Medical Insanity

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I personally do not reccomend any mind altering

substances, including alcohol, for recreational use,

but there does seem to be uses for medical marijuana.

F.

 

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/08/26/medical_insanity.htm

 

August 26, 2004

 

Medical Insanity

 

 

While medical intervention kills hundreds of

thousands every year and children are still injected

with highly toxic mercury-containing vaccines, an

exceedingly safe alternative to drugs and unsurpassed

pain medicine is being suppressed and its users

sentenced to long jail terms. This is one of the great

contradictions in our present health system and in how

we confront the risks of life.

 

The following article based on research done by

Mark Sircus of the International Medical Veritas

Association is bringing many of the threads of these

contradictory policies together to allow us to make up

our mind or at least increase our understanding of the

issues.

 

Sircus does not tell us what to do or what

conclusion to come to, but he certainly has pulled

together much of the data everyone should know...

 

Medical Insanity

International Medical Veritas Association

 

When medical science abandons safe medical

practices for highly dangerous ones we have a serious

situation that we need to look at under a microscope.

When the law protects organizations, people and

corporations that inject, for example, mercury

containing vaccines into newborn infants and children

in the first years of life, a substance that burns

their brain[1], sometimes kills[2], or more frequently

causes autism and many other neurological

disorders[3], we have a huge catastrophic problem that

casts a serious doubt on the sanity of those involved.

When we contrast this horror with another one that

puts people in jail for using a drug fantastically

safer[4], we have a psychological wind shear that

highlights, in no uncertain terms, an until now hidden

mass insanity creating enormous problems for society.

 

Kids who received 100 micrograms of thimerosal

were over ten times more likely to have autism than

the kids who received no mercury containing vaccines.

Dr. Mark Geier

 

The United States government and most medical

organizations will defend to the bitter end the safety

of injecting mercury into little children while

spending vast resources[5] to arrest and imprison up

to 700,000 people a year in the United States alone

for the use of one of the safest drugs in existence[6]

in their war on drugs.[7] According to House of Lords

(UK) Report on Cannabis for Medical Purposes, " no-one

has ever died as a direct and immediate consequence of

recreational or medical use. " [8] That makes marijuana

the safest drug in the world, safer than Bayer Aspirin

when you look at the fact that somewhere between five

hundred to one thousand people die each year in the

United States from aspirin,[9] (and thousands more

from other similar nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory

drugs (NSAIDs). In the United States, more than

100,000 people with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid

arthritis are hospitalized every year for

gastrointestinal problems caused by NSAIDs -- and at

least 16,500 of them die from internal bleeding.[10]

 

Marijuana is the safest therapeutically active

substance known to man, safer than many foods we

commonly consume. DEA Judge Francis L. Young.[11]

 

In contrast we have thimerosal which is fifty

percent mercury by weight. In what was perhaps the

best-kept secret of the 20th century a highly toxic

mercury-based chemical named thimerosal, originally

developed by the Eli Lilly Company, has been used

widely as a preservative in vaccines. " Thimerosal is

one of the most toxic compounds I know of, I can't

think of anything that I know of that is more lethal, "

says Dr. Boyd Haley, Chemistry Chairman Kentucky

University.[xii]

 

This essay is not pro-marijuana. It is about

better medicine and better outcomes for patients,

better quality of life and perhaps the saving of lives

that would otherwise be lost. Marijuana use is a

complex subject and presently there are circulating

highly dangerous forms of it. For example, part of the

current marijuana in the US is nitrogen based -

extremely hallucinogenic and not organic, certainly

not medical grade. This and other highly altered types

of drugs are very addictive, ravage people's homes and

destroy peoples‚ lives.[xiii] Many people can use

drugs recreationally without much of a problem, some

even gain conscious insights and grow. But many more

use them to mask and hide feelings and avoid reality.

When you include Television as an electronic drug we

can begin to see the huge dimension of our present

civilization's need for diversion. What is wrong with

modern society and why people take flight in drugs is

an important subject but one thing should be clear:

 

The 'drug war' is one of the most insane

irrationalities ever prosecuted by medical and other

authorities in the civilized world. Robert Priddy

 

Insanity is an interesting word. The greatest

thing to understand about insanity is that to the

naked eye insanity seems normal. That father who is

abusing his daughter or the priest one of his

choirboys seems normal in almost all other regards.

The rapist or child molester can be president of a

firm, a lawyer, normal college student, or the garbage

man from down the street. It is rare the direct

perception of insanity. You cannot look at a person

and see their insanity. Insane people usually seem and

appear normal. And then they do something that is not

normal at all. Dictionaries basically define insanity

as being a deranged state or unsoundness of mind, lack

of understanding, extreme folly, or something utterly

foolish or unreasonable. Medical insanity is a

psychological disorder that needs definition, needs to

be brought into clear focus to insure that medicine

does not destroy humanity as it is now doing, in ever

increasing numbers, through iatrogenic death and

disease.[xiv]

 

Many of the practices of modern medicine fall

under the shadow of such descriptions but the most

profound and intolerable is the use of mercury in

vaccines and in dental products.[xv] To the vast

majority doctors, nurses and dentists, the use of the

most deadly substance known to man is perfectly normal

and not regarded with appropriate fear or caution.

Only the smallest minority of people is aware of the

clear and present dangers of mercury. Thus the masses

think nothing of protecting their kids from grave

danger, from something unreasonable, foolish, stupid

and cruel; in short, from medical and dental

insanity.[xvi] The phenomena of making safer drugs

illegal while promoting the use of poisonous and

deadly substances represents something strange,

indecent, certainly it's not a scientific or medically

sound idea. Insanity is a strong word that does not

bring up comforting feelings, but it is a word that

serves us well in talking about a subject that on one

end poisons kids and on the other criminalizes

society. Instead of institutions working to better

humanity and resolve some of the deeper problems and

conflicts so many people face; instead of dealing with

public health in a multidimensional creative and

productive way, government and medical institutions

are sponsoring pharmaceutical terrorism and an insane

war on drugs.

 

Our principal reason for recommending that the

law be changed, to make legal the use of cannabis for

medical purposes, is compassionate. The House of Lords

 

Yet the United States Government throws out all

wisdom and compassion and would rather build the

world's biggest jail system and fill them up with

victims and prisoners in its war against drugs. The

U.S. currently houses over 2 million people in its

prisons, more per capita than any other country on the

globe. Up to 60% of those are incarcerated for

non-violent drug offences and an estimated 750,000

children in this country have a parent in prison,

largely as a result of long sentences for drug crimes.

Judges in the United States have dished out millions

of years in prison time to non-violent drug law

violators during this war on drugs. Each inmate costs

the taxpayer about 25,000 dollars a year; thus more

than $30 billion is squandered annually by the

government to fight a drug war that can never be won.

So instead of looking logically at the totally

inappropriate, criminal and cruel use of compounds

like mercury, governments around the world become

obsessed with something incredibly more safe and put

unknown scores in jail for using it. Notable

exceptions are countries like Canada, which is the

first country to legalize the use of medical

marijuana.[xvii]

 

It is difficult to believe that the possession

of an ounce of cocaine or a " street sale " is a more

dangerous or serious offence than the rape of a ten

year old, the burning down of a building occupied by

people, or the killing of another human being while

intending to cause him serious injury. Judge James L.

Oakes United States Court of Appeals

 

In November 1996 the people of California approved

Proposition 215. Under the state law, patients or

their primary caregivers who possess or cultivate

marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a

physician are exempted from federal criminal

prosecution, or so it was hoped. Marijuana has a wide

variety of therapeutic applications that includes

relief from nausea and increase of appetite, reduction

of inner eye pressure in Glaucoma patients, reduction

of muscle spasms; and relief from chronic pain. In

AIDS marijuana can reduce the nausea, vomiting, and

loss of appetite caused by the ailment itself and by

various AIDS medications. In Cancer it can stimulate

the appetite and alleviate nausea and vomiting, which

are common side effects of chemotherapy treatment. And

in Multiple Sclerosis marijuana can limit the muscle

pain and spasticity caused by the disease, as well as

relieving tremor and unsteadiness of gait. It has also

been suggested that Cannabis could be very effective

in treating anorexia.[xviii]

 

Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates

that cannabis is substantially less harmful than

alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue

but as a social and public health issue. Senator

Pierre Claude Nolin Chairman Committee on Illegal

Drugs

 

Recently a government report about the negative

effects of antidepressants in children - suppressed by

the US Food and Drug Administration - has surfaced

indicating that children taking antidepressants were

twice as likely to become suicidal as children taking

placebo. An expert with the FDA's Office of Drug

Safety, Dr Andrew Mosholder, reportedly urged the FDA

to follow the lead of British health authorities by

warning doctors that the risks of the newer

antidepressants might outweigh the benefits when used

in children.[xix] A whole case can be made for

substituting a relatively safe drug like marijuana for

the more toxic drugs offered by doctors and

pharmaceutical giants when it comes to many mental and

emotional problems in adults and children. There is

only one great problem in this. There is no money to

be made from a common weed that anybody with two

thumbs can grow themselves.

 

In June 2001, a jury ordered GlaxoSmithKline, the

maker of Paxil, to pay $6.5 million to the relatives

of Donald Schell, who, two days after starting on the

drug, murdered his wife, his daughter and his

granddaughter before killing himself. Christopher

Pittman, who at 12 years of age killed both his

grandparents, is said to have done so for a reason

beyond the boy's control - a reaction to the

antidepressant Zoloft, a drug he had started taking

for depression not long before the slayings.[xx]

 

Christopher committed the murders while in a

psychotic state induced by Zoloft. Dr. Lanette Atkins

Forensic Psychiatrist

 

" It seems to me if one is going to need to use

drugs, one ought to consider a relatively safe drug,

like marijuana, " said Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. of the

Autism Research Institute.[xxi] Marijuana, the

forbidden medicine, seems to be useful for some people

with adult attention deficit disorder, impulse

disorders and bipolar disorder. Some families have

found marijuana to be nothing short of miraculous.

Some of the symptoms marijuana has ameliorated include

anxiety - even severe anxiety - aggression, panic

disorder, generalized rage, tantrums, property

destruction and self-injurious behavior.[xxii] One

mother commenting on using marijuana for her autistic

child said, " I know it's not the end all answer but

it's been the best answer for the longest time for us

in regards to ALL the other medications. I cannot tell

you how many months we would go on a medication

wondering if it was doing anything, anything at all.

Here we can see the difference in 30-60 minutes

guaranteed. "

 

It boggles my mind to think that our

government officials are spending so much time and

money to obstruct the use of a medication that might

actually help cancer patients tolerate their

chemotherapy, AIDS patients gain a little weight,

glaucoma patients suffer less. Dr. Kate Scannell

 

According to Dr. Rimland, " Clearly, medical

marijuana is not a drug to be administered lightly.

But compare its side effects to the known effects of

Risperdal,[xxiii] which include massive weight gain, a

dramatically increased risk of diabetes, and an

elevated risk of deadly heart problems, as well as a

host of other major and minor problems. Other

psychotropic drugs are no safer, causing symptoms

ranging from debilitating tardive dyskinesia to

life-threatening malignant hyperthermia or sudden

cardiac arrest. Of all drugs, the psychotropic drugs

are among the least useful and most dangerous, and the

benefit/risk profile of medical marijuana seems fairly

benign in comparison. " He continues, " The reports we

are seeing from parents indicate that medical

marijuana often works when no other treatments, drug

or non-drug, have helped " .

 

According to Dr. Lester Grinspoon, " A recent poll

conducted by Medscape, a website directed at health

care providers, 76 percent of physicians and 89

percent of nurses said they thought marijuana should

be available as a medicine. The dramatic change of

view is the result of clinical experience. Doctors and

nurses have seen that for many patients Cannabis is

more useful, less toxic, and less expensive than the

conventional medicines prescribed for diverse

syndromes and symptoms, including multiple sclerosis,

Crohn's disease, migraine headaches, severe nausea and

vomiting, convulsive disorders, the AIDS wasting

syndrome, chronic pain, and many others. " [xxiv]

 

High-ranking government officials in the United

States have referred to the concept of medical

marijuana as a hoax. One might ask why the government

of the United States, the leading oppositional force

to its legalization, clings so tenaciously to its

insular and harmful policy? Dr. Kate Scannell writes

passionately about this issue saying, " I've seen one

too many old men spend their final hours nauseated and

vomiting while their distressed and helpless families

watched. One too many women with cancer who linger,

bone-thin and languid, as their loved ones beg for

" something " to make them feel better. And I, like so

many doctors, have witnessed the therapeutic relief

that many such patients experience after using

marijuana. Their illnesses become less miserable,

their difficult deaths are made more tolerable. And

those reasons explain precisely why the federal

government's relentless attempts to bar patients from

access to medical marijuana constitute both cruel and

unusual crimes against us all. They are wrong-headed

and politically driven obsessions, not compassionate

advisements intended to relieve human suffering. " [xxv]

 

" I live very close to the Clements Unit prison

farm that houses nonviolent drug offenders. On a daily

basis I see these young men, most of them my age and

younger, spending their days working in the fields

harvesting cotton and corn. These men were convicted

of selling drugs to their peers or perhaps caught

bringing drugs across the border from Mexico. Yet the

man that administered my son a lethal cocktail of

vaccinations then refused to pay any attention to the

symptoms of the reaction is still in practice. This

man in essence murdered my son, yet he goes to work in

the morning and sleeps well every night, " wrote

Jennifer Johnson. And she continued with, " My mother

is also a breast cancer survivor. As her daughter I

suffered watching her fight the medication given to

her to combat the disease. Days would go by that she

would cry because of the effects of the chemo. Years

after the cancer has gone into remission the

flashbacks of the chemotherapy is what haunts her. She

remembers the taste in her mouth and the feeling in

the pit of her stomach. I firmly believe that

marijuana would have benefited her in so many ways and

perhaps spared her a lot of the discomfort she had to

deal with. " [xxvi]

 

So why is it people like Bush and Ashcroft and

many others defend criminal laws which are cruel in

their inception? The answer is really simple. They are

defenders of pharmaceutical terrorism, defenders of

companies like Eli Lilly Company which is responsible

for decades of injecting thimerosal/mercury into

infants. Why? Just look at the facts reported recently

by the CBS Sixty Minutes show. " Since 1999, these

legislators have accepted more than a million and a

half dollars in campaign contributions from people

working in the pharmaceutical industry. President Bush

alone has received more than half a million

dollars. " [xxvii]

 

There is a whole group of men who are guilty of

insanity, a crime or great ignorance the world is

blind to. And they will continue to remain culpable

because, like most insane people, the last thing they

will ever become aware of and admit is their own

insanity of purpose, thought, deed and being. Just

look at the fact that the present Secretary of Defense

is responsible almost single-handedly for driving

through the approval of aspartame into the world's

food chain and you will begin to see the dimension of

an inclination toward the chemical rape of humanity.

What you see is a vast madness that has the FDA

approving the most harmful toxic substances and drugs

for public use while holding back and making illegal

the safest most benign and useful substances like

marijuana. And now even vitamins and other health

products are under attack.

 

But this is not the real insanity, not really, not

by a long shot. What is infinitely sadder is the fact

that those who profit, those who drink in the power,

those who are deceiving parents are using the love

that parents have for their children against them.

They are using and manipulating parents‚ love to scare

them into injecting their precious children with the

most dangerous substances known to man while thinking

they are practically saints for doing so. They are

lying to parents and deceiving the world making a

mockery of medical science and modern civilization.

They are conditioning a generation of doctors, nurses

and dentists in a way Rev. Moon could never hope to.

The real madness is that 90 percent or more of the

human race is with them, true believers, caught up in

the madness hook, line and sinker. It does not take a

long stretch of the imagination to see where the

inspiration for the movie the Matrix came from.

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Executive Director

International Medical Veritas Association

http://www.imva.info

http://www.worldpsychology.net

 

 

References:

 

[1] Haley, Boyd. Thimerosal exposure results in

toxic biochemical effects that fit very well with the

biochemical observations seen in autistics. These are

(1) truncated neurons (ethylmercury inhibition of

tubulin polymerization) in brain tissue and (2)

inability to make methyl-B12 (Dr. Deth's work on

thimerosal inhibition of the enzyme methionine

synthetase) and (3) the subsequent decrease in

methylation of cellular constitutents that require

methylation to operate properly.

 

[2] Reported to VAERS from 1999-2002

 

Adverse Reactions Reported Age 0-6

 

DPT 16,544

Flu 419

Hep 13,363

Hib 22,463

MMR 18,680

OPV 22,915

 

Total 94,384

 

 

Hospitalizations reported age 0-6

 

DPT 1,631

Flu 41

Hep 1,840

Hib 3,224

MMR 1,736

OPV 2,868

 

Total 9,604

 

 

Deaths reported age 0-6

 

DPT 394

Flu 11

Hep 642

Hib 843

MMR 110

OPV 866

 

Total 2,866

 

 

As of the end of 2002, the VAERS system contained

244,424 total reports of possible reactions to

vaccines, including 99,145 emergency room visits,

5,149 life-threatening reactions, 27,925

hospitalizations, 5,775 disabilities, and 5,309

deaths[2], according to data compiled by Dr. Mark

Geier, a vaccine researcher in Silver Spring, Md. The

data represents roughly 1 billion doses of vaccines,

according to Geier. Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former

Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug

Administration agrees that such evidence has great

bearing on the entire vaccination question saying,

" There is a great deal of evidence to prove that

immunization of children does more harm than good " .

 

[3] Children's brain development is being impaired

by some of the more than 70,000 human-made chemicals

on the market, says a new report from the World

Wildlife Fund. The report, which surveyed current

research in the field, charges chemicals with such

neurological effects as poor memory, reduced visual

recognition and motor skills, and lower IQ, and cites

U.S. research that ties 10 percent of all

neurobehavioral disorders to chemical exposure. While

it singles out some chemicals by name - particularly

brominated flame-retardants, PCBs, and dioxins - the

report laments that there is little to no safety

information available on most chemicals floating about

in the environment and in households. " In effect, we

are all living in a global chemical experiment of

which we don't know the outcome, " said WWF's Helen

McDade. According to the National Academy of Sciences,

many American children are born every year with brains

damaged by prenatal exposure to methyl mercury

compounds from fossil-fuel and industrial air

pollution. Yet vaccines are of special concern for

their toxic chemicals are injected directly into the

body and some of its components pass directly through

the blood brain barrier to affect the nervous system

especially the brains own immune system cells, the

microglia. Dr. Russell Blaylock, a prominent

neurosurgeon, tells us that, " several things can

activate microglia, including pesticides, MSG,

viruses, mycroplasma, bacteria, stress, aluminum,

mercury, and immune adjuvants. "

 

[4] CBC News Up in smoke? Canada's marijuana law

and the debate over decriminalization. August 20, 2004

The Canadian Medical Association called the health

effects of moderate use of marijuana " minimal. "

 

[5] The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police

has also advocated decriminalization, saying

prosecuting people for small amounts ties up scarce

resources.

 

[6] Grinspoon, Lester MD. WHY WON'T GOVERNMENT LET

US USE MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE? 12/07/2000 Boston Globe

Op/Ed

 

[7] The War on Drugs has so changed societal

conditions that rural counties, which were once places

so safe that people left their doors unlocked, are now

quite dangerous. This war has been nothing short of

disastrous for civilization; it's a war not based on

any kind of sane rationality, no logical reason, no

lines to differentiate between legal and illegal,

between alcohol and lighter drugs like Marijuana. But

in essence, no rationalization justifies what America

is doing to people and their families in the name of

fighting drugs. The U.S. government propaganda about

the " war on drugs " disguises the fact that this is a

war on people. In a civilized society, war is a

response by the government to a military attack from a

hostile power. In a civilized society, the government

does not make war upon its own people.

 

[8] House of Lords Session 1997-98 Science and

Technology - Ninth Report

 

[9] Kimmey, Michael B. Examining the Risk/Benefit

Ratio of Long-term Aspirin Therapy.

 

[10] New England Journal of Medicine: " It has been

estimated conservatively that 16,500 NSAID-related

deaths occur among patients with rheumatoid arthritis

or osteoarthritis every year in the United States.

This figure is similar to the number of deaths from

the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and

considerably greater than the number of deaths from

multiple myeloma, asthma, cervical cancer, or

Hodgkin's disease. If deaths from gastrointestinal

toxic effects from NSAIDs were tabulated separately in

the National Vital Statistics reports, these effects

would constitute the 15th most common cause of death

in the United States. Yet these toxic effects remain

mainly a silent epidemic, with many physicians and

most patients unaware of the magnitude of the problem.

Furthermore the mortality statistics do not include

deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter

NSAIDS. "

 

[11] Source: US Department of Justice, Drug

Enforcement Agency, " In the Matter of Marijuana

Rescheduling Petition, " [Docket #86-22] (September 6,

1988), p. 57. On September 6, 1988, the Drug

Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law

Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: " Marijuana, in its

natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically

active substances known....[T]he provisions of the

[Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the

transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II.

It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for

the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers

and the benefits of this substance. " The DEA's

Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: " In

strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many

foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw

potatoes can result in a toxic response. By

comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough

marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural

form is one of the safest therapeutically active

substances known to man. By any measure of rational

analysis marijuana can be safely used within the

supervised routine of medical care. "

 

[xii] Haley, Boyd. Affidavit of Boyd E Haley,

Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,

University of Kentucky

 

[xiii] Claudia French RN. - " Marijuana in the US

today has greater potency than it used to. I can

confirm this from what I see of the many people

admitted to the hospital where I work. Some of the

people we see in severe depression test positive for

THC, and smoke marijuana on a daily basis. They can't

work, have lost motivation to do anything but smoke

MJ, and it doesn't help their depression. Most have no

desire whatsoever to stop using it or live without it,

and many feel they cannot function on a daily basis

without it. It is very difficult to help someone who

uses it at this level, to stop doing it. Drug agencies

all over the country show very low rates of success in

stopping addictions, to any illegal drug. And it is

frequent that MJ is used in combination with many

other substances. Illegal substance abuse seems to

have become a way of life, and our hospital unit is

frequently filled with at least half of our census of

30 with people needing to detox off drugs or alcohol.

In the past year I have seen this increase

tremendously. It feels like we are becoming a

substance abuse treatment program. But now I'm talking

about any kind of substances, THC, ETOH, crack

cocaine, heroin, opiods (real high admissions on this

one). And these people are the very most violent when

brought in high, and most difficult to help gain

control of themselves. Or many of them are half dead,

for all that they've taken in combination. These are

not statistics, just personal observations over the

years. "

 

[xiv] The number of people in the United States

who die iatrogenic deaths is estimated by Dr. Barbara

Starfield to be approximately 225,000 to 284,000 a

year, which included 106,000 deaths from properly

prescribed medicine. These are considered avoidable

deaths occurring at the hands of doctors in hospitals.

Gary Null Ph.D. and his medical colleagues estimate

the iatrogenic death figures much higher ˆ 786,000 by

including outpatient deaths estimated at 199,000

(noted but not included by Starfield), and other

categories of iatrogenic deaths like malnutrition

perpetuated in hospitals, bedsores and infections -

108,000, 115,000, and 88,000 respectively. The high

end of these numbers represents 6 jumbo jets falling

out of the sky each and every day and that is just for

the population in America.

 

[xv] The dental profession use of mercury based

amalgam dental fillings and the serious damage that

comes from constantly leaking amalgam that spill

vaporous mercury into the oral cavity. We will find

dentists contributing greatly to the mercury poisoning

of the human race through the use of materials, that

when removed from the mouth, are considered highly

dangerous toxic waste by the Environmental Protection

Agency and must be handled in a certain way to protect

dental office personnel from mercury poisoning. Many

dentists know of the dangers of removal and recommend

leaving the amalgams in, believing it is healthier to

maintain toxic waste dumps in human mouths.

 

[xvi] A careful reading of the published medical

research clearly demonstrates that all sensible

concern for published scientific research regarding

the toxicity of mercury has been cast aside exposing

the entire world's population to grave unwarranted

harm. Mercury is a cumulative poison, and used with

other toxic substances in medicine, like aluminium,

antibiotics, and formaldehyde, create lethal and

semi-lethal cocktails that damage human life. As each

year passes scientists in laboratories around the

world are showing that mercury poisoning is creating a

wide swath of iatrogenic disease.

 

[xvii] The Ontario Court of Appeal decided in July

2000 to strike down a federal law prohibiting the

possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana. The

court ruled that banning marijuana for medicinal

purposes violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms. One year later, Canada became the first

country to adopt a system regulating the medicinal use

of marijuana.

 

[xviii] California Health and Safety Code Section

11362.5

 

[xix] Financial Times. Christopher Bowe

 

[xx] New York Times - Boy's Murder Case Entangled

in Fight Over Antidepressant

 

[xxi] Rimland, Bernard. Autism Research Review

International, 2003, Vol. 17, No. 1, page 3

 

[xxii] Autism Organization.

 

[xxiii] Claudia French RN. " It is NOT Risperdal

that is the biggest problem with weight gain and side

effects, from my experience and research. It is

Zyprexa. There is always a sharp increase in weight

and diabetes results. Eli Lilly has embarked on a

terrific campaign to get the FDA to put black box

warnings on ALL the atypical antipsychotics to keep

this blockbuster from fizzling with the information

that is now coming out. While all have some possible

risk of what you are stating, Zyprexa and Clozaril are

the two that are worst, and I have some info on this

if you want it. Deaths from Zyprexa include sudden and

unexplained pancreatic failure, uncontrollable

ketoacidosis, brain edema, etc. Lilly denies all of

this and denies that they knew about it before it's

release. "

 

[xxiv] Grinspoon, Lester. The shifting medical

view on marijuana Boston Globe 8/17/2003 - Editorial /

Opinion Op-ed

 

[xxv] Scannell, Kate. Bush's painful obsession

with medical pot. Oakland Tribune. Oct 26, 2003

 

[xxvi] Johnson, Jennifer. Personal Email - August

22,2004

 

[xxvii] CBS Television 60 Minutes Show - August

23,2004

 

 

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