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A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer http://americanmarijuana.org/Guzman-Cancer.pdf
provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract
cancer, but preserve normal cells.
The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14570037&dopt=Abstract
found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals.
They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and
death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.
The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world
authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail
to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires
that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to
work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and
other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die."
"But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring
that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new
blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant."
In other words, this article explains several ways in which cannabinoids might be used to
fight cancer, and, as the article says, "Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not
produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies.
Usually, any story that even suggests the possibility of a new treatment for cancer is greeted
with headlines about a "cancer cure" - however remote in the future and improbable in fact
it might be. But if marijuana is involved, don't expect any coverage from mainstream media,
especially since mainstream editors have been quietly killing this story for the past thirty years.
That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974.
Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes
of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC
slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.
The Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974.
Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part: "The active chemical agent in
marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity
reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered.
" The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced
leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
"News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country. The news broke
quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article,"
complained MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan , who said he was only able to find the article through
a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. "The New York Times, The Washington Post,
and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance
occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors," added Cowan.
On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story
by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74."
Media coverage since then has been nonexistant, except for a copy of the story on Alternet .
It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed
for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why?
According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition .
"If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the
suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some
herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical
cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism,
science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.
Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, familes exhausted their savings
on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana
has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.
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Re:Cannabis cures cancer?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 08:15:10 PM »
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Not according to the christian crackpots I heard on the radio last night saying that marijuana leads to harder drugs and causes mental illness. Funny that just last week they were advocating the use of psychiatric medicines.
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2006, 08:22:23 PM »
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The glorification of drugs, just because they are illegal, absolutely disgusts me.
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They're not exactly "glorifying" them, if that's what you're implying.
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2006, 11:23:22 PM »
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Yes, they are. People are always saying stupid things like "cigaretes are more deadly than pot!" or "with LSD you can learn a whole language in one night!". Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes. They usualy get better or worse depending on how much pot they are consuming. LSD in particular is one drug I can completely understand making illegal. Stupid teens should definitely not be allowed to use it. Unlike soft drugs like say, crack cocaine, you only need to use it once in moderation to permanently damage your brain. If you want the "pleasure" of insanity (which is what LSD gives you), you can get that locked up in a cell. I hear isolation is quite effective at driving people crazy.
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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2006, 08:06:24 AM »
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There are too many conflicting reports on the benefits and costs of drugs therefore the only way to know for sure is to try them yourself.
Unfortunately, because of the government's regulations, I cannot do that.
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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2006, 12:09:13 PM »
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This article isn't glorifying marijuana because it's illegal. There are certain groups of people who attribute incredible effects to nearly every plant that can be ingested, and marijuana is no different. There have been plenty of people who spoke in glowing terms of the benefits of marijuana use, even before it was made illegal (ditto for LSD). Such people might get more press now as part of attempts to re-legalize marijuana or LSD or whatever, but that's a different matter entirely.
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« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2006, 02:08:59 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2006, 04:43:00 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2006, 05:28:40 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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He claims he has imbided heavily of cannabis drugs.
Again, what's your excuse for being such a mess?
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot
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People will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last bureaucrat.
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« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2006, 09:14:47 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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He claims he has imbided heavily of cannabis drugs.
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1. Are you sure that is a real word?
2. I will not discuss Robin.
Again, what's your excuse for being such a mess?
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Why do you consider me a mess?
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« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2006, 10:21:05 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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He claims he has imbided heavily of cannabis drugs.
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1. Are you sure that is a real word?
2. I will not discuss Robin.
Again, what's your excuse for being such a mess?
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Why do you consider me a mess?
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You're right, it's imbibe.
As far as why I consider you a mess; I challenge you to review all of your posts from all of your accounts. If you are serious in ~80% or more of your posts I would consider you insane. If you are serious in less than ~60% of your posts I would say you are a troll. So, which is it?
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot
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People will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last bureaucrat.
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« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2006, 11:41:07 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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He claims he has imbided heavily of cannabis drugs.
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1. Are you sure that is a real word?
2. I will not discuss Robin.
Again, what's your excuse for being such a mess?
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Why do you consider me a mess?
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You're right, it's imbibe.
As far as why I consider you a mess; I challenge you to review all of your posts from all of your accounts. If you are serious in ~80% or more of your posts I would consider you insane. If you are serious in less than ~60% of your posts I would say you are a troll. So, which is it?
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I'm obviously serious in ~70% of my posts.
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« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2006, 11:49:53 PM »
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Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes.
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So what is your excuse?
BTW, did you and Robin Hood meet? He claims he has imbided heavily.
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He claims he was what??
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He claims he has imbided heavily of cannabis drugs.
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1. Are you sure that is a real word?
2. I will not discuss Robin.
Again, what's your excuse for being such a mess?
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Why do you consider me a mess?
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You're right, it's imbibe.
As far as why I consider you a mess; I challenge you to review all of your posts from all of your accounts. If you are serious in ~80% or more of your posts I would consider you insane. If you are serious in less than ~60% of your posts I would say you are a troll. So, which is it?
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I'm obviously serious in ~70% of my posts.
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I should have seen that coming. So, you remain a mystery to me.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot
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People will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last bureaucrat.
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« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2006, 01:50:02 AM »
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« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2006, 06:31:18 AM »
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Yes, they are. People are always saying stupid things like "cigaretes are more deadly than pot!" or "with LSD you can learn a whole language in one night!". Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes. They usualy get better or worse depending on how much pot they are consuming. LSD in particular is one drug I can completely understand making illegal. Stupid teens should definitely not be allowed to use it. Unlike soft drugs like say, crack cocaine, you only need to use it once in moderation to permanently damage your brain. If you want the "pleasure" of insanity (which is what LSD gives you), you can get that locked up in a cell. I hear isolation is quite effective at driving people crazy.
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Do you have any personal experiance in the matter? Or are you just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian as usual?
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« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2006, 10:07:04 AM »
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Marijuana, Shrooms, Ecstasy, Yabba, Opium, Valium, Speed, Cocaine, Laughing Gas and innumerable variants thereof don't seem to have turned me into a mess at all.
Having said that 'drugs are bad' and I know a few casualties of sorts. Also I did most of that when pretty young so it was easier to recover. I've really exhausted them as a means of enjoyment so I shan't be taking vey often at all.
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Yes, that's something I knowingly won't touch; though I probably have in other forms with other drugs but in small quantities.
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« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2006, 12:40:13 PM »
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Yes, they are. People are always saying stupid things like "cigaretes are more deadly than pot!" or "with LSD you can learn a whole language in one night!". Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes. They usualy get better or worse depending on how much pot they are consuming. LSD in particular is one drug I can completely understand making illegal. Stupid teens should definitely not be allowed to use it. Unlike soft drugs like say, crack cocaine, you only need to use it once in moderation to permanently damage your brain. If you want the "pleasure" of insanity (which is what LSD gives you), you can get that locked up in a cell. I hear isolation is quite effective at driving people crazy.
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Do you have any personal experiance in the matter? Or are you just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian as usual?
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I have never taken illegal drugs. I took prescribed behavioural modification drugs for a couple of months. I have never smoked. I started drinking alcohol when I was two. I no longer drink, at all, though I consider a glass of wine taken with a meal to be harmless. I do know quite a few drug users/ex-users though.
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« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2006, 04:15:52 PM »
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Yes, they are. People are always saying stupid things like "cigaretes are more deadly than pot!" or "with LSD you can learn a whole language in one night!". Every heavy user of pot I have ever known was a complete mess. The light users were light messes. They usualy get better or worse depending on how much pot they are consuming. LSD in particular is one drug I can completely understand making illegal. Stupid teens should definitely not be allowed to use it. Unlike soft drugs like say, crack cocaine, you only need to use it once in moderation to permanently damage your brain. If you want the "pleasure" of insanity (which is what LSD gives you), you can get that locked up in a cell. I hear isolation is quite effective at driving people crazy.
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