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Amazing research!

I had  no idea that monkeys were capable of conducting such complex research. We need for these monkeys to replace the ones we have in pubic office.


Note: Yeah, that was a typo. It should have read "pubic orifice". I ran out of White-out.

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Is marijuana a potential cure for cancer?

An extraordinary discovery may someday give the controversial notion of “medical marijuana” a potent new meaning. Turns out that the recreationally popular cannabis plant contains compounds that could stop and even reverse the growth of various aggressive forms of cancer.

After a series of lab tests using a non-psychoactive chemical extract called Cannabidiol to treat malignant human breast cells in mice, the researchers hope to develop a pill that can demonstrate efficacy in human clinical trials. "It took us about 20 years of research to figure this out, but we are very excited,” Desprez, told the Huffington Post.

20 years!? What the heck!? I can see them now, "hard at work"...

In case you’re wondering, it won’t leave the door open for those who want to inhale it.
“We used injections in the animal testing and are also testing pills,” Desprez said. “But you could never get enough Cannabidiol for it to be effective just from smoking.”

That's what you think...

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Get up from your chair right now

...and go for a walk. You can read the rest of this when you get back.

Read on, if you insist, but make sure you go when you're through reading this.

We know that vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets. But a lack of vitamin D can also bring on less obvious ones to the naked eye:

• multiple sclerosis (MS)
• rheumatoid arthritis
• type 1 diabetes
• cancers
• dementia

These are very serious health issues--all brought on by not being exposed to enough sun, the catalyst for your body to manufacture vitamin D.

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Why are you still here? Hit the road, jack. And enjoy.



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For a change of pace

An uplifting story.

A high school student whose mom passed away on the day her son was to play in a basketball game, surprised everyone including his coach by showing up at the game in progress after watching his mom lose her five year battle with cervical cancer.

The coach left the boy's name off the roster but when the boy joined the game, the referees awarded the opposing team two free throws on a technical foul because of it. After a seven minute debate between the opposing coach and game officials, the tech stood.

By now, word of the mother's death had spread throughout the gymnasium. The coach whispered to the player about to take the free throws and the boy threw the ball a few feet, purposely missing the basket. He repeated the action a second time. The crowd rose to its feet and applauded.

The team who blew the free throws went on to lose the game, the shooter saying of his misses "It was the right thing to do." However, both teams were winners that night.