Yes, but there are reports that there are at least 17 strains of cancer that pot actually attacks the cells and kills them, thus actually curing the person.
I’ve gone through the ravages of cancer, and didn’t do so with pot, but I knew those who did. They had an easier time of the pain, the heartache and often longer survival rates than those who just had to be demolished by chemotherapy.
I’m not “pro-pot”, but I can understand the need to study it. We received the ban on pot because of those who had a financial incentive to keep their industry and their government contracts (the rope industry with the Navy) from drying up. Hemp was a strong product, provided better materials and at a lower cost. That couldn’t be tolerated because then the lobbyists couldn’t suck on the government teat any longer.
It’s time we actually study and not from the pro-pot or anti-pot stance, but literally from the “What does it do to the body? What can it do? Does it have positive effects? Does it have negative effects?” We hear claims on both sides, but the level of true scientific study and factual based claims are not proven because there isn’t enough study.
I think I mentioned in my first post in this thread that I do not buy the conspiracy theories of why marijuana was made illegal. Like any conspiracy theory, they just fall apart when logic is applied.
Yes, but there are reports that there are at least 17 strains of cancer that pot actually attacks the cells and kills them, thus actually curing the person.
Just because something kills cancer cells does not mean that it is a potential cure for cancer. For example, I spent years growing billions of cancer cells in the lab and reliably killed them by bleaching them. However, I do not advocate drinking bleach as a way to cure cancer. Also, dioxin protects against some kinds of cancer--I don't advocate consuming dioxin, either.
It’s time we actually study and not from the pro-pot or anti-pot stance, but literally from the “What does it do to the body? What can it do? Does it have positive effects? Does it have negative effects?” We hear claims on both sides, but the level of true scientific study and factual based claims are not proven because there isn’t enough study.
The studies are being done. One of my researchers is, in fact, studying the ability of cannabidiol to control seizures. The studies were not done before, because it was a royal pain to get the DEA license to do the studies. But now that so many states are jumping on the marijuana legalization bandwagon, it is suddenly imperative for researchers to do the studies and document what, exactly, the effects of marijuana are. So they are going through the hassles of getting DEA licenses and are doing the research. I just searched for "marijuana" on PubMed (the top medical research database) and found 27,587 results. Back in the 1990s, IIRC, the same search would have returned less than a thousand or so results.