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12. The media is paid to deliver a specific message.
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 06:27 PM
Dec 2013

The advertising dollars from Big Pharma let the media know what the message is regarding marijuana: this substance is a dangerous gateway drug and there has not been a single shred of evidence that it helps with any disease out there.

Never mind that the above is a lie. You can look at medical tracts written by the Chinese from 5,000 years ago and see it helps menstrual cramps.

Or you can look into the various cancers that it is now curing. The depression it is alleviating. The people who would be bi polar except for what it does for them.

Migraine headache sufferers. Asthma sufferers. Relief of pain for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Relief from wasting disease. Some say that marijuana cured them of Diabetes II.

Every day another illness is shown to be cured or helped with by use of marijuana. It is no wonder that Big Pharma wants to have this miracle drug slandered. Especially given that when people unite on the issue, it is legalized, and there is very little in the way of cost. A person can grow their own remedy and leave the Big pharma people and their obscene profits to fall by the wayside.

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