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DdC · 11-03-2003, 02:24 PM

Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana

A new scientific study is the "smoking gun" that proves the anti-pot crusade is a pack of lies and that medical marijuana works, says an American cancer patient claiming refugee status in Canada.

Steve Kubby is celebrating the recent publication of a study in the world-renowned science journal Nature showing cannabis shrinks certain cancerous tumours in mice by shutting off the blood supply and destroying cancer cells.

"I think it so clearly connects the dots and shows the cancer-fighting properties of cannabis," he said yesterday. "I've just reached a point in my life when I want to stand on the rooftops and shout to everyone, 'You are being lied to - this stuff really works and here's the science to prove it.'"

Kubby, 56, began experimental treatments last year at Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute for a rare form of adrenal cancer. He lives in B.C. with his wife and two daughters.

He has a federal exemption allowing him to grow and smoke pot but is still awaiting an Immigration and Refugee Board decision on his application for refugee status.

Kubby argues he'll be persecuted for his pot use if forced to return to the U.S. The federal government's own doctor testified he'd likely die of a stroke or heart attack if deprived of medical pot for more than 24 to 48 hours, Kubby said.

The board's decision was expected by the end of this week but has been delayed a few weeks by further submissions on both sides.

Kubby is outraged that U.S. drug czar John Walters has been invited to address a Commons committee studying decriminalization. Walters has not indicated if he'll accept the invitation.

"I understand that the Canadian government is getting an extreme amount of pressure from the extremist Bush administration, but they have to know that they are being lied to," Kubby said.

The invitation is a "wonderful" chance for Canadians to uncover the American government's dishonesty about marijuana, said Richard Cowan, former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a U.S.-based lobby group. Cowan now lives in Canada.

"I think what they really need to do is have (Walters) go to Ottawa, get him on the record and then check the facts," he said. "This way they will see that they're being lied to."

Note: Had experimental treatments at Cross Cancer Institute.

Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana
Newshawk: Steve Kubby
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Author: Lori Coolican, Edmonton Sun
Published: Monday, November 3, 2003
Contact: letters@edm.sunpub.c om * Website

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Comment #2 posted by Ethan Russo MD on November 03, 2003
More Information: Steve is referring to an article I sent him. Try this link: http://...S5F326D66

If not, here is the abstract: http://...D10423D66

The article was by Manuel Guzman in Nature Reviews-Cancer. Basically, Nature has come out with a variety of new journals where they actually review important concepts and explain them. They are much more user friendly than standard articles in the respective fields that are far too technical for the person who is not a specialist.

This article examines the various ways in which THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.

Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.

But, that is not all. The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant.

The real scandal is that the National Institute on Drug Abuse knew of the cancer-fighting potential of THC in 1975, and virtually no work at all was done on it for twenty years.

Pot Charges Adjourned in Alberta

Drugs in The Car, and No One Owns Up
November 03, 2003
By Warren Richey, Staff Writer of The CSM
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Washington – When the US Supreme Court announces its decision in a case called Maryland v. Pringle sometime next year, it may become required reading for every American parent with a teenage child. That's because the court will decide whether police may arrest all passengers riding in a car in which hidden contraband is discovered. It doesn't matter that your son or daughter does not use narcotics or was unaware narcotics were in the car. The question being presented Monday in oral argument to the nation's highest court is whether people's mere presence in a car where someone has concealed drugs is enough to arrest everyone for possession of those drugs.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews...1 7721.shtml

"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

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DdC · 11-07-2003, 11:16 PM

A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.

The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.

The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die."

"But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant."

In other words, this article explains several ways in which cannabinoids might be used to fight cancer, and, as the article says, "Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies.

Usually, any story that even suggests the possibility of a new treatment for cancer is greeted with headlines about a "cancer cure" - however remote in the future and improbable in fact it might be. But if marijuana is involved, don't expect any coverage from mainstream media, especially since mainstream editors have been quietly killing this story for the past thirty years.

That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974. Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.

The Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part: "The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that 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."

"News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country. The news broke quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article," complained MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan , who said he was only able to find the article through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. "The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors," added Cowan.

On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74." Media coverage since then has been nonexistant, except for a copy of the story on Alternet .

It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why?

According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.

Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, familes exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.

New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells
Source: Sierra Times.com (NV)
Author: Steve Kubby
Published: November 07, 2003
Contact: opeds@sierratimes.co m * Website

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11-03-2003, 02:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Reefer MADD Cops Advocate Cancer!!! Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana A new scientific study is the "smoking gun" that proves the anti-pot crusade is a pack of lies and that medical marijuana works, says an American cancer patient claiming refugee status in Canada. Steve Kubby is celebrating the recent publication of a study in the world-renowned science journal Nature showing cannabis shrinks certain cancerous tumours in mice by shutting off the blood supply and destroying cancer cells. "I think it so clearly connects the dots and shows the cancer-fighting properties of cannabis," he said yesterday. "I've just reached a point in my life when I want to stand on the rooftops and shout to everyone, 'You are being lied to - this stuff really works and here's the science to prove it.'" Kubby, 56, began experimental treatments last year at Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute for a rare form of adrenal cancer. He lives in B.C. with his wife and two daughters. He has a federal exemption allowing him to grow and smoke pot but is still awaiting an Immigration and Refugee Board decision on his application for refugee status. Kubby argues he'll be persecuted for his pot use if forced to return to the U.S. The federal government's own doctor testified he'd likely die of a stroke or heart attack if deprived of medical pot for more than 24 to 48 hours, Kubby said. The board's decision was expected by the end of this week but has been delayed a few weeks by further submissions on both sides. Kubby is outraged that U.S. drug czar John Walters has been invited to address a Commons committee studying decriminalization. Walters has not indicated if he'll accept the invitation. "I understand that the Canadian government is getting an extreme amount of pressure from the extremist Bush administration, but they have to know that they are being lied to," Kubby said. The invitation is a "wonderful" chance for Canadians to uncover the American government's dishonesty about marijuana, said Richard Cowan, former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a U.S.-based lobby group. Cowan now lives in Canada. "I think what they really need to do is have (Walters) go to Ottawa, get him on the record and then check the facts," he said. "This way they will see that they're being lied to." Note: Had experimental treatments at Cross Cancer Institute. Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana Newshawk: Steve Kubby Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Author: Lori Coolican, Edmonton Sun Published: Monday, November 3, 2003 Contact: letters@edm.sunpub.c om * Website Related Articles & Web Sites “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” - Dresden James Marijuana News The Drug War Refugees Medical Marijuana User Claims Persecution in US Refugee Hearing for Pot Advocate Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74 Pot Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 Comment #2 posted by Ethan Russo MD on November 03, 2003 More Information: Steve is referring to an article I sent him. Try this link: http://...S5F326D66 If not, here is the abstract: http://...D10423D66 The article was by Manuel Guzman in Nature Reviews-Cancer. Basically, Nature has come out with a variety of new journals where they actually review important concepts and explain them. They are much more user friendly than standard articles in the respective fields that are far too technical for the person who is not a specialist. This article examines the various ways in which THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells. Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die. But, that is not all. The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant. The real scandal is that the National Institute on Drug Abuse knew of the cancer-fighting potential of THC in 1975, and virtually no work at all was done on it for twenty years. Pot Charges Adjourned in Alberta Drugs in The Car, and No One Owns Up November 03, 2003 By Warren Richey, Staff Writer of The CSM Source: Christian Science Monitor Washington – When the US Supreme Court announces its decision in a case called Maryland v. Pringle sometime next year, it may become required reading for every American parent with a teenage child. That's because the court will decide whether police may arrest all passengers riding in a car in which hidden contraband is discovered. It doesn't matter that your son or daughter does not use narcotics or was unaware narcotics were in the car. The question being presented Monday in oral argument to the nation's highest court is whether people's mere presence in a car where someone has concealed drugs is enough to arrest everyone for possession of those drugs. Read More... http://www.cannabisnews...1 7721.shtml "They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can." John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998 MADD, Police Groups Slam Proposed Pot Law Cops, MADD Jointly Urge Ottawa To Stop Pot Bill __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.

11-07-2003, 11:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells. The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor. The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die." "But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant." In other words, this article explains several ways in which cannabinoids might be used to fight cancer, and, as the article says, "Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies. Usually, any story that even suggests the possibility of a new treatment for cancer is greeted with headlines about a "cancer cure" - however remote in the future and improbable in fact it might be. But if marijuana is involved, don't expect any coverage from mainstream media, especially since mainstream editors have been quietly killing this story for the past thirty years. That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974. Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia. The Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part: "The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that 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." "News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country. The news broke quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article," complained MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan , who said he was only able to find the article through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. "The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors," added Cowan. On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74." Media coverage since then has been nonexistant, except for a copy of the story on Alternet . It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why? According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes. Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, familes exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions. New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells Source: Sierra Times.com (NV) Author: Steve Kubby Published: November 07, 2003 Contact: opeds@sierratimes.co m * Website Related Articles & Web Sites AMMA Marijuana News Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74 What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis "Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. Continued...www.sume ria...html Shadow of the Swastika

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