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[marijuana] >(it does not cause cancer)

It does if you smoke it, and its smoke contains more tar than tobacco. However, the tobacco industry is poisoning the countryside with pesticides that would be unnecessary to grow hemp, which is a resilient plant and does well without pesticides. Tobacco attracts polonium 210 and concentrates it in the leaves, and when tobacco is smoked radioactivity increases in the general vicinity of the smoker. Both smokers and secondhand-smokers are equally at risk from this silent danger that continues to pollute offices even after the smell of the smoke has dispersed. Pesticide residue and other additives are also a problem with tobacco. The only known risk of smoking marijuana is from the tar and the microscopic smoke particles, which is a problem with smoking any herbs. Summing up, smoking marijuana is more likely to cause lung cancer because of the tar and particulate content, but smoking tobacco can cause many other cancers (including lung cancer) because of exposure to radioactivity and a whole lot of additives (which include potent nerve toxins). Secondhand tobacco smoke is a serious health hazard, but secondhand marijuana smoke is like any other incense. Smoking is a potential health hazard no matter what is being smoked, so it should only be done where the gains clearly outweigh the risks, under medical supervision. For instance, asthmatics can benefit from bronchodilators during an attack, and marijuana fits this category. However, less intrusive methods should be sought for a longer plan of healing, and deal with the cause rather than the symptoms. Eating or drinking marijuana in moderation is not known to have any health hazards associated with it, and can be clearly shown to have many beneficial effects. Continued excess may lead to problems, but in the absence of tobacco marijuana use tends to counteract addictive behaviour. Dosage can be reduced as time goes on, without losing the beneficial effects. If I hadn’t seen the prohibition with my own eyes, I would simply dismiss it as paranoid science fiction. It’s the mother of all conspiracies. —

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Anyone familiar with the history of medicine knows that cannabis has long been used as an effective medical treatment. It’s the height of folly and government arrogance that this valuable medicine is unavailable in America, while many more powerful drugs such as cocaine and opiates are available. — Bernie Simon            I should be allowed to blurt the merest idea

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> Hear is a list of diseases and disorders marijuana helps: It could > help addicts of opiates, cigarette attics, probably many more > recuperate; cancer chemotherapy (it does not cause cancer), > glaucoma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, paraplegia and quadriplegia, > AIDS, chronic pain, migraine, pruritis, menstrual cramps and labor > pain, depression and other mood disorders, and many more.

The deleterious effects of cigarette smoking are not made better by smoking marijuana instead, that much is clear from the evidence. In addition, while I whole-heartedly support decriminalization of marijuana (and some other mind-altering herbals), it remains to be said that marijuana is very imbalancing to the health when overconsumed, and has ruined many lives. Marijuana is a Hot, Binding herbal with an affinity for the Spirit side of the Liver (as understood by East-Asian Traditional Healing), and can therefore cause Yin Deficiency, Liver Qi Stagnation, illnesses associated with those two conditions, and delusional mental illness, depression, and apathy, especially in individuals who are constitutionally depleted, or who have borderline personalities to begin with. Claims to the contrary by proponents are obvious crap. On top of that, it will hasten baldness like nobody’s business, and probably interferes with potency. That said, occasional use of marijuana is not particularly damaging, and it and it’s users certainly shouldn’t be hunted down like criminals. As well, hemp growing is eminently good ecological practice, and depriving ourselves of hemp products so we can use more oil to make plastic, and grow more fast-growth trees, is the height of stupidity. Hemp-content toilet paper alone would save millions each year. > There is another book that tells the industrial uses of the > marijuana plant. "HEMP, Lifeline to the Future." The Unexpected > Answer for Our Environmental and Economic Recovery,  by Chris > Conrad. It could produce four times as much paper than trees and it > grows faster. It could make stronger paper, cloth, and rope. The > seeds could be used as bird seed or people food. It could be used as > cooking oil. The uses are remarkable and they go a long way. There > are far more uses of this plant than what I have told you.

Not could, does. Many parts of the third world continue to utilize hemp, including India and China. We import amounts of sterile hemp seed from China for East-Asian Traditional Healing constipation formulas each year. The Constitution was written on hemp paper, and our money was printed on hemp-content paper for a century and a half. Three jeers for the blue-noses who banned its use in the fifties!

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I have this great book that tells the vast medical uses of marijuana. It also explains that many of the dangers the police and media have been warning us about pot have been myths. The book is: "Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine"  by Lester Grinspoon, M.D., and James B Bakalar (1993).   Obviously everything on this planet has its dangers. Everything could be abused or used in a harmful way. Anything could be addictive, but not everything is physically addictive. Marijuana is not proven to be physically addictive. The drug does not cause brain damage. It is also far less toxic than many of today’s prescription medicine.   This book contains stories written by patients that had experienced using marijuana to help with their disease or disorder. It shows you the history of the cannabis; why it was made a law, why people still believe the myths, and why full legalization is necessary so the medical users could obtain it cheap and without any trouble. Some people are getting marijuana medication, but the vast majority of medical marijuana users are still being arrested and serving long prison terms without the proper medication (marijuana).   Hear is a list of diseases and disorders marijuana helps: It could help addicts of opiates, cigarette attics, probably many more recuperate; cancer chemotherapy (it does not cause cancer), glaucoma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, paraplegia and quadriplegia, AIDS, chronic pain, migraine, pruritis, menstrual cramps and labor pain, depression and other mood disorders, and many more.   I’m going to give you part of the description of the book from its jacket and a paragraph from the very first page:   From the jacket:   Much of the book consists of accounts written by patients (including one from famed scientist Stephen Jay Gould) that dramatically illustrate not only the relief provided by marihuana but also the unnecessary distress caused by the need to obtain it illegally. Grinspoon and Bakalar recount the long history of medical marihuana use, discuss the real (as opposed to fancied) potential health hazards of the drug, and analyze the social causes of the government’s insistence of making outlaws of its medical users. They find that marihuana is a remarkably safe substance and that criminalizing its use is costly, ineffective, and unfair. They conclude that legalizing it for medical purposes alone would be unworkable and that it must be given the same status as alcohol–legal, with appropriate limitations, for use by adults for any purpose. From the first page: "When I began to study marihuana in 1967, I had no doubt that it was a very harmful drug that was unfortunately being used by more and more foolish young people who would not listen to or could not understand the warnings about its dangers. My purpose was to define scientifically the nature and degree of those dangers. In the next three years, as I reviewed the scientific, medical, and lay literature, my views began to change. I came to understand that I, like so many other people in this country, had been brainwashed. My beliefs about the dangers of marihuana had little empirical foundation. By the time I completed the research that formed the basis for a book, I had become convinced that cannabis was considerably less harmful than tobacco and alcohol, the most commonly used legal drugs. The book was published in 1979; its title, Marihuana Reconsidered, reflected my change in view." –Lester Grinspoon, M.D.     At first you may think these authors are talking out against the government. They give enough sources to back up their information.   There is another book that tells the industrial uses of the marijuana plant. "HEMP, Lifeline to the Future." The Unexpected Answer for Our Environmental and Economic Recovery,  by Chris Conrad. It could produce four times as much paper than trees and it grows faster. It could make stronger paper, cloth, and rope. The seeds could be used as bird seed or people food. It could be used as cooking oil. The uses are remarkable and they go a long way. There are far more uses of this plant than what I have told you. Please Email me if you have any comments, questions, or how I could make my post better. Please tell me your occupation and if you disagree about (BeavisBut8)

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