U.S. Government Covers Up Marijuana Cancer Cure Proof!

Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can destroy
tumors in rats. but that came as no surprise to U.S. health officials
who quickly deep-sixed the report. Drug-war-obsessed federal officials
have known about the cancer-beating properties of pot for more than 25
years and have kept it a secret from the public!

The latest study, released February 2000 was conducted by Dr. Manuel
Guzman of Complutence University in Madrid. In the study, brains of 45
lab rats were injected with a cancer cell, which produced tumors.
Later, a third of the rodents were given shots of tetrahydrocannibanol
(THC), the active chemical in marijuana.

The untreated rats all died within 18 days. But one out of five of
those who'd been given the pot were cured completely and the others
lived twice as long as the drug-free rodents!

Amazingly, a study conducted by Virginia scientists in 1974 yielded the
same results.

"The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds
of cancer in mice, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered,"
the Washington Post reported back on Aug. 18, 1974. "The researchers
found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a
virus-induced leukemia in lab mice and prolonged their lives by as much
as 36 percent."

Despite those results, published in the Journal of National Cancer
Institute, the DEA swooped in and shut down the Virginia study - and all
other marijuana research.

Later, in 1983, the Reagen administration demanded that U.S.
universities destroy all research data on the possible medical benefits
of grass dating back to 1966.

As a result, scientists like Dr. Guzman were unable to find any copies
of the original study and had to reinvent the wheel, according to
journalist Raymond Cushing, who exposed the coverup in a little seen
article on the Internet site www.alternet.com.

"If it turns out that cannabis is the cure for cancer and the government
suppressed this information for 25 years and continues to suppress it.
then the body count alone will make this the biggest holocaust in
recorded history," Cushing writes.


Newshawk: Mama Indica
Pubdate: July 3, 2001
Source: Weekly World News
Contact: letters@weeklyworldnews.com
Website: http://www. weeklyworldnews.com /
Author: Michael Forsyth
Note: This is a sensationalist tabloid.
Photo: Bearded hippie with sunglasses and hemp necklace puffing on a
joint.
Headline: U.S. government covers up marijuana cancer cure proof!