Tom Sawyer
Well-Known Member
Let me preface this opinion piece by saying that I am NOT a journalist, medical doctor or anyone who thinks they are some sort of scholar. My grammar is atrocious. I am NOT a professional at this.
I’m just a poor old smelly firefighter, father and grandfather who’s fighting Renal Cell Carcinoma, prostate issues and a host of other medical issues. Aside from a 50 hour work week I spend most of my off time taking care of an elderly parent, fighting Dallas traffic, and watching Netflix with my dogs. So this commentary is not going to be Pulitzer material. But I have to get this off of my chest.
Late last night I started thinking of all the people who died of cancer and other illnesses never knowing that Cannabis could have saved their lives. It’s those dark, quiet peaceful moments when the whispers of the past can sometimes be heard over the crickets, frogs and the lulling drone of a box fan.
So as I laid back and thought of all the actors that we’ve enjoyed on the silver screen who passed away from cancer and other diseases in the last 70 years, it got me thinking. What if they had been able to use all those cannabis products from the 1900s-1930s?What if, beyond 1937 to current day and along with access to those products, the market had been able to freely research cannabis and its healing properties in an open, legal environment free from government interference?
Think of all the movie stars and famous people who died of cancer and other diseases over the past 70 years like John Wayne and so many others.
Think of all the beautiful children who have died of cancer, epilepsy and other diseases in the past 70 years.
Consider all the deaths from Parkinson’s, AIDS and Altzimers. Then I got angry. Why? They never got the chance to try cannabis.
All because of one, powerful, greedy newspaper publisher and paper industrialist, William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia
William Randolph Hearst, a rich Democrat who mounted a propaganda campaign and Harry Jacob Anslinger, Harry J. Anslinger - Wikipedia, who made a stupid propaganda movie (Tell Your Children, aka, Reefer Madness), to strike fear in the people because Hearst felt his paper industry was being threatened by a plant.
In the link below, you’ll find a documentary where they discuss William Randolph Hearst and his successful propaganda campaign and the prohibition of cannabis. If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, just skip to about the 54:00 mark. But it’s a great documentary. You should watch it all to understand why I got so angry and what we are now fighting for.
In the 1920s, Doctors wrote over 2 million prescriptions Per year for medicines containing cannabis. In 1937 there were at least 28 over the counter preparations made of cannabis. All of it, banned after 1937. Gone. No longer accessible. Soon the European world would pretty much follow in the same footsteps and spread this prohibition on cannabis.
Can I make the argument that cancer has increased since 1937? In a weak effort, Yes. But the bigger question is can I prove this increase is due to cannabis being removed from our diets and choices of medicine in 1937? Probably not. There are too many other variables to consider. But we should be highly suspicious. Could those that did die of cancer have been able to have a better fighting chance to survive their illness? Contemplate the fact that any research on this subject that reflects positively on cannabis seeming to be very difficult to dig up makes me even more suspicious. Richard Nixon destroyed a study that he personally asked for because it did not meet his personal agenda.
The powerful rich Newspaper man lies. He mounts a propaganda campaign. The government covers up and lies. The medical and Pharma community covers up and lies. Our education system lies and has their own little propaganda to teach.
So it’s no surprise that any statistics that would indicate that the absence of cannabis products in our daily diets may have also been a contributing factor that caused cancer cases to begin to rise significantly after 1937. Then you factor in the industrial chemicals, substances that are proven to be carcinogenic to humans during this industrial revolution post WWII. What if they had not made cannabis illegal? How many people who died could possibly have lived even longer or not even gotten cancer due to the cannabis compounds fighting along side their immune systems to keep the cancer cells under control? What if, the removal of cannabis from our lives in the 20th century caused an increase in illness?
What would be your feelings towards a member of the press who lied to protect their own greedy intentions?
Yes. I’m angry. And it’s just one more reason that I don’t trust the mainstream media.
Everything is so convoluted now that we may never know the truth. And too many beautiful people have died.
Here’s another article. It may or may not help much. It supports my observations. But it’s just too convoluted and weak to confirm my conclusions.
Growth of Cancer
Thanks for your support
from Behind The Green Curtain.
-“Tom S”
I’m just a poor old smelly firefighter, father and grandfather who’s fighting Renal Cell Carcinoma, prostate issues and a host of other medical issues. Aside from a 50 hour work week I spend most of my off time taking care of an elderly parent, fighting Dallas traffic, and watching Netflix with my dogs. So this commentary is not going to be Pulitzer material. But I have to get this off of my chest.
Late last night I started thinking of all the people who died of cancer and other illnesses never knowing that Cannabis could have saved their lives. It’s those dark, quiet peaceful moments when the whispers of the past can sometimes be heard over the crickets, frogs and the lulling drone of a box fan.
So as I laid back and thought of all the actors that we’ve enjoyed on the silver screen who passed away from cancer and other diseases in the last 70 years, it got me thinking. What if they had been able to use all those cannabis products from the 1900s-1930s?What if, beyond 1937 to current day and along with access to those products, the market had been able to freely research cannabis and its healing properties in an open, legal environment free from government interference?
Think of all the movie stars and famous people who died of cancer and other diseases over the past 70 years like John Wayne and so many others.
Think of all the beautiful children who have died of cancer, epilepsy and other diseases in the past 70 years.
Consider all the deaths from Parkinson’s, AIDS and Altzimers. Then I got angry. Why? They never got the chance to try cannabis.
All because of one, powerful, greedy newspaper publisher and paper industrialist, William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia
William Randolph Hearst, a rich Democrat who mounted a propaganda campaign and Harry Jacob Anslinger, Harry J. Anslinger - Wikipedia, who made a stupid propaganda movie (Tell Your Children, aka, Reefer Madness), to strike fear in the people because Hearst felt his paper industry was being threatened by a plant.
In the link below, you’ll find a documentary where they discuss William Randolph Hearst and his successful propaganda campaign and the prohibition of cannabis. If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, just skip to about the 54:00 mark. But it’s a great documentary. You should watch it all to understand why I got so angry and what we are now fighting for.
In the 1920s, Doctors wrote over 2 million prescriptions Per year for medicines containing cannabis. In 1937 there were at least 28 over the counter preparations made of cannabis. All of it, banned after 1937. Gone. No longer accessible. Soon the European world would pretty much follow in the same footsteps and spread this prohibition on cannabis.
Can I make the argument that cancer has increased since 1937? In a weak effort, Yes. But the bigger question is can I prove this increase is due to cannabis being removed from our diets and choices of medicine in 1937? Probably not. There are too many other variables to consider. But we should be highly suspicious. Could those that did die of cancer have been able to have a better fighting chance to survive their illness? Contemplate the fact that any research on this subject that reflects positively on cannabis seeming to be very difficult to dig up makes me even more suspicious. Richard Nixon destroyed a study that he personally asked for because it did not meet his personal agenda.
The powerful rich Newspaper man lies. He mounts a propaganda campaign. The government covers up and lies. The medical and Pharma community covers up and lies. Our education system lies and has their own little propaganda to teach.
So it’s no surprise that any statistics that would indicate that the absence of cannabis products in our daily diets may have also been a contributing factor that caused cancer cases to begin to rise significantly after 1937. Then you factor in the industrial chemicals, substances that are proven to be carcinogenic to humans during this industrial revolution post WWII. What if they had not made cannabis illegal? How many people who died could possibly have lived even longer or not even gotten cancer due to the cannabis compounds fighting along side their immune systems to keep the cancer cells under control? What if, the removal of cannabis from our lives in the 20th century caused an increase in illness?
What would be your feelings towards a member of the press who lied to protect their own greedy intentions?
Yes. I’m angry. And it’s just one more reason that I don’t trust the mainstream media.
Everything is so convoluted now that we may never know the truth. And too many beautiful people have died.
Here’s another article. It may or may not help much. It supports my observations. But it’s just too convoluted and weak to confirm my conclusions.
Growth of Cancer
Thanks for your support
from Behind The Green Curtain.
-“Tom S”
to 
Tom 
...got no words that express my sorrow about your diagnosis my friend 
I was still in Iraq when my mother passed after a 15 year battle with bone, brain, and liver cancer. I was devastated, then my father passed about 2 years later from prostate cancer, and my siblings had to moved in with my wife and I...I'm the oldest of 6...4 boys and 2 girls...it was hard because I was still on active duty, and my siblings were taking it hard, so my wife was left to deal with it...just "one" reason why I treat her like my queen/angel...she gets whatever she wants when she wants it 
cuz my wife literally saved my life...but that's a story for another time 
