May I just tell you all I never expected this much vindication about pot being good for our health as I have just flooding in. I mean, I knew of many of the organizations that support legalized medical and recreational marijuana smoking by adults, but this? http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100230518&page=1  This is friggin' MSN saying this stuff!! We are winning folks. It is getting impossible to deny our vote power and we are winning. Senator Haaarr-kiin? Where is that self preserving brain gone to? Oh, you forgot, did you? ha ha. no, that guy knows how to look out for old number one no matter how much agony we dumb voters go through for him. Hey, here's some quotes from the article for you guys in too much of a toot to go look it up: new research suggests that one of the active ingredients in marijuana—THC—and similar compounds could possibly prevent or even reverse one of the most devastating memory disorders of all: Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging, researchers found that a compound that affects the same brain receptors as THC reduced brain inflammation...  WIN-55,212-2 compound promotes the growth of new brain cells—a process that declines and may even stop in older animals. "The most amazing thing we saw was that it re-initiates neurogenesis—usually, the only drugs that do that are the SSRI antidepressants [selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, the class of drugs that includes Prozac]."  you know, prozac that makes peeps plan then take their machine guns to the old job site and murder ten or more people? what? you didn't know that? did you just not believe old SuckMeBush? Weell, it's not that I don't blame you, but I just told you the truth. The truth about pot stopping progressive brain damage and the truth about SSRI's killing LOTS of people. Do you take paxil, effexor, prozac? oh, my. Why am I pissed? Because I love you and this exact set of drugs was proven to be the murder weapon used on my eleven year old daughter in a serious jury trial. Drug companies make the most money of all stocks. They cheerfully heave little girls into the furnace for their money. I hold her mommy and we still bleed over it if you ever wonder why I get so unpleasant to be around. But, check it out! We pot smoker/growers are not like the straight guys who tell you what is normal. Nope. We pot smokers don't go for the death penalty even when it sure looks like the right idea. So, Senator Harkin, police who beat their wives, and you who are considering worse... smoke some of that mellow herb and just chill. We don't want to own you a bit.