No other completely non-lethal substance has ever been so maligned. This country's puritanistic attitude is way out of hand--just because it can be used to give people a buzz doesn't make it a worse threat than perfectly legal nicotine. Legalize, tax, and control the substance, and there will be far fewer problems from it than from alcohol. Air is a gateway drug. In comparison with cigarettes, pot is virtually harmless. The failure (for purely political reasons) to explore its medical uses is what is TRULY criminal.

Marijuana is a safe and effective medicine. Throwing people in jail for a harmless herb is criminal. This medicine may be a cure for cancer. This medicine relieves pain. Are there any other questions? Get some sense, prohibtionists!

Your citing of the study,University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health,is interesting to say the least. I’m not sure why you overlooked the information that smoked marijuana shortens the life span of cell growth which is why it helps prevent cancer. The cells don’t live long enough for the cancer to develop. Let’s take this to the next logical step. If the smoked marijuana shortens the cells development then what other consequences might there be to the body? I am not saying that smoked marijuana should be totally disregarded as having some potential medical relief for cancer, but I think we had better follow up with some other studies to see what else happens to the cells now that we know this much. Also, have you looked at what our system in the U.S. uses to make any drug a medicine? There happens to be 8 criteria needing to be met. The reason for these criteria is simply: to make certain that the drug is as safe as possible, and to make certain that the drug does what it says it will do and not a rash of other things which are unknown. I think making a drug a medicine should be left up to the scientists and not the general, layman, voting public.

University of Wisconsin researchers helping to prove Marijuana can treat cancer, not cause it Investigators at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health reported in January 2008 that the administration of cannabinoids halts the spread of a wide range of cancers, including brain cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, pancreatic cancer, and lymphoma. The report noted that cannabis offer significant advantages over standard chemotherapy treatments because the cannabinoids in cannabis are both non-toxic and can uniquely target malignant cells while ignoring healthy ones. The people making money of marijuana prohibition are not much better then the people that made money doing Hitlers dirty work

Just another why for the ignorant pigs to make money and ruin lives of people using something much safer then booze.