Thread: Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online

Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online - Toke of the Town

The original language, published to the Web on March 17, had read:

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.

After being changed Monday, it now reads:

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.

Information which acknowledges that marijuana has been used medicinally for thousands of years was left on the site, as were statements regarding cannabinoids and their benefits in ameliorating the side-effects of conventional cancer treatments.


Was Big Pharm behind the changes? Were the pharmaceutical companies protecting their profits derived from harsh and often ineffective chemotherapy?


Do we live in a free, science-based society or one where medical research can be deleted and ignored for political reasons?

I don't understand why the DEA/Feds continue to categorize it as a schedule 1 substance.

Because the governement hates the "brown man" jason...duh...

im just glad to know we live in a society where the great and blessed government can know what is best for us

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Feds Remove Anti-Tumor Cannabis Info After Just Days Online - Toke of the Town

I don't understand why the DEA/Feds continue to categorize it as a schedule 1 substance.

Because it is so powerful and concentrated; unlike cocaine, another schedule 1 narcotic that can cause addiction and overdose in quantities smaller than 1/10th of a gram, marijuana can kill someone if they smoke just half a ton of average strength weed; serious menace.

its all about the all mighty dollar. really the drug companies dont want to lose money. the government cant control it like tobacco. anyone can grow weed anywhere so why go out and buy it and pay a heavy tax on. it then i'm sure there is the Christians in the mix somewhere.

cops dont make policy they just enforce it

actually some if not alot of cops are for legalizing it so they wouldn't have to bother with it and focus on more serious things
LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - Cops Say Legalize Drugs
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thats atleast 3 police cheifs there who support it now i'm not really for or against my personal stand is to do no drugs legal or illegible not counting tobacco and alcohol

I blame MJ for the obesity problem in America, that must be the cause of all these fat and lazy people here....

Wait a minute, they don't all smoke, hmmm, what now?