The stakes are high, public health experts said. "If you begin to use alcohol at a very young age, you have over a 40 percent change of being an alcohol-dependent person," said Faye J. Calhoun, deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism....
Legalise Cannabis To Cut Heroin Addiction
Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics
I do not think there is such a thing as not being able to cure an addict. Marihuana addicts may go to a Federal narcotic farm. But I have not seen many addicts who could not be cured. An addict could drop it and he will not experience any ill effects.
ANSLINGER: Sworn Congressional testimony 1937
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Marijuana may block Alzheimer's
Cannabis prevents brain damage
Science Daddies Rejoice: Marijuana Prevents Brain Damage!
Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
Cannabis May Prevent Brain Damage
National Institute of Mental Health Study, But Reported In British Media
Dr J. H. Jaffe, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics .
L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965.
"There are no long lasting ill-effects from the acute use of marijuana and no fatalities have ever been recorded ... there seems to be growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marijuana does not directly cause criminal behaviour, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addiction."
Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine
http://www.rxmarihuana.com
Examples of the ways that marihuana alleviates symptoms of cancer chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, glaucoma, AIDS, and depression, as well as symptoms of such less common disorders as Crohn`s disease, diabetic gastroparesis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
LaGuardia Commission Report, 1944
"Cannabis smoking] does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration... Those who have consumed marijuana for a period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed to the drug."
Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
Drug Ruling Worries Some in Public Housing
US PA: The Informant, The Lies, The Injustice -and A Life Lost
The Lancet, vol 352, number 9140, November 14 1998:
"We.. say that on the medical evidence available, moderate indulgence in cannabis has little ill-effect on health, and that decisions to ban or legalise cannabis should be based on other considerations."
The Drug War Refugees
The Murder of Peter McWilliams
On 6/15, poet, publisher, Libertarian crusader, bestselling author of over 30 books (How to Heal Depression; Getting Over the Loss of a Loved One; The Personal Computer Book; Life 101; et al...), Peter McWilliams, died in his home, asphyxiated on vomit, for lack of medical marijuana. Remember Peter McWilliams the next time Drug Czar Walters claims the "drug war" is not really a "war." McWilliams had his computers siezed, his livelihood and works in progress destroyed, his finances frozen and bankrupted, his critical lifesaving anti-nausea medication- marijuana- denied, even his mother threatened with the loss of her bailbonded-home if Peter tested positive with one iota of THC in his system. The federal judge even denied McWilliams the right to use Marinol, "legal" synthetic THC available in pill form.
[t]Peter McWilliams: 1950 – 2000[/t]
Rainbow Farm Massacre
Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
On the Friday before Labor Day 2001, rather than face a bail revocation hearing for holding an unauthorized marijuana rally last August Grover "Tom" Crosslin and Rolland Rohm retreated to Rainbow Farm...
Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001
The Return of Reefer Madness
'After Two Puffs, I Was Turned Into a Bat'
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
The Invisible Prohibition
The Marijuana Tax Act was prepared during two years of secret meetings, held by Treasury Department officials between 1935 and 1937. At no time was the American Medical Association consulted for an opinion on the health effects of Marijuana smoking and were not even informed that the meetings were taking place
Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot
Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue
Drug czars failing grades
It may be a surprise to some people born in, say, the last thirty years to know that major drug abuse is a relatively new problem. It's a product of drug prohibition and punitive enforcement.
"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups,
burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it (marijuana) causes each year,
especially among the young, can only be conjectured." Harry Anslinger
Czar Waldo's Pimp Patrol
"The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. ... ...moderate use of hemp... appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind,... no injurious effects on the mind... [and] no moral injury whatever."
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894
Priming The Propaganda Mill
Drug Control Office Faulted For Issuing Tapes
Bad research makes headlines
Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.
D.E.A.th Deceptions
Debunking "Gutter Science"
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why?
Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
- George W. Bush, US President
Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells
Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
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CANNABIS DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER
The U.S. federal government has failed to make public its own 1994 study that undercuts its position that marijuana is carcinogenic - a $2 million study by the National Toxicology Program. The program's deputy director, John Bucher, says the study "found absolutely no evidence of cancer." In fact, animals that received THC had fewer cancers. Bucher denies his agency had been pressured to shelve the report, saying the delay in making it public was due to a personnel shortage.
Cannabis is a safe medicine by Ian Williams Goddard
BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1997 (UPI)
Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco
