Starting with the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report in 1893 ending with the US Drug Czar’s own Institute of Medicine report in 1999, no major study has found any basis for the criminalization of cannabis.
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Gizmodo.com a website whose motto is “We come from the future” has an article titled, What Is the Biggest Scientific Fraud of the Past 50 Years? It asked some distinguished scientists what they would nominate for that dubious distinction.
Robert N. Proctor, Professor of the History of Science and Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine at Stanford University, named the “Council for Tobacco Research, the cigarette industry’s chief instrument for denying that cigarettes cause cancer…
“Twenty-seven Nobel laureates took money from Big Tobacco, and every major university was showered with cash…”
Considering that tobacco is still killing millions of people around the globe that certainly makes sense.
SEE: RIP Lester Grinspoon: The Forbidden Cannabis Professor
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