Government Forced NCI To Censor Medical Cannabis Facts

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Government Forced NCI To Censor Medical Cannabis Facts

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Medical, News

Friday, May 27, 2011 at 1:20 pm

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sorry if this was already posted
This is about the National Cancer Institute posting pot's anti-tumor effects on cancer, then how they were forced and by which agencies to scrub it from their site. -vwf
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In March, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component agency of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged the medicinal benefits of marijuana in its online treatment database. But the information only stayed up a few days, before it was scrubbed from the site.


Now, newly obtained documents reveal not only how NCI database contributors arrived at their March 17 summary of marijuana's medical uses, but also the furious politicking that went into quickly scrubbing that summary of information regarding the potential tumor-fighting effects of cannabis, reports Kyle Daly at the Washington Independent.

~ go to article for full story.

 

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interesting article.