There have been some early clinical trials of cannabinoids in treating cancer in humans and more studies are planned. While the studies so far have shown that cannabinoids can be safe in treating cancer, they do not show that they help control or cure the disease.

Relying on marijuana alone as treatment while avoiding or delaying conventional medical care for cancer may have serious health consequences.

Possible harms of marijuana
Marijuana can also pose some harms to users. While the most common effect of marijuana is a feeling of euphoria (“high”), it also can lower the user’s control over movement, cause disorientation, and sometimes cause unpleasant thoughts or feelings of anxiety and paranoia.

Smoked marijuana delivers THC and other cannabinoids to the body, but it also delivers harmful substances to users and those close by, including many of the same substances found in tobacco smoke.

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/complementary-and-alternative-medicine/marijuana-and-cancer.html

So you pick one paragraph saying that it might possibly have some potential and ignore all the rest pointing to the known problems. Pay special attention to the part about paranoia. I have no problem with you using it to your heart’s content as long as you don’t hurt others, but there is no reason to not tell the whole story.

David for Paul Harvey

Those who want to believe will believe anything:

Quotation: “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.”

Variations: None known.

Sources consulted: (searching on “hemp” and “smoking”)

Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
Ford Edition
Lipscomb-Bergh Edition (via Google Books)
Status: This statement has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. It appears to be of extremely recent vintage (first noticed online in 2008), and only made its way into print sources as of 2013.1

Consider the words “types,” “some,” “suggest,” “may.”

Then explain how, “Probably useful to some, comfort to some, not a cure for all, kills some quicker,” is wrong.

Many potheads want to blame Hearst for his opposition to marijuana even though he died in 1951 and strongest opposition to it came up in Nixon’s time. Paranoia — a sometimes side effect.

David for sanity

“Makes paper,” as any plant can

“biodegradable plastic” as most plants have resins which can be turned to plastics

“fuel” , which is to say it can be burned

“solvents”, ? Marijuana dissolves things?

lubricants”, which is to say it can produce oils

“industrial and consumer textiles”, as any fiber can

“building materials”, fiberboard for example, as any plant can

“It could end deforestation”, if people stopped using trees — of course, most trees affected are planted for use

“dependence on oil, gas, and coal.” As can wind, solar, nuclear

“It can be grown almost anywhere.” Because plants grow most places

These are just excuses, not wrong for the most part but not really the cure-all implied. Just let the pot-heads toke up as long as they don’t hurt others but don’t expect them to power your car or cure all ills.

David for smokeless cars

If it stopped all cancer growth, no one would ever die of cancer who used marijuana. In fact, though, “exposure to Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), the major psychoactive component in marijuana, can lead to enhanced growth of tumors.”

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/174/6/3281.short

Probably useful to some, comfort to some, not a cure for all, kills some quicker.

David for truth