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     inflammatory and neuralgic complaints. 
The "no known medical value" claim looks like yet 
another govt Big Lie. However, as the text continues, 
we can see that cannabis does have an "evil" downside:
     It can produce an exhilarating intoxication... 
     hence its names ... 'increaser of  pleasure,' 
     'cementer of friendship,' etc. [ god forbid ]
Medical Cannabis: the 20th Century
During the 20th century cannabis has been discovered 
to be an effective treatment for many more ailments. 
For example, based on major research, Dr. Van Sim 
concluded that  ``marijuana ... is probably the most 
potent anti-epileptic known to medicine today [8].'' 
More powerful than standard anti-epileptic drugs, 
cannabis totally eliminated epileptic seizures in 
children not responding to legal drug therapies [9]. 
But of course, as our benevolent Drug Czars remind us, 
healing the sick and aiding those who suffer could 
"send the wrong message to children." Let the children
suffer and seizure in silence, just don't kill our
prison proliferating pot prohibition pogrom.
Dr. Robert Hepler, neuro-opthalmologist with the Jules
Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, published a major study 
in the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 
in 1971 demonstrating that cannabis lowers intraocular 
pressure in the eyes [10]. Glaucoma, a leading cause 
of blindness, is a condition in which intraocular 
pressures build up causing optical damage. Cannabis  
has been proven to reduce these pressures far better 
than legal drugs, allowing glaucoma patients to keep 
their vision so long as they use cannabis regularly. 
Several of the eight patients who legally receive 
cannabis from the govt under the compassionate IND 
program do so for the treatment of glaucoma. Yet, 
thanks to cannabis prohibition and the fact that no 
more patients will be allowed into the compassionate 
IND program, most glaucoma patients will be forced by 
law to slowly go blind, all in the name of keeping 
peaceful and productive people in prison.
Research at the Harvard Medical School published in 
the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE [11] demonstrated 
conclusively that cannabis is the most effective anti-
emetic, or anti-nausea, agent available. It has been 
used in this regard to eliminate the violent nausea 
and vomiting experienced by cancer patents undergoing 
chemotherapy. Cancer ward workers have been known to 
turn a blind-eye on cannabis smoking in the hospital.
Based on extensive anecdotal evidence, cannabis, with 
its known appetite-stimulating effects -- described by 
users as "getting the munchies" -- is known to counter 
the "wasting syndrome" of full-blown AIDS. During this 
syndrome an AIDS patient, loosing all appetite, quickly 
loses weight in a free-fall to death.  In case after 
case, AIDS patients have totally reversed their weight 
loss with the use of cannabis, snatching them from the 
quickly closing jaws of death, giving them a powerful 
fighting edge over this devastating disease.
Yet the Department of Health and Human Services, which 
oversees the compassionate IND program, chose to slam 
the door on hope by ending this program after receiving 
a flood of cannabis-access requests from AIDS patients.  
The DEA and other agencies funded studies at the 
Medical College of Virginia looking for evidence that 
cannabis causes health problems.  Instead of finding
problems, the researchers made a breakthrough when 
they discovered in 1975 that cannabis showed powerful 
anti-tumor activity against both benign and malignant 
tumors. The DEA and NIH quickly defunded the studies 
and prohibited any future cannabis/tumor research [3].
In 1988 the DEA's own conservative judge, Francis 
Young, after hearing medical testimony for 15 days 
and reviewing hundreds of DEA and NIDA documents that 
argued against medical cannabis, concluded that [3]: 
  ``Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically 
  active substances know to man.'' 
Nevertheless, even in light of the overwhelming body 
of evidence proving beyond doubt that cannabis is 
medically safe and effective, DEA Director John Lawn 
ignored Judge Young's advice and decreed that cannabis 
remain classified as a Schedule One drug -- extremely 
harmful and useless. This official classification is 
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