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monkeys had been strapped into a chair and pumped the
* equivalent of 63 Columbian strength joints in "five minutes, through
* gas masks," losing no smoke.
*
* The monkeys were suffocating!
On June 27, 1997 a story broke about a new report showing "heavy marijuana
use makes the same changes in the brain as cocaine and heroin, and it causes
the same withdrawal symptoms in the brain".
Only MSNBC reported it this way: Brian Williams said, "A new preliminary
study shows that cocaine, heroin, ALCOHOL and marijuana all cause similar
changes in the brain over time." But the picture and thrust of the story
was still focusing on marijuana.
What was COMPLETELY MISSING was shown on C-SPAN the previous day, when
Senator Byrd gave an EXTENSIVE presentation showing ALCOHOL WAS THE LEADING
GATEWAY DRUG TO COCAINE AND HEROIN USAGE!
* "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*
* Tobacco smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, heroin, crack,
* cocaine, alcohol, CAR ACCIDENTS, FIRE AND MURDER COMBINED.
*
* Cigarette smoking is as addictive as heroin, complete with withdrawal
* symptoms, and the percentage of relapses (75%) is the same for "kicking"
* cocaine and heroin users.
*
* It is far and away the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S.
* today. Tobacco smokers have ten times the lung cancer of non-smokers,
* twice the heart disease and are three times more likely to die of heart
* disease if they develop it.
*
* Yet tobacco is totally legal, and even receives the highest U.S. Gov.
* farm subsidies of any agricultural product in America, all while being
* our biggest killer! What a total hypocrisy!
My dad has been to Europe once: "I didn't have time to sight-see when
we hit the beaches though". He enlisted at 17, and w
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