with friends and neighbors without charging for it. In small doses, he says, it makes you well without getting you high. “Well you can’t deny your own eyes can you?” Simpson asks. “Here’s someone dying of cancer and they’re not dying anymore. I don’t care if the medicine comes from a tomato plant, potato plant or a hemp plant, if the medicine is safe and helps and works, why not use it?” he asks. When a person has cancer and is dying this question reaches a critical point. The bravery of Rick Simpson from Canada in showing us how to make hemp oil for ourselves offers many people a hope that should be increasingly appreciated as money dries up for expensive cancer treatments. We are going to need inexpensive medicines in the future and there is nothing better than the ones we can make reasonably cheaply ourselves. For most people in the world it is illegal so the choice could come down to breaking the law or dying. There is no research to indicate what advantages oral use of hemp oil vs. vaporization but we can assume that advantage would be nutritional with oral intake. Dr. Budwig Below work would sustain this point of view especially for cancer patients. The Science According to Dr. Robert Ramer and Dr. Burkhard Hinz of the University of Rostock in Germany medical marijuana can be an effective treatment for cancer.[v] Their research was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access on December 25th of 2007 in a paper entitled Inhibition of Cancer Cell Invasion by Cannabinoids via Increased Expression of Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinases-1. The biggest contribution of this breakthrough discovery, is that the expression of TIMP-1 was shown to be stimulated by cannabinoid receptor activation and to mediate the anti-invasive effect of cannabinoids. Prior to now the cellular mechanisms underlying this effect were unclear and the relevance of the findings to the behavior of tumor cells in vivo remains to be determined. Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half, a 2007 Harvard Medical School study shows. The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies. This is the first set of experiments to show that the compound, Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits EGF-induced growth and migration in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers that over-express EGFR are usually highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy. THC that targets cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function to endocannabinoids, which are cannabinoids that are naturally produced in the body and activate these receptors. “The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer,” said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a researcher in the Division of Experimental Medicine. Acting through cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, endocannabinoids (as well as THC) are thought to play a role in variety of biological functions, including pain and anxiety control, and inflammation. Researchers reported in the August 15, 2004 issue of Cancer Research, the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, that marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread of brain cancer in human tumor biopsies.[vii] In a related development, a research team from the University of South Florida further noted that THC can also selectively inhibit the activation and replication of gamma herpes viruses. The viruses, which can lie dormant for years within white blood cells before becoming active and spreading to other cells, are thought to increase one’s chances of developing cancers such as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease. In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s Complutense University discovered that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. Then in 2000, they reported in the journal Nature Medicine that injections of synthetic THC eradicated malignant gliomas (brain tumors) in one-third of treated rats, and prolonged life in another third by six weeks. Led by Dr. Manuel Guzman the Spanish team announced they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC. They reported in the March 2002 issue of “Nature Medicine” that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic compound similar to THC. Researchers at the University of Milan in Naples, Italy, reported in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics that non-psychoactive compounds in marijuana inhibited the growth of glioma cells in a dose-dependent manner, and selectively targeted and killed malignant cells through apoptosis. “Non-psychoactive CBD produce a significant anti-tumor activity both in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting a possible application of CBD as an antineoplastic agent.” The first experiment documenting pot’s anti-tumor effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest of the U.S. government. The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana’s psychoactive component, THC, “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.” 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. The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research even though the researchers “found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.” “Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports, “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)” — two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana. “Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBN had reduced primary tumor size.” Marijuana relieves pain that narcotics like morphine and OxyContin have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer. According to Devra Davis in her book Secret History of the War on Cancer, 1.5 million lives have been lost because Americans failed to act on existing knowledge about the environmental causes of cancer. It is impossible to calculate the added deaths from suppressed ‘cancer cures’ but we do know of the terrible suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been jailed for marijuana use. Hemp oil with THC included has the making of a primary cancer treatment, which even alone seems to have a great chance of turning the tide against cancer tumors. It has the added advantage of safety, ease of use, lack of side effects and low cost if one makes it oneself. Surrounded by other medicinal anti-cancer substances in a full protocol it’s hard to imagine anyone failing and falling in their war on cancer. THC should be included in every cancer protocol. Sodium bicarbonate is another excellent anti tumor substance that reduces tumors but is much more difficult to administer than THC hemp oil. Cannabinoids are able to pass through all barriers in the body like Alpha Lipoic Acid so simple oral intake is sufficient. With bicarbonate we need intravenous applications and often even this is not sufficient, often we have to use catheters and few doctors in the world are willing to administer this way. In the end all cancer treatments that are not promoted by mainstream oncology are illegal. No licensed doctor is going to claim that are curing cancer with sodium bicarbonate though they will treat people with cancer explaining they are balancing pH or some other metabolic profile with this common emergency room medicine found also most kitchens of the world. More than several states have passed laws making medical marijuana legal but the federal government will not relax and let people be free to choose their treatments even if their lives depend on it. Davis notes that the cowardice of research scientists, who publish thoroughly referenced reports but pull their punches at the end, by claiming that more research needs to be done before action can be taken. Statements like these are exploited by industry that buys time to make much more money. It is a deliberate attempt that creates wholesale public doubt from small data gaps and remaining scientific uncertainties. They have done that with everything right up to and including sunlight. Everything is thought to be dangerous except the pharmaceutical drugs which are the most dangerous substances of all. Stomach wrenching chemotherapy and the death principle of radiation are legal yet safe THC laden hemp oil is not. It is legal for doctors to attack people with their poisons but you can go to jail for trying to save yourself or a loved one from cancer with the oil of a simple garden weed. Our civilization has put up with this insanity but there is a great price being paid. In a mad medical world people die that need not and this is a terrible sadness that has destroyed the integrity and ethics of modern medicine. The science for the use of hemp oil is credible, specific fact-based, and is documented in detail. There is absolutely no reason to not legalize medical marijuana and create an immediate production and distribution of THC hemp oil to cancer patients. Unfortunately we live in a world populated with governments and medical henchmen who would rather see people die cruel deaths then have access to a safe and effect cancer drug. Meanwhile the Food and Drug Administration approved Genentech’s best-selling drug, Avastin, as a treatment for breast cancer, in a decision, according to the New York Times, “that appeared to lower the threshold somewhat for approval of certain cancer drugs. The big question was whether it was enough for a drug temporarily to stop cancer from worsening — as Avastin had done in a clinical trial — or was it necessary for a drug to enable patients to live longer, which Avastin had failed to do. Oncologists and patient advocates were divided, in part because of the drug’s sometimes severe side effects.” The differences between Avastin and hemp oil are huge. First Avastin will earn Genentech hundreds of millions where THC hemp oil will earn no one anything. Second there are no severe or even mild side effects to taking hemp oil and lastly it is not a temporary answer but a real solution. Certainly hemp oil will ensure a longer life.