@@@@@ tell Tom it's flexible gasping by way of a talk @@@@@

KABC TV (Los Angelos) news November 2, 1989, that the chart
*   actually shows the brain waves of someone in a deep sleep --- or a coma.
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*   He said he had previously complained directly to the Partnership for a
*   Drug Free America and they ignored him. They finally pulled the ads.
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*   The Heath/Tulane Study of 1974 has been widely sited nationally as
*   evidence that marijuana is harmful. One set of Rhesus monkeys began
*   to atrophy and die after 90 days of pot smoking.
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*   When Playboy and NORMAL finally received the methodology of the study
*   in 1980 after six years of trying, they were stunned.
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*   The Rhesus monkeys had been strapped into a chair and pumped the
*   equivalent of 63 Columbian strength joints in "five minutes, through
*   gas masks," losing no smoke.
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*   The monkeys were suffocating!

On June 27, 1997 a story broke about a new report showing "heavy marijuana
use makes the same changes in the brain as cocaine and heroin, and it causes
the same withdrawal symptoms in the brain".

Only MSNBC reported it this way: Brian Williams said, "A new preliminary
study shows that cocaine, heroin, ALCOHOL and marijuana all cause similar
changes in the brain over time." But the picture and thrust of the story
was still focusing on marijuana.

What was COMPLETELY MISSING was shown on C-SPAN the previous day, when
Senator Byrd gave an EXTENSIVE presentation showing ALCOHOL WAS THE LEADING
GATEWAY DRUG TO COCAINE AND HEROIN USAGE!

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