Science Shows Marijuana Can Help Kill Tumors, Federal Government Admits

[Playinghardball]

The information war about marijuana may have turned a new page with the federal government’s acknowledgment of a recent study that found the plant can significantly reduce aggressive types of brain tumors when combined with radiation treatment, endorsing what medicinal marijuana advocates have long affirmed as its healing properties.

A team of researchers from St. George’s University of London recorded reductions in high-grade glioma masses — a deadly form of brain cancer — in mice. The mice’s tumors shrank after they were exposed to radiation in tandem with two marijuana compounds: THC, which creates the “high feeling,” and CBD, which has no psychoactive side effects. In their report, the researchers said that both cannabinoids made tumors more receptive to the radiation treatment, creating what lead author Dr. Wai Lui described to HuffPost as a “triple threat” approach.

“We’ve shown that cannabinoids could play a role in treating one of the most aggressive cancers in adults,” Liu wrote in an op-ed earlier this year. “The results are promising…it could provide a way of breaking through glioma and saving more lives.”

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a government drug abuse and addiction research organization, may be on the cusp of a philosophical change. NIDA issued a revised statement about medical marijuana at the beginning of April that acknowledged the research out of St. George’s University of London, as well as other findings summarized in a November research report.

More here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/04/06/3643323/medical-marijuana-kills-tumors/

[Politicalboi]

1. This news is 41 years old

http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/pot_shrinks_tumors%3B_government_knew_in_%2774

Big pharma didn't want this either, along with our government. So they took the lab monkeys, and fed them constant marijuana smoke through rubber masks. Needless to say the monkeys pass out and lost brain cells. TaDa! Smoking Marijuana causes humans to lose brain cells. Still what some say to this day.

And this paragraph is true with one exception. Big Pharma DID make pot less of the high than it used to be. I should know, I have been smoking for over 30 years, and the pot today is way weaker than the pot of the 80's.

The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."

[central scrutinizer]

4. most research shows that THC levels have risen over the years

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/health/weed-potency-levels/

The stuff grown here on the west coast is way stronger than what I was buying back in the 70's - supposedly from Mexico, Colombia, Thailand

[F4lconF16]

8. You're getting your stuff from the wrong places.

The thc density has risen to unprecedented levels in recent years. Growing techniques have matured significantly, and there are literally hundreds of ways to adjust yield, from thc levels being boosted to other specific cannibinoids, to total crop weight being boosted, to adjusting the flavor profiles, or more likely, a combination of all three. That's not even mentioning the insanity of modern edibles: I've seen a single gummy bear with 60+ mg of thc. I know there's higher levels out there.

[truedelphi]

2. Ancient Chinese texts showed us that marijuana

Helped women deal with pain of menstrual cramps some five thousand years ago.

And a journal of neurology reported cannabis' help with spasms suffered by quadripalegics and MS patients some twenty years ago.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Here's some woo...

[SidDithers]

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