Pot Shrinks Tumors; US Government Knew In '74

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	Pot Shrinks Tumors; US Government Knew In '74

rwatuny

8-29-2007 11:14 PM

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cannabis, marijuana, cancer, censorship, usa, thc

rwatuny says:

From the article :
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. This writer stumbled on it 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.

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8-30-2007 1:09 AM

BobbyRutan

From the article:

The Madrid researchers reported in the March issue of Nature Medicine that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2, a synthetic compound similar to THC. "All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma ( brain cancer ) cell inoculation ... Cannabinoid ( THC )-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats. THC administration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18. Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats...

8-30-2007 1:31 AM

skwirlinator

From all my observations pot make people stupid

8-30-2007 7:43 AM

rwatuny

From all my observations pot make people stupid

So does alcool.

It's all a matter of who's smoking and how.

See for exemple this article.

9-1-2007 11:48 AM

BobbyRutan

It's hardly stupid to try and find alternative treatments to cancer that don't leave people as physically drained as chemotherapy. Medicinal values of marijuana should not be discarded just to please the DEA.

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