oh not this again ...




oh yes God Did make Man


...most of us I think ...





but then some men are evil predators


& repeat child molestors too

i have more faith in a harmless plant than booze by far

that has way more benefits than most people give it credit for

that would greatly help the economy

and help clean the ecosystem too with production

of paper clothing, & wood products & so many other things

like when it was used so prolifically in the World Wars


i have more faith in a very innovative plant

that would give people relief from pain & medical problems

without causing then to be strung out on highly addictive narcotics

that the doctors give them with their filthy hands in the cookie jar


would rather give to their patients without conscience


compromising the hippocratic law


for the hypocritical law they created

cause of the huge financial kickbacks in it for them




yes, i most definitely have more faith in God

and in the plants he gave us for many uses


than i do in most men

Rapunzel...not what again??? I don't believe I used this before AND it was a joke for Fran

shaddup Fran

poison ivy is natural...but I'm not going near that....so are shrooms....I'll pass on that too

Fran...if you grow your own tobacco...then it's natural

shaddup Fran

poison ivy is natural...but I'm not going near that....so are shrooms....I'll pass on that too

Fran...if you grow your own tobacco...then it's natural

shaddup Fran

poison ivy is natural...but I'm not going near that....so are shrooms....I'll pass on that too

Fran...if you grow your own tobacco...then it's natural

shaddup Fran

poison ivy is natural...but I'm not going near that....so are shrooms....I'll pass on that too

Fran...if you grow your own tobacco...then it's natural

my opinion is this reaction is very childish - but you go and enjoy your day

i will enjoy my day & my reply was definitely in order
just cause i refuse to buy into your bs
and play silly adolescent games
you want to try and put me down
it only shows your own lack of integrity & maturity

ANYWAY...back to the OP. if it will help the sick, then that is great. I personally won't use it because it has bad effects on me. I can't even use it to relax etc. but as far as recreational...I have no problem with someone using it in their homes as long as me and my loved ones aren't affected by the use.

But lets put some perspective on this. POT (in its most currently used form) has a myriad soup of cancer causing ingredients


ummm only when it is burned......

Yep, that's true.

as we have just been shown, recreational use does more harm than good

New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells

Nov 6, 2003, Steve Kubby

A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.

The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.

The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die."

"But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant."

In other words, this article explains several ways in which cannabinoids might be used to fight cancer, and, as the article says, "Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies.

Usually, any story that even suggests the possibility of a new treatment for cancer is greeted with headlines about a "cancer cure" - however remote in the future and improbable in fact it might be. But if marijuana is involved, don't expect any coverage from mainstream media, especially since mainstream editors have been quietly killing this story for the past thirty years.

That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974. Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes 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 Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part: "The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." 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."

"News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country. The news broke quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article," complained MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan, who said he was only able to find the article through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. "The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors," added Cowan.

On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74." Media coverage since then has been nonexistant, except for a copy of the story on Alternet .

It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why?

According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.

Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, familes exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm

Dec. 14, 2007 -- New research from Canada shows that some toxins may be more abundant in marijuana cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes.

The researchers burned 30 marijuana cigarettes and 30 tobacco cigarettes on a machine in their lab, measuring levels of chemicals in the smoke.

Ammonia levels were up to 20 times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke. Levels of hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen-related chemicals were three to five times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke.

The nitrogen-based fertilizer used on the marijuana plants -- which all came from the same batch of Canadian pot plants -- may have affected the results. The temperatures used to burn the cigarettes may also have been a factor.

Marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke shared many of the same chemicals. But the two types of smoke weren't identical.

For instance, marijuana doesn't contain nicotine. And tobacco doesn't contain cannabinoids, which include THC, marijuana's active ingredient

Tobacco has long been linked to cancer and other health problems. Marijuana smoke hasn't been tied to cancer in the past, note the researchers, who included David Moir, PhD, of the Safe Environments Programme in Kitchener, Ontario.

Moir and colleagues report their findings in the advance online edition of Chemical Research in Toxicology.

They promise to compare the toxicity of marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke in animals in another study.


http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20071214/study-shows-toxins-in-marijuana-smoke

good article winx