Fw: SO cure for cancer that the government suppressed

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This subject comes up regularly on the cancer list I to. Yes, it does make me mad because I am tired of living in a society that promotes illness, not good health. The whole subject of any cancer cure that is not shelled out by Big Pharm is taboo here. :-(Cyndi

 

In a message dated 8/18/2007 12:38:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barbara3 writes:

 

Please, read this and see if it will not make you mad.

 

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Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:30 am (PST)U.S. Government RepressedMarijuana-Tumor ResearchMay 31, 2000Title: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74Author: Raymond Cushingwww.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=9257A Spanish medical team's study released in Madrid in February 2000 hasshown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical inmarijuana, destroys tumors in lab rats. These findings, however, arenot news to the U.S. government. A study in Virginia in 1974 yieldedsimilar results but was suppressed by the DEA, and in 1983 theReagan/Bush administration tried to persuade U.S. universities andresearchers to destroy all cannabis research work done between 1966and 1976, including compendiums in libraries.The research was conducted by a medical team led by Dr. Manuel Guzmanof Complutence University in Madrid. In the study, brains of 45 labrats were injected with a cancer cell, which produced tumors. On thetwelfth day of the experiment, 15 of the rats were injected with THCand 15 with Win-55, 212-2, a synthetic compound similar to THC. Theuntreated rats died 12-18 days after the development of the tumors.THC treated rats lived significantly longer than the control group.Although three were unaffected by the THC, nine lived 19-35 days,while tumors were completely eradicated in three others. The ratstreated with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results.In an e-mail interview for this story, the Madrid researcher said hehad heard of the Virginia study, but had never been able to locateliterature on it. "I am aware of the existence of that research. Infact I have attempted many times to obtain the journal article on theoriginal investigation by theses people, but it has provenimpossible," Guzman said. His response wasn't surprising, consideringthat in 1983 the Reagan/Bush administration tried to persuade Americanuniversities and researchers to destroy all 1966/76 cannabis researchwork, including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer. "We knowthat large amounts of information have since disappeared," he says.Guzman provided the title of the work—"Antineoplastic Activity ofCannabinoids," an article in a 1975 Journal of the National CancerInstitute—and author Raymond Cushing obtained a copy at the UC MedicalSchool Library in Davis, California, and faxed it to Madrid. The 1975article does not mention breast cancer tumors, which were featured inthe only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974 study in thelocal section of the Washington Post on August 18, 1974. The headlineread, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," and was followed in part by, "Theactive chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds ofcancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causesrejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team hasdiscovered. The researchers found that THC slowed the growth of lungcancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratorymice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."Drug Enforcement Agency officials shut down the Virginia study and allfurther cannabis research, according to Jack Herer, who reports onthese events in his book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In 1976,President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research andgranted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies.These companies set out—unsuccessfully—to develop synthetic forms ofTHC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."Update by Raymond CushingWhen I was a cub reporter twenty-eight years ago at the daily Advocatein Stamford, Connecticut, my first city editor—a white-haired veteranof the International Herald Tribune named Marian Campbell—told me thatthe cure for cancer was the holy grail of all news stories."Unless they discover the cure for cancer," she would say over theclackety-clack of the manual typewriters, "this paper goes to press ontime."What I found out a quarter-century later is that not even the cure forcancer is a big enough story to crack the Berlin Wall of mediacensorship in this country. Toss in the facts that the cure appears tobe a benign substance that has been illegal for 63 years, and that thegovernment knowingly suppressed evidence of its curative powers 25years, and you get twice the storyæand twice the censorship.I won't name the "investigative journalists" who didn't respond when Isent them this story. I won't list the numerous "progressive"publications that ignored it. I won't describe the forbidding sense ofprofessional isolation I endured in the months I tried to place thestory.Suffice it to say that it's what one would expect in a society thathas criminalized its own young for two generations around the cannabisissue simply because we were told to do so.Thousands of innocent people who are in U.S. prisons for possessing orselling "the cure for cancer" await liberation and reparations.Someday our grandchildren will look back and ask, "What did you do toset the cannabis prisoners free?"Here's what any responsible journalist should be doing:Go to primary sources when evaluating cannabis research. The AP andother news organizations love to elevate "bad science" and suppress"good science" when it comes to cannabis. You have to read theoriginal research articles yourself and make your own judgments.Investigate and report on the war on children that is a majorcomponent of the war on drugs. The marijuana laws are the main toolthe police use to persecute minors. No other policy affects morefamilies in more insidious and devastating ways than cannabisprohibition.Learn about the history of cannabis prohibition and about thepharmaceutical, liquor, and tobacco giants that are behind it. If youdon't know the history of cannabis and hemp prohibition, you're tooignorant to justifiably call yourself a journalist.If it turns out—as my story would seem to indicate—that cannabis isthe cure for cancer and the government suppressed this information for25 years (and continues to suppress it), then the body count alonewill make this the biggest holocaust in recorded history. Virtuallyall federal drug policy makers of both parties since 1975—includinglegislators, presidents and the DEA—will be complicit and criminallyliable.That's why they don't want this story covered.To learn the history of cannabis prohibition, read www.jackherer.com.To read my story, type in the address at the beginning of thissegment.Raymond Cushing: raymondcushing

 

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I suspected that you may know this but members of this group may not that's why I posted it here.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

This subject comes up regularly on the cancer list I to. Yes, it does make me mad because I am tired of living in a society that promotes illness, not good health. The whole subject of any cancer cure that is not shelled out by Big Pharm is taboo here. :-(Cyndi

 

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Thank you for doing that. :-)Cyndi

 

In a message dated 8/18/2007 11:00:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barbara3 writes:

 

I suspected that you may know this but members of this group may not that's why I posted it here.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

This subject comes up regularly on the cancer list I to. Yes, it does make me mad because I am tired of living in a society that promotes illness, not good health. The whole subject of any cancer cure that is not shelled out by Big Pharm is taboo here. :-(Cyndi

 

 

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