In my years of dealing with cancer in our family and all of the tragedy that it causes. I am completely emotional over what has happened in Japan. The tsunami was bad enough, but now with the radiation from fallout that is spreading all over our world, I have decided to put together a new approach to activism.

I have watched too many people suffer from nuclear fallout, and too many die.

My father and his family were raised in Utah’s west desert, mostly in Beaver county. In the 1940′s and 1950′s there was a lot of testing of new weapons in Nevada’s east desert. There were nuclear as well as other bombs being tested in that area, and for my father’s natural childhood he was raised there.

I was present when he was diagnosed with cancer, and within three months he was dead. Ive been told that he had other cancerous tissue removed from his skull 40 years ago. But when he died he suffered of Glioblastoma Multiforma stage 4. It was such a drastic and painful time for everyone, especially my father.

My grandmother died of breast cancer when I was 13. Another very traumatic time for myself and our family.

But within doing cannabis activism I have learned a lot of things about how cannabis interacts with cancer and cancer causing agents.

It has been found by many researchers that cannabis can cure certain cancers!
See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJcVr0GLsEA

It is also being found to be able to remove cancer causing properties from the soil, such as radiation and other toxins.

I have found some great information on how to clean the ground and drinking water, and I wanted to get more advice on this. Please read below.

In reference to the following articles:
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http://dew-drop.com/purificationofradioactivewater.html

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http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/articles/article_10.html

In February 1996, Phytotech, Inc., a Princeton, NJ-based company, reported that it had developed transgenic strains of sunflowers, Helianthus sp., that could remove as much as 95% of toxic contaminants in as little as 24 hours. Subsequently, Helianthus was planted on a styrofoam raft at one end of a contaminated pond near Chernobyl, and in twelve days the cesium concentrations within its roots were reportedly 8,000 times that of the water, while the strontium concentrations were 2,000 times that of the water. Helianthus is in the composite, or Asteraceae, family and has edible seeds. It also produces an oil that is used for cooking, in margarine, and as a paint additive. H. tuberosus was used by Native Americans as a carbohydrate source for diabetics.

Cannabis sativa.

In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine’s Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products. This industrial variety of hemp, incidentally, has only trace amounts of THC, the chemical that produces the “high” in a plant of the same genus commonly known as marijuana.

Overall, phytoremediation has great potential for cleaning up toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, gasoline, and explosives. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than 30,000 sites in the United States alone require hazardous waste treatment. Restoring these areas and their soil, as well as disposing of the wastes, are costly projects, but the costs are expected to be reduced drastically if plants provide the phytoremediation results everyone is hoping for.

Meanwhile, of the original four reactors at Chernobyl, Reactors 1 and 3 are still operating today, providing 6,000 jobs and about 6% of the Ukraine’s electricity. Reactor 2 was closed after a fire in 1991; the construction of Reactors 5 and 6 came to a grinding halt after the explosion.

References, Websites, and Further Reading

“Sunflowers Bloom in Tests to Remove Radioactive Metals from Soil and Water,” Wall Street Journal, 29 February 1996.

International Atomic Energy Association
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http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/

Environmental Protection Agency research and scientists page
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http://www.epa.gov/epahome/research.htm

From Plants Sites & Parks magazine, May/June 1996: Attacking the Root of the Problem.
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http://www.bizsites.com/PastPres/MJ96/insiteattacking.html

Central Oregon Green Pages: Hemp “Eats” Chernobyl Waste
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http://www.hemp.net/news/9901/06/hemp_eats_chernobyl_waste.htmlurl/url

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