[News] Cannabinoids Kill Cancer and Our Government Has Known for 36 Years

[Moontanman]

Cannabinoids Kill Cancer and Our Government Has Known for 36 Years

 

A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.

 

The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.

 

http://www.gsalternative.com/2010/05/cannabinoids-kill-cancer/

[Gordon Freeman]

You know, the only reason the cure has never gone public is because as soon as one did, all the cancer walks, the fundraisers, the non-profit and profit organizations alike would collapse, and all the money they generate would falter under it's own weight.

 

Cancer, along with AIDs, herpes, and many other STIs, are easily curable, and the cures have already been produced, just not in mass-quantities, again for the collapse of our already diminishing economy.

 

How much you want to bet, that as soon as America drops below the 5th rank for world economy, it'll release the cure(s) for ridiculous amounts of money? It's only a matter of time anyways...

[Knothead]

My question is whether smoking pot is effective in any way in warding off or controlling cancer.

The article didn't say how the cannabinoids were administered to the rats, but I can't picture the little guys toking up. Or does it not matter how something is administered as long as it gets into the blood stream? :Guns:

Is it reasonable to assume that smoking marijuana on a regular basis is a healthy preventative measure against cancer?

[Gordon Freeman]

Is it reasonable to assume that smoking marijuana on a regular basis is a healthy preventative measure against cancer?

 

Don't get your hopes up haha.

[Knothead]

Don't get your hopes up haha.

 

Duuude, Anybody ever tell you that you're a buzz kill? :D

[Gordon Freeman]

Duuude, Anybody ever tell you that you're a buzz kill?

 

Not very often, tbh. But smoking it would be more like a long term thing, not a direct cure, if anything.

[C1ay]

Food for thought, why does the human brain have opioid and cannabinoid receptors if these substances have no useful purpose to humans?

[Turtle]

Food for thought, why does the human brain have opioid and cannabinoid receptors if these substances have no useful purpose to humans?

 

perhaps the plants evolved to produce the chemicals because we had the receptors. botany of desire sort of thing and all. puff puff pass...:bouquet:;)

[C1ay]

perhaps the plants evolved to produce the chemicals because we had the receptors. botany of desire sort of thing and all. puff puff pass...:bouquet:;)

 

... or our ancestors evolved those receptors as a result of the existence of the substances in our environment

[Knothead]

Not very often, tbh. But smoking it would be more like a long term thing, not a direct cure, if anything.

 

You're suggesting the possibility that long term habitual smokers could theoretically build up a resistance or immunity to those particular cancers?

[Gordon Freeman]

why does the human brain have opioid and cannabinoid receptors if these substances have no useful purpose to humans?

 

They do have a useful purpose. You gotta realize that receptors for human tissue cells and brain cells have many names, sometimes for the same receptor. The name indicates what it's currently being used for, but not necessarily to indicate an entirely new protein receptor altogether. It might be the same type of receptor, with many uses. Which is why cannibinoids affect growth, which is on a certain receptor, that they both share.

 

You're suggesting the possibility that long term habitual smokers could theoretically build up a resistance or immunity to those particular cancers?

 

It wouldn't be total immunity, smoking just helps prevent it, is all. I meant long term as in, the opposite to immediate. Smoking a jang won't cure you of cancer that same day, just help eat at it. So a weekly smoker might get some cancer resistance, but nothing serious. The cure OP was taking about is more likely than not a straight THC injection into a cancerous area. Nothing directly bloodstream though, as that would get you high, and would be treated as a medical misuse.

Edited August 9, 2010 by Gordon Freeman

[clapstyx]

THC, I'm told, also increases the frequency of realisation of new possibilities so since in some parts of the world thinking doesnt seem to be advancing much maybe the advice of Bob Dylan should be taken, legalise pot for a week, everyone gets stoned and we use the momentum of mass realisation to carry us foreward past our previous conceptual limits of mass consideration

[Gordon Freeman]

THC, I'm told, also increases the frequency of realization of new possibilities so since in some parts of the world thinking doesn't seem to be advancing much maybe the advice of Bob Dylan should be taken, legalize pot for a week, everyone gets stoned and we use the momentum of mass realization to carry us forward past our previous conceptual limits of mass consideration

 

Any hallucinogenic 'increases option of realization'. If you see **** that you've never imagined before, chances are, your brain is going to wake up and say, "Hey, maybe you're wrong about ****." Which in 99% of the cases, tends to be true. Giving pot to a third world country on a mass scale, will not help that country develop. Chances are, they became a third-world country because of their drug misuse.

 

Don't ever think that getting high and hallucinating while high will bring about positive outcomes. If you are high while hallucinating, you don't understand what's going on, nonetheless have the correct cognitive skills active to educe rational thought from it. Self-hallucination or sensory deprivation, while not high, is something that is truly mind expanding, not chemical consumption. Mostly because you can remember it thoroughly, and also make logic decisions during the experience. There is a reason DMT makes you fall asleep.

[Qfwfq]

Food for thought, why does the human brain have opioid and cannabinoid receptors if these substances have no useful purpose to humans?

Well, I don't know what cannabinoids share the same receptors with but opioids play the same game as the endorphines that regulate our sensory system as required. Ever heard of the runner's high?

 

This is in fact the very reason for addiction to heroine, when it takes a while for the physiology to resume endorphine production as usual, you can't take it without the externally added substitute and as long as you resort to yet another dose you just further the problem.

[Gordon Freeman]

Runners High is induced from lipid break down of fatty cells in our body, because lipids actually contain much more energy than carbs, but carbs are the 'instant' energy source, so the sudden boost of energy creates a 'high' feeling. I see where you were going, but that was a bad example. Addictions are mental nd physical afflictions, not energy consumption, if that makes sense.