Thought some might find this interesting. remember how the NCI quickly changed an update to their website talking about Cannabis use for fighting cancer. the link will take you to what became of the FOI (Freedom of Information request) It is the correspondence that ultimately lead to the changing of the article. And BTW it pissed the NCI off they had to change it .. GOGO NCI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- National Cancer Institute's Cannabis and Cannabinoids PDQ | Muckrock In March, the National Cancer Agency (NCI), a component agency of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged the medicinal benefits of marijuana in its online treatment database. But the information only stayed up a few days, before it was scrubbed from the site. Now, newly obtained documents reveal not only how NCI database contributors arrived at their March 17 summary of marijuana's medical uses, but also the furious politicking that went into quickly scrubbing that summary of information regarding the potential tumor-fighting effects of cannabis, reports Kyle Daly at the Washington Independent. Phil Mocek, a civil liberties activist with the Seattle-based Cannabis Defense Coalition, obtained the documents as a result of a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request he filed in March after reading coverage of the NCI's action. Mocek has made some of the hundreds of pages of at-times heated email exchanges and summary alterations available on MuckRock, a website devoted to FOIA requests and government documents.