 | Research: Animal Experiements Bad Science |
 Anonymous writes:
"he most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of Dr. Robert Heath, done in the late 1970s. This study was reviewed by a distinguished panel of scientists sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Their results were published under the title, Marijuana and Health in 1982. Heath's work was sharply criticized for its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged". Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of brain damage. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect if the AMA thought marijuana damaged the brain.
Forwarded by Wellington Animal Action: we oppose animal experiments on ethical and scientific grounds. We demand abolition of vivisection on scientific grounds since the fundamental drawback of using animals as models for human disease is that due to species differences the results are both misleading and unreliable. We believe inflicting deliberate suffering on animals is unethical and cruel. We recognise that animals are sentient beings and as such they should have the basic right not to be treated as the property of others.
Basically if people want to see Marijuana and other potentially life saving drugs brought onto the market, or more truthful studies on the drugs that our society consumes then we all need to campaign against vivisection. Email: AnimalAction@meatismurder.net to get involved.
www.WAA.enzyme.org.nz
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