The case for legal weed

This article is gonna be a trip!

It will be interesting to see what this particular post does to this website, traffic-wise — will an article about legalizing weed turn up the ‘traffic knob’ for this website, or will it do the opposite and shrink my traffic beyond belief? Only time will tell, but I predict it will be the former and that traffic will go up after I post this article.

I make that prediction because I know how many people love the healing herb, commonly known as marijuana. I know that out of the people that I’ve met in my life over 50% occasionally enjoy it in one way or another, and probably 70-80% of the people I’ve met would be happy to see it legalized and put into a more controlled environment where it could be regulated and quality could be monitored. I also know there are some very vocal (and uneducated) folks out there who think legalization would be nothing short of the end of the world, so it wouldn’t be completely surprising to me if the traffic to this site drops after putting up this post — but I don’t care. I’m going to post it anyway.

This article is a big one, coming in at just under 6000 words, so get yourself into a comfy seat, grab a drink, and if you’re cool, smoke a doobie and get ready for a good long read about many of the reasons weed should be legal.

Health

I think the first and most important place to start this article is the health issues surrounding marijuana. Most people have been taught that marijuana is bad and it causes health problems like cancer, schizophrenia, amotivational syndrome (laziness), and general stupidity, among others. Of course none of these things are true, and are quite laughable considering all of the medicinal uses for cannabis, but these myths are still being perpetuated by the mainstream media and the people who stand to lose their jobs if weed is ever legalized. Many people involved in the justice system (police, jails, courts), pharmaceutical industry, big oil & fossil fuels industry, pulp and paper, plastics, and others all want to keep you believing that marijuana is bad, wrong, and evil, because if it’s ever legalized it will bring all of the above listed industries to their knees, and many of their jobs will be lost. I guess most of them aren’t looking for a career change any time soon.

By the end of this article I will have destroyed all of those myths and many more, but let’s start first with cancer. The easiest of the myths to debunk, thanks to recent research into the effects of cannabis and THC (the active ingredient in cannabis) on cancer.

To put it simply, cannabis does not cause cancer. It never has and hopefully never will. Smoking cannabis actually lowers your risk of getting cancer and shrinks certain kinds of tumors! If you’re new to the truth about cannabis this might sound unbelievable, but it’s true. There are also many people who say that cannabis has cured cancer completely, and I mean really sick people who were told they didn’t have long to live returning to full health in a few weeks by ingesting Rick Simpson’s hemp oil cure for cancer.

Don’t believe it? Check out the documentary titled “Run From The Cure: The Rick Simpson Story”. You can watch the entire documentary for free by heading to the movies section of this website, it’s listed there twice, you can’t miss it.

Here’s just a few studies about marijuana (THC) and cancer:

Federal researchers implanted several types of cancer, including leukemia and lung cancers, in mice, then treated them with cannabinoids (unique, active components found in marijuana). THC and other cannabinoids shrank tumors and increased the mice’s lifespans. Munson, AE et al. Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Sept. 1975. p. 597-602

Researchers at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, funded by NIDA, followed 65,000 patients for nearly a decade, comparing cancer rates among non-smokers, tobacco smokers, and marijuana smokers. Tobacco smokers had massively higher rates of lung cancer and other cancers. Marijuana smokers who didn’t also use tobacco had no increase in risk of tobacco-related cancers or of cancer risk overall. In fact their rates of lung and most other cancers were slightly lower than non-smokers, though the difference did not reach statistical significance. Sidney, S. et al. Marijuana Use and Cancer Incidence (California, United States). Cancer Causes and Control. Vol. 8. Sept. 1997, p. 722-728

In a 1994 study the government tried to suppress, federal researchers gave mice and rats massive doses of THC, looking for cancers or other signs of toxicity. The rodents given THC lived longer and had fewer cancers, “in a dose-dependent manner” (i.e. the more THC they got, the fewer tumors). NTP Technical Report On The Toxicology And Carcinogenesis Studies Of 1-Trans- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, CAS No. 1972-08-3, In F344/N Rats And B6C3F Mice, Gavage Studies. See also, “Medical Marijuana: Unpublished Federal Study Found THC-Treated Rats Lived Longer, Had Less Cancer,” AIDS Treatment News no. 263, Jan. 17, 1997

Donald Tashkin, a UCLA researcher whose work is funded by NIDA, did a case-control study comparing 1,200 patients with lung, head and neck cancers to a matched group with no cancer. Even the heaviest marijuana smokers had no increased risk of cancer, and had somewhat lower cancer risk than non-smokers (tobacco smokers had a 20-fold increased lung cancer risk). Tashkin D. Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer: Results of a Case-Control Study. American Thoracic Society International Conference. May 23, 2006

And here’s a link to a list of studies about cannabis and cancer.

This is not surprising, considering that up until the 1890′s the most used medicines in America for both humans and animals were made with strong extracts of marijuana and hashish. Even Queen Victoria used cannabis resins for menstrual cramps and PMS and her time as queen (1837-1901) saw a dramatic increase in the use of Indian cannabis medicines.

Medicinal Marijuana Throughout History

For at least 3000 years prior to this cannabis had been used in one form or another (buds, leaves, roots, stalk, etc.) in nearly all of the most commonly used and most accepted medicines. It was used for everything from fatigue and fits of coughing, to asthma, headaches, and depression.

Archaeologists and anthropologists cite physical evidence showing cannabis is one of the oldest crops to be cultivated on the planet. It is known that hemp has been used widely for at least 10,000 years when it was common to use baskets woven with hemp fibers. We now know that cannabis was being used medicinally in China since the 27th century B.C. That’s a long, long history of medicinal use!

Medical Marijuana Today

Today we see marijuana being used for a wide variety of health concerns. I’ll go over a few of the more common medicinal uses in this article, but there are really just too many uses to list them all in this article, so don’t be surprised if you hear of it being used for other reasons than those listed here.

Alzheimer’s disease – Research conducted by the Scripps Research Institute in California shows that THC prevents the deposits in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease from forming. THC also prevents an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase from speeding up the formation of “Alzheimer plaques” in the brain more effectively than pharmaceutical drugs. THC is also more effective at blocking clumps of protein that can inhibit memory and cognition in Alzheimer’s patients, as reported in Molecular Pharmaceutics.

HIV/AIDS – The Columbia University published clinical trial data in 2007 showing that HIV/AIDS patients who got stoned four times a day would eat far more and experienced little discomfort or cognitive impairment. They concluded that smoked marijuana has a clear medical benefit in HIV patients. Another study in 2008 conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that marijuana significantly reduces HIV-related neuropathic pain when added to a patient’s already-prescribed pain management regimen and said that it “may be an effective option for pain relief” in those whose pain is not controlled with current medications. Mood disturbance, physical disability, and quality of life all improved significantly for those being tested during the study. Despite management with opioids and other pain modifying therapies, neuropathic pain continues to reduce the quality of life and daily functioning in HIV patients. Cannabinoid receptors in the nervous system have been shown to modulate pain perception. No serious adverse effects were reported, according to the study published by the American Academy of Neurology.

Brain cancer - A study by Complutense University of Madrid found the chemicals in marijuana destroy brain cancer cells by making them to feed upon themselves in a process called autophagy. The research team discovered that cannabinoids like THC had anticancer effects in mice with human brain cancer cells and in people with brain tumors. When mice with the human brain cancer cells received the THC, the tumor shrank. Using electron microscopes to analyze brain tissue taken both before and after a 26- to 30-day THC treatment regimen, the researchers found that THC eliminated cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. The patients did not have any toxic effects from the treatment; previous studies of THC for the treatment of cancer have also found the therapy to be well tolerated.

Breast cancer – According to a 2007 study at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, cannabidiol (CBD) may stop breast cancer from spreading throughout the body. These researchers believe their discovery may provide a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy while achieving the same results minus the painful and unpleasant side effects. The research team says that CBD works by blocking the activity of a gene called Id-1, which is believed to be responsible for a process called metastasis, which is the aggressive spread of cancer cells away from the original tumor site.

Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - One of the more surprising research results from the last decade has been the finding that smoking cannabis does not increase the risk of developing lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among people who do not smoke tobacco, and may indeed confer a mildly protective effect. Beginning in 2001, multiple research teams began to report results showing that smoking cannabis does not, by itself, increase the risk of lung cancer, and this result is now well-established. Many studies did report a strongly synergistic effect, however, between tobacco use and smoking cannabis such that tobacco smokers who also smoked cannabis dramatically increased their already very high risk of developing lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by as much as 300%. Some of these research results follow below:

• In 2006, Hashibe, Morgenstern, Cui, and Tashkin, et al. presented the results from a study involving 2,240 subjects that showed non-tobacco users who smoked marijuana did not exhibit an increased incidence of lung cancer or head-and-neck malignancies. These results were supported even among very long-term, very heavy users of marijuana.

Tashkin, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years, said, “It’s possible that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana smoke may encourage apoptosis, or programmed cell death, causing cells to die off before they have a chance to undergo malignant transformation”. He further commented that “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”

• Researchers from the University of British Columbia presented a study at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference showing that smoking marijuana and tobacco together more than tripled the risk of developing COPD over just smoking tobacco alone.
  

• Similar findings were released in April 2009 by the Vancouver Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease Research Group. The study reported that smoking both tobacco and marijuana synergistically increased the risk of respiratory symptoms and COPD. Smoking only marijuana, however, was not associated with an increased risk of respiratory symptoms of COPD. In a related commentary, pulmonary researcher Donald Tashkin wrote, “…we can be close to concluding that marijuana smoking by itself does not lead to COPD”.

• One of the principal constituents of cannabis, THC, has been found to reduce tumor growth in common lung cancer by 50 percent and to significantly reduce the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University, who tested the chemical in both in vitro lab studies and in mouse studies. The researchers suggest that THC might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung cancer.

Opioid Dependence – Injections of THC eliminate dependence on opiates in stressed rats, according to a research team at the Laboratory for Physiopathology of Diseases of the Central Nervous System (France) in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Deprived of their mothers at birth, rats become hypersensitive to the rewarding effect of morphine and heroin (substances belonging to the opiate family), and rapidly become dependent. When these rats were administered THC, they no longer developed typical morphine-dependent behavior. In the striatum, a region of the brain involved in drug dependence, the production of endogenous enkephalins was restored under THC, whereas it diminished in rats stressed from birth which had not received THC. Researchers believe the findings could lead to therapeutic alternatives to existing substitution treatments.

In humans, drug treatment subjects who use cannabis intermittently are found to be more likely to adhere to treatment for opioid dependence. Historically, similar findings were reported by Clendinning, who in 1843 utilized cannabis substitution for the treatment of alcoholism and opium addiction and Birch, in 1889, who reported success in treating opiate and chloral addiction with cannabis.

Multiple Sclerosis – A review of six randomized controlled trials of a combination of THC and CBD extracts for the treatment of MS related muscle spasticity reported, “Although there was variation in the outcome measures reported in these studies, a trend of reduced spasticity in treated patients was noted.” The authors postulated that “cannabinoids may provide neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory benefits in MS.”

Glaucoma – Initial studies in the 1970s reported that smoked marijuana resulted in lower intraocular pressure hours after administration. The studies demonstrated that some derivatives of marijuana did result in lowering of IOP when administered orally, intravenously, or by smoking, but not when topically applied to the eye. The duration of the pressure-lowering effect is reported to be in the range of 3 to 4 hours. Benefits also include euphoria as an acute effect.

Cannabis as a Personal Development Tool

It’s not a coincidence that so many different cultures and religious groups throughout history have used cannabis as a holy sacrament (see below) and as a way to gain a stronger connection to God — this is because it allows you to communicate with higher levels of yourself and can be an aid in meditation or relaxation practices. It can help you discover different parts of yourself and deal with emotional stress more easily. It’s ‘chill-out’ quality is what many people love about it.

It can help you come to terms with issues you’re not comfortable dealing with most of the time, and it can give you a new perspective from which to work through your own personal issues. Cannabis can also offer a sort of ‘release’ and a wonderful feeling that ‘everything is alright’. Cannabis can be an amazing stress reliever whether smoked, vaporized, or eaten.

Does Cannabis Cause Schizophrenia or Psychosis?

Using marijuana does not directly cause psychosis or schizophrenia. That much should be plainly obvious — many many many people that I know have smoked cannabis for nearly their entire lives (we’re talking people in their 60′s or even into their 70′s) and have not had any trouble with psychosis or schizophrenia. So many people smoke large amounts of cannabis regularly that it would be obvious if it were a cause of any sort of mental illness. With over 50% of the population smoking cannabis at least occasionally it would be easy to tell if it was causing any sort of illness at all, especially something like schizophrenia.

Of course there are plenty of bias or junk studies to show indirect links between cannabis and psychosis, but like I said, they are mostly ambiguous or conducted in such a way to make cannabis look bad. Most of those studies were funded by the pharmaceutical industry in a smear campaign and an attempt to keep it outlawed.

Here is a recent study from Denmark that suggests that people who react badly to cannabis with psychotic symptoms are probably likely to develop the illness anyway. Here’s what they say:

“The results agree with those of other studies that show that cannabis predominantly causes psychotic symptoms in those persons who are predisposed to develop psychosis or show signs of psychosis in the absence of cannabis use“.

and

“Psychotic symptoms after cannabis use should be taken extremely seriously. It is recommended that individuals with a cannabis-induced psychosis … be treated as though the condition is a first sign of schizophrenia, regardless of predisposition to a psychiatric disorder“

So it looks like when someone has a psychotic reaction to cannabis it is an early detection sign that the person might already have the disorder.

Legal Weed Could Revolutionize World Industries

In the past it was against the law to have a farm and not grow hemp. This sounds funny but that’s because it was widely known that hemp was the most abundant and useful plant known to man. It has been throughout all of history and only recently has it been outlawed and all of it’s uses forgotten.

The earliest papers were written on hemp papers, and hemp was used in almost everything: rope, clothing, baskets, papers, plastics, building supplies, paints, glue, and so much more. All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s.

Hemp is eight times stronger than cotton and more air-permeable. Hemp can grow up to 16 feet in 100 days without the use of dangerous pesticides or herbicides.

Famous folks used hemp for all sorts of things. Rembrandt (1606- 1669), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and Thomas Gainsborough (1727- 1788) all painted primarily on hemp canvas with hemp-oil based paints. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America. Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp — Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow’s export to England.

The Pharmaceutical Industry

As you can probably tell by the information above, cannabis could give the pharmaceutical industry a serious run for it’s money, but the funny thing is that there would really not be much money in cannabis medicine if it were to be made legal. Growing cannabis plants is cheap, the only reason it’s so expensive right now is because it’s illegal and sold as a street drug for profit.

Imagine living in a world where most common medicines were extremely cheap and completely safe to use. Imagine being able to grow your own medicine in your back yard or in your safely constructed indoor garden… What a different world it would be! A much better one, I think, compared to what we see today with millions of people struggling each day to pay for dangerous medications that they’ve become addicted to thanks to big pharma and their Joe Shmo doctors who often write prescriptions just to make a few extra bucks.

Big Oil and Fossil Fuels

The first diesel engine was designed to run on hemp oil. In the 1930s Henry Ford produced an automobile that was 70 percent hemp plastic and ran on hemp based fuel and oils. Numerous other engines have been built to run on hemp products, including the “Hempcar” which circled the North American continent in 2001, completely powered by hemp oil.

The billionaires behind the oil industry are scared to death of this information getting out and becoming common knowledge. They know that if most people knew this they would demand to have hemp fueled vehicles! The cost of running a hemp fueled car would be extremely cheap and far more environmentally friendly in comparison to the petroleum fueled vehicles that we drive today. If the auto industry or any other big industry began to fully back hemp products the effects on the oil industry would be fantastically good for the betterment of all but those with their fingers in the pie.

Pulp, Paper, Plastics, & Rope

One acre of hemp can produce as much raw fibre as 4.1 acres of trees. Pulping hemp for paper produces a stronger paper that lasts far longer than paper made from trees, and it doesn’t yellow with age – bonus. Using hemp as a raw source for paper would eliminate the need to cut down our shrinking old-growth forests which contribute to climate control and clean the air we breathe.

Hemp cultivation and production does not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees.

William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst’s grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp, so he used his political weight to sway the industry away from hemp based products.

Hemp is a Super Food

Hemp seed is the most abundant source of easily digestible amino and fatty acids. Hemp seed contains all of the essential amino and fatty acids in one easy to digest seed that tastes similar to a sunflower seed. Hemp is so nutritious that it’s actually considered to be a superfood, it contains everything necessary to maintain human life. That’s an amazing seed if you ask me!

The seeds can be eaten raw, ground into a meal, sprouted, made into hemp milk, prepared as tea, and used in baking. The fresh leaves can also be eaten in salads. Products range from cereals to frozen waffles, hemp tofu to nut butters. A few companies produce value added hemp seed items that include the seed oils, whole hemp grain (sterilized because of legal restrictions), hulled hemp seed (the whole seed without the mineral rich outer shell), hemp flour, hemp cake (a by-product of pressing the seed for oil) and hemp protein powder. Hemp is also used in some organic cereals.

Because of it’s incredible speed of growth and awesome nutritional content, hemp seed could be used to fight starvation in countries facing food crises and problems with malnutrition and starvation, but because of it’s legal status in almost every country, hemp is not being used to feed the hungry.

The Effect of Legalization on Crime Rates

For a long time the people behind the prohibition of cannabis have tried to link crime rates with cannabis, saying that if they were to legalize weed there would be a massive increase in crime. This is an outright lie, and one has to look no further than this recent report coming from the Netherlands where their lax cannabis laws were often said to have caused the country to be over-run with crime — too bad they’re closing their jails because they don’t have enough prisoners!

The simple fact is that with cannabis prohibition we leave control of a multi-billion dollar industry in the hands of an ‘underground’ black market. While it’s true that most street gangs and organized crime get their funding through the sales of drugs, including marijuana, it is certainly not a reason to keep it illegal. It’s actually a great reason to legalize it and take the control of cannabis out of the hands of the black market criminals and put it in the hands of qualified professionals. Doing this would cut funding to organized crime by an enormous amount and could return billions of dollars back into the economy.

What About The Gateway Theory?

The reason they call it a theory is because it’s never been proven. Recent studies have been utterly destroying the gateway theory and they’ve even been reporting these findings in the mainstream media. A study that just broke the news yesterday is this one from New Hampshire that says “Scientists call the gateway theory ‘half-baked.”

People don’t do other drugs because they smoke weed. IF there were such a connection it would probably be due to the fact that right now everyone has to get their weed from street dealers who sometimes have a variety of other drugs for sale too. The gateway theory could be remedied by putting weed up for sale in stores legally instead of forcing everyone to get such a common product from unlicensed drug dealers.

If Global Warming Was Real, Hemp Could Fix It

Even though the idea of man made climate change (global warming) has been smashed to pieces by actual science, the idea is still pretty popular. Let’s just pretend for a moment that temperatures are rising because of man made CO2. It’s commonly known that many marijuana growers add CO2 to their grow rooms because their plants suck up more than is naturally in the air around them. Hemp plants love CO2, and if there were even a few industries (auto, pulp & paper, etc) backing hemp there would be massive fields of it growing EVERYWHERE. This would be the most sensible and fast acting solution to our apparent CO2 problem, all of those hemp plants growing in such huge numbers would suck up so much of that ‘extra’ CO2 that Global Warming would finally be a thing of the past.

The Religious use of Cannabis

Religious groups throughout history have used cannabis as a sacrament, a healing herb, medicine, a visionary aid, and a ritual link to the gods. Some examples of religious uses of cannabis can be found in:

Shintoism (Japan) – Cannabis was used by married couples to drive away evil spirits and was believed to bring laughter and happiness to any marriage.

Hinduism (India) – The god Shiva is said “to have brought cannabis from the Himalayas for human enjoyment and enlightenment.” Sadhu priests travel throughout India and the world sharing “chillum” pipes stuffed with fresh cannabis, occasionally mixed with other substances. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna states that he is the “healing herb” and the Bhagarat-purana Fifth Canto describes hashish in sexual terms.

Buddhism (Tibet, India, and China) – Buddhists have used cannabis ritually since the 5th century B.C. in initiation rights and other mystical experiences that are common in many sects. Some Tibetan Buddhists consider cannabis their most holy plant. It’s fabled that the Buddha himself used and ate only hemp and hemp seeds for the six years before discovering his truths and becoming the Buddha.

Zoroastrians (Persia) – It is believed by many Christian scholars that the Three Wise Men or “Magi” were Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrian religion is based entirely on the cannabis plant which they used as a religious sacrament and their most important medicine. The also used it as incense, and anointing oils.

Essenes (ancient Israeli sect of Hebrewites) – Medicinal users of marijuana.

Theraputea (Egypt) – Also medicinal users of hemp and marijuana extracts.

Early Jews - In the Temple of Solomon on Friday nights, 60-80,000 men would pass around and inhale 20,000 incense burners filled with cannabis, which they called ‘kanabosom’ before heading home for the biggest meal of the week.

Sufi’s of Islam (Middle East) – Muslim priests have used cannabis for divine revelation and oneness with Allah for the last 1000 years or more.

Coptic Christians (Egypt/Ethiopia) – Some sects are of the belief that the “green herb of the field”, the secret incenses, sweet incenses, and anointing oils were all made of cannabis and cannabis extracts.

Bantus (Africa) – The secret Dagga Cults restricted cannabis use to only the ruling men. Pygmies, Zulus, and Hottentots used it for cramps, epilepsy, and gout, as well as a religious sacrament. These tribes believed cannabis was brought to earth by ‘the gods’ from “Two Dog Star”, what we call Sirius A and B. The word Dagga actually means cannabis.

Rastafarians (Jamaica and abroad) – And of course everyone knows that the Rastafarians love their herb. Known to the Rastafarians as ‘Ganja’, they believe the herb allows them to communicate with God (Jah).

Freedom Demands Legal Weed

The most important reason that weed should be legalized is because it’s a personal lifestyle choice and any freedom loving individual should respect the life choices of his fellow man/woman so long as they don’t hurt anyone else or their property and they don’t try to force their lifestyle choices upon anyone else. Why should anyone be allowed to tell someone else that they can’t ingest their favorite herb or grow their own all natural medicines? They can’t! Outlawing a plant like they have done to cannabis is basically genocide against a species of plant and it should not be tolerated!

Cannabis has the potential to solve a lot of the problems we’re currently faced with, and it could help so many people who are sick and dying without safe natural medicines that could be easily produced for low cost. It’s criminal to deprive so many sick people of the medicine they need, simply because there’s no profit in that medicine. In fact, it’s downright sick.

It’s also sick to hide from the world such an abundant and easy to produce alternative to oil and fossil fuels that are polluting our planet beyond belief. Hemp could quickly replace the dependency on poisonous fossil fuels with a safe and natural alternative. The only ones who stand to lose from such a positive shift are those who have billions of dollars invested in big-oil and have no sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.

So let’s use our common sense and get cannabis legal as soon as possible, alright?

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