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For more information on the truth about marijuana go to: http://www.geocities.com/ovidduke.index.html Just go straight to the Ganja page.

These are excerpts from the sites in case you don’t want to open them all:

For Asthma:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...n/tashkin1.htm
After methacholine-induced bronchospasm, placebo marijuana and saline inhalation produced minimal changes in specific airway conductance and thoracic gas volume, whereas 2.0 per cent marijuana and isoproterenol each caused a prompt correction of the bronchospasm and associated hyperinflation. After exercise-induced bronchospasm, placebo marijuana and saline were followed by gradual recovery during 30 to 60 min, whereas 2.0 per cent marijuana and isoproterenol caused an immediate reversal of exercise-induced asthma and hyperinflation.

For Cancer:
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm
…That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974. Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia…
The Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied”… a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."…
…The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodeling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemia, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die."
"But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant."
…On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74." Media coverage since then has been nonexistent, except for a copy of the story on AlterNet.
It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years, yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why?
According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.
Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, families exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.

FOR EMPHYSEMA
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=36
There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments. The primary one is THC…
Medical research indicates that light cannabis smoking might be useful for a majority of mild emphysema victims. It would improve the quality of life for millions of sufferers and extend their life spans.
The U.S. government and DEA (since 1976) say the side effect of being "high" is not acceptable, no matter how many years or lives it saves; even though some 90 million Americans have tried marijuana and 25 to 30 million still smoke marijuana for relaxation, or use it responsibly as a form of daily self-medication, without one single death from overdose-ever!

NOT ONE SINGLE DEATH
http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_9.shtml
ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS
TOBACCO ..................... 400,000
ALCOHOL ..................... 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ...... 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ... 15,000
CAFFEINE ...................... 2,000
ASPIRIN ...................….... 500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0
Source: United States Government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
…Death from a marijuana overdose is impossible. In all of world history, there has never been a single human death attributed to a health problem caused by marijuana.

http://www.jackherer.com/comparison.html
…(Marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non-marijuana using population as a whole. Cancer Study, UCLA; U.S. Funded ($6 million), First & Second Jamaican Studies, 1968 to 1974; Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982; et al. LOWEST TOXICITY 100% of the studies done at dozens of American universities and research facilities show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical history does not record anyone dying from an overdose of marijuana (UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.)…
…At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000-40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
The rest I wish you would read yourselves and understand (that monitoring sites and injecting them with “CANCER KILLS” propaganda) that our government only arrests, lies and stops studies to make billions of dollars for the WAR ON DRUGS, most of which is embezzled.

The sites for the truth:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...n/tashkin1.htm
American Review of Respiratory Disease, Volume 112, 1975.
Effects Of Smoked Marijuana In Experimentally Induced Asthma
By
Donald P. Tashkin, Bertrand J. Shapiro, Y. Enoch Lee, and Charles E. Harper

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm
New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells
By Steve Kubby

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=36
THERAPEUTIC EMPHYSEMA POTENTIAL

http://www.marijuana.reallybites.com...d_cannabis.htm
Cannabis Addiction and Cannabis Dependency (Psychological)

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...is_myth9.shtml
CLAIM #9: MARIJUANA IS AN ADDICTIVE DRUG THE FACTS (versus myth)

http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_9.shtml
United States Government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
http://www.jackherer.com/comparison.html
HOW DANGEROUS IS MARIJUANA COMPARED WITH OTHER
SUBSTANCES? (Has Marijuana ever caused death?)

http://www.jackherer.com/chapter04.html
The Last Days of Legal Cannabis

http://www.jackherer.com/chapter05.html
Marijuana Prohibition

http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis

http://www.jackherer.com/index.html
Link to Chapters to "The Emperor Wears No Clothes"