Reply #113: 64 million (deaths) question: IF GOVT-FUNDED STUDIES IN '75 SHOWED POT'S ANTI-TUMOR EFFECTS, ...

[Fly by night]

.... than what in the plu-perfect hell would cause us to sit on this information for three decades?

When a potential cancer fighter was at our finger-tips (so to speak)?

THAT is a question for Bob Koehler, Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Keith Olbermann et al to get behind.

WHAT HAVE WE KNOWN AND WHEN DID WE FIRST KNOW IT?

Cannabis prohibition has been in place in this country for less time than the life-span of one old man. If humankind has benefited from the medical uses of cannabis for over 5,000 years of recorded history, can we not (as a nation and a species) decide we made a mistake 70 years ago?

Time to return the Goddess to Her (gentle, useful, respected) place among us.

Support medical marijuana programs in your state (or work to initiate them).

Make medical cannabis re-classification a national Democratic platform "plank" issue in 2008. (Speak up now, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, Mike Gravel et al. Speak now so that we can, once again, hold our peace.)

Hey, a guy can dream, can't he? And he/she can work to make it happen.

I appreciate DU for keeping a steady and open discussion (through regularly-posted 'Greatest" threads) about the need for serious drug reform policy shifts in this country, particularly around medical marijuana. If we never stop fighting, we cannot lose.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.