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TUESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- While smoking marijuana is never good for the lungs, the active ingredient in pot may help fight lung cancer, new research shows.
Harvard University researchers have found that, in both laboratory and mouse studies, delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cuts tumor growth in half in common lung cancer while impeding the cancer's ability to spread.
Wow, do you have a link to the full article?
Sounds familiar, yet is new.
Printed 2 to give to my mother and aunt, avid butt smokers for years. I'll be like, 'If you ever consider this, holla at ya boy now...' LOL.
i like weed
Well now at least there NO WAY our Governments can deny cananbis having medicinal values.
They're one step ahead of us. Marijuana has absolutely no medical value to them, only THC. They neglect the fact that most of the other 66 unique cannabinoids are what really do most of the miracle work.Quote:
Originally Posted by LIP
LIP, our government sends 300 joints to 5 people still every month for medical purpose. That's the federal government. The same feds busting people in california for doing the same thing.
I, personally, belive America and Englands Governments are guilty of in-directly causing the deaths of many peolpe - simple by not legalising cannabis. Especially over here - we dont have any medical cannabis at all - and because it's illegal people dont want to use it - so they survive in pain - and sometimes dont survive - yet if it was legal i think they'd be able to get it and live a longer, happier life.
Our Governments are more interested in their jokes of laws than the well being and happiness of the people they work for.
Ok - that might be abit over the top - but i belive it's true.
--- I dont know why i bother posted the previous reply - of course they can - they've been denying it for years whist knowing full well it can help MANY ailments.
They just want people to suffer and die - and if they dont why arnt they making it legal? Or at least 100% legal, without prosecution for medicinal users. It should be just as legal as tobacco or alcohol.
^ yeah, also I don't think the government are in the position to show that they are giving into public pressure, no matter how many facts are being thrown at them they'll always deny it
So lung cancer victims should be eating hash cakes all day?
this type of research has been done for many different types of cancer... all showing the same results. The biggest plus in our arguement's direction is the fact that cannabinoid cell-surface recetors are over expressed in tumor cells and that allows us to selectively treat only cancer cells with a threshold concentration, without harming the normal cells.
Alot of true scientists see this as quackery and toss it into the pile with all the other claims that people make when they think they've "killed cancer cells" with a certain chemical. This is because there are many chemicals (toxic and non-) that you can feed to cells and make them die at these concentrations these guys are using. But the cannabinoid research is for real, i did a presentation on a research paper claiming cannabinoids can be used to treat prostate cancer.
If your curious about cancer cures... look into the company Antigenics. They have now developed a cancer vaccine that utilizes your own immune system to fight off your cancer. Immunotherapy is the future of cancer treatment.
Here's another link to the story ....
Cannabis compound slows lung cancer in mice
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wouldn't it be fantastic if doc's started scripping med-MJ vaporizing for folks that smoke lots of cigs?
here's my prophecy: THE MEDICAL USES OF MARIJUANA ARE THE ONLY WAY WE ARE GOING TO GET IT LEGALIZED
all the truth about it's lack of harmfulness isn't going to work, it's good to get the word out, but i don't think it can win the fight. the fight is already being one as more and more docs realize the uses of this drug.
now this discovery, holy shit, if this is substantiated it could be our knockout punch
prescriping MJ to heavy smokers to keep them from getting cancer? i imagine vaporizers would be the key. this has the potential of blowing the debate wide open. it this is true, it's fantastic beyond belief
the problem now is whether it really is true or not. MORE STUDIES! that's what we need. we need to know more.
we've already shown that the plant is incredibly useful and incredibly harmless. and it hasn't been enough to overcome our brainwashed culture. we need something this powerful to make it stick
i'm looking into med school myself and you can bet i'll have my eye on cannabis. i don't expect it to be a wonder drug; i don't expect it to cure cancer and aids and malaria. i do expect that it just might be the most useful, harmless, theraputic drug in the world. and if it can have serious medical benefits as well? man oh man, sooner or later the govt. has to give in
and it is, though very slowly. every step in the right direction is a victory. every decriminalization, med-mj, hemp law, however small, however restricted, is still a great step in the right direction.
we know it should be completely legal, and we know it's ludicrous that it is not, but beaurocracy is incredibly slow, and changing mass culture is even slower; but we work, we build, we grow....march on and free the herb