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  • Weed kills cancer.

    Researchers have been studying the medical benefits of marijuana for years, but this month marks the first time the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a research group funded by the US government, has acknowledged that cannabis extracts may help kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others.

    NIDA quietly revised a page on its website titled, "DrugFacts: Is Marijuana Medicine?" this month to state that, "Evidence from one cell culture study suggests that purified extracts from whole-plant marijuana can slow the growth of cancer cells from one of the most serious types of brain tumors."

    The update acknowledges research published last November in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapies by scientists from St. George's, University of London. The researchers found that THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in weed, and cannabidiol, an extract, caused "dramatic reductions" in the growth of glioma tumors in mice. Glioma accounts for 80 percent of malignant brain tumors in humans.

    "We've shown that cannabinoids could play a role in treating one of the most aggressive cancers in adults," Dr. Wai Liu, lead author of the study, wrote in an op-ed for the Huffington Post last year. Previous studies have shown that THC may have anti-tumor benefits, but the wrong dose can potentially increase the size of tumors.

    Marijuana's legal status and the stigma surrounding the plant have significantly hindered scientific research of its potential benefits. It is still considered a Schedule I controlled substance, alongside heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and other drugs the US government says have "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

    Despite orders from Congress not to interfere in states where medical marijuana is legal, the Department of Justice has said it will continue to prosecute cases against individuals and organizations that violate federal law by selling the drug.

    Malik Burnett, policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance, told VICE News that NIDA's recent admission about the efficacy of medical marijuana, coupled with the DOJ's vow to continue cracking down on the drug, is tantamount to "major hypocrisy" by the federal government.

    "We have the Justice Department continuing to threaten patients with arrest and prosecution in spite of the fact that Congress has voted to prevent the Justice Department from interfering with states that have passed medical marijuana laws," Burnett said. "These are all just parts of the major hypocrisy within the federal government when it comes to the issue of marijuana."

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved medical marijuana to treat any illness, but the agency has approved medications that contain cannabinoid chemicals in the form of a pill.

    NIDA's website notes that, "continued research may lead to more medications," but the institute has been blamed for stymieing medical marijuana research by running a monopoly on pot grown for research purposes.

    NIDA manages a contract with the University of Mississippi, which grows and supplies "research-grade marijuana," though some of the few people able to obtain government's weed have described it as low-grade "schwag" that is brown and full of seeds and stems. While NIDA does not directly control who receives marijuana for research, there is a laborious three-step approval process that applicants must fulfill in order to obtain the drug.

    Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have now enacted medical marijuana laws. Illinois expanded its medical marijuana program Monday, issuing around 2,000 licenses to patients.

    Responding to the DOJ's vow to continue medical marijuana prosecutions, Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, urged US lawmakers to take up the cause in a statement released April 2.

    "Congress should respond to the Justice Department's insubordination by changing federal law," Piper said. "Patients and the people who provide them with their medicine will never be safe until states are free to set their own marijuana policy without federal interference."
    The National Institute on Drug Abuse updated its website this month to say cannabis extracts may help “slow the growth of cancer cells from one of the most serious types of brain tumors."


    also,
    three cheers for preventative medicine
    To us, it is the BEAST.

  • #2
    Conservatives will continue to oppose legalization.

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    • #3
      Of course they will ...
      over all benefits of weed don´t forget the huge danger potential posed by THC,
      of turning brave weapon wielding US citizens into peaceloving hippies.

      No conservative, NRA member or affiliate of the weapon industry in their right mind would want this to happen
      Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
      Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"

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      • #4
        also, i guarantee you they are using **** weed in these studies
        To us, it is the BEAST.

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        • #5
          mariujana was always a medicinal herb
          Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

          Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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          • #6
            It cured me. I just can't remember of what. ?
            To The Hijack Police: I don't know what you are talking about. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I don't even own a computer.

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            • #7
              In Soviet Russia, cancer kills weed.
              “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

              ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post
                Of course they will ...
                over all benefits of weed don´t forget the huge danger potential posed by THC,
                of turning brave weapon wielding US citizens into peaceloving hippies.

                No conservative, NRA member or affiliate of the weapon industry in their right mind would want this to happen
                John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                • #9
                  Felch does not have a sound mind.

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                  • #10
                    **** the supposed health benefits. I just like getting high on weed.
                    Libraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
                    I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. Sure

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                    • #11
                      oh baby!

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                      • #12
                        HEY HEY! CANCER HERE!
                        Damn it... I forgot I live in Soviet Finland.

                        But I did not smoke weed. That is a fact, literally.
                        In da butt.
                        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                        THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                        "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                        • #13
                          perhaps not medicinally, but i could have sworn you said you smoked at some point recently
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            I cannot verify nor you have evidence of this. Therefor I must deny.
                            In da butt.
                            "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                            THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                            "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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