Leeches are useful! Johns Hopkins uses them for post-op digital (fingers, toes) amputations to increase blood flow for faster healing. They also use maggots to clean burn victims and infectious wounds.

I offered to stick my hand in a leech jar for a 7th grade science project... It was great.
Purple Banana Reviewed by Purple Banana on . Above the Influence Commercial I just saw a commercial for the anti-drug agency called Above the Influence. In the commercial or propaganda reel to which it shall henceforth be referred, average American (actors) are caught up in a craze of affixing leeches to their body for an implied high. (Paying no attention to the fact that the use of leeches does have actual medical benefits, in my opinion.) At the end of the commercial, the sobering message: What Could You Be Convinced to Do? is broadcast against a solid black Rating: 5