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suffocated the monkey,

showed all these

dead brain cells,

and then went on to

associate it

by saying that cannabis use

causes your brain cells to die.

And how many people, not knowing

the origin of the study,

have gone on to

quote it and re-quote it,

and now people believe it.

Studies since have shown no

signs of any brain-cell damage.

In 2005,

new research suggested

that marijuana could possibly

stimulatebrain-cell growth.

That study hasn't received

the same attention.

Another common belief--

marijuana causes lung cancer.

In the 1999 study by the

Institute of Medicine

that was paid for by

the United States Government,

they had to use words like "may"

and "should" cause cancer.

We've been hearing

for years them trying to say

that it causes lung cancer,

and we say, "Really ?

"That's interesting, because

you can't even show us one case

of cancer being caused by

cannabis use alone."

You definitely

have to do it moderately

because it does paralyze

the cilia,

but if it's not radioactive,

you're probably not going

to get cancer from it.

( man )

Smoking it can be harmful

because of the properties

of smoke.

Not as a result of anything

in the cannabis plant,

but because they're

intaking heated plant matter

into their lungs.

People said,

"Well, you don't know.

We haven't been smoking it

long enough."

Look what happened

with cigarettes.

We've had about four decades,

more than four decades,

of experience.

If this was gonna show up,

it should have shown up by now.

Finally, a study came out just

in the last month verifying

that cannabis smoke

does not cause cancer.

It's different than nicotine,

and the elements in the tobacco

smoke do cause cancer,

and elements

in the marijuana don't.

There's no cases of

marijuana-only smokers

getting brown-lung syndrome.

There's no cases of

marijuana-only smokers

getting emphysema.

Strange for a plant

that's so "dangerous."

How come none of that ?

Marijuana is as bad for you

or worse than tobacco ?

Impossible.

If they had the evidence,

they'd be putting emaciated

bodies or emphysema,

lung cancer, black lungs,

they would be parading them

throughout the media.

They don't have one,

yet people, somehow or other,

think that it might cause

the same thing.

In fact, if you look at the

straight deaths from substances,

a different type of picture

starts to appear.

The number-one killer

in the country--

it beat out AIDS,

heroin, crack, cocaine,

alcohol, car accidents, fire

and murder combined.

Tobacco.

That's a nasty,

dirty thing to say, sir.

A lovely, pure, white cigarette,

causing cancer.

It gets me right here.

( coughing )

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