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have been found in the brain, and none of them has been for the better. For specifics, I direct you to JAMA, the Lancet, and similar medical journals.

As for the argument that marijuana use decreases nausea in cancer patients - as a Traditional healer, I know that there are safer treatments.

Then there is the matter of smoke and lung tissue. It is just common sense that if it is harmful to one's lungs to breath smoke of any kind, and since people die of smoke inhalation, we know that the brain is also affected by smoke inhalation. Moreover, recently studies have been published that show that the lungs are damaged as much by one marijuana cigarette as if 5 tobacco cigarettes were smoked. Since oxygen is taken from the air by our lungs, if our lungs are damaged this much by marijuana smoke, how much more is the brain? Hmm?

Lastly, if second-hand tobacco smoke is "more harmful than first-hand tobacco smoke", and we know it is, how much more harmful is second-hand marijuana smoke than first-hand marijuana smoke? Truly something to think about.

The Traditional Indn Teaching about tobacco smoking is that tobacco was created to take every thought, wish, and emotion to the spirits as a prayer, and the user's intent didn't matter. Because tobacco was created to carry prayers, it is holy. That which is holy is automatically to be shown respect. If a person smoked tobacco casually, our Teaching is that it will take over the smoker's will and eat their lungs out. Pretty well describes addiction and cancer...

Since marijuana was not here before the coming of Europeans, and since no perception-altering substances were used except in ceremonies with rigid taboos, there was no drug use here, and we originally had no Teachings about it. It wasn't long before our spiritual leaders and healers came to the belief from watching the Europeans who used it that "this plant is a coyote person; and so, is dangerous". There is no ceremonial use in any Indn Nation of this Turtle Island to this day. It is wise to listen to the Teachings of the Elders and avoid this plant. There is no reason to legalize the use of marijuana, and many good reasons not to.

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