First federal agency to acknowledge medical marijuana removes anti-tumor information from database

[bananas]

Source: The Colorado Independent

Last week, The American Independent was first to report that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) had added a section on medical marijuana to its treatment database, making it the first federal agency to formally recognize marijuana’s medicinal properties. Now, NCI has altered the page, removing any mention of the evidence that marijuana can diminish and even reverse tumor growth.

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Read more: http://coloradoindependent.com/81475/first-federal-agency-to-acknowledge-medical-marijuana-removes-anti-tumor-information-from-database

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[Demoiselle]

1. That's why God made screensavers...right?!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. So, we've finally found something that America will not stand for

The truth.

Everything else is okay, though.

[Blue Owl]

3. Hey I'd take cancer any day

over legalizing a plant of God's own creation.

:sarcasm:

[sulphurdunn]

4. It would be useful to know from whom the order

originated to scrub the refereence and why.

[Uncle Joe]

5. This is not transparency and the dysfunctional, insane "War on Drugs" has gone on for far too long.

Marijuana should be legalized plain and simple, these asinine laws have caused much more misery and heartbreak against the American People than any drug.

Thanks for the thread, bananas.

[markpkessinger]

7. Agreed -- but it's Obama's baby now

He hired a very hard line war on drugs type to head up the DEA, so he has made (yet another) decision to continue the failed policies of his predecessors.

[Tempest]

8. Yeah, because Obama knows what every single government agency is doing

And he knows about every single decision, no matter how minute.

:eyes:

[markpkessinger]

10. He knew who he appointed. n/t

[markpkessinger]

14. I wasn't talking about a single decision...

I was responding to Uncle Joe, who pointed out that the "insane 'War on Drugs' has gone on too long." By appointing a hard line abolitionist as his drug czar, this President has opted to continue that insanity. The decision to remove the information about marijuana's impact on cancerous tumors from a federal database is a predictable by-product of that insanity. Get it?

[Uncle Joe]

13. I agree,

to paraphrase former President Truman "The buck stops with the President."

[JackInGreen]

6. we've thus far

received no reasoning, nor do I think we'll receive any, this is nearly a case of 'Your mother didn't mean to say that now, GO TO YOUR ROOM!'.

[chill_wind]

9. K & R. n/t

[musette_sf]

11. natural VEGF inhibitor. n/t

[playdough]

12. decriminalise

finally at least somethin is moving towards the decriminalisation of marijuana.
and I wasl pretty surprised that California voted against it in the recent referendum thingy