After doing a little research on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, I discovered that the “Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle receives more funding from the federal government than any other cancer research facility in the country.” Surprise, surprise.

I also ran across some interesting information on the ‘Center’s’ lobbying efforts in Washington.

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?year=2008&lname=Fred+Hutchinson+Cancer+Research+Center

Now, the ‘study’ starts to make sense. When will our government stop all the lies , propaganda and misinformation from their biased studies? If Obama believes in Science and not Bullshit, he’ll get going on the science.

With over 20 million cannabis users in the US alone, where’s all the cancerous testicles? I’ve been enjoying the herb for nearly 40 years and I’ve still got my boys.

Someone with more recourses than I should be looking into the influence that the Feds had in this ‘study’.

This whole testicular cancer crap reeks of a ‘quid pro quo’.

After doing a little research on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, I discovered that the “Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle receives more funding from the federal government than any other cancer research facility in the country.” Surprise, surprise.

I also ran across some interesting information on the ‘Center’s’ lobbying efforts in Washington.

Now, the ‘study’ starts to make sense. When will our government stop all the lies , propaganda and misinformation from their biased studies?

With over 20 million cannabis users in the US alone, where’s all the cancerous testicles? I’ve been enjoying the herb for nearly 40 years, starting at at age 16, and I’ve still got my boys.

Someone with more recourses than I have, should be looking into the influence that the Feds had in this ‘study’.

Just give me some truth…
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Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc., a drug treatment program for youth that used sleep deprivation, starvation, beatings, denial of basic health needs, sexual assault, deprivation of liberty and speech and psychological torture (Straight, Inc. later became Drug Free America Foundation.

From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.

The Seed was a teen drug rehabilitation chain in Florida in the 1970s. The US Senate accused the program of using North Korean brainwashing methods on American kids. Ambassador Melvin Sembler patterned Straight, Inc. after The Seed.

Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.). Drug Free America Foundation provides education to the public about the dangers of drugs of abuse and efforts of drug pushers to legalize drugs.

Putting Faith In a Social Service Role; Church-Based Providers Freed From Many Rules

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex.- Over the door of one church-based drug treatment center in Houston, a sign printed in foot-high letters announces: “Drug Addiction Is NOT a Disease. It’s a Sin.” At another, clients pass by a poster of an addict in a hospital bed, ripping IV tubes out of his arms and throwing his pills in the garbage. An angel hovers nearby, offering her protection from this plague of prescriptions.

And at a Christian young adult home in Corpus Christi, police recently took the unusual step of arresting a supervisor after teenagers complained that they were beaten and roped to a bed, all in the name of Christian discipline. More arrests are anticipated, authorities say.

Faith-Based Rehabilitation

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(pushing this gossip piece about cancer)

One way forum?

The post lasted a whole 5 minutes…

Censorship is the only way they can debate.
Even with that they shoot themselves in the foot.
I picture drug thugs and worriers all limping.
Like NASCART walking around in left turn circles.
Mumbling reefer mad garbles, squeaking deep inhales.
Horror seeping in, that people might be thinking for themselves.
Developing ideas and doing things against the empire.
This mythology the crazies read, or have read to them in most cases, as fast as the memo’s arrive. Never reaches sane people. They simply drive themselves nuts over what other people may or may not be doing. The trouble is when these religious lemmings gain seats in legislatures and start making laws against intangible demons and hobgoblins. Then the dutiful calvinas dupe the fearful and vulnerable and slaves forced by plea bargains like white elephant sales bartering for their lives and number of days in a cage. To avoid the pixies and fairies. For the sake of the kids? Nursery rhymes can’t physically harm you. The lies that demonized Ganja can’t develop medical conditions before each initiative or election. Symptoms don’t change with political ideologies in the real world. Only in DEAthland.

Where will these self appointed moralists go when they die,
who lie to keep a remedy hidden?
The number that have suffered over their gossip.

Pot Compound Enhances Efficacy Of Anti-Cancer Agents

U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!

Just Spreading More Gossip

may raise, by itself is not definitive, are unsure about the causes, may increase the risk, who had reported, risk appeared to be, researchers said they were not sure what it was about marijuana that may raise the risk. Propaganda?

found this at Jack’s

Flawed study inflates Testicular Cancer-Risk from Marijuana
NowPublic News Coverage
It is important to note that the study did not show a direct link,
it only suggested a possible one.

Teddy Kennedy’s Cannabis Brain Tumor Cure

cancer deaths since 1974 study….
CNc: by dongenero on October 07, 2008

approximately 550,000 cancer deaths per year in the US according to medicalnewstoday

Approximately 6 million cancer deaths per year worldwide according to WHO.

So since that initial finding in 1974 of the effect of cannabis on cancer growth rates, 18,700,000 have died of cancer in the US.

Since 1974, 204,000,000 worldwide have died of cancer.

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage & Dead Monkeys
Jack Herer – Chapter 15

Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew In ’74 by Raymond Cushing

Marijuana Takes on Colon Cancer By Aria Pearson
CN Source: New Scientist August 01, 2008 USA
The chemicals in marijuana could put the brakes on colon cancer, according to new research. That doesn’t mean smoking a joint will help, though, as the chemicals only form part of the process. Raymond DuBois and colleagues at the University of Texas in Houston discovered that a key receptor for cannabinoids, which are found in marijuana, is turned off in most types of human colon cancer.

Virtues’ of Ganja

“There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment – anywhere.”
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Writer

Bong Rips Cure Cancer? By Alex Hoffman

“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind. Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
- Harry J. Anslinger – America’s 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)

Groups Endorsing RxGanja

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
- Ronald Reagan, The New York Times, April 13, 1980

Politics of Pot

“I think we can now say that marijuana does not lead to degeneration, does not affect the brain cells, is not habit-forming, and does not lead to heroin addiction.”
- Dr. James H. Fox (1966)
FDA’s Director of the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

“[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes.”
- New York Times – Newspaper (1933)

The Ganjawar Fraud

“One of the problems that the marijuana-reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in tbe middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
- William F. Buckley

Self Perpetuating Lies

“Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy … and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with ‘scientific support’ … fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. … The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”
William F. Buckley, Jr. RIP
DWR: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

“You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?

“You’re enough of a pro,” Nixon tells Shafer, “to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we’re planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell.”
- Richard Milhouse Nixon

“Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug”
- The Shafer Commission of 1970

It’s not just political propaganda like this that is a problem. These types of stories create real public health scares that often times lead to unforseen collateral damage.

Researchers are VERY quick to say that their research is inconclusive and that more evidence is needed when they lack overwhelming evidence. However, journalists grant a form of validation to the results of these studies, shifting public opinion through information bias.

What studies are published these in major news outlets stem more from political relevance and emotional response rather than the scientific validity of them.

“I tried to locate the link to a show I saw… Moyers? Another PBS show? where some local TV reporters were fired, then sued back, then… because their boss told them to not report on some gross issues of wrong-doing a sponsor, or TV station owner was doing…”

I think you’re referring to a case from Florida in which a pair of investigative reporters were fired from a FOX affiliate for attempting to report on use of Monsanto’s BGH in the state’s dairy industry.

There were suits and counter suits and the upshot of it all was that FOX has the right to broadcast lies and/or withhold broadcasting the truth as they so choose.

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/

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And yes, the timing of this story and its widespread publication are quite fishy. The Phelps story is blowing up in the prohibitionists’ faces and could well prove a catalyst for change. This bullshit non-story is a feeble attempt to stick their finger in the dike. The time for full blown legalization is here and now. There are too many favorable pieces in place for it to not happen. Just like the attempts to quash decriminalization in Massachusetts failed big time, these bogus attempts at PR are doomed to backfire.

BTW – in my FU email to Kelloggs I told them that I refused to purchase any of their products until they restored Phelps’ contract, AND extended to him a VERY PUBLIC APOLOGY.

What a bunch of sanctimonious dumbasses. I predict a 42% drop-off in Pop Tart sales alone.