What if cannabis cured cancer debunked

Here are a few comments after a recent article in Greenflower Media:. Stage 4 Neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas and Liver high grade to remission. It took me 1 year on cannabis oil to get a clear scan. This is an incurable cancer with microscpoic cells most likely still in my body.

BUT I have had 3 clear scans.. I continue with a maintenance dose for life. Cannabis oil provided the cure for my stage 4 pancreatic cancer. We can't help you. I've has 2 MRI's in the last 4 months and have been declared cancer. I'm a resident of Colorado and grew my first legal cannabis in I made RSO Rick Simpson Oil following his online instructions and then used the oil topically on a very nasty basel cell carcinoma on my left ear that had returned after having it surgically removed about 8 years earlier and after 6 days of applying the oil to the area, it dissolved and is clear.

In the test tube and in mice, cannabis fights cancer three ways. It is anti-angiogenic, suppressing the blood vessels tumors need to grow. And it is pro-apoptopic, causing cell death in cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone. Cannabis can be given to cancer patients in various ways.

It can be smoked or vaped or swallowed as cannabis oil in a capsule. It can be administered as an oil directly onto a tumor or it can be sprayed under the tongue. It can also be eaten, although that makes it more difficult to receive the correct dosage. It helps alleviate pain, depression, insomnia, nausea, and loss of appetite in cancer patients. Its curative effects may not yet be proved, but its palliative effects are striking.

I tell my patients that marijuana takes care of any combination of these. In the future, we may be able to credit marijuana with much more than helping with the symptoms. However, its healing effects are not limited to just cancer.

The documentary also outlines the misinformation campaign by both government and media as to the ill effects of cannabis on users. For instance, it is an eyebrow raising revelation that not a single recorded death has ever been attributed to cannabis, while it remains a Schedule I drug—along with heroin and meth—under the Controlled Substances Act.

The PR guys said I had to write to the individual researchers. So, I got all their information, emailed them, and offered them a free copy of the documentary. There was not a single response. Chemo therapy is hurting people. It makes me angry. People are excited about the evidence contained in his documentary, and with good cause.

To get a little more to the heart of the issue, I talked to Len from his home in L. I started smoking dope in the sixties, of course. I remember how I first started, I was dating this woman because I was trying to be straight and fit in.

On our first date, she held out a joint. But, of course, she was right! A few months later I came out. I later moved to London to be with a boyfriend and started writing sitcoms for BBC and British television.

There was one particular sitcom that I decided to put all of my sixties radicalism in it, marijuana, making fun of religion, and gay liberation. It was very popular, very funny, and was one of the first shows to depict the main characters smoking marijuana casually and celebrating healthy gay relationships. The CBS writers took out everything that made Agony so good: the gays, smoking pot, the radicalism, the left wing politics. It was soon after that I got heavily into the Gay Liberation movement.

I started promoting gay rights — and getting laid a lot. Of course, this freaked me out, along with the rest of family. But, she did a lot of research and found various herbs that she felt would help her. So, after four years of treating herself, by focusing on a vegan raw food diet and using anti-cancer herbs like Mistletoe, she had actually shrunk her tumor! I was amazed! This is when I started to really get into the idea of natural healing outside of the medical world. Through my research on this film, I stumbled onto a few cases where marijuana was used as a curing agent and just dug deeper.

As I soon discovered, there was quite a bit of evidence beginning to surface. There is a whole industry and makes a good living off the drug war. People are complimenting the research. My early hippie dreams of making a better world are coming true! And, of course, the study was funded by the folks who wanted to prove that pot is bad for you.

In your film, it is discussed that the primary compounds in cannabis that work as the curing agent are the endocannabinoids. Can you tell me a little bit about endocannabinoids and how they may be able to treat cancer?

The first guy I interviewed for the film, Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, started treating patients with cannabis and they started to get better. And what he told me was, whether you smoke marijuana or not you have marijuana-like substances in your body. The second issue affects the first substantially: the ethics behind human testing.

The reason it's impossible for the foreseeable future to get cannabis to the human trial stages, even if Federally descheduled tomorrow, is that in the current medical community it would be absolutely unethical for a doctor to ask her patient to refuse proven treatments in lieu of unproven plant extracts. A time may come that there are enough believers and overwhelming anecdotal evidence that it would be unethical to not allow human trials. For now, though, it's not going to happen. According to cancer.

In petri dishes and mice. So is, "Cannabis has shown the potential to fight certain cancers and tumors," a better argument? Yes, but only with massively important caveats, like keep going to the doctor and take the Western medicine shaming down a few notches. Lester Grinspoon, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of the first credible books to explore the safety then efficacy of cannabis , said this, "I think the day will come when it or some cannabinoid derivatives will be demonstrated to have cancer curative powers, but in the meantime, we must be very cautious about what we promise these patients.

Cancer rears its destructive head in many forms and locations. The allopathic oncology already developed and tested against specific varieties has saved lives. Their uses and success rates can be quantified. Now, as an adjunct to traditional therapy, I say yes, most definitely add cannabis to your treatment plan. Pump yourself or loved one full of concentrated cannabis oil tested and toxin free and do keep hope that it will slow or stop the gripping disease.

Just don't stop seeing your doctor. Listening to doctors of oncology when life is at stake should be your first and ongoing defense.