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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (663590)	12/2/2004 1:29:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kids --- particularly mentally ill ones --- should not use any psychoactive substance (and that definitely includes alcohol and tobacco as well). A few other points, though: Medical research has demonstrated a potentially significant cancer-killing effect for the active ingredients found in cannabis. A 1974 US study first found this effect --- then the US government ordered the medical study destroyed, and pulled from all library shelves. Recently, a Spanish study demonstrated the ability to shrink inoperable brain tumors (in mice).... Drug companies are ramping up their studies (except in the US --- where the FDA gives the DEA a veto over all cannabis medical research --- and they they have vetoed all research proposals sent to them). Even so, a DEA administrative judge in the late '80s concluded that "cannabis was the least dangerous therapeutic substance known to man".... I say: let medical research go where ever it thinks it has the chance to find cures... and keep the politicians out of it.