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Get your politics out of my science
Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 5:54 PM by NewB  |  2 comments »
     
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Below is taken from NORML:
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You may recall last Wednesday when we pointed out this incredible paragraph on the website of the National Cancer Institute at cancer.gov, on their general information about medical cannabis, touting its antitumoral effects:

   
The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect.

NCI apparently got a talking to from someone, because now that page has been scrubbed of any reference to the direct antitumoral effects of cannabis:

   
The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. Though no relevant surveys of practice patterns exist, it appears that physicians caring for cancer patients who prescribe medicinal Cannabis predominantly do so for symptom management.

See for yourself:

http://blog.norml.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cancer.gov-scrub-small.jpg
clash wrote:
What a joke.  Btw, can we have Mark Emery back yet?  

I watched that documentary you suggested (The Union) and found it useful.  I'm not a pot smoker myself but as someone with a general interest in not being stupid, I found it didn't say a lot that wasn't already known to anyone who knows has any kind of interest in news or politics - at least up here.  Still, my fiancée is somewhat ideologically anti-pot for no real, compelling reason and it forced her to look at the subject in a new light.  Hence the usefulness.  
Posted Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 8:03 AM
Silent wrote:
Get your science out of my politics!
Posted Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 2:36 PM
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