Describe Jack's credentials and the scientific studies and papers that he has written. I have looked as much as possible on the internet and can find no evidence of him recieving any higher education at all, unless smoking dope constitutes "higher" education. When we are discussing the physiological effects of various chemical compounds upon living tissue and the possible ramifications of those effects, a man with no education on the subject can hardly be called the "FOREMOST" authority. In fact, in the face of any one of these papers conducted by medical doctors, and phD's in various bodies of hard science, the opinion of Jack Herer is inconsequential to the point of being completely irrelavent.
Don't even begin to try and argue that Jack Herer knows more about the effect of chemicals on the human body than the doctors in any one of the dozen or so credible scientific sources I cited.
Sorry guy, it would be tough for you to be more wrong.
This one comes from the Lancet. One of the foremost medical journals in the world. Second only to the New England Journal of medicine.
http://www.cannabisclub.ca/articles/...l_lancet_1.pdf
This one is from a medical journal dealing with cancer, not the government.
Fligiel SEG, Roth MD, Kleerup EC, et al. Tracheobronchial histopathology in habitual smokers of cocaine, marijuana and/or tobacco. Chest 1997; 112: 319–26.
This one is from an oncological (cancer) medical journal, not the government.
Robison LI, Buckley JD, Daigle AE, et al. Maternal drug use and the risk of childhood nonlympholastic leukemia among offspring: an epidemiologic investigation implicating marijuana. Cancer 1989; 63: 1904–11
This one is from a medical journal dealing specifically with the use and effects of drugs, not the government.
Sridar KS, Raub WA, Weatherby NL, et al. Possible role of marijuana smoking as a carcinogen in the development of lung cancer at an early age. J Psychoactive Drugs 1994; 26: 285–88.
This one is from an oncological medical journal, not the government.
Caplan GA, Brigham BA. Marijuana smoking and carcinoma of the tongue. Is there an association? Cancer 1989; 66: 1005–06.
The research posted on "pub med" is not government research even though the address is pubmed.gov. Pub med is simply a central clearing house for independent research dissimination among the world medical and research community. pubmed.gov does no research on their own and publishes nothing on their own.
This one is published by the Oxford Medical Journal.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c...act/90/16/1198
This one is from the American Association for Cancer Research. Again, not a government organization.
http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/con...ract/8/12/1071
And this one is also from the Oxford Medical Journal.
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/83/4/637.pdf
In fact, I don't believe anything that I listed represents government research. But if all I posted was government research, your argument that information is not valid just because it comes from the government constitutes an ad hominem circumstantial attack and would not be a valid argument. Information can not be discounted based on nothing more than the source.