Medical Benefits Of Marijuana – National Cancer Institute



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  1. Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist from Compultense University in Madrid, first reported in 1998 that TetraHydroCannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component of cannabis, induces tumor cell suicide while leaving healthy non-tumor cells alone. She discovered that when exposed to THC, tumor cells not only ceased to multiply and proliferate but also destroyed themselves, both in lab tests and animal trials.
    A Harvard study from 2007, which remains the most comprehensive ever released on THC’s potential to combat tumors, also found that in just three weeks, doses of THC were able to cut lung cancer tumor growth in half in mice subjects and were able to reduce cancer lesions by even more.
    Chemical components of Cannabis, called cannabinoids, activate specific receptors found throughout the body to produce pharmacologic effects, particularly in the central nervous system and the immune system. Commercially available cannabinoids, dronabinol and nabilone, are FDA approved drugs for the treatment of cancer-related side effects.

  2. Apparently we haven't been free since the federation started policing us in 1871. Land of the free but I can be locked up, caged like an animal for not being able to afford vehicle insurance or other petty things.

  3. Actually, studies shown in the Netherlands during the 1990's proved that driving while high on pot actually made for safer driving as the participants kept on or below the speed limit where as people on alcohol or heroin or amphets were always ready to go beyond it and crash through distraction.

  4. Don't be so naive. The "voters" don't have a choice or a voice in what goes on in the USA. This has been plainly demonstrated by the criminal vote-rigging fraud, from State to State, throughout the Republican campaign.
    The "voters" are given the illusion of choice and the illusion of a voice but it all comes down to them doing what they're told and if they don't like it then they can shut up or face the consequences!
    Don't believe me? 1984 = Pat Act I&II and NDAA = Martial Law = NOW

  5. Like most things in western medicine, things must be tested and replicated with many studies before it can get approved. This can take many years and longer with the firewall put up by the DEA. The DEA is not run by doctors nor scientists as they are just a product of Nixon politics. Only WE THE PEOPLE are RESPONSIBLE for who we vote for and what policies dont get updated as new information comes to light. Since half of eligable voters dont even vote, go figure…

  6. In 1999 I met a man in the USA that had Cancer and was going through chemo treatment. To aid his recovery, the USA government, through a prescription from his doctor, gave him cannabis in pill form.

    That was in 1999

    How can the USA Gov't claim it has NO MEDICINAL PROPERTIES if they themselves are administering it to patients, way back then, and still to this day?

    The USA Government TELLS LIES! FACT!

  7. i don't no what kind of weed your smoking but if i spark a joint on my property everybody in the neighborhood can smell it. but then again its Canada so no one gives a fuck

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