Cannabis has 'deadly' effect on most common form of cancer, study finds (1 Viewer)

[LovesMusic7360]

A cannabis extract has a "deadly" effect on melanoma skin cancer cells, a study found.

Researchers from Charles Darwin University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia found a cannabis extract has a "deadly" effect on melanoma cells in a laboratory setting.

Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers in the United States. Melanoma accounts for only about one per cent of skin cancers but causes around 80 per cent of skin cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

The anti-cancer effects of a specific extract from Cannabis sativa forced melanoma cells into a "programmed cell death" known as apoptosis, according to the study published in Cells journal.

Biotechnologist and co-author of the study Nazim Nassar said: "We know today how this extract attaches to the receptor on the cell surface and changes the messages to the inside of the cell to manipulate the normal growth, to force it to go into [a] death progress."

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When I first got my prescription for marijuana, they had me watch a film about the possible healing effects of it on cancer. There were people in the film saying that marijuana was responsible for being cured of melanoma. I took it with a grain of salt but now, I'm more inclined to believe them.

I know that marijuana helped save my life when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I would probably be dead now without it and the chemo I was on.

More studies need to happen. If marijuana can help fight cancer we need to know it and it needs to be available to people.

 

[where yat brah]

Bob Marley died from melanoma.

 

[Heathen]

My dad has skin cancer. Might be on the lookout for this strain in the near future.

 

[MT15]

While that is true and I didn’t know that, I don’t think that means this treatment is bogus. This would be a topical treatment according to the article. So smoking marijuana wouldn’t have done anything for his cancer.

 

[samiam5211]

Instead of using a grinder to grind up your weed, rub it on your skin until it breaks down into small enough pieces to smoke.

 

[LovesMusic7360]

My dad has skin cancer. Might be on the lookout for this strain in the near future.

It's the sativa marijuana they used that they say cures melanoma.

Many strains of marijuana are sativa.

They haven't worked out how to administer it yet. Hopefully they will reach that point soon.

 

[LovesMusic7360]

Bob Marley died from melanoma.

If you had read all of the article you would know that they didn't smoke it. It was delivered directly on the cancer tumor.

He also didn't get treatment for it until it was stage four and throughout his body.

Smoking it probably isn't the way to use it to kill cancer.

 

[zztop]

ahem... well theres other ways to intake it.. you can make cannabis butter, so it can be ingested internally. Or so I've heard. But yeah, my guess is scientists are probably trying to figure out how to more directly target the cancer with it

 

[CoolBrees]

Bob Marley died from melanoma.

He also discovered it in Stage 4 and refused to amputate or other such treatments due to his religion.

Our brains have cannabinoid receptors. We evolved with it as a synergistic coexistence. Cultures all over the world have used it for everything from the ceremony to the clothes they were wearing.

Cannabis was the victim of a massive propaganda and criminalization campaign for the better part of 100 years.

Cancer to epilepsy, AIDS to Parkinson's, cannabis has shown remarkable results with next to nothing in research $'s compared to pharmaceutical companies. In fact the studies of any substance only day back to the 2010's.

But none of it matters because we were all programmed that weed is bad and only burn out losers use it.

My dad has had skin cancer Numerous times. I told him about this research and he won't even hear it. He was an officer in the military you see and that is behavior unbecoming an officer. I have been in the cannabis industry for 9 years mind you and nothing will get through that many layers of propaganda. And he isn't alone.

ETA- where yay brah: I wasn't meaning all of that as a reply to you or anything, so please don't think I was admonishing you. I apologize if I came across that way

 

[zztop]

Cannabis was the victim of a massive propaganda and criminalization campaign for the better part of 100 years.

And mostly because of racism. Lots and lot of racism.

 

[SFIDC3]

He also discovered it in Stage 4 and refused to amputate or other such treatments due to his religion.

Our brains have cannabinoid receptors. We evolved with it as a synergistic coexistence. Cultures all over the world have used it for everything from the ceremony to the clothes they were wearing.

Cannabis was the victim of a massive propaganda and criminalization campaign for the better part of 100 years.

Cancer to epilepsy, AIDS to Parkinson's, cannabis has shown remarkable results with next to nothing in research $'s compared to pharmaceutical companies. In fact the studies of any substance only day back to the 2010's.

But none of it matters because we were all programmed that weed is bad and only burn out losers use it.

My dad has had skin cancer Numerous times. I told him about this research and he won't even hear it. He was an officer in the military you see and that is behavior unbecoming an officer. I have been in the cannabis industry for 9 years mind you and nothing will get through that many layers of propaganda. And he isn't alone.

ETA- where yay brah: I wasn't meaning all of that as a reply to you or anything, so please don't think I was admonishing you. I apologize if I came across that way

Yup, one of my friend's son's had non Hodgkins lymphoma. After being misdiagnosed in WI multiple times (he had just graduated from UW and working) they flew him home, got him to NIH and to one of the best cancer doctor's on earth.....This is about 7-8 years ago....he told the doc he didn't want him to prescribe his son opiods if at all possible....the doc replied that he never prescribes opiods.....only cannabis....