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THE LOST CHICKASAW says~Μολών ΛaΠ9 months ago
I LOST MY MOTHER FROM CANCER, IF YOU CAN PLEASE HELP & ALSO CHECK OUT RICK SIMPSON'S "RUN FOR THE CURE VIDEO" ,HE HAS A CURE!!!
Sandy 9 months ago
I LOST MY MOTHER ON APRIL 4, 2008 AND I MISS HER! LIKE MILLIONS MORE, I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
Rachel 9 months ago
I lost my brother on 6/19/98 to cancer so this is important to me thanks for posting..
*~Red Fox~* 9 months ago
I am greatly looking forward to being able to be a part of something that is so near and dear to me in honor of my brother J.D. He died at the tender age of 4 in 1989 after fighting a brain tumor for 2 years. Those events even though I was also young at the time, changed my life forever! I owe much thanks to the Make-a-Wish Foundation and plenty more to many others. I also would like to type a moment of silence........His 24th birthday is on April 30th! Happy Birthday J.D. Love your Big Sis
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b 10 months ago
u can also watch the full version here:
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b 10 months ago
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Phred 10 months ago
J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE 11 months ago
RE: you are an asshole for the comment you left me about our honorable troops!
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From: Darin (422630564)
To: J. C. @> - 1/20/09 = 1,350,837 IRAQI DEATHS!!
Date: Mar 14, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: you are an asshole for the comment you left me about our honorable troops!
I don't believe in leaving our borders to go to war unless the war is on its way to our borders,and alot of those brave soldiers feel the same way! But they were called upon by our government to go,and were left no choice! They cry,and are scared to death! They move around everyday knowing it could be thier last day! They know they may never see thier Parents,loved ones,THIER CHILDREN,or if they will even make it back to the Country that sent them into harms way! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU(SITTING YOUR ASS ON A COMPUTER)TO INSULT THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE,OUR MEN AND WOMEN OF THE US ARMED FORCES? YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!YOU SHOULD REALLY KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF,BECAUSE THEY HURT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES!
J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE 11 months ago
if there was NO MONEY WE WOULD HAVE FOUND THE CURE FOR AIDS AND CANCER AND EVERY OTHER DISEASE THAT PLAGES HUMANITY..
CHILD ABUSE WODU NOT BE A PROBLEM...NOBDY ABUSE A CHILD CAUSE THEY NEED TO MAKE SUM CASH TO FILM IT!!
IF WE DIDN'T CHARGE EACH OTHER TO LIVE, THEN THERE WOULD NEVER BE A SHORTNESS OF FUNDS AVAILABLE TO DO ANYTHING WE NEED TO!!
OR TO FIND A CURE FOR ANYTHING OR SOLUTION FRO ANY PROBLEM!!!
SO, NO MONEY OR NEED FOR IT..
NO WORRIES ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND A CURE FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH "FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR IT"
ASSHOLES!!
MORONS!!
HYPOCRITES!!
FOOLS!!!
HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP IN THIS ASS BACKWARDS PERIOD IN TIME WHERE U ALL STILL INSIST ON FUCKING EACH OTHER....(over)
AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY..
IN A ''I'll fuck u and take all ur money and take everything I can and leave u fOR dead because all I want is greed..money...oil..OIl..OIL...for my big EGO DRIVEN cars!!'
HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP HERE!!!
AND WHERE'S MY BEAUTIFUL HEAVE N THEY PROMISED ME..
THIS SI NOT MY BEAUTIFUL.....
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if there was NO MONEY WE WOULD HAVE FOUND THE CURE FOR AIDS AND CANCER AND EVERY OTHER DISEASE THAT PLAGES HUMANITY.. IF WE DIDN'T CHARGE EACH OTHER TO LIVE, THEN THERE WOULD NEVER BE A SHORTNESS OF FUNDS AVAILABLE TO DO ANYTHING WE NEED TO!! OR TO FINS A CURE FOR ANYTHING!!! SO, NO MONEY OR NEED FOR IT.. NO WORRIES ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND A CURE FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH "FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR IT" ASSHOLES!! MORONS!! HYPOCRITES!! FOOLS!!! HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP IN THIS ASS BACKWARDS PERIOD IN TIME WHERE U ALL STILL INSIST ON FUCKING EACH OTHER....(over) AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY.. IN A ''I'll fuck u and take all ur money and take everything I can and leave u fOR dead because all I want is greed..money...oil..OIl..OIL...for my big EGO DRIVEN cars!!' HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP HERE!!! AND WHERE'S MY BEAUTIFUL HEAVE N THEY PROMISED ME.. THIS SI NOT MY BEAUTIFUL..... 13> 01 END OF U..
American Sweetheart Creations 11 months ago
I have lost my Mother to cancer[ lekumina] on March 12, 1999[ it will be 10 yrs coming up] its hard to live knowing that she didnt deserve this she DESERVED much better but this demon took her choice to live and now she is my Fallen Angel ]=
Please stay strong while they fight to find a cure!!
MISTRESS AKASHA 11 months ago
i myself have had people that have gotten diagonosed. 2 years ago i had a lumpectomy done. it had micro-calcifications and if i would have put it off and ignored it i might not be here today. please please get your mammo done as often as they will let you. i was only 28 and had to keep on them before the would do mine. they just wanted to blow me off. NEVER let them blow you off. only you know if there is something major going on and INSIST
MISTRESS AKASHA 11 months ago
Donated $25.
^Deanna^ 11 months ago
i just want to say that more then half of both sides of my family ahve died of cancer, SO Im just showing support for those whoa re lucky to be strong enough to beat it! congrads to everyone nad ill pray for those who havent yet
HOPEING KIDS GET WELL 12 months ago
hi i am a home mom of 2 kids 1 is with a slow cancer on her brain stem and on her optic nerve with made her blind in the left eye but has movement and my son has a tumor on his pelvis area by his spinal cord which is benied but they want to keep a eye on and i know its sad and i hope not just for my kids but for every one else i hope you all get cancer free and you all are in my prayers!
J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE about 1 year ago
FUCKING HYPOCRITES!!! EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE POLITICIANS.
COURTS
JUDGES
LAWYERS
THE ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY IS NOTHING MORE THEN A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION THAT TAKES AWAY THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS!!!
AND GIVES IT BACK FRO A PRICE!!!
AND YOU WILL PAY YOU BUNCH OF FUCKING HYPOCRITES!!!
FOR ALL THOSE HUMAN BEINGS, CHILDREN OF GOD!!! THAT ARE SITTING IN JAIL, DIED IN JAIL OR AT ONE POINT HAD THEIR FREEDOM RIPPED AWAY FROM THEM BY YOU!!
BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID LAWS CREATED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AND EXTORT MONEY FROM THEM!!
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!!
YOU WILL PAY!!!
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J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE about 1 year ago
<font style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" size="4">SO MY FRIENDS BROTHER GETS BUSTED FOR DEALING BACK in 83 or 84...He was 19 or 20...<br><br>HE WAS A YEAR OLDER AND WAS BRINGING COCAINE INTO ARKANSAS...DEALING TO A KID OUT THERE...<br><br>I MET THE KID A FEW TIMES AND ACTUALLY SMOKED WEED WITH HIM. 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J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE about 1 year ago
FACT! - Ganja/Weed helps fight Cancer
Who could imagine that cannabis might one day offer hope as a cure for cancer? The United States government, that’s who.
For the past 30 years, U.S. officials have willfully ignored clinical research indicating that marijuana can inhibit the growth of certain type of malignant tumors. However, the recent publication of a trio of clinical studies and a pair of scientific reviews have effectively blown the lid off "Cancergate," and revealed that pot’s medical value may be far greater than ever presumed.
THE EMERGING EVIDENCE
Recently, five scientific journals published prominent articles trumpeting cannabinoids (compounds in marijuana) as potential anti-cancer agents.
These include:
* Clinical trial data published in January 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Clinical Investigation that found cannabinoids significantly inhibit skin tumor growth in mice. Investigators of the study concluded, "The present data indicate that local cannabinoids administration may constitute an alternative therapeutic approach for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer."
* Clinical trial data published in the March 2003 issue of The FASEB Journal that found that the "local administration of a non-psychoactive cannabinoid inhibits angiogenesis (tissue growth) of malignant gliomas (brain tumors)."
* A clinical review in the October 2003 issue of the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Cancer that concluded that cannabinoids’ "favorable drug safety profile" and proven ability to inhibit tumor growth make them desirable agents in the treatment of cancer. According to the review’s author, tumors inhibited by cannabinoids include: lung carcinoma, glioma, thyroid epithelioma, lymphoma/leukemia, skin carcinoma, uterus carcinoma, breast carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, and neuroblastoma (a malignant tumor originating in the autonomic nervous system or the adrenal medulla and occurring chiefly in infants and young children).
* Clinical trial data published in the November 2003 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics that found the administration of the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits the growth of human glioma cells both in vitro (e.g., a petri dish) and in animals in a dose-dependent manner. Investigators concluded, "Non-psychoactive CBD produce[s] a significant antitumor activity both in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting a possible application of CBD as an antine plastic agent (something which prevents the growth of malignant cells.)"
* And finally, a clinical review in the December 2003 issue of the journal Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets that summarized "the demonstrated antitumor actions of cannabinoids," and elaborated on "possible avenues for the future development of cannabinoids as antitumor agents."
AND SUBSEQUENT MEDIA BLACKOUT
Despite these stunning findings, media coverage of them in North America has been virtually non-existent. As noted by Richard Cowan, editor of the website MarijuanaNews.com, "The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times all ignored this story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors."
Why the media blackout? For starters, all of these studies were conducted overseas. And secondly, not one of them has been acknowledged by the U.S. government.
U.S. KNEW IN ’74... AND AGAIN IN ’96!
This wasn’t always the case. In fact, the first ever experiment documenting pot’s anti-tumor effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest of the U.S. government. The results of that study, immortalized in an August 18, 1974 Washington Post newspaper feature, were that "THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
Despite these favorable preliminary findings, U.S. government officials banished the study, and refused to fund any follow up research until conducting a similar – though secret – study in the mid-1990s. That study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to the tune of $2 million concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long periods had greater protection against malignant tumors than untreated controls. However, rather than publicize their findings, government researchers shelved the results – which only became public one year later after a draft copy of its findings were leaked in 1997 to the journal AIDS Treatment News, which in turn forwarded the story to the national media.
Nevertheless, in the nearly eight years since the completion of the National Toxicology trial, the U.S. government has yet to fund a single additional study examining pot’s potential as an anti-cancer agent.
SCIENCE IGNORED NO MORE
Fortunately, researchers at Madrid, Spain’s Complutense University, School of Biology have generously picked up where U.S. researchers so abruptly left off. In 1998, the research team – led by investigator Manuel Guzman – discovered that THC can selectively induce program cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting the surrounding healthy cells. Then in 2000, Guzman’s team reported in the journal Nature Medicine that injections of synthetic THC eradicated malignant gliomas (brain tumors) in one-third of treated rats, and prolonged life in another third by six weeks. A commentary to the study noted that the results were the first to convincingly demonstrate that cannabis-based treatments may successfully combat cancer.
Today, Guzman believes that enough favorable clinical evidence exists supporting pot’s anti-cancer properties to warrant clinical trials in humans. "The scientific community has gained substantial knowledge of the palliative and anti-tumor actions of cannabinoids during the past few years," Guzman wrote in the October 2003 issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. "Anti-tumor compounds should selectively affect tumor cells [and] it seems that cannabinoids can do this, as they kill [malignant] tumor cells but do not affect their non-transformed counterparts and might even protect them from cell death. ... As cannabinoids are relatively safe compounds, it would be desirable that clinical trials using cannabinoids ... could accompany [ongoing] laboratory studies to allow us to use these compounds in the treatment of cancer." Guzman concludes the article by noting that the Spanish Ministry of Health recently approved a human clinical trial – the first ever – aimed at investigating the effects of intracranially administered THC on the life expectancy of volunteers suffering from malignant brain tumors.
"Cannabinoid research continues to show tremendous potential in the treatment of cancer," summarizes University of Southern California professor Mitch Earleywine, author of the book Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence. However, he laments that the "vast majority of this work originates outside the United States, often in countries that lack our economic and scientific advantages. Let’s hope that our drug policy won’t stymie the battle against the second leading cause of death in America."
Indeed. Let’s not add a potential treatment for cancer to the ever-growing list of victims of pot prohibition.
Paul Armentano [send him mail] is the senior policy analyst for the NORML Foundation in Washington, DC.
Tay about 1 year ago
My Uncle passed a couple months ago , He had many kinds of cancer through out his body , I think of him as a hero he donated his body to loma linda hosp in Cali , so they could do study the types he had , My grandmother also passed of lung cancer 15 years ago , God Bless the people living with it and their familys! So many people on green spot on myspace have pink roses in the bottom left corner of their gardens showing support , remember yall arent alone !!!
LaUrEn&RoBeRt about 1 year ago
I have the best big brother in ther world and he survived having a brain tumor on his brain stem that was cancerouns im so proud of him everythings going to be okay i hope i love him so much
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**TAMMY** 7 months ago
I lost someone dear to me due to breast cancer. She was a true southern bell, as good as they come. Please join the fight against breast cancer. And make sure all the women in your life and those you don't get a mammogram at age 40 and every year after. In loving Memory of "Patricia Kinkade" past 06/09 at age 52. Please lets all do our part!!!