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  • CRUSH the D.E.A.

  • Slow down Cenk 

  • Wow, more logical contradictions by our beloved all knowing rulers!

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  • It's weird seeing Cenk on MSNBC

  • Yeah man!

  • Marijuana use doesn’t cure cancer, it’s the other way around: CANCER CURE MARIJUANA USE! You get cancer from smoking marijuana & die, & thereby quit smoking pot suddenly.

    (̅_̅_̅_̅м̲̅a̲̅я̲̅i̲̅j̲̅u̲̅a̲na­_̅_̅_()~~ choke... cough... gasp...

    THIS SHIT CAUSES DEATH!

  • @JailPotheadsForLife either your getting paid to say these comments, or your just plain obsessed with ruining other people's life, you my friend area piece of shit, rot in hell

  • @JailPotheadsForLife say one thing that is wrong with marijuana use.

  • @iEditYours Your urge to rape little children after using pot.

  • @randoms71 pedophile

  • @iEditYours schizophrenia

  • @iEditYours the only thing dangerous about marijuana is getting aressted for it

  • @youngatnaruto 50,000 dead Mexicans would probably disagree.

  • @thereinliestherib legalizing marijuana would put the mexican drug cartels out of business..and the most dangerous thing about marijuana is getting aressted for it

  • @youngatnaruto And are you an economist? Do you own a business? Do you have any credible evidence to support your claim, or are you just another crazy jackass?

  • @thereinliestherib im a crazy jackass for what reasons

    marijuana cant kill...mean while alchol,cigarettes,tobacoo

    contribute to thousands of death per year matter fact more people die each year from drinking caffeine...than any one has from marijuana..and thats a fact

  • @youngatnaruto You're acknowledging the faults of alcohol, tobacco, etc., which by implication means the same apply to pot. The fact that there are always greater evils hardly validates some behavior. Its not okay to murder just because serial murder is worse. All I'm getting at is the absurd propaganda which says that pot smoking occurs in some social or economic vacuum, which it clearly doesn't.

  • @thereinliestherib all im talking about is this ant i marijuana propaganda

    and have you ever treid weed

  • @youngatnaruto Its complete propaganda. The media constantly reports about how legalization will cause unicorns to fly out of my butt, but they never offer any evidence to back up their legalization claims. It's ridiculous. And yes--I've smoked, and nearly everyone I know smokes/deals. That makes me a huge a-hole for my position, but its based on REALITY. Out of curiosity, how old are you?

  • @thereinliestherib 50,000 dead Mexicans due to the war on drugs. Not Marijuana itself. It doesn't take a genius to realize prohibition creates a crime which creates powerful cartels, gangs and violence.

  • @JailPotheadsForLife there literally hasnt been one case of any marijuana user (strictly kush) dieing of cancer, heavy or not, you dont know what the fuck you talkin bout, this same mother fuckers prolly drinking liquor smoking cigs, missing out on the best experience in the world, just cuz its illegal, STAY BLAAAAZED !!!!

  • @randoms71 Hahahaaaaaaa!! It's mouthy, irresponsible, immature little boys like you who are the biggest impedment to pot being legalized. Right out of Wayne's World. Keep up the good work - keep acting like a "cool" 15 year old when it comes to smoking pot.

  • @JailPotheadsForLife you must be workin for the government no one against bud this much, cuz there is NO reason to be, i dont even know why your spreading your lies on a video thats saying your wrong anyway. and i would prefer it to stay illegal, cops dont give a fuck where i live and if they sold chron in stores they'd prolly posion it like they do tobacco. and your getting your info off waynes world ehh ? funny your spittin facts like your a fucking expert on the topic, your dumb

  • @randoms71 Sorry, man, but I don't talk to convicted pedophiles like you...

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  • @randoms71 well said. 0 people have died directly because of weed, the government never mention that, but just make up things like "it can increase risk" bullshit like that. its so hypocritical how alcohol kills thousands every year yet nobody has died from weed.

  • @hiphopismydrug1 thats what im sayin bro, people look down on you just cuz your doin shit thats illegal buts 20x better for you then eatin mcdonalds, it makes no sense to me, but i know my truth so im stayin blazed for the rest of life, and i strongly urge the rest of the world too. NO CIGS THO !

  • @randoms71 me too brother. and this is coming from someone who is going to be in the career of personal trainer personal coach for health facilities. and i smoke all the time and play Skyrm.

  • @JailPotheadsForLife wowi love your troll name

  • Marijuana does have carcinogenic stuff in it, which is bad cause it causes cancer just like tobacco but the difference is that you can eat it or vaporize it, dont get me wrong, im a heavy pot smoker but im saving for a vape :)

  • Come on Bud could end the recession.

  • Fascist Corporatism has nothing to do with what is right, smart, or save the country money.. Fascist Corporatism has only to do with Corporate Profit.. Pharmacy Corporations are in business now and medical marijuana would hurt profits.. it is that simple it is that true..

  • wwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddd­ddddd

  • I love marijuana, but it is not good for bodybuilding. If you smoke it(like most people do) it causes your body to have less oxygen in the blood.

    No biggie for some, but athletes might want to think about that. Other than that and "the munchies)(which is healthy food for me), it's HARMLESS!

  • "What that smell?" It's the smell of freedom.....

  • @peterpotpie Oh no, that's just the Sour Diesel I just harvested. I didn't know you could smell it all the way over there!

    I guess my neighbors don't mind ; )

  • legalize the green!

    

  • the 18 people who disliked this obviously dont like truth lol you lames

  • @shahoon. Portugal or Spain there is a good scene

  • 18 morons dislike rofl

    GO take your Oxycontin (heroin pills) for pain, while smarter people take less intoxicating less addictive, and less dangerous alternative while you 18 morons believe the government that marijuana is more dangerous than cocaine and meth... How is it possible to be so stupid?

  • Who the fuck hired this idiot. He can't even talk correct like.

  • yeah isn't it fucking funny that that thing that we all HAD in the 60 was made illegal... and now it turns out its good for you? hahaha i can't believe it hahahah its so fucking funny... NO ITS NOT!!!! GIVE ME MY POT I COULD HAVE BEEN HIGH THESE LAST 5 DECADES!!!

  • I agree

  • Yeo mama

  • who would dislike this?

  • @Arielblue721 A DEA agent ...

  • What happend to Mr. Cenk on MSNBC? He reported well earlier this year.

  • STONERS REEAD THIS .. weed has a big roll in our history. tobacco and alcohol are more dangerous than weed, yet their legal. Theres millions of people in the U.S.A alone that want weed legalized. The government was mad so that IT WAS THE WAY THE PEOPLE WANTED IT!...... COPY AND PASTE THIS ON ALL THE VIDEOS YOU SEE TO GET MORE AND MORE PEOPLE TO SEE IT AND GET THE PUBLIC EYE

    (LIKE TO KEEP IT UP)

  • @carlos420mj I'de rather keep weed cheap and non taxed, because then it would skyrocket in price. umad?

  • Apparently according to the feds, this is a lie. haaa what gvt sacks of crap.

  • 18 people love being lied to. 

  • Soon BIG Pharma, Seed Sellers & Oil Makers will be flipping burgers :)

    "Cannabis Science is involved with a group of wonderful people including the government of Thailand and we're going to be setting up cannabis-based health clinics for health tourism in Thailand. For people to go and get what they need in a responsible fashion with appropriate quality control and come away from a cannabis vacation healthier and less expensive."

    Dr. Melamede, President & CEO, Cannabis Science

  • @EssiacHempLaetrile I wanna relocate to a country where I can plant and smoke freely, where do u suggest I go? Amsterdam is too expensive and currently they are looking at not giving foreigners. I'm stuck and don't know where to go! Is Thailand the place?

  • @EssiacHempLaetrile You must be smokin some good cheet mane.lol

    That'll NEVER happen. They make too much money off of illegal marijuana. Just grow stealth and stay on the dee low...

  • @BarefootArizona :)

    FOR SALE Rick Simpson's Cancer Cure ALL Hemp Oil

    "Cannabis Science Releases First Cannabis-Extract-Based Formulation Available Now at Cannabis Therapeutics, 957 E. Fillmore St, Colorado Springs, Colorado ☏ (719) 633-7124"

    Dr. Melamede, President & CEO, Cannabis Science

  • @EssiacHempLaetrile Send me some please.

  • @BarefootArizona Here's a second location you can walk to :)

    Marisol Therapeutics, 922 Kimble Drive, Pueblo West, Colorado ☏ (719) 547-4000

  • @EssiacHempLaetrile It is rather unfortunate that west is still trying to come to cope with marijuana in medicine. Hinduism is the only religion which thought use of medical marijuana for 4000 years.

  • @akapbhan "Hindus once called the 'food of gods' or as we know it today, Cannabis. Although the first known use of Cannabis goes back about 5000 years."

    Akshat Rathi, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry

  • Why are people still calling marijuana a drug?

  • @WestSideCoolidge why do you think it isn't?

  • @megasword33

    I don't know, maybe because it doesn't kill you? An argument you've heard before, but still worth noting, is that Alcohol can kill you. That's not considered a drug. Marijuana is a narcotic, it fiddles with your brain and nervous system, like... Serotonin medicine... or Norepinephrine.. those things aren't considered "drugs".

  • @sgthobbes2 yes they are lol. do you not get them at drug stores?

  • @megasword33 I get tissues at drug stores, too, that doesn't make tissues a drug?

  • @sgthobbes2 do you ingest your tissues?

  • @megasword33

    No, but I ingest my milk, which I can also get at a drug store, which isn't a drug.....

  • @sgthobbes2 Doesn't mik contain hormones? I'm just saying, but I think the debate that sgthobbes2 is trying to make isn't going anywhere.

  • @zekdom okay, WATER; if we're going to be like that, WATER contains H2O, you get it at a drug store; NOT A DRUG.

  • @sgthobbes2 Doesn't flavored water contain aspartame? I'm just messing with you :D

  • @zekdom

    smh... xD

  • @sgthobbes2 regardless, seratonin medicine and norepinephrine are indeed considered drugs

  • @WestSideCoolidge Because, the cannabinoids are chemical compounds that activate, modulate, and/or antagonize psychoactive receptors in our brains. Thus, producing physiological effects, which is what drugs do.

  • Maybe the NCI can't hide anymore, especially after the Yale study a few months ago, that proved that marijuana ACTUALLY stimulates brain cells, not destroys! People are waking up and the NCI and FDA are going to be upset with all the money they are going to lose. If marijuana was legal, hundreds of GOVT drugs would be out of business! There would be no need, and people would save money, because you could grow the plant in your house. And there should be no need for regulation, it's safe.

  • @stephen2152002 I remember the Journal of Clinical Investigation 2005 and the Cell Communication & Signalling Journal 2010 stating that HU-210 and CBD(cannabidiol) promoting neurogenesis. I wonder if Yale used plant-derived CBD? Could you show me the link for that Yale study?

  • driving should be prohibited for virgin lungs.

  • It shows signs of specifically killing Ling Cancer cells and Herpes virus so you can not make it legal until Big Pharma patents it... gotta make a profit on death and misery...

  • huh a "drug" that has major medical effects helps people with all sorts of problems and its side effects are what? sleepyness hunger short term memory loss and a relative good mood. oh but you smoke it so its bad for your lungs, well tabaco is legal and its even worst for you then marijuana. and besides you dont have to smoke it you can cook it into your foods and guess what eat it and have the same effect. so someone pleese tell me how this is worst for you the the petroleum fertilizer's we use

  • All previous and present presidents should be put in Jail for not authorizing the use of Marijuana all these years, many lives could have been saved.

  • @zekdom Sure, big deal, potheads! You'll never get your way. Just come to terms with that, and have a nice day...

  • Watch: "The Union" (available free on Google Video), "Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century - Andrew Weil M.D." "Hemp - One Plant Can Save Us All" "Weed and Driving" "Dr. Lester Grinspoon After Testifying at MA State House on Marijuana Legalization" "Julie Holland, MD discusses The Pot Book" "History of Weed" "THC effects on Tumor Brain Cells, Normal Brain Cells" "Marijuana is EXTREMELY dangerous!" "How to Respond When Kids Smoke Pot?" "Terence McKenna - Discussion on Cannabis"

  • The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. - Carl Sagan

    The criminalization of the world's most useful and versatile plant, Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana/Ganja, was Unconstitutional ... a crime against humanity and nature. ~ DNA

    “Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” - Bob Marley

  • It appears that Huboons is a truly ignorant person...What a insipid way to represent the ignorant conservative. Well, at least there are conservatives out there that support marijuana for medicinal use. As a conservative, I shall fight to decriminalize a sublime tradition that shouldn't have been criminalized to begin with!

  • @zekdom "Well, at least there are conservatives out there that support marijuana for medicinal use" Who opposes that? Not me. You have not been actually reading my posts.

  • @Huboons I have, and they defintely don't appear to be pro any psychedelic. Unless, in your opinion, the medicinal and recreational marijuana are in different categories. Which is normal, and a lot of people support medical, plant-based marijuana. However, their opinions differ when it comes to recreational use.

  • Our Government Is One huge Hypocrite. Hypocrite States of America

  • Haha and alcohol and cigarettes are ok lol have the government show me health benefits from booze and cigs ? I think our government is full of hypocrites.

  • marijuana has helped me i had a cancer a few years back i sure did kick its ass lol anyways to the point i didnt have much pain when i was prescribed it this is right it does have benefits i even forgot i had cancer until i went in either for radiation or chemo therpy but i survived cancer it did help me through and some help from the good lord it should be legalized MEDICALLY 50 state bc of the benefits it does have....also i do not frown upon the users that do it to get high i do once inawhile

  • @ecwaufisxtreme

    Wrong. Pot helps prevent cancer (TFC promotes healthy cell growth) and there's proof that it does not kill brain cells and actually stimulates brain activity (Thus why it is beneficial to MS patients). Pot, also makes people less violent and one under the influence will less likely steal, or break many of God's laws.

    Don't listen to the lies. Educate yourself.

  • @sidd0123

    You know the guy on in the right lane driving exactly at the speed limit, paying extra attention not to break any laws? Yea that guy is high on Marijuana.

    You know the other guy in the fast lane going 20 miles over the speed limit, weaving all over the street, breaking all the street laws? That guy is drunk.

  • @ParadoxEcho

    Ever hear of the munchies? Com'on everyone knows that marijuana increases appetite. You don't have to be a doctor to point out the obvious.

    And I've never experienced any hallucination while high on MJ....stop the ignorance, please people

  • @glurp1er

    You have no idea what you're talking about. Marijuana is PROVEN to be one of the BEST medications out there. Stop being ignorant! Educate yourself!

  • @MDIGENNARO

    You seem to be an idiot...

    I live in a country where marijuana is tolerated.

    I probably have smoked more and better quality herb than you ever did.

    I probably know more people who smoke than you do.

    In english, you use the same word for "medicinal drug" and "recreational drug", that's why you are confused.

    Marijuana is a drug people use for fun, and ignoring the side effect (breath and memory lost, for example) pretending that it's a miraculous medecine is idiotic and dangerous.

  • @glurp1er

    I speak from experience...I don't ASSume like you do.

    I live in Seattle and have access to some of the best strains in the world and have smoked, vaporized, and ingested Cannabis for for over 20 years.

    I am most definitely not confused. Marijuana is a lot of fun, no doubt, but ignoring the FACT this is also one of the most medicinal plants in the world is just plain Ignorance. Nothing miraculous about it....It has been proven and proven again by numerous studies.

  • @glurp1er idiot ur talkin about meth and all the actual drugs

  • this needs to be legal, imagine the whole entire world all high at once and we are all singing "everybody dance now"

  • I can't find this info on they're web. can someone PLEASE send me a link or something? it would help me alot :/

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  • @bjarnihiram They took that comment off of their website...

  • Cannabis HAS been proven to cut tumor growth by 50%. It should be legalized for medical cases and decriminalized for recreational users! No more of this send non-violent people to jail over Marijuana!

  • Rick Simpson's Cancer Cure Hemp Oil (Cannabis extract)

    "THC is Antimitogenic or Antiproliferative (inhibits Cancer cell division), Antiangiogenic (inhibits the growth of new blood vessels in Cancers), Proapototic (encourages old cell death before mutating then leading to Cancers) & Antitumoral (counteracting or preventing the formation of malignant tumors; anticancer). Those appear to be the mechanisms that might account for these Antitumoral effects of THC."

    Dr. Donald Tashkin, UCLA

  • LEGALIZE IT! DECRIMIALIZE IT! THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA LEAVE THE ISSUE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA UP TO THE STATES? SO WHY THE HELL IS THE DEA STILL RAIDING DISPENSARIES? CIGARETTES CAUSES 2 MILLION DOCUMENTED DEATHS WORLDWIDE...MARIJUANA...ZERO DOCUMENTED DEATHS! SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT! follow us @legalizesmoke on twitter, 4/20 tha SMOKETAPE coming soon Reserve ur free copy today!

  • @iamLI3 another benefit of cannabis

  • @jesuistahmid uh , k , i just have no idea what you were talking about there is ._.'.....

  • I guarantee you TYT will not do a single report on this study about pot.

    bmj (.) com/content/342/bmj.d738

  • The direct anti-tumor effects were known in the 70s, the results of that study led Nixon to ban universities from doing further studies on possible benefits of marijuana & finishing ongoing studies & publishing results. It was all privatized & the private companies have (unsuccessfully) tried to derive a synthetic THC that would give the same benefits.

    If medicinal benefits leads to it not being class 1, I certainly get why Nixon did it now.... Bastard.

  • who is really the stoned ones because you got to be high to think you will ever EVER get us to stop smoking weed you need to get your heads out of your assez. p.s. if your going to bitsh about it do the research im like ive done the research and love weed you like someone told me it be bad so weed be bad. by the way if someone ever told me to my face that i advicate being stoned while driving id make sure im 100% sober than run their asses down

  • The National Cancer Institute has now amended its findings and no longer claims marijuana fights or prevents cancer.

  • @ChristianMission Seems you favor the DEA who holds guns to people's heads to make them use heroin pills (Oxycontin) instead of an infinitely safer choice, marijuana for chronic pain..

    You would tell a dying cancer patient to their face take the heroin or take the pain? God forbid you ever have to make that choice, but to impose your choice on others is criminal in my mind.

  • @Pschkqitzsough , Oxycontin may be an opioid but it is not heroin, and marijuana is not the safe, effective alternative its proponents claim. However, the point is the NCI first claimed marijuana can fight/prevent certain cancers but quickly revised its position and now only say it may help with the symptoms of certain illnesses.

  • @ChristianMission We've shown that THC kills cancer cells in petri dishes, test tubes, mice, and humans. There is a reason why the NCI made that statement. Marijuana is a safer alternative than oxycontin is. Patent no. 6630507, as represented by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, states that cannabinoids(like THC and CBD) are antioxidants and neuroprotectants. Also, Robert Mueller(FBI Director), on October 21st, 2010, stated that the FBI has zero records of a pot-related death.

  • @zekdom Marijuana is not harmful at all. That was 1930s propaganda to scare the public. One of many reasons was because industries would have been out of business from hemp. The false claims that marijuana kills brain cells or even kills you is propaganda from a 1950s experiment with apes; these poor animals died of suffocation, from wearing gasmasks, filled wit the smoke, hours a day for 90 days! "Oh the apes are weaker, and one even died! I got it, it's the weed that did it!" What a lie

  • @stephen2152002 Dr. Heath's study was unreliable, indeed. Anslinger and Hearst should've been silenced during their crusade against marijuana. Yellow journalism basically utilized racism as the fuel to brainwash the masses into thinking that marijuana made blacks n' browns rape white women. It's an interesting history. Still, it would be strange for a drug to not have any hazards.

  • @zekdom Anything taken into your digestive tract extensively could be hazardous. If you drink too much water, one can die from over-hydration. The question is, do the risks out weigh the benifits, if you compare a certain drug to other drugs (even ones that are legal). Research has proven all legal drugs are dangerous taken extensively. Ironically, marijuana has been proven safe in comparison. Yet, it is still illegal and it seems the more research they do, the more benefits they find.

  • @stephen2152002 Right on, I agree.

  • @zekdom Everything has some problems to it... Nothing is the magical cure for everything. The only real problems this may cause is a lose of reaction times in older persons who adamantly used cannabis, and perhaps lung issues if you do not exhale as much smoke as possible.

  • @ThaBuddhaBro Yup, everything has problems.

  • @ChristianMission THEY didn't reverse their decision, they were forced to re-write that section and there is an article (probably a few) that expalin EXACTLY what happened, you obviously haven't read them because everything you're saying in false, uninformed, and based on personal opinion which counts for nothing against proven scientific fact.

  • wat a pile of pish if the case is its medicianal then put it on precription so those who need it get it as for the law it is ilegal to sell precription drugs

  • So who are the 14 douche bag conservatives that don't like this? Speak up douche bags! Let Us know why You dislike this, You are all probably uneducated fools and have no information on this subject... All brainwashed by the media and right-winged society..

  • The benefits of this Weed is simply Amazing .

    Grow your own !

  • THIS GUY IS THE BEST

  • expensive colleges that lowers the possibilities for people in the gutter to study so they can get REAL jobs (not at McDonalds).. so what do they do? GO OUT AND HUSTLE... And the government wonders why people sell drugs? TO GET FRESH, wtf do you think?!!?

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  • I Liveee In England , And Cannabis Went From C to B , A being the highest ..

    So Now , Instead Of A Slap On The Wrist Itss Now 7 Years For Possession

  • Lol and you can't be addicted to marijuana. you can want to smoke it because its fun but you can't get addicted. a physical addiction is when your body can't function properly without something. these symptoms are known as withdraws. there is absolutely no withdraws after quitting marijuana. you should learn your facts.

  • @TheSmileyFacedPizza everything is addictive after a while, doesnt matter what the body feels it what the mind wants. That THC is missing for people who feel that their life sucks if they dont get it, which means if they stop its hard to not start after a while. But yeah it has nothing on cigarettes and crack and stuff, I've smoked both cigarettes and that sticky icky... cigarettes are way more addictive

  • @ImDino That's not true bro. Cannabis is only 'addictive' in the sense that, if you like doing it, you're going to see no reason to stop. The body does not develop a dependency on it

  • @arcsouljah You are correct Dino .

  • @arcsouljah thats what i said :P

  • Watch: "The Union" (available free on Google Video), "Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century - Andrew Weil M.D." "Hemp - One Plant Can Save Us All" "Weed and Driving" "Dr. Lester Grinspoon After Testifying at MA State House on Marijuana Legalization" "Julie Holland, MD discusses The Pot Book" "History of Weed" "THC effects on Tumor Brain Cells, Normal Brain Cells" "Marijuana is EXTREMELY dangerous!" "How to Respond When Kids Smoke Pot?" "Terence McKenna - Discussion on Cannabis"
  • Read: "What No One Wants to Know About Marijuana"

    and "Cannabis Rx: Cutting Through the Misinformation" Andrew Weil, M.D., 2010

    "Mr. X by Carl Sagan"

    "rosenlake hempinfo" Hemp (Cannabis sativa) facts

    "NEW BILLION-DOLLAR CROP" Popular Mechanics, February, 1938

    The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse

    Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, March, 1972 (aka the Schaffer report)

    Hugh Downs commentary on Hemp, ABC News, NY, 11/90

    "The Declaration of Evolution"

  • "I think we consume far more dangerous drugs that are legal: cigarette smoking, nicotine and alcohol. I feel they cause much more devastating effects physically. We need to lift the prohibition on marijuana." former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders voicing her support for legalization of marijuana

    Be very careful about locating good or God, right or wrong, legal or illegal, at your favorite level of consciousness. - Timothy Leary

  • March 29, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas) — The cannabinoid dronabinol, which has previously been shown to successfully enhance appetite in chemotherapy patients, may also augment antidepressant treatment in partially responsive mood and anxiety symptoms in older adults who are not cognitively impaired, new research suggests.

  • CENK: READ THIS AT TOKE OF THE TOWN dot COM: Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online

  • “We’re very pleased that NCI, and really NIH, have finally recognized marijuana as a complementary alternative medicine,” said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, which promotes medical marijuana use and research. “That is a significant step forward. But just as importantly, it points to a contradiction in the federal policy on medical marijuana, and it’s a contradiction that needs to be resolved.”

    Feds’ praise..

    By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times

    6pm, Wed, March 30, 2011

  • @Anomki Well, it was really just NCI, a component of the NIH, that made that statement. It wasn't the NIH, so it's not as big of a deal as one would think. It's a step forward, but that's it. We just have to see how it progresses.

  • Medical marijuana advocates said they suspected political pressure forced the change, but considered even the current website language a victory, since NCI still touts the “potential benefits” of cannabis for treatment of symptoms of people living with cancer, such as pain and sleep problems.

  • “The CAM Board lead reviewers realized that the previous wording could have been misinterpreted as being a recommendation for prescribing cannabis, which was not the intent of the board,” the posting said. “In addition, the current evidence for the anti-tumor properties of cannabis is discussed only in the context of laboratory studies and not in research involving human subjects.”

  • The advice is now less supportive, and refers only to symptoms, not to cures: “Though no relevant surveys of practice patterns exist, it appears that physicians caring for cancer patients who prescribe medicinal cannabis predominantly do so for symptom management.”

  • The NIH, had posted a webpage touting the possible benefits of marijuana in fighting cancer tumors. But less than two weeks after it went up, the webpage was altered and the approving words stricken. The updated page deletes this praise for marijuana’s ability to combat cancer.

    “In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal cannabis not only for symptom management, but also for its possible direct anti-tumor effect,” the excised passage read.

  • Legalize Marijuana and Cocaine for both leisure and medical usage both regulated and taxed. STOP THE WAR ON DRUGS BY TAKING AWAY THE CARTELS FUNDS BY LEGALIZING BOTH DRUGS. PERIOD!!!

  • Cenk, now you need a new video to include the NCI 'update' and retraction - a little investigative journalism into this update would be nice too.

  • @theonlykatii -'...NCI 'update' and retraction...'-

    -

    Source ????

  • @hackit12 Source: this won't let me post a link, but you'll find the story at "Toke of the Town" dot com with this headline: Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online

  • Just another example of how liberal collectivists can never be honest about their motivations. Rather than basing the argument for legalization on a the moral principles of self determination and freedom, they pretend that this is all about medical issues or hemp's value as a commodity. What this is really all about is Marijuana is fun and makes you feel good and should need no other sanction beyond that.

  • @Huboons I was supportive of it as a sacrament (as it has been used far before alcohol ever was). At first I thought people were wasting their time using it for fun and recreation, it is much more valuable to humanity at a more fundamental level. When I realized most people can tolerate it once they learn how to be high, I began to see the people's right to have access to this sacrament/medicine/plant. Learn more of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana/Ganja, the world's most useful and versatile plant.

  • @Anomki "sacrament" - this is a horseshit description of being intoxicated. Why do you feel the need to lie to yourself about why you like pot?

  • @Huboons The term sacrament has become a convenient expression for a sign or symbol of a sacred thing, occasion, or event imparting spiritual benefits to participants; and such signs or symbols have been associated with eating, drinking, lustration (ceremonial purification), nuptial intercourse, or ritual techniques regarded as “means of grace” and pledges of a covenant relationship with the sacred order. In this way the material aspects have become the forms of the embodied spiritual reality.

  • @Anomki "The term sacrament has become a convenient expression" That's for damn sure.

  • @Huboons Just like your foul language is a convenient way to express your ignorance and self-limitation. Divine intoxication is really allowing an ego-litic compound or pattern to reveal the essential nature of interdependent co-arising. A true sacrament evokes the golden rule.

  • @Anomki See and I would argue that trying to elevate what is essentially a chemical reaction to spiritual significance you attempt go claim a legitimacy that is beyond discussion. How can it be rationally discussed, its spirituality. You might as well be using phrenological evidence to defend something that does not need any sanction but your desire to participate in its use.

  • @Huboons All it takes is to have the experience. A chemical reaction happens within a field of potentiality. What happens when a person takes an entheogenic plant and practices mindfulness/trance/meditation manifest itself in increased coherence,sensory acuity and cognitive flexibility. The human body and the ecosystem are naturally psychedelic, the place of dreams and sleep made more accessible. Most people's idea of recreation is rather physical based, there's more at play in the subtle.

  • @Anomki You are such a full of it crystal fonder. Minneapolis? That explains a lot. I'm betting all this bullshit earns you money somehow. Yeah, I'll bet you're successful financially. There has a always been a good music scene up there, and I can respect that (Hukser Du, Trip Shakespeare, The Replacements(fuck Prince that James Brown ripoff)). But with good music comes yogurt headed liberals who would just eat this shit right up and pay for the privilege. Yoga chain? Coffeehouse?

  • @Huboons I'm taking it that you are an ignorant(in the real meaning, not meant to be an insult) conservative? Well, I used to be one as well. Now, I'm an informed conservative =)

    You should watch these two videos of mine on Youtube...

    1. "Marijuana: Light the Beacon, not the joint!"

    2. "Marijuana: Fix Bayonets, my fellow scholars!"

  • @zekdom "You should watch these two videos of mine on Youtube" Why?

  • @Huboons To rid yourself of the ignorance. You don't have to though. Enjoy the debate =)