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Bruce Mirken in TruthOut …

In his 1971 State of the Union speech, President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer … four years later, scientists from the National Cancer Institute published a study demonstrating that a group of compounds taken from a common, widely cultivated plant shrank lung tumors that had been implanted in mice, extending their survival. In a world that made sense, this plant and the anticancer drugs it produced would have been rushed into further testing .. Instead, research proceeded at a glacial pace … What got in the way was Nixon’s other war, the “war on drugs.” The plant in question was cannabis sativa — marijuana — public enemy number one in that other war

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