So after sleeping on this I figure - in for a pound in for a penny.

So rather than just poke the bear with a stick and hope a google search gets the message to his aid, I decide, what the heck, theres got to be another stick around here.

So I learn that the new Michigan AG is a supporter of The Else U. Pardee Foundation. Sounds to me like the new AG, while belligerent to Cancer patients that chose to use Medical Cannabis, must have lost a family member to cancer.
I hate to generalize, but most folks that give to Cancer Research Foundations have lost a loved one and ergo, give in that memory.

So I figure - What the heck - its time I sent the Else U. Pardee foundation an email with my Cancer/Cannabis story.... and hope they pass it on to the AG since they are close. I know it won't happen - DOW has other agendas I suspect, as does the AG. Anyway, if I'm going to be driven out of Michigan by the AG's hostility to Michigan patients and will of 60% of the Michigan voters, and I find myself moving to Shasta, I might as well speak my mind and leave a suggestion.
Here's the note -


Dear Foundation Trustee,

My name is *****. I am a two year Cancer survivor.

Due too my career and its social requirements I used cannabis recreationally from 1978 - 2004

I was diagnosed with pre-cancerous oral lesions in 1998.

In 2008 one lesion turned cancerous and became very aggressive moving from stage 1 too stage 3 in six weeks.

I was scheduled for a glossectomy and neck dissection for the oral cancer at UCLA.

Nodes from the neck dissection were positive for metastasis.

Due to metastasis I was scheduled for radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

I was warned by several doctors that the likelihood of losing my Mandible was almost certain. At best, following radiation I would lose my teeth and be on a G-tube for the rest of my life.... that life was expected to have a 60% chance of continuing for 5 years if I had the radiation, with the odds of survival dropping to 50% for 5 years if I were to not have the radiation.

Rather than live like that, I passed on the radiation and looked to alternative methods of beating this that would not leave me unable to eat, swallow, speak or be seen in public.

In time, that search led me to this study - PubMed - Error encountered.

I have been a medical cannabis patient for over one year. It allowed me to get off the pain killers, the anti-fungal drugs and helped my digestive pain and problems that I had since my g-tube became infected and had to be removed. Cannabis allowed me to get away from the anti-anxiety medication and the sleeping pills... yep. Replace it all, and heres the rub. Still no sign of the metastasis or any cancer.... oral lesions are there, loud and proud.... but to this layman it looks as if something is keeping the lesions from turning cancerous and the metastasis - well, as a senior doctor at U of M's Oncology department said the other day - "I guess you were smarter than the doctors on this one".

I thought you should hear my story. If you want to hear the details or see records or anything.... just ask and I'll provide them.

One more thing - I recently learned that one of your supporters is Michigan Attorney General Mr. Bill Schuette. I hope that if you feel there is any validity to getting Cannabis into the research labs that you would use your influence to inform Mr. Schuette that we need to support the notion of getting this miracle herb rescheduled so that we can study this unimpeded by politics.

Thank you very much for all you're doing to fight cancer. God bless you!

************* - Cancer Patient.



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Pot Compounds Inhibit Oral Cancers, Study Says - NORML

Cannabinoids and cancer: pros and cons of an antit... [Br J Pharmacol. 2006] - PubMed result

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