marijuana and cancer

Discussion in 'Human Science' started by fringe, Aug 29, 2011.

  1. fringe Registered Member

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    there is a man that lives in my province who was treating people in his community with hashoil to cure their cancer and various illnesses, with success. he was raided by the RCMP on several occasions, removing 1600 plants from his property. his name is rick simpson and he was giving this oil to people for free.

    he claims that smoking the oil doesnt work, but it works if u apply it to your skin as he did to himself when he had skin cancer or ingesting it to cure other cancers that is in your body, as he did with other people he know. he has a documentary on youtube called "run from the cure"

    there has been mainstream studies on this but there is no money to be made from people growing their own cure, and i highly doubt this is a hoax. conventional cancer treatment simply doesnt work as i know many people who died from it, chemo is a death sentence.

    right now in canada our marijuana laws are about to change either to fully legalize it or reform the medical marijuana program so that ppl who needs this cure can get it. this came about when ppl that couldnt get a doctor to sign the fourms just went and grew it and got caught and are fighting it in court.


    why so much fear and hate on marijuana and hemp?

    btw i cant post links so i had to delete them but i would suggest watching "run from the cure" if u are interested in alternative cancer treatments, its uploaded on youtube. and wikipedia has a section on "medical marijuana" and it discusses brain and breast cancer.
     
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  3. SomethingClever Registered Senior Member

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    I desperately want this to be true, but naturally I'm skeptical. can you supply any more details?
     
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  5. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Want to read more about Cannabis and Cancer? Check out these incredible studies and news stories!

    Marijuana May Fight Lung Tumors
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    Cannabis and Cancer Studies from SafeAccess.ca
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  7. whynot Registered Senior Member

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    Here is a good link! It proves that marijuana actually reduces the risk of cancer compared to none smokers.

    right now in canada our marijuana laws are about to change either to fully legalize it or reform the medical marijuana program so that ppl who needs this cure can get it. this came about when ppl that couldnt get a doctor to sign the fourms just went and grew it and got caught and are fighting it in court.


    why so much fear and hate on marijuana and hemp?

    btw i cant post links so i had to delete them but i would suggest watching "run from the cure" if u are interested in alternative cancer treatments, its uploaded on youtube. and wikipedia has a section on "medical marijuana" and it discusses brain and breast cancer.[/QUOTE]
     
  8. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I don't know about this. But it's well established that marijuana helps people survive cancer treatments.

    An almost universal side effect of chemotherapy is overwhelming nausea. Chemotherapy patients have a hell of a time getting enough nutrition because they're just not hungry and if they try to force it down they can't keep it down. And of course if you're trying to beat back a disease like cancer you need a lot of nutrition.

    Also, as we all know (not personally of course but from the testimony of our friends), an almost universal side effect of marijuana intoxication is "the munchies." Stoned people can clean out a refrigerator in an hour and a half and then order out for pizza.

    Duh? Let's give the chemotherapy patients marijuana!

    The son of some friends of ours had leukemia. The chemotherapy was only moderately successful because he was wasting away from malnutrition. So they just planted some pot in their backyard. (This was thirty years ago before the DEA took over the country.) Yeah, all his friends came over and their place became the most popular house in the neighborhood, but all their friends and neighbors understood and were compassionate about it. (Remember, 30 years ago.)

    Ending: He survived! We lost touch with them about 15 years ago, but these days they call you a "cancer survivor" if you live five years. To live fifteen years means that statistically, you really are cancer-free and the probability is very high that you will have a normal lifespan.

    So I don't know if any of the claims in the OP are true, but ganja should be legalized just for this.

    I have a dear friend with an eating disorder. Yeah, she brought it on herself by trying to make it as a fashion model 35 years ago, but once you develop an aversion to three square meals (not to mention other habits that are too disgusting to mention) it's hard to get over it. She looks like a refugee from Auschwitz, all her subcutaneous fat is gone from her body's desperate attempt to keep itself alive.

    She could sure use a little mota.
     
  9. Dysmania Registered Senior Member

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    It seems like there is obviously some great studies to be done with hash oil. As previously said, it is true, there is not many industries willing to fund these studies due to the lack of funds in which could ever be returned to them. While evidence has been proved that marijuana helps dealing with cancer there is not sufficient evidence about an actual cure. Even through my skepticism, however, I find there is something to be obvious about marijuana, that it becomes held in your fatty tissues quite quickly, and consequently its chemical namely THC is spread to your body which may be why such a chemical could easily be readily to help curing such illness. But in this specific case, it seems to me that the skin could absorb the THC nutrients by simply rubbing it on, for the particular case of skin cancer, however suggestions about any other type of cancer would be mislead.

    Now, there ought to be some kind of allowance for people who wish to find such cures for cancer through the uses of THC. And even though I believe this person was not entirely fallacious, he was ultimately breaking the law by distributing it, but I hope dearly that these cases will bring a rise in knowledge about the potentialities this plant could possibly have on the medical industry for the reasons of which it is a plant, which can't be patented, bad for the pharmaceutical companies, but good for the American population who cannot afford healthcare. But I guess this is where our societal values of today has led us to seeing solely the value of money and nothing else, which is quite sadistic of us, really.
     
  10. Bells Staff Member

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    It helps greatly with the nausea. I find it does anyway.

    I lost a stupid amount of weight in the last year. To the point where I was buying jeans in the kids section because adult jeans literally fell off me. During the treatments in the past, I was violently sick. I could not keep anything down. A sip of water had me puking my guts out within minutes.

    Marijuana never gave me the munchies. It just helped with the nausea and helped keep it at bay. I find I am not losing as much this time as I was last time. And I do think that I am a bit more prepared and am approaching everything differently. I had a stash (yes, I know.. very druggie like) here and did not wait for the nausea to start before I took a puff.. And for me at present, it only takes about 3-4 puffs to hold the need to vomit at bay. And so I am able to hold my food down better.

    :m:

    I am unsure about the belief that it cures cancer. What I do know is that it is helping me not throw up all day at present and it helps me keep my food down, which, to be honest, is vital for me at the moment.
     
  11. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    bells purly from the point of treating nausa, how does weed compare to maxolon and Stemetil both of which i belive is the standed treatment for nausa associated with chemo (at least they are what mum was given)
     
  12. Bells Staff Member

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    Metoclopramide made me feel sicker to be honest. It just made me want to crawl into bed and cry half the time. And I didn't find it that effective. My GP suggested I try weed and I did and it worked.

    It may sound kooky, but to me, the weed is much more effective and helpful, not to mention more natural than anything else at present. The way I see it, the less unnatural or man made chemicals I can put in my body now the better. I guess it is more a mental issue as well as it is just one less medication I am having to swallow or be injected with at present, which is a bonus. Yes, I am sneaking round the back of the house and smoking a few puffs of a joint 2-3 times a day, but it helps more than anything else. I am not smoking enough to get me high. It just allows me to eat and not vomit.
     
  13. NMSquirrel OCD ADHD THC IMO UR12 Valued Senior Member

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    it is akin to the God/no God debate..
    ppl will take a stand one way or the other and not listen to the other side no matter how many good arguments there are to the benefits of legalizing marijuana..

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  14. whynot Registered Senior Member

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    It also has some benefits for altimerse sp?

    \problems from smoking marijuana. It gives you the munchies and you can end up eatting more than you usually do.

    if you drive, don't drive while under the influence of anything that would cause you to not be a safe driver and that means even med's for acid reflux.

    other things to think about that are bad for legalizing. hmmm thinking. nothing comes to mind.

    all the bad things that could happen would not if marijuana were legalized. criminal activities do not surround leaf smoking. Only those who are criminals in the first place and want to pick on someone or steal from them would be a bad side effect.

    for example. if your a group or gangster selling, than your probably into criminal activities and selling pot is the least of anyone's problems. its the other things people do that give people propoganda to point at smoking as the culprit.

    for instance on steve wilkos show was asking about legalizing marijuana. a propaganda on his part to attack smokers was to put this poor lady on his show that had almost lost her son. She was cleaning her home. opened a window with a 2 yr. old playing around. Two friends came over to smoke with her. She went down stairs for a moment. When she came back up her friends just witnessed her son fall through the open window, which she believes they opened not her. anyway she runs down stairs to find him thankfully alive. now they want to blame her as a unfit parent because of smoking at the time. Not attack the real person to blame the manager for a unsafe , unsecure dangerious window for a child to fall through. child safetly should of been the issue and educating the public on child safety issues should of been the show. not victimizing some poor lady who should have her child given back to her. imo. I think people who are ignorent talk about smoking as a negative and who cares about what it does for people. than they twist things around, who cares about peoples suffering, look what it bad things it does. and you search for how it is bad and come up with pretty much nothing if you educate yourself. even doctors are not educated completely on the issues and think it a depressent. there are law suits going out to doctors who put women who are preggo on anti depressants for depression because they smoke. smoke is not a depressent, its a mood swing enhancer. it does not cause birth defects either like anti depressants do. yet these doctors are being sued because of their ignorance now.

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