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Oh. And by the way, why don't YOU go live there?
Yes, and suffering all kinds of ailments.
You are right. The word radiation sparks an incredibly irrational fear in people, so much so that they've forgotten the poor people killed or suffering from the tsunami.
Stop the radiation fearmongering! With all this radiation supposedly that would kill within hours, not a single person has died from it.
I'm thinking that you need to read a little better. At no time has it been said that the radiation was high enough to kill within hours. Not a single person has died from the radiation, that we KNOW of. But that's not really surprising considering that they have been lying about everything, all a long. Now, maybe a single person hasn't died, YET, but they will in time. The will get some kind of cancer, down the road.
krisd999-2009
...so much so that they've forgotten the poor people killed or suffering from the tsunami.
I don't think that anyone has forgotten about anybody. But the goal is to try and stop MORE people from suffering and dying. DUH!
Scientific trials have for decades documented the anti-cancer properties of cannabis and its constituents. Yet it took until this week for the website of the National Institute of Cancer, a component of the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health, to finally acknowledged the herb's therapeutic utility for patients living with disease or suffering from the adverse side-effects of cancer treatment.
In a newly added section to the website, entitled 'Cannabis and Cannabinoids,' the Institute states:
Cannabinoids may cause antitumor effects by various mechanisms, including induction of cell death, inhibition of cell growth, and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. Cannabinoids appear to kill tumor cells but do not affect their nontransformed counterparts and may even protect them from cell death."
&The potential benefits of medicinal cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect."
It's a stunning acknowledgment, given that the NIH is a branch of the very same government that presently maintains that the cannabis plant and all of its naturally-derived components have 'no accepted medical use.' Yet it also begs the question: Where has the National Institute of Cancer been all these years?
After all, the anti-tumor activity of cannabinoids were initially documented in 1975! That's right; it's taken 36 years for the Institute to get with the program.
Hopefully it won't take them another 36 years to demand that the Feds finally assess whether these preclinical results are replicable in human trials.
28 dead from Acute Radiation Sickness and 15 deaths from Thyroid cancer (preventable). See: The Chernobyl accident UNSCEAR's assessments of the radiation effects.
When we were kids, highly explosive firecrackers were legal and commonplace, they were called cherry bombs and M-80's. You lit the fuse and if you did not throw it away fast enough it would cause substantial damage to your hand, often resulting in the loss of a finger or two. Well, the fuse has been lit in the 442 reactors in the world. So far five (3 currently) of them have blown up or melted. Not a good record. Once the chain reaction is started, it is dangerous for thousands of years for the waste to become inert.
In the United States most headlines read "We will learn and make adjustments to our existing nuclear plants". You know what is going to happen - a lot of talk and almost nothing.
Then, law of averages, it will happen in another place within 10 years, and then in another place. This is insanity. We have not even begun to pay for this. If all the money going down the drain (which comes out of our pockets) were spent on rational and innovative solutions we would not conscientiously and continually poison our children's world.
At least the state outlawed dangerous firecrackers, but they seem to have trouble with the real big threats. And the funniest thing is, we store the waste right next to the darn reactors, now that is really stupid. All these scientific geniuses cannot see the forest through the trees. This is so dysfunctional.