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If there is one area of hemp history we don't have to argue about, it is the question of safety of Cannabis. If this Museum offers one miracle statement it is this: Hemp is safe to use! This was not challenged by the Drug Enforcement Administration in which Judge Young worked. It is not challenged by the Curator who smoked the good stuff, medicinal grade Cannabis/hemp/marijuana daily for thirty years. Wouldn't you celebrate if a senior judge of the DEA said the following about your drug? I'm not against all other drugs, but I am against making the safest recreational drug and safest medicine you can choose illegal, and not able to compete in a genuine free market.

THIS IS THE SENIOR LAW JUDGE OF THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION SPEAKING, AFTER TWO YEARS OF RESEARCH, HEARINGS, AND REPORTS. AND WE ASK THAT THIS RULING BE REFLECTED IN LAW.

Drug Enforcement Administration Ruling:

"...despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death."

Numbers of ANNUAL DEATHS
TOBACCO	400,000+
ALCOHOL	100,000+
CANNABIS (MARIJUANA)	0
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS	7,000
LEGAL MEDICATIONS	100,000

Francis L. Young, Admin. Law Judge, D.E.A. Docket # 86-22, 1988.

In 1980, a culmination of 8 years of lawsuits by National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), led the United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to hold hearing on the rescheduling of marijuana to allow its use as medicine. For six years this process drug on and in 1986 the DEA requested their own Judge Francis L. Young to commence these hearings which lasted two years.

In addition to hearing arguments on the proposed rescheduling of marijuana, it was agreed he would determine: "Whether there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the marijuana plant under medical supervision." His report on safety "shows the following facts to be uncontroverted (unchallenged)." Excerpts from the record include:

3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?

4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects, but marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality.

5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.

6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana=s LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.

8. At present it is "estimated" that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately 0.9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.

9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity.

14. ...marijuana's therapeutic ratio, like its LD-50, is impossible to quantify because it is so high.

16. Marijuana, in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care.

From BACH

Because it is important in so many ways, including AIDS medication, here is more about hemp as a medicine.

"Medical uses of Cannabis hemp/marijuana include treating back pain, asthma, glaucoma (what President Bush had), epilepsy, cancer, muscle spasms, migraines, tumors, stress, depression, and anorexia. It is an antibiotic and expectorant, useful in muscle ointments and to treat arthritis and rheumatism. Hundreds of other therapeutic uses are likely, but hard-to-get permits are required to use it, and the government banned research into medical use of hemp, so millions of people continue to suffer needlessly, and a valuable herbal medicine with minimal side-effects is held hostage by out-of-date laws.

Cannabis users statistically live one or two years longer than non-users. Hemp offers affordable health care for America. Hemp helps children: Medicines based on hemp would be most beneficial to young children, bringing a lifetime of relief and adding years to their lives. Asthma symptoms could be permanently reduced. Hemp eases the symptoms of epilepsy and prevents glaucoma from developing."

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