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Cannabis-Linked Cell Receptor May Help Prevent Colon Cancer
health.msn.com — A cannabinoid receptor lying on the surface of cells may help suppress colorectal cancer, say U.S. researchers. When the receptor is turned off, tumor growth is switched on.
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- kemp34, on 08/02/2008, -4/+100I have seen similar stories for lung cancer and brain tumors as well. There really is a lot of evidence that the various forms of hemp really are a family of super crops for living human beings, as well as our environment. The fact that this family of plants is illegal to grow in the entire United States is a sad indication of the lack of wisdom in our society and, especially, at the federal government level. People need to wake the hell up and smell the freaking coffee.
Nature's miracle: banned.- LucasVB, on 08/03/2008, -0/+17Note, however, that there are probably better ways to use this plant for medicinal purposes than smoking it. I say legalize it and let people do whatever they want with it, but the substances involved and their effects need to be properly studied so their benefits can be best exploited. We have much to learn from this, I believe. It's true, Big Pharma would want a slice of it, but that's another problem to tackle.
*****, I sound like a chemistry geek.- Chronoped, on 08/03/2008, -1/+10The problem with Big Pharma in all of this is that it's incredibly difficult to regulate a simple plant. If cannabis only came in pill form and with a barcode, it would already be legal.
- maexus, on 08/03/2008, -0/+10I'm ok with cooking with it or using vaporizer.
- fantastcandy10, on 08/04/2008, -2/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinol#Dronabinol
- BotchaMcCoola, on 08/03/2008, -10/+8What the hell kind of a Puritan are you anyway. Go back to England.
- LunaticFringe, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5Hahahaha. Dugg for humor nobody seems to get. ;)
- BotchaMcCoola, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Five negative diggs? Maybe that stuff really is bad for the brain afterall! Well perhaps it will be better in suppository form then.
- RAEP, on 08/03/2008, -0/+11People need to wake the hell up and smell the freaking dank.*
fix't - sx66gns, on 08/03/2008, -1/+15As well as a gift from God Himself:
* Genesis 1:11 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
* Genesis 3:18 "... thou shalt eat the herb of the field."
* Proverbs 15:17 "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."[2]
* Psalms 104:14 "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man."
From Rasta info:
According to some Rastafarian[28] and other scholars, the etymology of the word "cannabis" and similar terms in all the languages of the Near East may be traced to the Hebrew qaneh bosm קנה-בשם, which is one of the herbs God commanded Moses to include in his preparation of sacred anointing perfume in Exodus 30:23; the Hebrew term also appears in Isaiah 43:24; Jeremiah 6:20; Ezekiel 27:19; and Song of Songs 4:14. Deuterocanonical and canonical references to the patriarchs Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses "burning incense before the Lord" are also applied, and many Rastas today refer to cannabis by the term ishence — a slightly changed form of the English word "incense". It is also said that cannabis was the first plant to grow on King Solomon's grave.
The migration of many thousands of Hindus from India to the Caribbean in the 20th century may have brought this culture to Jamaica. Many academics point to Indo-Caribbean origins for the ganja sacrament resulting from the importation of Indian migrant workers in a post-abolition Jamaican landscape. “Large scale use of ganja in Jamaica…dated from the importation of indentured Indians…”(Campbell 110). Dreadlocked mystics, often ascetic, known as the Sadhus, have smoked cannabis in India for centuries.[29]
It's also well known that Jesus used it in oil to treat ailments. - toasty168, on 08/03/2008, -0/+8it's not about wisdom. it's about money and control.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+6Illegal = source of money for gangs-----violence---money wasted law enforcement.
Legal = cures cancer, relieves pain, opens a new agricultural and business opportunities, taxing it.
oh never mind we have Oxycontin to get you all addicted to when your in pain.- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -6/+2Cures cancer? Which cancer would that be? Not to mention, last I checked, the only reason then to make it legal is for medical usage, which would be limited to prescriptions only. Oxycontin requires a nonrefillable prescription, as should marijuana, however marijuana should be limited to where it can be used for medical usage, seeing as it produces a smoke that has an effect on other people.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266715,00.html
my little brother has a refillable prescription for oxycotin for unexplainable headache problems. he is also on xanax, ambien, and percocet.
All symptoms can be alternatively treated with cannabis.
he goes trough withdraws when hes taken off, cannabis should be legal because it is drastically less physically addicting. - Pake, on 08/03/2008, -3/+2If your brother has a refillable prescription, then his doctors and the pharmacy he uses is in direct violation of the law. It's considered a schedule II drug. Now, as of recently he can be given multiple prescriptions to use over time, but refillable prescriptions are still illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances ...
- LucasVB, on 08/03/2008, -0/+17Note, however, that there are probably better ways to use this plant for medicinal purposes than smoking it. I say legalize it and let people do whatever they want with it, but the substances involved and their effects need to be properly studied so their benefits can be best exploited. We have much to learn from this, I believe. It's true, Big Pharma would want a slice of it, but that's another problem to tackle.
- Minarchian, on 08/02/2008, -4/+39This should be banned.
After all...look at all those people in the medical and prison industrial complex who would lose their jobs!
/srcsm - WordsnCollision, on 08/03/2008, -2/+46Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking dope!
- dhVyse, on 08/03/2008, -2/+12Nice, I'll always digg Airplane! references.
- airmann90, on 08/03/2008, -17/+3And I will always bury people who reply to those references.
- harveywalbanger, on 08/03/2008, -1/+18And I will always bury people who bury Airplane references.
- RAEP, on 08/03/2008, -2/+17and I will always reply to the people who bury the people who reply to those references but not actually digg or bury anything.
- SyzygyMan, on 08/03/2008, -1/+10I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
- funkyloki, on 08/03/2008, -1/+4Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked...in the head...with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question...skip it.
- SyzygyMan, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
- dhVyse, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there, 3 hours later, lmao.
- dhVyse, on 08/03/2008, -2/+12Nice, I'll always digg Airplane! references.
- CaliforniaEagle, on 08/03/2008, -9/+13If this is true...it is only more evidence for the pot heads to defend themselves!!! LOL
- whatAsaget, on 08/03/2008, -6/+0Irony aye.
- dmark77, on 08/03/2008, -1/+20If that is the case, I will never get colon cancer :)
- OC73, on 08/03/2008, -2/+29*Packs a fat bowl of OG Kush...lights and passes it to fellow digg members*
- KielKilla, on 08/03/2008, -7/+2OGC
^
WTF GET OUTA MY ROOM DUDE - AmazingSteve, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6coughs out a lung, passes back.. Thanks mate.
- dizturbd2, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2 ~~
- reparsed, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3I read *Packs a fat bowel..."
- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1>[-)
- KielKilla, on 08/03/2008, -7/+2OGC
- burjzyntski, on 08/03/2008, -2/+17hell yeah, I'm not getting colon cancer!
- newsbaby, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6SURGEON GENERAL:
Smoking pot can relieve the pain in your but.- jawdog, on 08/03/2008, -4/+11WEED SMOKER:
Getting caught smoking pot can CAUSE pain in your butt, from your cell mate.- airmann90, on 08/03/2008, -0/+7Yeah, if you live in that place called the USA.
- harveywalbanger, on 08/03/2008, -1/+10***** that - you don't go to jail for smoking pot. You go to jail for selling and holding large quantities.
Hey jawdog - you swallow that crap Nancy Reagan fed you back in the 80's? HA HA HA
Your average grandmother's medicine cabinet has far worse things in it than Pot - Pfizer is America's Columbia!
Doesn't anyone remember the rampant crime caused by Carrie Nation and her tea totalling Prohibitionists??
That's right - they legalized the ***** (alcohol) and then the crime went away almost overnight.
If you take away the profit by legalizing, you remove the crime.
- jawdog, on 08/03/2008, -4/+11WEED SMOKER:
- AmazingSteve, on 08/03/2008, -1/+25Ahh the pharmaceutical industry's worst nightmare. Cheap medicine that can easily produced by anyone.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Good thing that they have lots of money and influence! especially in the medical research world. /sarcasm
- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Oooooooooh yeah. I just ordered some sweet seeds. Skunk #1, Strawberry Cough, Trainwreck, Cheese, and White Widow. Grow well, give 'em hell.
- JasonCox, on 08/03/2008, -25/+2Wow, another pro-pot story on Digg.
Kevin, can we have a pro-drugs section so I can block it so I wont have to view these stories?- AmazingSteve, on 08/03/2008, -1/+20Then why read it and reply to it?
Kevin can we have a pro-whiners section so that we won't have to listen to the puritans whine about pot stories any more? - RAEP, on 08/03/2008, -1/+12Maybe you'd prefer a gov't propaganda section where you can read about the evils of marijuana and reefer madness type *****.
- ParaSwarm, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3Anybody who still believes marijuana is evil needs a severe reality check. No doubt you probably still think the sun revolves around Earth.
- bdawg123, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2Just checked out your profile picture. Why am I not surprised you are anti-pot?
- AmazingSteve, on 08/03/2008, -1/+20Then why read it and reply to it?
- BotchaMcCoola, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5Preparation H - Hemp.
- harveywalbanger, on 08/03/2008, -10/+3Well at least my stoner cousin won't get colon cancer. But he may get mouth cancer from sucking on that bong all day.
- megostylez, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3i been reading on this here internets for awhile now, never heard of no cancer coming from the weeds, only prevention, ha
- heartsblood, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5there has never been a single case of cancer attributed to smoking or digesting marijuana.
- mydjtl, on 08/03/2008, -2/+12There is actually a new drug that is at the last stage of clinical trials that is a cannabinoid antagonist which will be marketed as an apetite supresant (opposite effect of the munchies). THe funny thing is that side effects incoude depression and anxiety. So I propose that this provides scientific evidence that marijuana (a cannabinoid agonist) can be used as an anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drug. What do you think? Marijuana = Herbal Medicine
- looselips, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Herbal Colon cancer repellent in my book, the ***** who can prove the argument against this argument, gets what the ***** deserves!
Death through the ass to the dissenters, *****-it they toke and we know this, or else?
- looselips, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Herbal Colon cancer repellent in my book, the ***** who can prove the argument against this argument, gets what the ***** deserves!
- saucercrab, on 08/03/2008, -0/+15All these studies produce great findings, but from a stoner's pov - are these benefits absorbed by smoking the stuff? Every story like this receives rave reviews and provides a bit more confidence to many tokers - but are they receiving any of the perks from burning the stuff up and inhaling it?
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4Yes
Smoke to lungs, lungs to bloodstream, bloodstream to colon.
Vaporizing or melting it into butter would be healthier, 0 tar.
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4Yes
- Chronoped, on 08/03/2008, -2/+14It's very interesting that our bodies have natural cannabinoid receptors in the first place. Evolution works in trippy ways...
- xavier20xg6, on 08/03/2008, -2/+7Looks like I am not going to be getting Colon Cancer...lol
- Stormwern, on 08/03/2008, -10/+3Just the kind of cancer you'd expect cannabis to cure, so immature..
- MechaFalcon, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1If you're going by immaturity, I would expect it to prevent testicular cancer instead.
...not that that wouldn't be welcome.
- MechaFalcon, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1If you're going by immaturity, I would expect it to prevent testicular cancer instead.
- TaintBrush, on 08/03/2008, -4/+2LOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!
- jawdog, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6Anyway...I am Canadian, and i smoke. I agree though, should be legalized. All arguments against it are based on the fact that it is illegal. It's only a "gateway drug" because people who sell illegal things also sell illegal weed.
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3Gateway drug my ass. That's the only argument that the gov't has to claim it is bad. The first drug that people who use hard drugs like heroin and cocaine try is either alcohol or tobacco. Not to mention the myriad of times people misuse or abuse perscription medication before using hard drugs.
- funkyloki, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2It's a gateway drug as much as cigarettes and alcohol, and those are legal.
- containimated, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Teaching kids to blow on their food to cool it is some kinda gateway something. Light-headed and conditioned.
- poprocksandsoda, on 08/03/2008, -13/+2Good to see that even though pot users cause countless violent crimes each year by drug lords protecting their turf, causes untold amounts of rape due to users unable to say no while under the influence and god knows how many car accidents from impaired driving ... that it possibly can slow a rare and uncommon form of cancer affecting a very small portion of the population who can already use numerous tested and proven drugs that do the exact same thing.
- seant169, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4same thing could be said for Antihistamines or over the counter Tylenol.
You can get high on legal things but its not legal.
NyQuil really ***** me up then i feel better . Whats so wrong with that.
Isint it this the same thing.
Tylenol dosent stop the pain it tells your brain to ignore the signals from the pain.
Alcohol is legal and causes confirmed deaths.
Where are we fn going. - OMnicient, on 08/03/2008, -1/+6Exactly. It even causes negroes to walk on the wrong side of the street, and stare at white women. Some negroes, who become aggressive and belligerent from smoking have even been seem laughing ly STEPPING ON THE SHADOWS OF WHITE PEOPLE!
Besides the fact that smoking marihuana may in fact TURN YOU INTO A BAT!
And besides that, you're an idiot! There are about 150,000 diagnoses of colon cancer every year, and about 60,000 people will have died from it this year. I won't even mention that there have been published works saying the same thing about cannabis and brain and lung cancer.
Of course, you can always keep listening to your pop rock and drinking sand soda.- containimated, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Nice.
- unoriginl, on 08/03/2008, -0/+6How about some sourced assertions:
1. When examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive tendencies, marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity."
Source: Shafer, Raymond P., et al, Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, Ch. III, (Washington DC: National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 1972).
2. "Both Australian studies suggest cannabis may actually reduce the responsibility rate and lower crash risk." Source: Laberge, Jason C., Nicholas J. Ward, "Research Note: Cannabis and Driving -- Research Needs and Issues for Transportation Policy," Journal of Drug Issues, Dec. 2004, pp. 980.
3. "A study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University confirms what many criminologists have long known: alcohol is associated with more violent crime than any illegal drug, including crack, cocaine, and heroin." Source: Califano, Joseph, Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population, Forward by Joseph Califano, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (1998).- poprocksandsoda, on 08/03/2008, -3/+1How about spending a day in the local coroner's office of a major city like Miami, LA or Chicago. How about talking to an officer who's seen the effects of drugs first hand. How about spend 10 minutes in reality?
- knojah, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1how about coming to terms with the fact you have had none of that experience u just fabricated?
***** mullet
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3Rape from women unable to say no. Marijuana drug lords. Countless accidents caused from driving impaired. Hahahahahaha.
You just took those bs commercials as complete fact didn't you. Care to back any of that up with fact.- poprocksandsoda, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1Denial always follows numbness from accepting reality. Next you'll be bargaining, perhaps one day you'll feel guilt, anger ... etc.
- ToiletGhost, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0Am I dying? If not poprocks, that list isn't really relevant.
Next thing you'll be telling me is that marijuana causes thousands of older brothers to forget to pick their brothers up at soccer practice and also causes teens to get mauled by dogs at an alarming rate on a dare.
- LastAXEL, on 08/03/2008, -0/+8thats kinda funny that you should say that thing about druglords.
If it was legal the pot-dealers would be out of business and so their crime wouldn't exist anymore, unless they move on to dealing crack and heroin and *****. And the thing about car accidents is pretty hilarious, I drive a lot better high than drunk. (I have driven drunk once an will never do it again). But I will still drive high to go to the nearest taco bell and get tons of food. It is very easy actually. And I bet you use alcohol and it does the same *****, so none of the ***** you said is any kind of reason for it to be illegal.
And I am not even going to get into the thing about rape. That has probably happened like 7 times or something. And you would have to be pretty damn high to not be able to resist. And if you try to resist and fail it is probably because you are weaker than the other person and probably would have gotten raped anyway regardless of marijuana use.
And you really are brainwashed. sad to see another lost cause. My brother is exactly like you.
Closed-minded right-wing *****.- poprocksandsoda, on 08/03/2008, -6/+1I have a way to test your idea. We should legalize crack and set free all the crack users in jail across the nation at one time in a single city and see how little effect it has on crime.
- bdawg123, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o131/kittehs_bu ...
- seant169, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4same thing could be said for Antihistamines or over the counter Tylenol.
- homescrubb, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6Both sides of my family have a strong history of colon cancer... at 23 i already have digestive problems and stomach pains. This is very good news!
And the fact that a favorite pastime of mine may indeed help is also encouraging :)- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -2/+0Don't get too happy, you're still likely getting colon cancer.
- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Harsh, dude.
- 1hrSleep, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0If you're already smoking and are having problems... I think that's actually reason to believe that it ISN'T working and you should try something else quick.
Two of my friends' dads have/had colon cancer. One is definitely without hope, to pass within the year and the other was recently diagnosed and had surgery with expectations for full recovery without relapse.
Scary stuff, get checked if you are actually having those problems. Absolutely get checked.
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -2/+0Don't get too happy, you're still likely getting colon cancer.
- RP53, on 08/03/2008, -1/+0http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Stoned%20Cat%2002. ...
- donkeydrop, on 08/03/2008, -6/+5RTFA ... this has nothing to do with smoking dope. There are plenty of chemicals that trigger that receptor without getting f'd up and giving yourself lung cancer.
- heartsblood, on 08/03/2008, -2/+8Where did you get lung cancer from? Name -One- case that scientists have been able to directly link inhaling marijuana to lung cancer. I'll save you the trouble to looking, there isn't any.
Tobacco kills 438,000 each year;
Thats 1200 a day,
or 1 person every 72 seconds.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/COM/content/div_Nort ...
Pot kills this year....0.
Last year?....0
Recorded deaths of Direct Marijuana usage = 0
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+many+peop ...
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Actually it does have alot to do with smoking dope. The cannabinoids are present in the plant matter, not the THC (the article is incorrect).
Smoke the plant = cannabinoids in lungs -> cannabinoids to bloodstream -> cannabinoids to colon
- heartsblood, on 08/03/2008, -2/+8Where did you get lung cancer from? Name -One- case that scientists have been able to directly link inhaling marijuana to lung cancer. I'll save you the trouble to looking, there isn't any.
- FearFactory, on 08/03/2008, -5/+4Interesting, I heard cocaine cures obesity!
- knojah, on 08/04/2008, -1/+0comparing cocaine to marijuana only makes sense to ignoramuses like yourself
- Bannedx5, on 08/03/2008, -19/+3Potheads grasp anything to try to get their *****. What a bunch of *****.
- OMnicient, on 08/03/2008, -1/+8I'm glad all those potheads at the journal Cancer Research are working hard to put a good face on marijuana!
But they're doctors, you?... Just an a$$hat skeptic.- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Yeah, somebody who tried it once and got the 'noia. Poor bastard.
- OMnicient, on 08/03/2008, -1/+8I'm glad all those potheads at the journal Cancer Research are working hard to put a good face on marijuana!
- FreeTalkLIve, on 08/03/2008, -4/+5Peolple should gather in very large groups to smoke weed.
The cops can't arrest thousands of people.- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -1/+0They can and do.
- burjzyntski, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3No, that's exactly why nothing happened at the University of Colorado at Boulder this 4/20...when you have thousands of people smoking pot on the lawn, peacefully, safely, and not being rowdy, the cops just stand back and watch.
- onlyaftersunset, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2^ I'm jealous
- containimated, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2You'll be ok as long as you keep your joint inside the gas mask.
- BoneheadFarker, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3Or under the large blanket and you're ready to scramble when the cop lifts it to see what's going on...
- 70RR3y, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1They do! In Vancouver B.C.
http://www.vancouveriam.com/videos/bc43740930ad
Smoke in's :) - SLockhart, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Sure, but can I be in the middle of the group and not somewhere on the edge?
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -1/+0They can and do.
- someology, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2makes real sense for a plant that is a large natural supply of cannabinoids to be classified as having no medical use, sure...
- begawk, on 08/03/2008, -3/+3Soooo... would it be more effective if i inhaled through my ass?
- burjzyntski, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2whoa man, sure. whatever makes you feel better.
- BoneheadFarker, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "You're blowing smoke up my ass."
- aComa, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0You have lungs in your ass?
- bobbknight, on 08/03/2008, -2/+7Pot brownies, FTW!
- seant169, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3If all of the Benefits of cannabis are true then the government should be ashamed of itself for misleading the Americans and everyone else in the world into thinking different.
This all leads back to DOW , DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Johnson & Johnson and many many more companies all supporting and lobbying the government to get rid of cannabis.- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Sorry, that DuPont stuff is just crap. Nylon does not rot, while hemp does, that's why nylon replaced hemp.
The real reason it is an illegal drug is because it was associated with "underclasses" such as negros in jazz clubs and migrant mexican workers. Harry Anslinger also had a knack at sensationalizing things to get notoriety for his political career.- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2It would definitely affect the paper and cotton industries.
- ToiletGhost, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Sorry, that DuPont stuff is just crap. Nylon does not rot, while hemp does, that's why nylon replaced hemp.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+14Isn't weed a schedule 1 drug making it illegal for any research or medical use? But it ***** cures cancer. hmmm
- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -8/+1Please show me evidence that it cures cancer instead of it just being used to relax and suppress pain with cancer patients. Also, it can be researched for medical use in a lab, otherwise we wouldn't see so much research on it in the US.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+11"WebMD reported April 18 that researchers from Harvard University injected THC into mice with lung cancer and found that their tumors shrank about 50 percent over three months when compared to mice that didn't receive the drug. The results "suggest THC has therapeutic potential," said lead researcher Anju Preet, Ph.D.
Preet said that THC attaches to endocannabinoids found in cancer cells and activates their natural anti-inflammatory properties, hindering cancer cell growth.
The research was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research."
http://www.aacr.org/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266715,00.html- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -4/+1That didn't cure cancer as much as it put the cancer into remission. It could be used to help other treatments as a cure, but it in itself is not a cure.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+6*Any* medical benefit should (legally as defined by the FDA) exclude it from being a Schedule 1 drug in us federal law.
- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -4/+1 I do agree that it shouldn't be schedule I, but rather schedule II, however, to say a drug with any medical benefit should be excluded from schedule I is ridiculous. That would effectively remove essentially every drug since every drug does have a potential usage for something. What it comes down to is whether or not we can produce the same results using a different drug and if we can in a more controlled environment, then it should take precedence in usage.
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5quote from DEA website ALL conditions must be met for it to be scheduled.
"(1) Schedule I. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
(2) Schedule II. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
(3) Schedule III. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychologicaldependence.
" - theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/csa/812.htm#b
heroin is schedule 2 - Pake, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4That was a rather pointless post... Like I said, marijuana should be schedule II and not I, but claiming any drug with a benefit should not be schedule I is ridiculous.
- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1Heroin is schedule II. Check your page again, it's listed under Schedule I, B.
- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1Bah, meant to say "Heroin is schedule II?"
- opinionation, on 08/03/2008, -0/+13Its funny that successful people from any kind of job you can imagine smoke weed, and yet there are still those people that swear its way more likely to give you cancer than smoking cigarettes or whatever. The fact remains that there is not one single recorded death in medical history as a result of a marijuana overdose or marijuana induced cancer. I challenge any one to prove otherwise. There is something that people do die from and the list is quite long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_ ...
Just for fun I went ahead and grabbed the page that talks about the effects of long term marijuana use. Anyone with half a brain can tell which one should be illegal. I'm not in support of making alcohol illegal, I'm just trying to make a point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis#L ...- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Any imagined possible effects of cannabis when compared to the damage and deseise and cancer and violence and addiction alcohol causes...
- dildoolielly, on 08/03/2008, -1/+7Anyone notice that almost every ad on FOX, MSNBC and CNN these days are all from big Pharma?
Meanwhile America locks up more people for victimless "drug" crimes than any other country on the planet, including countries that President Bush believes need liberating by US armed forces.
One out of every 142 Americans is in prison – and this does not include military prisons or INS jails.
Welcome to our corporate oligarchy which masquerades as a democracy!- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -6/+1You realize that if marijuana was legal, the pharma and tobacco companies would be the one's selling it, right? They actually want it to be legalized, because it's cheap to produce and they could easily control the market and make a killing off it.
- dildoolielly, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3----------------You realize that if marijuana was legal, the pharma and tobacco companies would be the one's selling it, right? They actually want it to be legalized,------------------
Where the fvck do you get the authority to speak? Lemme guess, out of your ass?
Do some research, for about twenty years then come back and post.
We don’t want to hear any more of your ill informed garbage until then - Pake, on 08/04/2008, -2/+1You do realize that there are 3 types of companies that advertise the most: Medical, automotive, and movie. Tell me when the next time you go through a commercial break without seeing one of them. Also, you claim victimless drug crimes, but that's far from the truth and it takes less time to research that part than anything.
BTW, if you don't believe the pharma or tobacco industry would control marijuana, ask yourself this: Why is tobacco so easy to grow and yet everyone lets the tobacco industry grow it for them? Everyone wants to talk about how it wouldn't be controlled, but everything sooner or later gets controlled. - dildoolielly, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2---------------"Also, you claim victimless drug crimes, but that's far from the truth and it takes less time to research that part than anything."---------------
Another clueless idiot that obviously hasn't researched, even on a elementary level, the effects of prohibition.
The fact is, Sparky, that legal sanctions against marijuana fuel a worldwide black market and pour money into gangs and criminal organizations, however,you are a mockingbird for govt. anti marijuana propaganda and you recite it so well that I thought I would let you know your favorite movie, REEFER MADNESS is on google video.
- dildoolielly, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3----------------You realize that if marijuana was legal, the pharma and tobacco companies would be the one's selling it, right? They actually want it to be legalized,------------------
- Pake, on 08/03/2008, -6/+1You realize that if marijuana was legal, the pharma and tobacco companies would be the one's selling it, right? They actually want it to be legalized, because it's cheap to produce and they could easily control the market and make a killing off it.
- dildoolielly, on 08/03/2008, -2/+28SADLY, MY COUSIN DIED FROM SMOKING POT
He was just a kid. 19 years old, and a senior in high school. He was always a favorite in our family, and everyone loved him. He was a football player, and an active member in our church and community.
Well, one day, during his senior year, he went to a party. Apparently some liberal parents had gone out of town, and left their child unattended (why am I not surprised by the irresponsible parents) so he decided to throw a party. Well when my cousin arrive the other kids were drinking, and smoking, and behaving pretty poorly.
Since most of these kids were passing around a marijuana cigarette, my cousin felt a little bit out of place. At first, he refused to smoke. But the kids kept putting peer pressure on him by saying things like, "just take a puff", "all the cool kids are doing it" and "nobody has ever died from smoking marijuana." Finally, my cousin succumbed to the pressure, and he took a puff.
Immediately he went for the Pringles. Then he started giggling at the ceiling fan. Finally, his cotton-mouth set in. By the time he found the bottle of Mr.Pibb it was too late. It was empty. He didn't die though. He found a faucet. Then someone put on Dark Side of the Moon.- Fallout911, on 08/03/2008, -3/+3***** YOU 10 OF MY FRIENDS DIED LIKE THAT!
- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -2/+3You made me read all that for comedy?
- unorginalityftw, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5It was worth it though.
- ParaSwarm, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5But will it run Crysis?
- Divector8, on 08/03/2008, -0/+7"Prohibition is based on lies and disinformation. Justification of marijuana's illegality increasingly requires distortions and selective uses of the scientific record, causing harm to the credibility of teachers, law enforcement officials, and scientists throughout the country. The dangers of marijuana use have been exaggerated for almost a century and the modern scientific record does not support the reefer madness predictions of the past and present. Many claims of marijuana's danger are based on old 20th century prejudices that originated in a time when science was uncertain how marijuana produced its characteristic effects. Since the cannabinoid receptor system was discovered in the late 1980s these hysterical concerns about marijuana's dangerousness have not been confirmed with modern research. Everyone agrees that marijuana, or any other drug use such as alcohol or tobacco use, is not for children. Nonetheless, adults have demonstrated over the last several decades that marijuana can be used moderately without harmful impacts to the individual or society."
-http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/60959/- theskillwithin, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1researcher bias is hard enough for the honest scientist to overcome.
- Winston84, on 08/03/2008, -0/+8Oh no, another medical use for pot ? Soon there won't be any left to smoke :)
- m0llusk, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1It doesn't exactly grow on trees, either.
- ReeferChiefer42, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5It's only a matter of time before everyone realizes that Marijuana was put on this earth for one reason: to serve man kind in only the most beneficial ways. I don't care how you feel about its use or "abuse" among the public, there are just too many great offerings this little plant has brought to mankind to look the other way. Legalize it already!
- Cyberdactyl, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1If smoking weed keeps the colon healthy, I could sell my diarrhea to Wyeth as a Preparation-H substitute.
- GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+12Marijuana is like Batman. It doesn't care what the public thinks of it as long as it is helping people.
- dildoolielly, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3Its 4:20 and my ass feels great!!
- JDoms, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2i'm gonna take some butt rips
- SLockhart, on 08/04/2008, -1/+1!@#$ you, two of my friends died from healthy colons.
- omegaant, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1I am sure all of you support orgs like MPP (Marijuana Policy Project), Drug Policy Alliance, NORML, and Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty. Tell me you are doing everything you can to change the ridiculous marijuana laws - based on non-scientific testimony to Congress in the 1930's!! Or are you all smoking so much you have forgotten it is still an illegal substance and plenty of innocent people, just like you, still end up in jail. Don't like the laws? Get up off the couch and do something about it!
- scb0825, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1smoke a joint and your ass wont fall out
- DestroyFascism, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Red wine, chocolate and a spliff helps to fend of cancer. Life just gets better...
- Requeim, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1to know more abt the issue.. visit www.healthpoints.info
- beauley, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Very few of us are aware that our bodies are similar to our backyard pools, in that their PH varies and should be maintained at a certain level to be in an ideal state. Left acidic, they will breed bacteria growth. Kept slightly alkaline, they will be safe for use, given proper filtering. Just an analogy...
http://www.healthmad.com/Nutrition/Acidosis-are-Yo ...
Acidosis, are You Acid or Alkaline? - SayanarA, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0I found useful information here
www.healthofmylife.com -
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