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Why don't people open their eyes to medicinal marijuana?

• Why doesn't everyone open their eyes to medicinal marijuana? Many have heard of a theory that marijuana can help fight against cancer and prevent cancer by inhibiting tumor growth but is this true? And if it is, why has it not been exposed? For those who do not know, there was a study done several years ago by Manuel Guzman, a professor at Complutense University in Madrid. Here is the study. "The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor." "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die." Okay so now that I got that out of the way I am going to address some common arguments against this. "Impossible, there has never been studies on humans, just because we can tell something from lab animals does not mean it is true for humans. Show me some real human tests where this is proven." This is actually quite funny because, oh wait I forgot, Marijuana is illegal and we can NOT test it on humans in this country and therefore the study your looking for does not exist until it is legalized or until the government allows testing for it, let alone fund it, but when it does you will see the truth even clearer. "Marijuana causes cancer." Never in the history of this country or the world has there ever been a death ever directly attributed to marijuana. I dare you to go on google and find me an article where marijuana was the direct cause of someones death. It's not possible because no such article exists. The media would be all over it and marijuana would be even more of a problem. There has never been a case of emphysema or brown lung disease ever attributed to marijuana either. One is not at risk at cancer if they only smoke marijuana. *Note that smoking marijuana with tobacco or if it is rolled with a tobacco leaf it is just as bad as using pure tobacco.* "Marijuana kills brain cells." Yea sure it kills brain cells, tumor brain cells. Not your healthy living ones. "While other drugs like alcohol and methamphetamine do kill brain cells marijuana has no such effect. Actually it has been recently proven to cause regeneration of brain cells which in it self was previously though impossible. This myth had some support 30 years ago from some “scientific” studies. These famous examples of junk science forced monkeys to smoke excessive amounts of pot through a gas mask. The researchers actually adminstered 63 joints worth of marijuana in five minutes with no air in between. The monkeys began to atrophy and die after 90 days. It is not really big news that asphyxiation kills brain cells." This is just touching the surface. Marijuana has been linked to help 200 different diseases including HIV, AIDS, Glaucoma, Chronic pain and Multiple Sclerosis. So now your probably scratching your head now thinking there is no way any of this is true because your thinking why would the government hide the cure for cancer if it was true. There's an easy answer for that, its called NATURAL. Why would the government want houses around America growing their own medicine and cancer treatment with the expense of a few seeds? Maybe because the drug industry is the most profitable industry in the world at an about 250 billion dollars per year. The plant would put pain killers out of the market and hundreds of other drugs. Chemotherapy would even become less profitable because marijuana is chemotherapy in itself. Who's making money off these drugs and treatments? The government, hospitals, drug companies, etc. It's a huge business and medicinal marijuana would put this business at risk. So there you have it, cold hard facts about Marijuana that will hopefully open your eyes. Spread this, spread it to your family members, spread it to your co-workers. All we need is 50% of congress + 1 human being. Why should we put this useful plant to waste that our creator put on this planet and has been used for thousands of years? It is stupid and illogical that the cure for cancer is a bill away and we are trying to extinguish it from the earth.

• Answer:

  Psychologically speaking human beings tend to operate under three rules: 1) We like to be right. 2) We like to be liked. 3) We like to feel free. The ideas that prevail today's society tend to be explained by these three rules. Firstly, we like to be right. This means that it is difficult to change a person's mind because to confront their beliefs is to confront their world view. it is extremely difficult to do something as concede an argument or change a major. Imagine then that you are told to completely change how you see something that is deemed important either by society, family or yourself. We have been indoctrinated with the view of Marijuana as a "gateway drug" or that it is just as bad as heroine or cocaine. When confronted with the fact that the physical and psychological effects are completely different, prejudices tend to get in the way and can actually have the effect of shutting down the brain to any new information. Second, we like to be liked. Marijuana is still a controversial issue because people still make it a controversial issue. It takes courage to go against the group. Its a vicious cycle. It will take intense social change to make a difference in the "groupthink" (that's an actual psychological term) that prevails. But social change will not occur until individuals change their minds. But there are a lot of people who will not change their minds until everyone else changes their minds. Thirdly, we like to feel free. It is the genius of media that we can be convinced that we are free to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, both of which can be just as lethal as any other drug; but marijuana is somehow more evil than tobacco and equal to meth...etc. We have the freedom to kill ourselves behind the wheel of a car and to die slowly by lung cancer and to be free of the "horrible" influence of "actual" drugs. Referring to rules one and two, the ideas of freedom come from society and the group at large. As a professor of mine is very fond of saying "Deviance is only deviant if society thinks it is deviant." And unfortunately society thinks marijuana is deviant.