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'. + ...� O <br />O <br />Another lie told the public is that Cannabis is a dangerous drug, this in the face of <br />government subsidies to tobacco farmers and tax revenues generated from alcohol and <br />tobacco <br />I heard expert testimony in my trial for the religious freedom to use Cannabis to the effect <br />that the death toll due to alcohol and tobacco in the united states stands at 500,000 per <br />year while the death toll due to Cannabis ingestion stands at zero for the last 5000 years <br />of recorded history and will remain at zero for the next 5000 years because it is <br />impossible to ingest a amount of cannabis large enough to be fatal <br />I have heard testimony from the American Cancer Society in these chambers to the effect <br />that smoking Cannabis is as harmful or potentially more cancer causing than tobacco. <br />a study by Donald Tashkin shows that in the long term Cannabis smoking does not <br />deteriorate lung capacity and respiratory response in fact a strict interpretation of his <br />numbers show that Cannabis smokers had a slightly better rate of decline in lung capacity <br />and respiratory response than did the control group which smoked nothing at all. Even <br />more illuminating is the finding that smokers of Cannabis and tobacco had a 58% better <br />response than did tobacco only smokers. <br />If Cannabis is cancer causing this would show up as a higher mortality rate than non <br />Cannabis smokers yet in a Kaiser Permanente study of -65,000 patients, current women <br />Cannabis smokers died from all cancers at a rate 44% less than non-smokers <br />men did less well but also had a 25% lower rate of mortality due to Cancer than did their <br />counterparts <br />I gained 3 recommendations for Medical Cannabis on my repatriation to California the <br />state of my birth this past spring. <br />One of the conditions for which I suffer is asthma I am a life long sufferer from this <br />debilitation I have a study before you from the Veterans administration which shows that <br />Cannabis expands the airways by 44% this medicinal effect allows me to live in relative <br />comfort downwind of the worlds most active volcano now approaching its 16a' year of <br />continuous vog producing eruption. <br />Mahalo and Aloha <br />Rev. Dennis [Jesus in me <br />loves Jesus in you] Shields <br />