Teddy Kennedy's Cannabis Brain Tumor Cure

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Teddy Kennedy's Cannabis Brain Tumor Cure

Teddy Kennedy and The Ultimate Tragedy of Liberalism.
His Brain Tumor Is of the Type That Cannabis Might Cure.
Suppressed Research May Claim Another Drug War Victim.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2008-05-20 16:20:00

As it happens, there have been several studies showing that glioma cells can be killed by cannabinoids.Incredi bly, at least one of these studies was suppressed by the US government

Had the medical potential of cannabis not been suppressed to satisfy the needs of the Drug War’s prohibitionist propaganda, scientists might have developed ways of using cannabinoids to treat this type of cancer that would be far more effective than the treatment that he is going to have to endure.
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Proven : Cannabis is Safe Medicine by Ian Williams Goddard

U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!

Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can (destroy) tumors in rats. But that came as (no surprise) to US. health (officials), (who quickly (deep sixed) the report). (Drug-war-obsessed federal officials) (have known) about the (cancer-beating) properties of (pot) for (more than 25 years) and have kept it a (secret) from (the public)!

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74

Witch hunts and the war on weed 20 Jun, 2002
The persecution of "witches" was really a war on sacred plants that continues today.


Cannabis in Costa Rica - A Study in Chronic Marijuana Use, 1980-82,
by Edward W. Carter, Institute for the Study of Human Issues,
3401 Science Center, Philadelphia, PA.

[SoothingSmoke]

lulz @ Ted. Karma's a bitch ain't it?

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Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life? By Paul Armentano
CN NORML Source: AlterNet May 23, 2008 USA

In the 14 years I've worked in marijuana law reform, few events have struck me as so needlessly tragic as the federal government's consistent and deliberate stifling of medical cannabis research. Nowhere is the Fed's refusal to allow this science more overt and inhumane than as it pertains to the investigation of cannabinoids as anti-cancer agents, particularly in the treatment of gliomas.

As noted in today's wire stories regarding Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis, glioma is an aggressive form of cancer that affects an estimated 10,000 Americans annually. Standard treatments for the cancer include radiation and chemotherapy, though neither procedure has proven particularly effective -- the disease kills approximately half its victims within one year and all within three years.

But what if there was an alternative treatment for gliomas that could selectively target the cancer while leaving healthy cells intact? And what if federal bureaucrats were aware of this treatment, but deliberately withheld this information from the public?

Sadly, the above questions are not hypothetical. As I originally wrote in a 2004 essay for Alternet.org, titled Pot Shows Promise as a Cancer Cure":

In fact, the first experiment documenting pot's anti-tumor effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest of the U.S. government. The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."

Despite these favorable preliminary findings, U.S. government officials banished the study and refused to fund any follow-up research until conducting a similar -- though secret -- clinical trial in the mid-1990s. That study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to the tune of $2 million, concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long periods had greater protection against malignant tumors than untreated controls.

However, rather than publicize their findings, government researchers shelved the results, which only became public after a draft copy of its findings were leaked in 1997 to a medical journal which in turn forwarded the story to the national media.

In the years since the completion of the National Toxicology trial, the U.S. government has yet to fund a single additional study examining the drug's potential anti-cancer properties. Is this a case of federal bureaucrats putting politics over the health and safety of patients? You be the judge.

Fortunately, in the past 10 years scientists overseas have generously picked up where U.S. researchers so abruptly left off, reporting that cannabinoids can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells -- including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and in one human clinical trial, brain cancer.

Writing earlier this year in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Italian researchers reiterated, "(C)annabinoids have displayed a great potency in reducing glioma tumor growth either in vitro or in animal experimental models. (They) appear to be selective antitumoral agents as they kill glioma cells without affecting the viability of nontransformed counterparts." Not one mainstream media outlet reported their findings. Perhaps now they'll pay better attention.

What possible advancements in the treatment of cancer may have been achieved over the past 34 years had U.S. government officials chosen to advance -- rather than suppress -- clinical research into the anti-cancer effects of cannabis? It's a shame we have to speculate; it's even more tragic that the families of Senator Kennedy and thousands of others must suffer while we do.

Watch a video of Paul Armentano explaining the relationship between cannabinoids and giloma.



Paul Armentano is the deputy director for the NORML Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Complete Title: Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life? Too Bad It's Illegal

Contact: letters@alternet.org * Website * URL

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'Its Time To Wake Up and See That Cannabis Can Help' By Del Snavely Crosby
CN Source: Jamestown Sun May 26, 2008 North Dakota

In the past decade doctors in Spain, Italy and Israel have published dozens of medical research papers, showing that components of cannabis actually stop the growth of cancer tumors and in many cases reduce them to nothing, with no damage to living cells. A human trial has even been conducted on the exact same kind of tumor as Sen. Ted Kennedy's with great results. This information is readily available on the Internet, yet our government sees fit to continue its war against cannabis and therefore its war on patients.

Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life?


Rick Simpson outside court, 2007

Run From The Cure
How Cannabis Cures Cancer And Why No One Knows
by Rick Simpson (07 Mar, 2008)
Cannabis sativa hemp, the miracle plant,
contains the cure for cancer and other ailments

Marijuana Appears to Slow Cancer Growth: Laboratory Study
Even FOX News has to admit that cannabis holds the cure for cancer!

Cannabis Compound Stops Spread of Breast Cancer
Medical Research Study
Cannabis cures cancer - how many more studies are needed?

THC Kills Human Brain Tumor Cells
SETH Group focusing on cancer treatment with THC



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

Marijuana May Fight Lung Tumors
Cannabis Compound Slows Cancer Spread In Mice, Researchers Say - April 17th 2007

Study Finds No Lung Cancer-Marijuana Connection
May, 2006 - Washington Post

Cannabis and Cancer Studies from SafeAccess.ca
safeaccess.ca/research/cancer.htm

THC for Tumors
March, 1999

US Federal Report Backs Medical Pot
May, 1999

Cannabinoid Research Around The World
July, 1999

THC Destroys Brain Cancers
May, 2000

Pot Shrinks Tumors
June, 2000

THC-Tumor Research Funding Cut
February, 2001

Cannabinoid Treats Tumors
January, 2002

Cannabinoid Anti-Tumor Effect
July, 2003

Cannabinoids Destroy Cancer
February, 2004

THC May Fight Lung Cancer
April, 2007

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Cancer Research's Surprising Story By Bruce Mirken
CN Source: Providence Journal June 08, 2008 USA

Once again the cancer diagnosis of a well-known national figure, in this case Sen. Ted Kennedy, has sparked a flurry of interest in efforts to treat and cure this frustrating, complex and deadly illness. One of the most promising areas of research involves a group of chemicals whose origins may seem shocking.

The chemicals, called cannabinoids, are the active components in marijuana.

Yes, marijuana, the very same drug that seems to generate endless controversy here and abroad, and that our government still claims causes cancer, a claim that appears to stand reality on its head.

The first solid data showing the anti-cancer effects of cannabinoids was developed by U.S. government researchers and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute back in 1975. The scientists found that THC, the component that produces marijuana's "high", inhibits the growth of lung-cancer cells in the test tube and in mice.

In a world that made sense, this discovery would have set off a frenzy of new research. After all, President Richard Nixon had declared "war on cancer" just a few years before, and vast sums of money were being spent investigating new approaches. But Nixon had also declared "war on drugs," with marijuana at the top of the demon-drugs list, so our government, by far the world's largest source of medical research funding, never pursued these remarkable findings. Research ground to a near-complete halt until the late 1990s.

Since then, THC and other marijuana components have been shown to block growth not only of lung tumors but a variety of other cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma and cancers of the breast and skin. These effects seem to occur through a variety of different cellular mechanisms.

As Spanish researcher Dr. Manuel Guzman, one of the world's leading experts in the field, wrote in a 2003 review in the journal Nature Reviews: Cancer, "Cannabinoids are selective anti-tumor compounds, as they can kill tumor cells without affecting their non-transformed counterparts. It is probable that cannabinoid receptors regulate cell-survival and cell-death pathways differently in tumor and non-tumor cells." continued...

Teddy Kennedy's Cannabis Brain Tumor Cure

Its Time To Wake Up

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In 1976, President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."

Marinol vs. Natural Cannabis

Marinol Lacks Several of the Therapeutic Compounds Available in Natural Cannabis. Marinol is More Psychoactive Than Natural Cannabis

Marinol: The Little Synthetic That Couldn't



Effort To Disguise a Medicine as an Illegal Drug

Groups Endorsing RxGanja

Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life?

It's Time To Wake Up & See That Cannabis Helps

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Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can (destroy) tumors in rats. But that came as (no surprise) to US. health (officials), (who quickly (deep sixed) the report). (Drug-war-obsessed federal officials) (have known) about the (cancer-beating) properties of (pot) for (more than 25 years) and have kept it a (secret) from (the public)!

why so many brackets?

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Maybe emphases I reckon... I'm not sure.
It was in the files so I added it.
Looks like it has an old link. Here is an update.
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U.S. GOVT. COVERS UP MARIJUANA CANCER CURE!
Last year, Spanish scientists found evidence that marijuana can destroy tumors in rats.

But that came as no surprise to U.S. health officials, who quickly deep-sixed the report. Drug-war-obsessed federal officials have known about the cancer-beating properties of pot for more than 25 years and have kept it a secret from the public!

The latest study, released in February 2000, was conducted by Dr. Manuel Guzman of Complutence University in Madrid. In the study, brains of 45 lab rats were injected with a cancer cell, which produced tumors. Later, a third of the rodents were given shots of tetrahydrocannibanol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana.
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Is there anything Radioactive Isotopes can't do??

1. X-Rays
2. Heat water to create steam for giant nuclear powered steam engine
3. Melt concrete
4. "Cure" Cancer
5. Make things glow
6. Uh?
7. Oh yeah, create a second Sun in the sky
8. Put a good use to that old Yucca Mountain, bout time too.
9. Zombie Movies
10. Depleted Uranium Shells!


I'd like to see pot tear open a tank making it glow while turning everyone inside a zombie while curing cancer!

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I'd like to see pot tear open a tank making it glow while turning everyone inside a zombie while curing cancer!

With logic like that, you must be Republican. I'd like to see you smoke a big ole fat doober made out of Radioactive Isotopes. Not much profit in curing zombies of cancer these days. Look at McCain. Curing zombies was tried more during Nixon Ford and Rayguns than with Junior.

[ProfessorMurder]

What?!?

You didn't like that Melting Concrete line?

I guess you're not a fan of unstable spontaneous disintegration of atomic nuclei?


Or Never before Giant Concrete Containment Domes?


To go with Cherynobyl.

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You didn't like that Melting Concrete line?

Ya got a point, there is an awful lot of concrete,
jack hammers are too loud and sledge hammers too much like work.
We can get the Ganjawar politicops caught lying about Ganja to apply it...
Glowing in the dark would be easier than ankle bracelets to keep tabs on.

I guess you're not a fan of unstable spontaneous disintegration of atomic nuclei?

It never amazes me when politikans do stupid things after they've been warned they are about to do something stupid. Drug wars, Cold Wars, Police Actions. Stupid pays... Without the 100,000 cancer kids from Chernobyl how would Ely Lilly and Searl Pharmaceuticals get rich? I think Chernobyl was a "lesser evil" commercial to maintain the dysfunction of fossil fools. ... see the Exxon Valdeze wasn't bad at all compared to "the cleaner Nuclear power". Not a big surprise that 2nd and 3rd world countries would have 2nd and 3rd rate standards. Pakistan, India, Isreal...etc. USA? With our puppet media who knows... But there is hope for the stoners in Hanford...

Hemp "Eats" Chernobyl Waste, Offers Hope For Hanford by Elaine Charkowski
Central Oregon Green Pages Winter 1998-99

An explosion at a nuclear reactor on April 26th, 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine created the world's worst nuclear disaster - so far.

The blast heavily contaminated agricultural lands in a 30 km radius around the reactor. The few people still living there must monitor their food and water for radiation. However the combination of a new technology (phytoremediation) and an old crop (industrial hemp) may offer the Ukraine a way to decontaminate it's radioactive soil.

In 1998, Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP), PHYTOTECH, and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops began what may be one of the most important projects in history - the planting of industrial hemp for the removal of contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.

CGP is an ecologically-minded multinational corporation which finances the growing and processing of sustainable industrial crops such as flax, kenaf, and industrial hemp. CGP operates in North America, Europe and the Ukraine.
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PHYTOTECH (see new webpage:
PhytoTechnology Laboratories) specializes in phytoremediation, the general term for using phyto (plants) to remediate (clean up) polluted sites. Phytoremediation can be used to remove radioactive elements from soil and water at former weapons producing facilaties. It can also be used to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and toxins leaching from landfills.

Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean Soil
February, 2000: Chernobyl (Ukraine)

In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products. This industrial variety of hemp, incidentally, has only trace amounts of THC, the chemical that produces the "high" in a plant of the same genus commonly known as marijuana.



Chernobyl may seem distant, but the EPA estimates that there are more than 30,000 sites requiring hazardous waste treatment throughout the U.S. including Hanford and Three Mile Island.

Phytoremediation with industrial hemp could be used at many of these sites. Unfortunantly, the U.S. government refuses to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp and clings to the obsolete myth that it is a drug.
Richard Cowan MarijuanaNews.Com

See

CBS Eye On America
Let’s Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey
Make a Fool Of Himself About Hemp Cultivation

and

A Wry Look At the Louisville Forum On Hemp
"The DEA argument was the party line."



Hemp

The ban on industrial hemp is a significant example of the social, environmental, and economic cost of the War on Drugs.

Videos

So Why Are American Farmers Being Left Out?
To download a PDF copy of this article click here.

American farmers are prohibited by law from growing a low-input, sustainable crop common in Europe and Canada with tremendous economic potential: industrial hemp.

Hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States because it is erroneously confounded with marijuana. In fact, industrial hemp and marijuana are different breeds of Cannabis sativa, just as Chihuahuas and St. Bernards are different breeds of Canis familiaris. Smoking large amounts of hemp flowers can produce a headache but not a high, or as Ruth Shamai of Ruth's Hemp Foods says, "I've personally stood in a burning field of hemp, and if you wanted a buzz you'd have to drink a beer."



The Stoners Will Survive...

Among its many properties cannabis provides considerable protection from a number of lethal nerve gas symptoms by defending the brain from injury and suppressing the the seizures, nausea and vomiting associated with chemical warfare agents.

Marijuana Substitute Combats Nerve Gas by Julian Borger
June 05, 1998 - Scripps Howard News Service
The best available protection against nerve gas attack comes from an Israeli-made synthetic equivalent of marijuana, U.S. military experiments have shown.

Marijuana protects your brain
by Dana Larsen (01 Jan, 1999)
Studies reveal that marijuana protects against brain damage from stroke, heart attacks, and nerve gas.

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War



Marijuana and the new world order
by Dana Larsen (25 Jan, 2002)

In these trying times some worry about radiation exposure, perhaps from a nuclear weapon or terrorist attack against a nuclear power plant. Exposure to high levels of radiation causes symptoms including nausea and cancerous tumours. Cannabis' effect on reducing severe nausea is well-known – lesser known is the ability of cannabinoids to destroy cancerous tumours.

In 1974, the US National Institute of Health commissioned researchers at the Medical College of Virginia to find evidence that marijuana harms the immune system. Instead they found that THC slowed the growth of lung and breast cancers, and of a virus-induced leukemia. Their results were hushed up by the US government, and no further research was allowed. However, the March 2000 issue of Nature Medicine contained a study from researchers in Madrid, who had destroyed previously incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC (CC#25, THC destroys brain cancers).

The healing powers of cannabis are not limited to humans – this miraculous plant also has the potential to help clean the earth from toxins. Fields of cannabis are being grown in radioactive soil around Chernobyl by the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in partnership with a US company called Phytotech (CC#18, Hemp helps Chernobyl).

Phytotech specializes in using plants to clean up polluted sites, a process called phytoremediation. Cannabis is excellent at breaking down organic pollutants and removing metal and radioactive contaminant's from the soil. Phytotech representatives have said that "hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants we have been able to find." Overgrow the government

[Prophet Saddam]

I'd be laughing at you two if the situation wasn't so grave.

Thanks for the relief!