Incredibly, a famous study which found that cannabis reduces tumors (see Chapter 7) was originally ordered by the Federal Government on the premise that pot would hurt the immune system. This was based on the “Reefer Madness” studies done by the disreputable by Dr. Gabriel Nahas of Columbia University in 1972.

    This is the same Dr. Nahas that claimed his studies showed pot created chromosome, testosterone (male hormone) damage, and countless other horrible effects which suggested the breaking down of the immune system. Nahas’ background is in the OSS/CIA and later the U.N. where he worked closely with Lyndon LaRouche and Kurt Waldheim.

    Nahas is still the darling favorite of the DEA and NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) yet no anti-marijuana studies of Nahas’ have ever been replicated in countless other research attempts. Columbia University specifically disassociated itself from Nahas’ marijuana research in a specially-called press conference in 1975!

    Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents’ groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot.

    The dissemination of Nahas’^* dangerous horror stories is paid for with your tax dollar, even years after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1976 specifically forbade Nahas from getting another penny of U.S. government money for cannabis studies because of his embarrassing research in the early 1970s.

    Yet the DEA, NIDA, VISTA, the “War on Drugs”, and now-deceased writer Peggy Mann (in Reader’s Digest articles and her book Marijuana Alert, with foreward by Nancy Reagan) have used these discredited studies on parents’ groups such as Parents for a Drug Free Youth, etc., often with Nahas as a highly paid guest lecturer, without a word of how his studies are really considered by his peers.

    This, we assume, is done to scare parents, teachers, legislators, and judges, using scientific terminology, bogus non-clinical statistics, ultimately aimed at selling more urine testing equipment. Therefore, more profits are created for the drug-rehabilitation clinics and their staff of professionals; and funding is maintained for the DEA, local police, judicial, penal, corrections, and other government pork barrel, police state interests.

    The “War on Drugs” is big money, so the shameless petitioning for more police and more jail cells continue. And we still have thousands of judges, legislators, police, Reader’s Digest readers, and parents who have for years used and cited his studies in particular as the prime reasons to continue these unjust laws and to jail millions of Americans over the last decade.

    The DEA, after Nahas’ 1983 waffling renouncement, consciously and criminally continues to use his studies to polarize ignorant judges, politicians, press, and parent groups, who are unaware of Nahas’ renouncement. These groups trust the government to tell them the truth their tax dollars paid for. Most of the media, press, and television commentators still use Nahas’ 1970s, unreplicated studies as gospel, and much of the frightening folklore and street myths that are whispered around school yards spring from this deceitful “scientist’s” work.

    Refuted and never replicated results are still taught, while the honest researcher faces prison if he attempts to test any thoughts about the medical use of cannabis.

    In fact, using Nahas’ refuted and unreplicated synthetic THC petri-dish studies on the immune system, hysterical Families for Drug Free Youth, or “Just Say No” organizations have gotten the press to say marijuana could cause AIDS—which has no basis whatsoever, but the press published all this rhetoric creating more Reefer Madness!

    Gabriel Nahas, in 1999, is living in Paris and goes around Europe teaching the same lies to less informed Europeans. When asked to debate us (H.E.M.P.) on cannabis in front of the world press on June 18, 1993, in Paris, he first enthusiastically accepted until he found out we would be speaking on all aspects of the hemp plant (e.g., paper, fiber, fuel, medicine). Then he declined, even though we met all of his requirements.

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