I’m sure you’ve had friends and/or family die of cancer. I certainly have had friends die of both brain and breast tumours. I came across this report about the US government suppression of evidence that marijuana kills tumours, which, if true, will make me very angry indeed.
Of course because the site promotes the benefits of marijuana, many will be sceptical. But I’ve been sceptical about the arguments of the anti-marijuana lobby for a long time. To paraphrase Shakespeare, methinks they protest too much. When it comes to people suffering and dying I think we’ve an obligation to have an open mind.
For the record, I don’t do cigarettes, marijuana or any other kind of drug bar alcohol - the latter in pathetic moderation these days - and the occasional painkiller. My only real drug is the internet. But when I see people suffering and dying, and what they have to endure as conventional treatment, I have to ask myself what harm a regular puff would do them?
And I haven’t been given a satisfactory answer.
I remember the sheer relief of morphine when I was in hospital. It’s a high, there’s no doubt. although the last time I had it they give it in controlled feeds, not the once off blast from an injection (pity, that). I know from experience it’s highly addictive. Yet a natural substance which is not addictive, or at least not within a million miles as addictive as morphine, is looked on with horror. Why?
Just as architects who design hospitals should be confined to bed in one for a minimum of six weeks, preferably in full-body plaster, politicians who jump to ban beneficial substances should be put through a pain programme for a similar period, and given relief only when they promise to have an open mind. That would change the world for the better really, really fast.
Who knows, we might even find a cure for cancer.
Anyway, judge for yourself.
