We have wasted Millions of dollars on multiple Benghazi hearings despite the fact that every single commission has come back with the same results, that no wrongdoing occurred.
We have had a ludicrous level of votes to repeal the ACA, even though it was obvious from the beginning that they would never have the votes to get it repealed.
However, there is a scandal out there that does indeed demand investigation. One that is incredibly important, absolutely exists, has ample evidence available and can yield positive changes to our nation if conducted fairly and properly.
What scandal am I talking about? It's a pretty big one in my opinion, and that is "Who is responsible for the ongoing miss-classification of cannabis and the continued blocking of it's research in the United States and to what end?"
Please jump below the little orange thingie with me so we can discuss it. :)
The reason this is important is that more and more studies are being released from all over the world showing dramatic effectiveness for many suffering from debilitating conditions, including it killing cancer cells through a mechanism called apoptosis.
States that have it legalized for medicinal use are reporting phenomenal amounts of positive anecdotal evidence and now even the governments own National Cancer institute (A division of the National Institute of Health) has declared on it's site that Cannabis does indeed kill cancer back in August.
So why is it STILL classified as a schedule 1 drug? (A drug that has absolutely no medicinal value with a high potential for addiction or abuse) Why has there been ZERO action taken to reschedule this natural herbal remedy with hundreds of scientifically validated papers written on it and thousands of years of historical use as a medicine?
The government well knows that cannabis has medical properties, for proof all we need to do is look at US Patent 6630507 This patent is held by the US Government filed back in 2003.
From the Patent Abstract
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##STR1##
How many people have died in the last 12 years from cancer or other conditions that respond to treatment with cannabis? It's important to know, because if it does indeed surface that there was an orchestrated attempt to deliberately obstruct access to cannabis by groups or individuals than those people have a lot to account for.
We are loosing more of our soldiers to suicide than combat, and there is tons of evidence out there that those suffering from PTSD benefit medically from certain strains of cannabis yet they are blocked from using it so those deaths sit squarely on their shoulders as well.
Back in 2014 the DEA has recently been accused of obstructing research on positive aspects of cannabis going as far back as 1972. Where are the hearings on this? Because if it is true, they may very well be responsible for literally countless numbers of dead and suffering American Citizens.
We have these mountains of information, valid scientific peer reviewed papers numbering in at least the hundreds if not thousands (A quick trip to Pubmed.org will amaze some of you.) have been written demonstrating its efficacy for treating illnesses such as Arthritis, Pain, various cancers, glaucoma, high blood pressure, inability to maintain a steady weight,etc. Yet it is still Schedule 1, a level even higher than Cocaine and Heroin.
The number of health conditions this one plant treats are simply astounding, yet I could be thrown in a cage tomorrow for using an herbal medication. (For the record, I use cannabis medicinally, initially in a Medical Cannabis state but now I currently reside in one of the last bulwarks of ignorance, Aka Florida so I risk incarceration daily)
I don't recall who first said it but the fact remains that if Cannabis was discovered tomorrow in the rain forest and didn't have the social stigmata attached to it that decades of propaganda have caused it would be hailed as a miracle plant.
So my open question to our Statesmen that are so intent on uncovering scandal is simply this, "Can you please uncover this one? Because unlike all the others, there is actually some meat on these bones and if you truly do care about the lives and health of our citizens and our soldiers you need to uncover who is responsible and fix this situation immediately."
Yes, Benghazi was a tragedy and perhaps needed to be looked into, but it pales in scope to the loss of life and suffering these policies have inflicted on America, and if they have been done deliberately to enrich individuals or corporations there are a lot of heads that need to roll.