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To: Cogito who wrote (68538)	5/26/2008 7:36:46 AM
From: biotech_bull	Respond to of 543105

Allen, One of the funniest cartoons ever! Just goes to show the answer is very simple if you change the label; in this case to a Rooster!! BB

To: Cogito who wrote (68538)	5/26/2008 8:10:18 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543105

Good morning Allen, I'm glad to see that you're awake. Let me introduce myself a little better. At the age of thirteen, I started studying pharmacology. My intentions were not pure at all. I was a juvenile delinquent. I wanted to find out how to make LSD. A neighbor had just graduated as a chemical engineer. He offered to loan me his organic chemistry textbook. When I was alone with the book, I looked into the index for LSD. It was mentioned near the end of the book. In the last chapter. At the time, I didn’t realize that this book represented the end of a two years education in chemistry. I just knew that was what the molecule looked like. I read that part and looked at the picture over and over and over again. There were words I didn’t understand. So I looked them up in the index. Sometimes I understood a word I’d look up. Most of the time I wouldn’t. But the longer I searched the more I understood. In this way, I learned chemistry backward. Organic first and then only enough general and physical chemistry to pursue the organic. At fifteen, Dow Chemical gave me permission to read anything I wanted to in their research library. And I spent a great deal of time there. I learned about lots of different drugs. Many of which have never hit the streets. I was about twenty four when I took my first official chemistry class. The most difficult area of chemistry in school for me was general chemistry. During my last year of school, I tried to propose a method to fraction sunlight and use just the right fraction to disrupt the C-O bond of products of pyrolisys. The gaseous products of partial combustion of wood kinds of materials. The objective being to produce liquid or gaseous products that would be similar to petroleum products. The teacher didn’t go for it when I suggested that the reaction chamber needed to be built with the assumption that it stood a good chance of blowing up. The same year I took my first official chemistry class was the first year that I sat at a computer. Eighteen months later the school hired me to be an instructor, without any degree, to teach machine language programming. I hadn’t taken any class on the subject. Just another language I learned working in the computer lab. As another one of those “hobbies” I had gotten fixated on the Mandelbrout. Running the program to generate a graph on an Apple IIE was painfully slow. The program was running in Apple Basic. Apple Basic has the ability to call ML subroutines. I gradually built ML routines that would replace parts of Basic code. In doing so I reduced the time to build a graph to about 1/20th the time it used to take. Leaving school, I went to work in a technical library of the Dow Corning corp. I built up a database of polymer building blocks from an old text card file case. Next I did some testing for them of medical grade silicon. I was working with a mass spec/ GC machine. I always thought it was rather odd, that everyone would leave the room while I was working. Next I went to work in a Dow Chemical lab. Most of the time, I was running Environmental Stress Crack testing. Sometimes I would shift over to analytical work with such machines as IR and destructive thermogravinometric (I’m sure the spelling is wrong) mass change and a few other kinds of testing. I then relocated to Ann Arbor where I worked in Cow Corning’s Automotive lubricants development and testing in Plymouth. I stopped working in labs and ran my own business for a while. I specialized in computer memory distribution. At peak, I was selling $1.5 million per year out of my house. The market fell out from under me fast and I went belly up. I imploded and became a simple pizza driver. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with Hepatitis-C. I became reacquainted with an old friend from my misspent youth. Marijuana. I used marijuana to ease the side effects of the treatment for Hep-C. There were long periods of time that the pot was the only thing that enabled me to get out of bed. I’m sure that if I had not been using I would have never finished the quazy chemo I went through. At about the same time that I finished the treatment for Hep-C I found out about a test conducted at the University of Jerusalem. This test involved treating type 1 diabetes with a cannabinoid. CBD. I sought out what information I could about CBD. And attempted to treat my own type 2 diabetes. I was successful. I drove my diabetes into remission. In November of 2007 three people attacked my home in the middle of the night. I shot one of them. I was arrested on six felony counts. Ranging from attempted murder to growing marijuana. I spent the next 41 days in jail. I pled guilty to three charges and on 4/29/2008 was placed on five years probation. Please understand this: If there hadn’t been marijuana plants in my home I probably would not have been charged with anything. And if I had been, all charges would probably have been dropped before it could have come to trial. While in jail, my blood sugar stayed completely normal. My range was between 90 and 109 with a low reading of 75. This was after not being on any diabetic medicine for six months prior to being arrested and the entire time I was in jail. Regardless of what else was going on in my home, there was an element of medical research that was taking place. Research that was ultimately destroyed by our police. When I got out of jail, I resumed learning as much as I could about cannabinoids and their medical applications. I learned that GW pharmaceuticals had been conducting human trials using a marijuana extract to treat diabetes. They published a one page press release about it 1/22/08. One month after I got out of jail. In March of this year Rick Simpson released his video “Run From the Cure2.” I watched the video and saw something special. For me, it made the video worthy of looking into very closely. Rick Simpson’s video focused on cancer. Nearly as an after thought, the video mentioned this cannabis extract he developed would drive diabetes backward. Some people were able to get off their insulin. This made me take notice. I believe that Rick doesn’t know what he has done. Yes, he was seeking a cure for cancer. And he found a cure for cancer. But I believe he fell into something very very special. And he deserves the Nobel prize for what he found. I believe that Rick Simpson has found a way to supercharge a cannabinoid or cannabinoids to be aggressive cancer killers. He has found the holy grail. We have a cure for cancer. It’s currently in a raw form. But it seems to work. I don’t have a medical degree. I don’t have a chemistry degree. But I’m far from completely naive in the area. There have been scientific hints, about marijuana having anti cancer properties, for decades. Since the late 1990’s there has been an acceleration of research into this area. I believe Rick Simpson has fallen into what they have been searching for. Which is why I believe he deserves the Nobel prize. Rick was arrested in Canada. When he was arrested, Rick was treating as many as 300 people for various illnesses. At his trial he had ten people ready to testify. They came with their doctors and medical records. The courts found that all of their evidence and testimony was irrelevant and refused to listen or look at any of it. The court found him guilty. Of giving away the cure for cancer, free of charge, to anyone that needed it. I spoke to Rick a couple of days ago, for the first time. I found out that the strain, of marijuana, I was working with would work for making his preparation. In fact it was the very strain that Rick worked with most of the time that he was making his cure. In Michigan, there will be a medical marijuana proposal on the November ballot. If passed by Michigan voters, this new law will allow Rick Simpson’s extract to be made by Michigan residents. In small quantities. Enough for one person at a time. Recently there was a poll conducted by a political journal in Lansing. They contacted 600 Michigan voters at random. The poll concluded that only 28% of Michigan voters will vote against the proposal. 67% will vote in favor of it. Only 5% are undecided. That’s in November. People are dying right now. Including Senator Ted Kennedy. I have made a public offer to make some of Rick Simpson’s extract for the Senator. Whether the Senator has heard of the offer or not, I don’t know. However, in the process of making this public offer people have begun to ask me for help. I am now asking for Governor Granholm’s help. I’m asking for legal protections to attempt to cure one or two people in Michigan. These would serve as examples for a proposed treatment for Senator Kennedy. And then, if the Senator wishes, I propose to try to cure the Senator. For the record: I consider myself to be a Christian. A believer. I come from a Pentecostal background. I am not currently affiliated with any Christian group. And, no, Pentecostal’s don’t normally accept marijuana as medicine. I believe one person and God make a majority. I believe one person and God can move mountains. God invented this medicine called marijuana. God established locations within our bodies designed to receive the cannabinoids contained only in marijuana. These locations were only discovered in 2000. The true nature and full extent of this medicine from God has only just begun to be understood. You might expect this of a medicine that God invented. I know a miracle when I see one. And now Governor, it’s in your hands. I can have the first batch of this medicine made and treatment begun within 24 hours. Once I have received the legal protections I need to do the work. Can I get your protection to try to save some lives? Please? The voters of the state of Michigan would allow it. Will you? And President George Bush. Will you also allow this? The people of the United States would allow it. Will you? Will you let me try to save the life of Ted Kennedy? Gersh Avery 734-424-3374 9205 Dexter Chelsea Rd. Dexter MI 48130