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[2017 Feb] Forbes Leads Media Attack Against Turmeric's Health Benefits ''What Mr. Leminick is referring here to as “evidence,” or the lack thereof, is the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, human clinical trial (RCT). The RCT has become the epistemiological holy grail of Scientism and the Medical Monotheism it informs. In this belief system, it doesn’t matter if something has had cross-cultural validation as a healing agent, even after thousands of years of safe human use; nor does it matter if you personally have experienced (N-of-1) direct and measurable health benefits from consuming it. This is essentially a pyramidal control system: the RCT situated on top, and your first-hand experience and associated “anecdotal claims" on bottom, completely worthless. What's considered 'really real' is what has been externally validated through the RCT. Also worthless within this view are the thousands of cell (in vitro) and animal (in vivo) studies that exist indicating therapeutic properties may exist. This Scientism-based belief system is so powerful and all-consuming that sometimes I describe it as the 'Religion that devours all others.''
[2015 Nov] Doctors Earn $3.5 Billion in Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Companies
[2012 March] ANATOMY OF A CONSPIRACY by Jon Rappoport
[2011 May] The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug Profits and the Media’s Flat Earth
Regimentation in Medicine and the Death of Creativity by Russell L. Blaylock, MD
[2010 Sept] MD$ on the Take: My Career-Ending Expose by Dan Abshear
[1993 Interview with Dr. Alan Levin.] Modern Medicine and its Military Links
[2010 Jan] Naked
Intimidation: The Wakefield Inquisition is Only the Tip of the Autism
Censorship Iceberg By Mark F. Blaxill There are
no words to describe the findings of the General Medical Council (GMC). All
I can say is that none of us should be surprised. The stakes had escalated
far too high for the British medical establishment to countenance any other
outcome...... The GMC proceeding is a frightening
and thoroughly modern form of tyranny. It makes you shudder to think what
Stalin or McCarthy might have accomplished if their public relations had
been more skillful and better organized. CENSORSHIP. 1947 - EPILEPSY
STUDY. HARRY ANSLINGER’S CONCERN
Today [for all practical purposes] it is against the law to do any
medical research on Medical Cannabis in this country. And has been so probably
since the days of Harry Anslinger. HOW? --- To quote another section of this
book (on why Medical Cannabis will never be legalized) :
The extremity of the GMC’s
verdict--all three men guilty on all counts—lays bare any pretense that the
British medical establishment cares one whit about the welfare of its
patients. Let’s put in perspective the actions at issue here. No children
were harmed and no parent or guardian has complained about the care these
three men provided. In fact, the procedures involved were routine, the
resulting treatments standard and the careful attention to gastrointestinal
illness in autistic children has recently been endorsed by a consensus
statement published in the journal Pediatrics (no friend of the autism
community). Considered in this light, the GMC hearing process stands exposed
for what it is. It was not about medical standards. It was not about
evidence. It was not even civilized. It was, rather, a naked exercise in
intimidation, a fateful moment of moral decision in which the medical
industrial complex exposed its ruthless, repressive essence. They are a
frightening bunch and their conduct here raises issues well beyond autism.
. . . The narc's have a very long history of repressing / ignoring the truth. .
. . There are numerous other ways the narc's have of assuring that Cannabis NEVER
gets FDA approval. HOW?
You want to do medical research [6] on Cannabis, you FIRST
have to get a permit from the Drug Police. Of which, they simply don't give out.
In fact, since the passage of the control substances act (1970), all the way
up until California passed Prop-215 legalizing Medical Cannabis under their
state laws, NONE were issued. According to Chemical Heritage Magazine:
"Today, American researchers who wish to obtain legal
cannabis for scientific study must apply to the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA), which maintains a government-funded, 1.5-acre marijuana farm in Oxford,
Mississippi. Compared with street marijuana, however, the government's plants
are low in cannabinoid content, and some researchers have also complained of the
institute's slow and seemingly arbitrary decisions. In 1994 Donald Abrams, a
professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, proposed
to study the effects of smoking cannabis on HIV-related weight loss, but his
application was rejected by NIDA, even though it had been approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration. When he then resubmitted his proposal, this time
emphasizing the drug's potential negative effects, NIDA not only approved the
study but also provided him with nearly a million dollars in funding. Another
researcher, Lyle Craker of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, applied to
the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2001 for the right to grow cannabis for
research purposes as a way of sidestepping these potency and access issues.
For three years he heard nothing, until a federal court ordered the Drug
Enforcement Administration to respond. They said no, so he sued them. That
case is still under way. "
. . . . . The chill affected researchers as well as
clinicians. Medical journals published dozens of studies before the tax act but
few after its enactment. As researcher Lester Grinspoon noted, " virtually
no medical investigation of cannabis was conducted for many years " as a
string of additional laws, including the 1951 Boggs Act and the 1970 Controlled
Substances Act, further deterred research." --- T. Geller - Chemical Heritage
Magazine.
Which is a nice way of [saying] -- NO WAY IS IT EVER GOING TO BE RE-LEGALIZED.