Reply #13: did you know a study published in 1974 indicated that cannabis kills cancer cells?

[RainDog]

Project Censored considers it one of the top censored stories of this nation.

http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/

In 1974 researchers learned that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice. But the DEA quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated -- until now.

The Madrid study (the one I mention in the OP - and a later one done with humans by the same research group) marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.

Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.

In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."

Do you know how and why that earlier research was uncovered? That's another interesting part of recent medical history. Someone leaked the paper to an AIDS activist when Ronnie Raygun was telling people with HIV/AIDS that he didn't care if they died. And that's how medical marijuana became part of California culture, as compassionate people helped to provide relief (tho not a cure) to those with this disease. They did this for free. They helped people who were suffering while our govt did nothing.

I find your faith in money-making enterprises incredibly naive.