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yea, that makes no sense cause medicine research is so cheap![end sarcasm]

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it seems that the weed is in fact a skin irritant and poison. they say that they've identified the molecule responsible for eating away at the cancer, but i wouldnt be surprised if this solution is similar to the freezing they already do for skin cancer: just kill the cells where applied.cancer cells are pretty hard to target because they are essentially the same as regular cells, except that they have no qualms about reproducing whenever they want to instead of when they are told to reproduce by surrounding cells. the body has no trouble killing cancer in small amounts (we all have cancer cells, but the immune system generally keeps them in check), but we do not yet really have a way to either boost the immune systems ability to deal with cancer or create a drug or pathogen capable of being as exacting as the immune system.if it is the case that this gel simply kills cells in general, then this couldnt really be added to sun tan lotion as some have suggested. if they have found a very exacting attacked of cancer cells, then this really is significant. the article does not say one way or the other, so i would tend to believe that this is nothing revolutionary.

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They will probably make this stuff very expensive just because of what it does. After all, we can't have the drug companies make a lower profit, can we? =/Anyway, this is from Australia? They're doing a good job discovering new things this year.

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just FYI: it is "intents and purposes" even though it sounds like (and is sometimes said) "intensive purposes" :-)

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"The weed was Petty Spurge not Cannabis"Orly?

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It just goes to show you what kind of diversity exists on this planet, and the benefits that can come from the things that are sitting right under our nose if someone would just take the time to look. It's a shame we're not spending more money investigating the natural cures that might be obtained from Mother Nature as opposed to bombing brown people, for instance.

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grants is not the same as the government actually doing the research themselves. The whole healthcare industry needs to be socialized because the big drug companies certainly dont care about your health.

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"The whole healthcare industry needs to be socialized because the big drug companies certainly dont care about your health."It's probably not worth responding to this, but . . . .You think government has a monopoly on all the good, kind, altrustic people, and that big companies attract all the bad and evil? A number of years ago I was sitting in a business meeting in one of those very big drug companies you refer to. Someone (a suit) suggested that a product be released that had minimal benefit but for which some money was sure to be made. The room chilled and one of the meeting directors said, in frosty tones, "we don't do business that way."Granted, it doesn't always work this way but I promise you that those big companies ultimately are just organizations of material resources and people, and while I grant you the resources don't care about you and your health, most of the people do.

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