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Weed Vs Cancer: What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know

huffingtonpost.com — "In the past 10 years scientists overseas have generously picked up where U.S. researchers so abruptly left off, reporting that cannabinoids can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells -- including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and brain cancer."

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  • aotf, on 06/24/2008, -0/+2Read even more about this subject here:

    Cannabinoids May Inhibit Cancer Cell Invasion

    ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2007) — Cannabinoids may suppress tumor invasion in highly invasive cancers, according to a study published online December 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

    Cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, are used to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment, such as pain, weight loss, and vomiting, but there is increasing evidence that they may also inhibit tumor cell growth. However, the cellular mechanisms behind this are unknown.

    How much longer will the US government continue to lie about this?
  • nkleffman, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1When anyone smokes pot and objectively considers what effect it had upon them, it is clear that the decision is a person's individual choice, and the harms caused to society by it's prohibition far outweigh the harms caused by the herb itself.

    So there must be some powerful forces working hard to keep this plant illegal.

    Big Pharm has always been one of my main suspects, because they wouldn't be making their money on drugs if people could just grow a plant in their backyard that would suffice for most minor medical problems.

    Corrupt feds and the private prison industry is another suspect, since 80% of all drug users only use pot, it would be a major blow to the funding of the War on Drugs if this herb was legalized, from more people not in jail to it being harder to bust people on probation for failing their drug test.

    However, the Cancer industry is a suspect I never wanted to consider.
  • nny777, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Paul Armentano talking about the Huffington Post article on the NORML site:
    http://blog.norml.org/2008/06/24/still-more-on-can ...
  • glockman69, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0Think about this...

    How many pot smokers do you know eventually got diagnosed with some type of cancer?

    Answer: Not very many!

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