“Marijuana to be trialled as a pain drug” - Nick O’Malley, Sydney Morning Herald, 2003:
“Legalised cannabis will be prescribed to people suffering from chronic pain or wasting illnesses under a four-year trial to be run by the NSW Health Department. It would include hundreds of people with cancer, HIV, severe or chronic pain, MS-related muscle spasticity, spinal cord injury or nausea caused by chemotherapy.
Options include allowing them to grow a limited number of marijuana plants, but a spokesman for the Special Minister for State, John Della Bosca, said it was more likely cannabis would be prescribed like other medicines.
Announcing the trial in Parliament yesterday, (former) N.S.W. Premier, Bob Carr, said new cannabis derivatives developed by the British company GW Pharmaceuticals, including an inhaler-type spray and a tablet, would be considered. An Office of Medicinal Cannabis will be set up within the Health Department to run the trial and possibly distribute the drugs”.
(……as you can see, it’s now 2008 and the ‘wealth’ dept. has not set up an Office of Medicinal Cannabis - unless it’s behind closed doors where all good mastery and domination policies are written).
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PHOTO: London, U.K. Medical Cannabis Activists petitioning the Government to allow them the right to choose the medication of their choice, the medicine that benefits them.
They are people of all ages, and from all walks of life, who happen to know the medicine that best suits them, as individuals, yet are denied, dismissed, disregarded, debunked and derided for their beliefs.
From the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, Netherlands.
(New Variety of ‘Cannabis’ available: Bediol granulate)
“Since Feb. 2007 a new variety of medicinal cannabis is available (how dare drug lords state that this extracted active and poly-reactive drug combination is medicinal cannabis) called Bediol granulate. Bediol contains approx. 6% dronabinol (synthetic THC) and 7.5% cannabidiol”.
(---well, what do you know! A drug lord has just combined two ingredients that are in perfect balance in Cannabis Indica…. To try and 'improve', for monetary purposes that is, on the original.
True cannabists have always known about the balance between the psychoactive THC and the anti-psychoactive/ anti-psychotic/anti-dysphoriant CBD. However, as I state in this book, nature doesn't want your money, just your respect).
“The Pharmacy selling price is Euros 46.11, incl. tax, for 5 grams”… (of what used to be a natural herb that grew wild, farmed, and in people's gardens for free).
“Bediol has a lower THC value and a high cannabidiol value (CBD). This means that a side effect such as 'getting high' doesn't occur very fast. This allows especially MS-patients to use the medicinal cannabis during daytime”.
(---Meanwhile, true cannabists/cannabis connoisseurs and cannabis herbalists have been hybridising and combining particular breeds of the Cannabis genus since the late 80’s to get the particular balance of CBD and other cannabinoids, combined with the correct level of the active ingredient drug to get the particular action that they need for their particular ailment, illness and/or disorder, without any toxic side effects that stem from tampering and/or chemicalisation).
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Dr. Lester Grinspoon - Prof. at Harvard University, USA. 1996 - “The drug companies are not interested in Cannabis as a medicine, because the plant cannot be patented. If you can’t patent it, you can’t make money on it. Their only interest is a negative one. It will eventually displace some of their pharmaceutical products”.
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National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), Australia tells us on their website that: “Smoked Cannabis is unlikely ever to be prescribed in Australia because a smoked plant will not satisfy the requirements for registration as a ‘therapeutic good’. Registration is required if cannabis is to be medically prescribed”.
(---What this actually means is that even though Cannabis vapour-isation, drinking it as tea, eating it as food or rubbing it on the skin as a topical balm, has existed for thousands of years now, these power and monetary controlled junkies only are of the delusional mentality that “Cannabis must be smoked and as such, you can’t have it”.
Secondly. Their statement of ‘satisfying the requirements for drug cartel registration in the name of therapeutic greed, just so a natural herb can be violated and stolen off the individual, is a criminal act. They believe that they have the right to deny a vital medication that the individual sufferer can grow and procure themselves without being ‘hooked’ into the drug cartel, drug supremacy culture of Pharmaceutical and Political drug supremacy. To prove this……….)
N.D.A.R.C. continues: “This means that any prescribed cannabis products will need to be PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS derived from THC or other cannabinoids. No such drugs are currently registered in Australia”.
“THC (marketed as Marinol) is registered in the U.S. and a synthetic drug Nabilone is registered in Britain. Both are taken orally……”,
(NOTE: so is tea, salad, cookies, cakes etc. but they have no drug cartel domination policy on them, just an eradication policy),
…..“but because they are not well absorbed into the body when taken this way........",
(NOTE: this is why the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission in the 1800’s recommended that medicinal cannabis be consumed as a butter tea, so both fat and water soluble substances can be readily and easily absorbed into the system, unlike Pharmaceutical toxic designer death drugs - see Criteria of Harm…..
…..“they are not popular or widely used by eligible patients”.
This is because the eligible patients have been beneficially applying the natural cannabis herb with the natural levels of THC and other cannabinoids contained within, and do not get the negative side effects that they get with other medications, or with pure active ingredient Tetra hydro cannabinol/THC, which by itself can cause some quite nasty reactive side effects through dysphoria that manifests as ‘psychotic symptoms’.
Drug cartels don’t seem to understand like true Cannabists do, that THC needs the anti-psychoactive/anti-psychotic/anti-dysphoriant, Cannabidiol to balance it. They deal pure Cannabidiol and pure THC, just like any drug lord.
MOST PEOPLE DON‘T WANT IT…so, is there any difference between the buzzword ‘legal’ collective forcing Marinol and Dronabinol etc. onto people instead of the natural Cannabis herb vs a crack cocaine cartel forcing crack cocaine on people who just want to chew coca leaf as a natural medicine, recreation and spiritual agent?
For that matter, one could look at banning oranges in favour of Vitamin C tablets; banning wholegrains in favour of bleached white flour; banning grass in favour of concrete or synthetic grass; banning trees in favour of a hologram stating ‘in memory of a real tree’ (thanks “Simpsons”) and so on and so forth.
Supremacy in favour of monetary and other forms of control is a real destructive force and a cancerous decay to our society, to our medical bodies and beliefs, and to the rights of the individual. But this is what social segregation, discrimination and eradication policies have always been about.
N.D.A.R.C. continued, “These drugs could be registered for medical use in Australia only if a pharmaceutical company applied to have them registered”.
(----Interesting, isn’t it that if a drug cartel is buzzword ‘legal’, it gets called a ‘company’ and not a drug cartel, but other than having two buzzwords separating them, there is no difference. Just another drug cartel vying for supremacy over individual rights).
N.D.A.R.C. - “None have so far applied to do so. In the longer term, the best prospect for the medical use of cannabis lies in the development and registration of new synthetic drugs. This will take some time to complete”.
(---Prospect….. Interesting word to wield. Going back to the Gold Rush times people were prospecting for gold, and in their quest they picked up an illness called ‘Gold fever’. This illness is now manifesting itself again with drug cartels and their politicians stating, “There’s gold in that there plant/herb”. To medical sufferers, however, medical cannabis is worth much more than metal rocks like gold, silver and coin. It is worth much more than any denomination marked down on a piece of paper or plastic. It is invaluable and sacrosanct (“deserving of especial respect and veneration“). 
To coin Johnny Depp in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”. So the question remains, how long do we have to allow the Quest For Silver and Gold to abuse the Quest For Quality of Life?
How long must we allow National Discrimination & Anti-Respect Corporations to stand side by side with drug cartels telling us what we can and can’t derive true benefit from?
The medicine is already there..... You cannot improve on something that has already proven itself. Australia has always had a very simple statement, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. At the moment they are breaking the Cannabis plant race, its culture and its beneficiaries into pieces, while at the same time breaking their so-called laws and policies, like a two by four, over medical and other sufferers backs.
Lyn Nofziger, Republican Political Consultant, (1998 USA) - “Cannabis clearly has medicinal value. Thousands of seriously ill Americans have been able to determine that for themselves, albeit illegally”.
The British House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Report - (stated about medical cannabis and the rights of sufferers). -
“Cannabis can be effective in some patients to relieve the symptoms of M.S. and against certain forms of pain.”
“This evidence is enough to justify a change in the Law….the Government should allow Doctors to prescribe Cannabis for medical use”.
“Patients with severe conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis are being denied the right to make informed choices about their medication.
There is always some risk in taking any medication….but these concerns should not prevent them from having access to what promises to be the only effective medication available to them”.
Dr. Kate Scannell M.D. (2003)
“From working with AIDS and Cancer patients, I repeatedly saw how Cannabis could ameliorate a patient’s debilitating fatigue, restore appetite, diminish pain, remedy nausea, cure vomiting, (it’s an anti-emetic and anti-nauseant), and curtail down to the bone weight loss”.
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“ARE WE EVER GONNA SEE THE FAIR GO AGAIN?” - D. Nentwig (Copyright Jan 2008)
(Parody of ‘Am I ever going to see your face again?” - The Angels)
Here in Australia, they pin our backs to the wall.
This happens yearly, while they ignore our call.
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Vilification, prejudice, Politicians on the move.
They state all sorts of things that they can never prove.
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
We ask to be free and they tell us where to go,
Even though Cannabis helps us,
They deny us our rights to grow.
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
We’ve got to stop these fears that Politicians apply.
‘Cause while they play their sick little games,
Others are forced to suffer and cry.
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
“We want to stop our seizures,
Our nausea and our pain.
We know Cannabis works for us,
So the question still remains…..
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
Are we ever gonna see the ‘fair go’ again?
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Dr. Andrew Weill, M.D. (USA)
“I have seen in my own studies that Cannabis is less toxic than most Pharmaceutical drugs in current use........
(Most? Can someone find us a Pharmaceutical drug that has an active ingredient toxicity ratio of 1:10,000+ and a compound ingredient ratio of 1:40,000?),
.......and is certainly helpful for some patients, including those with wasting syndrome, chronic muscle spasticity, and tractable nausea. As a Physician, I am frustrated that I cannot prescribe Cannabis for patients who might benefit from it. At the very least, I would like to be able to refer them to a safe, reliable quality controlled source”.
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"YOU CAN‘T HAVE HOME-GROWN” (D. Nentwig - copyright Dec. 2007)
(Parody - You are not Alone - Michael Jackson).
Another choice has gone, we’re still all alone,
How could this slavery be, we’re denied our right to be free.
We struggle to survive, can anyone tell me why
Did the Fair Go have to go, replaced by a Political show.
Everyday I think to myself, how was my choice taken away.
With Politicians in my ear yelling -
‘You can’t have home-grown, it’s our drugs you must do.
Though you suffer every day, Our drugs are the only way.
You can’t have home grown, but we can legally poison you,
Though abuse is now an art, we’ll still rip your rights apart.
For we don’t want you to have home grown’.
Just the other night I woke in a fright,
Completely paralysed, a night terror before my eyes.
I live in constant fear of a seizure drawing near,
But herb stops them in their tracks and lessens the other attacks.
So - everyday I think to myself, Why is our medicine stolen away.
Something whispers in my ear, And says that …….
You are not alone, countless thousands are suffering too.
They’re in pain every day, suffering in many different ways.
You are not alone, even though you feel like it sometimes.
When they segregate us apart, I find comfort in my heart.
Knowing….. I am not alone.
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Dr. David Hadorn, M.D.
“A society that can handle codeine over the counter can learn to live with Cannabis”.
Dr. Marian ‘Mollie’ Fry, M.D. (USA)
“I took an oath to do no harm. If a Doctor is willing to give you a prescription for a drug that is addictive or could kill you (or both) then why should you not be able to choose a non-toxic drug like Cannabis”.
Prof. Lester Grinspoon, (Harvard University, USA, 2006)
“There are many thousands of patients who currently use Cannabis as a medicine….there is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity’s oldest medicines used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs”.
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“DIRTY DEEDS DONE FOR DRUGS” (D. Nentwig - copyright 2006)
(Parody of “Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap” by AC/DC)
If you’re sick and/or almost dead,
Here comes a ‘boy’ in blue.
All you wanted was a fair go.
But now they’re hunting you.
Dogged in through the phone,
For a ‘victimless’ crime
Just dial 1800 - Dog in a choice - hey…..
Abuse is a National Pastime.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs
Dirty deeds - give only legals a hug.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
People suffer with ailments and disease
While they rip your rights apart.
They’re in bed with legal drug lords,
That’s where the persecution starts.
Pick up the phone,
Dog in someone for a ‘cone’,
Police make an anti-social call.
They’ll force their way in,
Target you for your sin,
And nail your back to the wall.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs
Dirty deeds - give only legals a hug.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
If you benefit from a natural herb,
They don’t give a damn.
Instead, they hunt you every night and day,
As part of their Master plan.
To eradicate your choice
And silence your voice,
It’s time we made a stand,
Because for a fee,
They’re happy to be
Choice eradicators - man.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs
Dirty deeds - give only legals a hug.
Dirty deeds - done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
Dirty deeds and they’re done for drugs.
Discrimination, Apartheid, Policies - done for drugs.
Prejudice, bigotry, eradication - done for drugs.
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“Our drugs all good, your drugs all bad” and stuff the Criteria of Harm. The Criteria of revenue & Political bias is here. There's an old saying, "Prejudice never shows much reason...any excuse will do". And while drug users, abusers, addicts, pushers and advocators tell us to say no to any drug they don't personally take or agree with, people are being forced to..........suffer in pain.
"SUFFERING IN PAIN" - parody of 'Singing in the Rain'. (D. Nentwig - copyright Feb. 2009)
I’m suffering in pain, just suffering in pain.
It’s not a nice feeling, it drives me insane.
I’m part of a crowd, who the Government likes to shove,
And beat into submission with a black leather glove.
Against my medicine they give chase,
What a legal disgrace.
They only care about pain if we take their toxic waste.
They need to hang their heads in shame,
For while they play their vicious game,
We’re still suffering, suffering in pain.
$34 BILLION per year is the cost burden of chronic pain in Australia. ('Today’s Show' statement, 19th Nov. 2007). We’re now in 2009, more people are in pain, and the cost is ever rising and even more of a burden now that we have cost rising on everything, and an economic crisis to deal with.
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Joseph D. McNamara - Former Police Chief of San Jose & Kansas City, (USA, May 19th 1996)
“We should immediately stop arresting people whose only ’crime’ is possessing small amounts of drugs for their own use. Cannabis should be treated the same as alcohol and cigarettes”. (...even though the drug ethanol - buzzword alcohol - kills 6,000 per year in Australia alone, and the nicotine delivery system - cigarettes - kill upward of 16,000. NOTE: Meanwhile, Cannabis still does not have a single death placed against it of its own volition. Go figure).
Retired Chief of Police Bob Owens, (California, USA - 38 yrs in active Law Enforcement).
"We have squandered billions of dollars and untold numbers of lives addressing a medical and societal problem using the criminal law."
Report of the British Police Foundation, (March 2000)
“By any of the major Criteria of Harm - mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime - Cannabis is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs or than alcohol and tobacco”.
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Former Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, NSW, Australia
“An estimated 70% of incidents attended by Police are alcohol related. Almost 80% of domestic violence and street offences are attributed to alcohol abuse. (From recreational ethanol drug abusers that Australia - and other countries - call ‘revellers’ and ‘party goers’). I believe alcohol is a greater problem, an even greater menace than the illicit drug problem”.
(Yet, the recreational, psychoactive, toxic drug of choice of our Police, Politicians, Law Makers, Teachers, Doctors, Scientists, so-called Anti-Drug Campaigners and pretty much every adult and child in Australia is -------?)
“I don’t diminish the seriousness of the drug problem, but we cannot ignore the huge issue of alcohol”.
(That’s because even though our Politicians don’t want to admit it, the drug ethane hydroxide/ethanol/ethyl alcohol is a drug and not just a ‘drink’, ‘beverage’, ‘coldie’, etc. which is why the true meaning of R.T.D. is Readily Taken Drugs).
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Prof. Alex Wodak, Australia
“We have got to make alcohol as big an issue as heroin”.
Bill Stronach, CEO, Australian Drug Foundation -“For teenagers, alcohol far outweighs the risk of illicit drugs”.
Health Dept. of Australia, 2003 - “Alcohol is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in Australia”.
Mark Panitch, Seattle USA.- “As a Prosecutor and Public Defender, I handled scads of violent crimes, and I estimate that at least 90% of them involved alcohol. I never saw any cannabis users hurt themselves or others except by accident”.
U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.- “Most drug takers begin their drug taking with alcohol or tobacco, and usually at a time when it is illegal to do so”.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter - “Penalties against possession of a drug should be no more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself”.
The reason Politicians and the drug lords that sponsor them don’t believe in this, is because the drugs they advocate and their drug lords create are way more damaging than cannabis i.e. toxicity ratio - the drug ethanol is 4:1 to 20:1 depending on body mass. The drug THC is 10,000 - 20,000:1 depending on body mass. The Cannabis herbal race is 40,000:1 because it is a culinary, edible vegetable and medicinal herb.
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“STAIRWAY TO MEDICATION” (D.Nentwig - copyright 2008)(Parody of “Stairway to Heaven” - Led Zeppelin)
There’s Politicians that know
That sufferers want their rights to grow,
Yet they’re buying a stairway to medication.
They push their drugs legally,
While they eradicate ours freely,
With a word they declare Un-Civil War.
And they’re buying a stairway to medication.
There’s a plaque on the wall
Stating ‘A Fair Go for all’,
But these words are now simply deceiving.
They don’t care if you’re ‘crook’
Just to their own drugs they cling,
For this crime they just can’t be forgiven.
Ooooooh, and it makes us wonder.
Ooooooh, and it makes us wonder.
We suffer from pain and disease
But still they put us ill at ease,
While the earth’s children still cry for freedom.
Yes, the truth must be told
That human rights are bought and sold,
And the choices of the free have been denied them.
(Bridge)
Why is it that control and wealth
Get put before public health
With Politicians not listening to reason.
Their drugs continue to fail,
With side effects and deaths entailed,
Creating one hell of a toxic disaster.
(Bridge 2:)
(solo)
And while they force their toxic load
They tell our herbs to hit the road,
They deny a ‘lady’ we all know
Called Mary Jane, who just wants to grow
As Indica or Malawi Gold,
This prejudice is getting old,
Social segregation from the past,
We need the right of self-control.
….yet, they’re still buying a stairway to medication.
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The above parody is dedicated to our W(health) Ministers (both Federal and State), W(health) Departments and W(health) Industries, as well as to the Disability Advocates of Australia who are happy to advocate toxic drugs that can kill you, but treat you like a leper if you want the medication that benefits you.
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The Question is: WHY should medical sufferers and others who benefit from respectful cannabis application be forced to be continually ‘buying a stairway to medication’ when their chosen medicine grows for free at ground level, and we don’t have to climb (by utilising much needed finances that could be otherwise spent on more important things like food and shelter etc) up the financial ‘stairway’ and risk obstacles in our climb like toxic side effects and death.?
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Former U.S. Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders, M.D.
(14th Dec. 2002).
“Tobacco, through its direct physical effects kills many thousands of people every year, so does alcohol. And it’s easy to fatally overdose on alcohol just as you can fatally overdose on prescription drugs, or even Over the Counter drugs, such as aspirin or acetaminophen (a drug lovingly known as Panadol/Paracetamol, Tylenol etc). I don’t believe anyone has ever died from a Cannabis overdose”.
Dr. Leslie Iversen, PhD, USA.
“Cannabis is a safer drug than aspirin, and can be used long term without serious side effects”.
Francis L. Young, DEA Administrative Law Judge. (1988)
“A commonly used over the counter product like aspirin has a therapeutic ratio of around 1:20. Two aspirins are the recommended dose for adult patients. Twenty times this dose, 40 aspirins, may cause a lethal reaction in some patients and will almost certainly cause gross injury to the digestive system….By contrast, Cannabis’s therapeutic ratio…is impossible to quantify because it is so high”.
(On the subject of Designer Death Drugs - drugs designed with death in mind, criteria of harm mortality and toxicity ratio - being forced on us instead of allowing us to use a non-toxic, non-designer death drug medication……..) John Bon Jovi said it best, “It’s this world that makes a killer into a hero”.
Dr. Philip L
eveque M.D. Oregon, USA. (2007)
“Cannabis is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Law allows the use of Cannabis for Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s rage, Glaucoma, chronic pain, chronic nausea, chronic spasms, Multiple Sclerosis and seizures".
Unfortunately, when it comes to a lot of drug funded Government policies to do with wealth, ....oops, sorry.....health, cancer equals drug money, HIV AIDS equals drug money, Altzheimer's rage equals drug money, Glaucoma equals drug money, chronic pain equals $34 BILLION worth of drug money, chronic nausea equals drug money, chronic spasms equals drug money, M.S. equals drug money, and seizures equals drug money, combined with the money having to be forked out to go and see Doctors to buy a pass to score drugs for your ailments.
No wonder Governments tell us to say, "NO!" to any drug they don't particularly like, take, or are sponsored by.
Dr. Leveque continued, " As a retired Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, I accepted this with a grain of salt but when I started seeing patients, I was astonished and pleased that indeed the above conditions were “miraculously” alleviated by the use of medical marijuana.
I was further astonished when I was told by the patients “cannabis is much better than any prescription I have been given". Further questioning of patients indicated it was better that the morphine-like painkillers, such as Oxycontin, Percodan or Demerol. It was also better than the Valium-like tranquilizers, such as Xanax, and Ambien, etc. and even the anti-depressants, such as Elavil, Trazadone, etc. and the really heavy anti-depressants, such as Prozac, Zoloft, etc.
Another, almost strange, report was that it was preferred to Aspirin and Tylenol, etc. because it worked faster with no stomach or liver damage”.
…..Which is why aside from making money from dealing drugs, why does the Australian Mortality Association (A.M.A.) continue to deny the only drug proven not to kill, proven not to cause dangerous side effects, and proven not to destroy the organs or the stomach or poison the blood etc., as the designer death drug range constantly pushed by the A.M.A. does on a regular basis.
They kill upward of 13,000 a year with their drugs, yet cannabis has still not been reported as having killed in its entire existence of its own volition.
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