Well, in the 1 1/2 years since posting this thread, Rick Simpson is still on his high horse and nobody has knocked him down yet. I apologize to Wordz for cutting him off. His words in this thread are certainly true and relevant, and better than no words at all...my error....I thought I was protecting something.
Dr. Donald Tashkin from UCLA has done a large study and found that even heavy smoking of MJ shows no association with lung cancer, and heavy MJ smokers showed no abnormalities in lung function.
Nobody has been able to refute what Rick is saying, however, mainstream is still not in the know. The information is being withheld from them. They are being awaken slowly. To someone in Washington or Colorado, who because of all the warnings growing up about illicit drugs, never touched the stuff, they may now look into what MJ really is, and when you look at it with that type of mindset, you come to realize there are very few things that are bad and they are vastly outweighed by the miraculous aspects of this plant. About the same time, you finally open your eyes and realize that we've all been lied to, and the filthy rich, the ones that own the media and control the FDA/ATF/DEA, they're the ones that have been holding MJ down.