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Test Tickel
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: houston, texas
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Re: ATTN: Zand_stein
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Originally Posted by licupssy
I had a friend who medicate himself with pot but he smoked it. Said he needed it to help with his reaction to Agent orange. I don't think it helped though. He ended up dying of lung cancer before he turned 40. I guess he should have gave up cigarettes!
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Companies supplying Agent Orange to the government:
Monsanto Company
Dow Chemical
Hercules Inc
Diamond Shamrock Chemicals
Uniroyal
Thompson Chemical
T-H Agriculture and Nutrition Company
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, a company owned by Monsanto. Rumsfeld was also the Secretary of Defense under President Ford.
Rumsfeld is believed to have earned around US$12 million from the sale of Searle to Monsanto.
Attorney General John Ashcroft reportedly received $10,000 for his senatorial campaign from Monsanto in the mid 90s. Ashcroft's contribution from Monsanto was five times that of any other congressional hopeful. Ashcroft, and Sr. Bush Supreme Court appointee Clarence Thomas were instrumental in gaining Food and Drug Administation (FDA) approval for Monsanto's controversial artificial sweetener aspartame, which has been linked to over 200 ailments that include Alzheimer's disease, juvenile diabetes, depression, epileptic seizures, blindness, memory loss, excitability, weight gain, multiple sclerosis and lupus (The Idaho Observer, November, 2000). |