cannabisnews.com: Its Time To Wake Up and See That Cannabis Can Help Its Time To Wake Up and See That Cannabis Can Help Posted by CN Staff on May 26, 2008 at 13:59:15 PT By Del Snavely Crosby, The Jamestown Sun Source: Jamestown Sun North Dakota -- It is very unfortunate that a prominent senator from such a prominent political family should be stricken with such a life-threatening brain tumor. It is more unfortunate, however, that a real cure has not been found for these types of cancers by now with all of the technology at our disposal. Fifty percent of patients with this type of tumor die within a year and most are dead within three years. It is also very unfortunate that we have suppressed research into the one plant which may be that cure. Research on cannabis (marijuana) has been suppressed in this country for more than 35 years. The only research that was allowed after the Shafer Commission report told President Nixon that marijuana possession should not justify criminalizing the American public, was research to prove it was harmful. Since they couldn’t find anything harmful, they didn’t allow any at all.In the past decade doctors in Spain, Italy and Israel have published dozens of medical research papers, showing that components of cannabis actually stop the growth of cancer tumors and in many cases reduce them to nothing, with no damage to living cells. A human trial has even been conducted on the exact same kind of tumor as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s with great results. This information is readily available on the Internet, yet our government sees fit to continue its war against cannabis and therefore its war on patients.Ted Kennedy may be cured of this brain cancer, but it won’t happen in the United States of America. He would have to “volunteer” for “research” in another country. That makes it a hard decision for a U.S. senator.The most unfortunate thing of all is that we have millions of people in this country who could benefit from this herb we call a drug, yet they will go to jail if they use it. This is a plant that is proven less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, less addictive than caffeine and more beneficial than many, many dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. When will we wake up and learn that Mother Nature will always be kinder to us than we will be to ourselves?Snavely is a member of the Medical Cannabis Association of North Dakota.Complete Title: It’s Time To Wake Up and See That Cannabis Can Help OthersSource: Jamestown Sun (ND)Author: Del Snavely Crosby, The Jamestown SunPublished: Monday, May 26, 2008Copyright: 2008 Forum Communications Co.Contact: kathys jamestownsun.comWebsite: http://www.jamestownsun.comRelated Article:Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life? http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread23950.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #22 posted by paulpeterson on May 28, 2008 at 13:14:46 PT Remember Montell & MS? Remember when Montell Williams announced he had MS and was taking an "experimental European treatment" that helped where nothing else did?Then a year or so later, he was busted in a Detroit airport, with marijuana in his sock or something. That brought him "out of the closet" and now he champions medical marijuana advocacies in various state legislatures.I knew when he couched his "treatment" that worked as an "experimental European" variety, that it was cannabis, and that's that.So watch for Teddy Kennedy to get on a plane, and get outa Bush town, to save his life. In fact, just yesterday, I visited our local Iowa senator's office, Tom Harkin, who gave me a letter a year or so ago, stating quite clearly that "MARINOL" WITH THC IN IT, IS FDA APPROVED (actually, class 3 since '99).And 1/17/07, after I saw a friend dying of brain cancer, at the local hospital, because 6 months earlier, he was too scared to have his doctor call me, about using a legal form of THC to give him a fighting chance, I WAS CRIMINALLY ASSAULTED BY THE CATHOLIC DEACON CHIEF OF POLICE OF STORM LAKE, IOWA, "POPE" MARK PROSSER, when I merely delivered three learned treatises to the city administrator, about how this molecule (the legal form, recall) could stop various cancers-all by MANUEL GUZMAN, OF SPAIN, where Teddy Kennedy should jet set off to the plain, in Spain, where rain falls, and that's that.And by the way, just a month ago, I suggested to a local doctor clinic "administrator", that he have his doctors use this legal pill, to save the life of a local art teacher, that has PANCREATIC CANCER, and I dated her, about 35 years ago, but this clinic boss, REFUSED TO USE THIS LEGAL PILL, BECAUSE HE IS TOO AFRAID OF "POPE" PROSSER, who he thinks might GRAB HIM, if he uses this legal pill, to save lives, and that just stinks, to think that even a legal form of this molecule has such a bad reputation, that doctors are too scared to help save lives with, because POPE PROSSER HAS THESE ITCHY FINGERS, and that's that.And by the way, the DVD of POPE PROSSER GRABBING MY ARMS WAS SANITIZED, AND WIPED RIGHT OUT OF THE FRAME, FROM TWO CAMERA ANGLES, and that is EVIDENCE TAMPERING, but of course, the FBI, local Dept. of Criminal Investigation, US DOJ, local prosecutors, IOWA SUPREME COURT, all WON'T TOUCH THE POLICE, when they commit crimes-THEY ONLY WANT TO PROP UP POPE PROSSER and his Catholic minions of death and disability, to keep some big-daddy-drug-war-complex humming like a hummer, and that's that. I'm done now, and thanks for listening.Good luck, Teddy Kennedy, hope you have the guts to get help, before those Catholics convince you to just go down quietly, eh? PAUL PETERSON, behind enemy lines, out here in Storm Lake, Iowa [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 20:45:28 PT Those kinds of deaths are extra bad.... They are so violent and sort of unexpected... like explosions. We've had some hurricane trouble over the years here in Texas, too.Hurricanes are bad... I tend to think of them a lot as sort of super gigantic tornadoes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 20:32:36 PT Hope My goodness. That's scary stuff. I never was in a tornado but back east we had hurricanes. We were in a bad one named Agnes. There was flooding everywhere. That's one of the reasons we built where we did in Ohio. We never wanted to see a flood again. A man died in Stick's Mom's field. His car was swept away after he tried to cross a small bridge over the creek. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2002/6-20-agnes-revisited.htm [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 20:07:29 PT Attic Fan I don't want to be anywhere near that thing if any flying through the air happens.It seems a person could conceivably be sucked into it if he were near it. I've also done the skittering from one plan to what seems like perhaps a better one when I know one is supposed to be headed towards us and I've gone to the first plan and waited... and it took awhile and a better idea occurred to me while waiting in the first plan. That's probably not good either. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 19:58:36 PT Thank you, Dankhank. That tornado site is very interesting and informative. It would be really nice to have a good storm cellar.FoM... A Plan?I've had many over the years. One was a small closet off a central hall. There is a large attic fan right outside it now! I've been through several tornadoes... but not killer ones... that I know of. Sign flying. Road blocking. Horse and cow flying. Crashing tree limbs. Tumbling stuff. The Eye Thing. Window breaking, black outs, ground shaking, tree lifting out of the ground and blowing across the road, the roof, the porch and yard... and sometimes, house and roof lifting thing, tree breaking, raining, hailing, car lifting, blowing, roaring, howling things. I've heard hideously worse described. One place we lived when I was about eleven, blew away a few years... maybe a couple, after we moved out of it.Plans? I have had many. Many involving fearing for my children and trying to protect them. Bathtub. Under mattresses. Running away from the path of one you knew was coming... a mistake by the way. Hiding under a bridge... a bad plan also... as I understand it. I was never in one bad enough that we vacated a car and lay flat on the ground... which I think might be one plan... when you knew the big one was coming right at you without a doubt.People, as I'm likely inclined to, and have done, probably stay in the car for the sense of some relative protection... and it's like a really bad car wreck.Stay away from tall trucks... they can fall on you.Stay away from glass.My brother was in a really, really bad killer one when he had an office in downtown Fort Worth several years ago. Those great panels of skyscraper glass falling to the ground. It was bad.My son and his wife were in one of the bad glass buster ones in a tall office building in downtown Nashville a few years ago. They had to run down a stair well, several flights of stairs as glass was busting out all around them and stuff was blowing everywhere. I think maybe they were about seven stories up when they knew it was headed towards them. They made it.I was in a very rough one one time coming through Arkansas.I've known people who saw tragic ones and lived through it... they always have a plan and YOU WILL do it if you are anywhere near them. One plan they say, if you're on the road... look for a sturdy looking building. I once worked in what appeared to be a sturdy, fancy, large, rock building. It was a really not any stronger than it had to be building! Thin, light wood stuff and staples and false rock and gravel and tar sprinkled on top!!! People came rushing in off the highway to take shelter there. That was scary. But we made it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 12:23:15 PT DankHank Thank you. That link was very helpful. The weather is weird here today. In the middle of our basement under the main support beam Stick has a very heavy work table. Under that seems like the best place. We have an L shaped basement and the L is in the east. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Dankhank on May 27, 2008 at 12:12:14 PT tornados are tricky ...latest thought is to stay away from chimneys, too, they are unreinforced brick and come down like a straw house ...the best place, as I understand it, is in a small reinforced room, likely an interior closet, or bathroom ... in the tub with a mattress on top.http://www.tornadoproject.com/safety/safety.htm [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 10:57:13 PT Hope Stick and I were talking about where I should go if I think a tornado would be coming and he wasn't here. I told him down in one section of the basement near the chimney. He said NO if a tornado hit the house the woodstove could collapse and fall on me. I decided then the other side of the basement where nothing super heavy is would be best. Stick agreed. We have insurance against tornado damage luckily. Always have a plan of escape. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 10:50:58 PT Hope Do you have a place to go if a tornado touched down? [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 10:45:04 PT Those who were concerned... Thank you very much. I appreciate it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 10:44:06 PT This storm has passed. There was a lot of lightening but the winds and rain were amazingly gentle.It may be part of a squall line or something. I think that's what you call them. Strings of storms. I hear more in the distance... maybe the one that's mostly over and passed us now... or maybe one that's on it's way.It feels electrical around here. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by BGreen on May 27, 2008 at 09:12:24 PT Stay safe, Hope I've had enough of the rain and the tornadoes.One hit just three miles from us a couple of weeks ago. That's way too close, so I know how you're feeling right now.Brother Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 09:04:42 PT Hope I hope nothing bad comes your way. Stay safe. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by Hope on May 27, 2008 at 08:56:42 PT Ooooh. .... Just looked out the window It's way to green and dark here. There is a heavy cloud cover that looks like a tornado could drop out of it any second.It's frightening.Mercy! [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by museman on May 27, 2008 at 08:24:40 PT my sentiments exactly "When will we wake up and learn that Mother Nature will always be kinder to us than we will be to ourselves?"Or just wake up to nature. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by afterburner on May 27, 2008 at 08:10:16 PT Thank God for the doctors in Spain, Italy & Israel "In the past decade doctors in Spain, Italy and Israel have published dozens of medical research papers, showing that components of cannabis actually stop the growth of cancer tumors and in many cases reduce them to nothing, with no damage to living cells."But don't forget -- The U.S. government knew it first -- and they hushed it up:Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74: http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9211.shtml [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 05:54:45 PT The GCW That's good to read. My state has very flat areas but we live in an area with rolling terrain and big trees which help slow up these storms. The storms break up before they cause problems. Flat areas are easy to build a house or a development on but can be dangerous when they pop up. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by The GCW on May 27, 2008 at 05:19:04 PT Those storms... Those storms were in the flat lands out east.I live high where We don't get that kind of rude weather.I was down in Angel Fire, New Mexico for a couple days for the Mountain States Cup MTN bike races though and the weather wasn't bad there either. Muddy and windy but not too bad.I heard the Durango / Silverton area in South West Colorado got 5 - 12" of snow though and they had to cancel some or most of the Iron Horse Classic. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 27, 2008 at 05:13:52 PT John Tyler I agree with you. I really like Ted Kennedy. I want him to live many more years. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by John Tyler on May 26, 2008 at 21:06:21 PT Teddy I think that some of the other Kennedy family members have had considerable cannabis experience and I hope they will prevail upon Teddy to seek out medical treatment in Europe even if it is in secret. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 26, 2008 at 19:25:00 PT The GCW It's good to see you. You had such bad storms out your way I was concerned. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by The GCW on May 26, 2008 at 18:52:12 PT Bull's-eye! Bull's-eye, touch down, home run, score, winner, point, royal flush, hole in one, ringer, slam dunk, goal, on and on. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment