Scientists Sean McAllister and Pierre Desprez have been studying cannabinoids, the active molecules in marijuana, as inhibitors of metastatic disease. Based out of San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, the two scientists believe that marijuana has properties that can stop cancer from spreading.
McAllister explained to the San Francisco Chronicle, “The preclinical trial data is very strong, and there’s no toxicity. There’s really a lot of research to move ahead with and to get people excited.” The scientists are hoping to start human clinical trials soon based on their findings.
The scientists began their research almost 20 years ago, and initially thought the results they discovered after testing cancer cells with CBD compounds were an error. They repeated the tests numerous times, and each test yielded the same results– when exposed to CBDs, cancer cells reverted to a normal, healthy state.
Because of marijuana’s illegal status under federal law, scientists are often ignored when they discover benefits of the drug. McAllister and Desprez’s findings have the potential to change millions of lives, but the scientists’ efforts may be limited by the federal prohibition of marijuana.
A catch 22, marijuana is currently deemed to have no medicinal benefits under its federal Schedule I classification, but its medicinal benefits cannot be studied due to its Schedule I classification. In recent months, a number of politicians have called for marijuana to be moved to a Schedule II drug, which would allow for the medicinal benefits to be studied further.
While marijuana has been proven to relieve nausea and pain related to cancer therapies, these recent findings demonstrate that scientists may be able to use marijuana, or its compounds, to actually cure cancer.
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Oilhead420 said on Sep 20, 2012
They thought it was an error, lol. Finally some actual scientific evidence here in the USA, now people can hear the truth, if anyone has ever had cancer, they would know there is a need for better and safer cancer drugs, and we have the best cocktail, cannibinoids, there's already 3-4 known cannibinoids that kills cancer cells in different ways.
BA said on Sep 20, 2012
The US government has known this since the mid 70's. They have a patent #6630507…..
BlazinAlberts said on Sep 20, 2012
Great article
KroNic420 said on Sep 20, 2012
fuck the government, smoke hash and kush all day
Drkush010 said on Sep 21, 2012
The Feds can go suck a dick. Blaze up
minipunch said on Sep 21, 2012
How insane would that be if nug = cure for cancer
DankHydroKush said on Sep 22, 2012
at the end of the day its obviously not going to come down to smoking a joint will cure or keep you immune to cancer, how ever i do believe there is receptors in us that are stimulated and act naturally towards cannabis and our bodies have a gene makeup that says we need it as part of our diet.
PeacefulRebel said on Sep 22, 2012
A joint a day will keep the doctor away!
RumpWax said on Sep 22, 2012
We all know corporations and lobbyists run washington…is this a suprise that mmj helps fight cancer? ofc it's not. It's a big wake up call. They've known this all along..and if we cure cancer..well then the pharmaceutical companies, who are probably responsible for keeping it a schedule 1 drug, will loose billions in potential profits from cancer treatments..we all know big pharma's slogan "A patient cured, is a customer lost."