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   XPost: uk.rec.drugs.cannabis   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article  "Sla#s"    
   writes:   
   >Pete nospam Zakel wrote:   
      
   >   
   >>> note the "under laboratory conditions".   
      
   >You may remember the study done in the US years ago at a time when one could   
   >get a lot of cash to 'prove' the government propaganda, (mid '60s pre net so   
   >I don't know where to find it now,) where it was found that cannabis   
   >"damaged" the brain cells of mice...? And how it turned out that the brains   
   >had been removed from said dead mice, cut up, minced in a blender, mixed   
   >with nitric acid and then a solution of cannabis extract was added. When the   
   >cells were examined under a microscope it was found that many were   
   >"damaged", thus 'proving' that cannabis damaged human brains!   
      
   Back in the dark ages when I was in high school I went to the library to   
   research various drug studies, and that was one of the ones I found.  Even   
   at that age I could see how ridiculous it was.   
      
   Another study compared the brain cavities of convicted felons who admitted to   
   cannabis use to non-felons who didn't use cannabis.  They found the felons had   
   larger cavities, and attributed that to the marijuana use -- even though they   
   didn't match controls by any other criteria.   
      
   There's bad science all over the place.  And even good science can be used   
   to reach totally bogus conclusions.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the   
    crowd.  The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no   
    one has ever been."   
   					-Alan Ashley-Pitt   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)