Unlocking a Cure for Cancer - With Pot

Time for the anti-pot crusade to attack another fact driven, medical study..

Time for the neo-cons to come out in full force against this.
A, they are anti-science to the hilt and B, if you are feeling good and curing cancers with pot, you aren't buying their medicine companies friends expensive medications and treatments.

Again, they will viciously attack science and fact with a boatload of spin and bs, not thinking once about the people who could benefit the most from these findings.

Last year, five scientific journals published prominent articles trumpeting cannabinoids (compounds in marijuana) as potential anti-cancer agents.

These include:

* Clinical trial data published in January 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Clinical Investigation that found cannabinoids significantly inhibit skin tumor growth in mice. Investigators of the study concluded, "The present data indicate that local cannabinoids administration may constitute an alternative therapeutic approach for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer."

* Clinical trial data published in the March 2003 issue of The FASEB Journal that found that the "local administration of a non-psychoactive cannabinoid inhibits angiogenesis (tissue growth) of malignant gliomas (brain tumors)."

* A clinical review in the October 2003 issue of the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Cancer that concluded that cannabinoids' "favorable drug safety profile" and proven ability to inhibit tumor growth make them desirable agents in the treatment of cancer. According to the review's author, tumors inhibited by cannabinoids include: lung carcinoma, glioma, thyroid epithelioma, lymphoma/leukemia, skin carcinoma, uterus carcinoma, breast carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, and neuroblastoma (a malignant tumor originating in the autonomic nervous system or the adrenal medulla and occurring chiefly in infants and young children).

* Clinical trial data published in the November 2003 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics that found the administration of the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits the growth of human glioma cells both in vitro (e.g., a petri dish) and in animals in a dose-dependent manner. Investigators concluded, "Non-psychoactive CBD produce[s] a significant antitumor activity both in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting a possible application of CBD as an antineoplastic agent (something which prevents the growth of malignant cells.)"

* And finally, a clinical review in the December 2003 issue of the journal Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets that summarized "the demonstrated antitumor actions of cannabinoids," and elaborated on "possible avenues for the future development of cannabinoids as antitumor agents."

And even the media props up the anti-pot sentiment and helps hold down strong medical studies and information..

Despite these stunning findings, media coverage of them in North America has been virtually non-existent. As noted by Richard Cowan, editor of the website MarijuanaNews.com, "The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times all ignored this story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors."

Why the media blackout? For starters, all of these studies were conducted overseas. And secondly, not one of them has been acknowledged by the U.S. government.

Imagine that.
The "so-called" liberal media holding back information about possibly one of the greatest medical discoveries of all time.
Just maybe, that very media isn't so liberal after all and as this shows, time and time again, they walk a fine concerted line together often ignoring great studies or science fact that isn't in a good light with the current political leadership.

This is the sole reason I don't read the printed press anymore.
There is too many hidden agendas and corporate interests that dilutes or pushes the news to a certain slant.
I prefer online resources that give - you the reader - a choice as to what you want to believe and actually encourage/allow you to from an opinion based on the materials presented.
I don't want to be spoon fed what General Electric or Via Com want me to read or hear.
I - as a thinking person can decide that for myself, thank you....