Cancer Still Uncured

In nearly half the states now - perhaps more, it changes frequently - "medical marijuana" is a legal reality. In many cases, for ten or more years, even starting in the nineties.

And yet from the nineties, to now in 2016, the rates of cure for cancer and a 100 other diseases and conditions have not been impacted at all.

Before legalization, nothing could shut up pot advocates from their myriad of over-blown claims of what a miracle cure pot was and how "Big Pharma" was deliberately letting millions die so they could keep selling bogus cures!

Now, from over 20 years of this disastrous experiment, it's painfully obvious that whatever the faults of "Big Pharma" may be, hiding a cancer cure by keeping pot illegal was not one of them!

And where are the advocates of medical marijuana now? They who were so shrill and strident before, shouting down any of us who expressed any doubt, drowning out our legitimate concerns with their bile and ballyhoo, why aren't they pointing to the precipitous decline of cancer in California, in Colorado and dozens of other states?

Because they can't. It was the lie that "stodgy" and "puritanical" people like myself said it was! If there was some study that even vaguely suggested that cancer rates were lower in legal marijuana states, believe me, it would have been rubbed in all of our faces by now, even if it was questionable!

Instead, it's as I and many others have always said - that any possible benefit marijuana may have can be had by taking it in the pharmaceutical form without the mind-altering effects of smoking it!

So as it stands, pot is a drug that is good at making people dumber. As has been claimed by those not on the "cures cancer" bandwagon all along.

No, it is not that "smart" people have not used pot, it's that the drug does impair people's mental functions and that it is in fact still illegal to operate a motor vehicle while on it - for the obvious reason that it "impairs" you! Thus to take such a thing, that impairs one's mind, is "dumb", no matter how book smart a person might be!

Pot does not, as some too strident anti-marijuana people said in the now far distant past, lead to murder and madness. But the black and white movie that foolishly claimed that pre-dates Hitler's invasion of Poland, and to label those of us who are opposed to pot with that stupid film is "straw man" debating at it's finest!

Yet not so addressed - because they cannot - is that pot does impair a person's mind, does make them giggly and unable to perform as well cognitively, and yes, is a "gateway" drug in that those who engage in it for recreational purposes are FAR more likely to then sample other and stronger drugs than the youth attending Church and shunning it!

Marijuana gives a "high", and for kids, and youth up to 25, to use it then accustoms their still developing brains to rely upon that artificial means to have their pleasure center activated. And again, makes them more likely to try other artificial means, from alcohol to cocaine to heroin to ecstasy, to stimulate their increasingly jaded pleasure center.

It is rare - so rare I've never seen it - to come across a person who "only" has ever smoked marijuana! It is vanishingly rare that we at the Liahona Home ever admitted any alcoholic and/or addict who had not tried this "harmless" pot!

Meanwhile, those not smoking pot, and letting their brains develop without impairment, are taking joy in sports, music, friends, service work, church, learning and many other things that do not require drugs or alcohol!

Yes, those who use pot can also take joy in those things, but it is not an undiluted joy for them, it is a joy that increasingly is associated with, and then dependent on, the drug and/or alcohol they use while enjoying those cleaner activities. The youth who starts by enjoying beer and football, is by middle age simply nursing the beer - football game optional. But never will he be just watching the game - with the beer optional!

I'm writing this because I am angry at those who have for years - decades - spoke for a drug that does so much damage and so little good, do not now have the grace to apologize for what are now so obviously revealed as lies. I'm angry because at every step they pretended not to get any point people like me made, and instead continued to peddle poison as medicine!

Smoking marijuana damages your lungs, impairs a young brain's development, makes driving dangerous and judgment difficult. It leads to other drugs. It steals honest pleasure in good activities. It leads away from the "clean" fun, and towards more dangerous drugs - and people. And most of all.....

.....IT DOES NOT CURE CANCER!

Pictured: A thousand posters of lies, and not one apology for it being shown false!