THC cures cancer but our government suck..

i still am very much under the impression that MJ is near universal symptom treating compound, but it does little to nothing in actually treating a disease and ridding a patient of that disease.

All the studies reporting that MJ helped to shrink cancer cells, all say explicitly that the data is still very preliminary, and that a conclusion CANNOT be reached until further trials have been conducted. all a responsible scientist can claim is that MJ shows promise in treating cancer.
 
as someone who actually studies autophagy, i will say I'm usually very skeptical of any papers claiming autophagic cell death. however this paper seems pretty solid and the journal of clinical investigation is a very good journal. keep in mind this is just THC and not weed itself, which has who knows how many complicating chemicals in it.
 
You're an idiot. THC doesnt cure cancer. It advocates for cachexia, which is an inevitable after-effect from chemotherapy. The reason they prescribe THC for chemo patients is because it helps with the lack of appetite which is a result of the chemo. The reason governments prohibit the use of marijuana is because a small size of people who start smoking weed end up doing a bunch of other crazy shit. such as felonies, driving high (yeah, its a crime), and mainly end up doing other drugs.

Get your facts straight before you try and justify legalization. The reason the government doesn't even consider it at the national level is because the only people arguing for it are giving stupid arguments.
 
I'm sorry but that was possibly the weakest argument for why weed should be illegal. So because some people who smoke marijuana also happen to do other drugs, it should be illegal? The black market caused by prohibition pushes people toward other drugs, not the use of weed. Please come up with a legit argument for why it should be illegal and then lets talk.
 
I didnt need to. I was active in trying to help pass measure 76 in oregon this november (medical marijuana distribution centers). I know the facts about marijuana, especially the useage medicinally. My dad also happens to work at a pain clinic and deals with assholes who try and justify that marijuana will make their toe feel better when they have failed several UA's in the past years. Not one person who vouched for the bill said it can cure cancer. It is primarily used as a medicine of advocacy, not curing.
 
look dude, the facts are in the paper. the paper is focused on THC, not marijuana. i frankly don't give a shit about medicinal marijuana. that's a totally different argument. it's just a dumb ambiguous halfway step towards legalization anyway. the system is being abused of course, but at least states are cashing in on tax revenue. it will be legal soon enough anyway.
irrespective of that issue a scientific paper published in a high end journal saying THC can reduce tumor size in humans in mice shouldn't be tossed aside. yes, it should be read with a critical eye and only provides one piece of evidence and certainly not a cure. But evidence is accumulating that THC and other cannabinoids have anti-cancer effects. That would suggest your first blanket statement "THC does not cure cancer" may not be entirely true.
Resveratrol is another chemical found in red wine that seemingly has a number of beneficial properties. no need to be a dismissive prick about shit you don't know about.
 
First your right about why it's prescribed. There are studies that have shown that it can shrink tumor growth. Whether these studies are 100% accurate is up in the air but it is a possibility.

As far as legalizing it. The reason they haven't is obvious. Some of the same shitty bullshit reasons that made it illegal in the first place. Anybody that's not completely ignorant can realize that it obviously should be legal.
 
I see what you're saying, but the most commonly perscribed method of THC is marijuana, the active ingredient in marijuana as we all know is THC and it's a lot more affordable than concentrating thc into a consumable pill.
 
Agreed, the ease of growing and accessibility of weed will likely prevent drug companies from making any money off THC. and i agree that medicinal marijuana is fucking stupid. while it almost certainly does help people with pain and is a lot safer than narcotic painkillers, it needs to just be legalized and treated as an herbal remedy. it makes no sense to treat a plant that contains thousands of chemicals as a medicine and have it be prescribed by a doctor. which means unless it starts killing people, it should be on the market like any other herbal supplement, diet pill etc. out there. you take it if you want it, but you assume the risks just like alcohol or diet pills or whatever. The only reason it's not this way is because of political bullshit. and sadly scientific findings regarding the benefits of various substances found in marijuana will be brushed aside in the political shitstorm. things are changing though and i think it will be legalized sometime soon. i just hope we can do away with the absurd practice of getting a card from some money-hungry doctor.
 
Basically the full legalization thing has 2 things really going for it: it feels good (duh) and it puts regulation in our hands rather than mexicos. I believe that medicinal marijuana is a very corrupt system and it should only be given on the rarest of circumstances. But you gotta look at who are the lawmakers: rich white old people who don't currently smoke weed.
 
regarding the drug company comment, if THC is proven to be an effective anti-cancer drug but only when administered in a way that's not possible with marijuana like direct injection, the drug companies could turn a profit off that. in that case THC would be prescribed by a doctor. i would hope people wouldn't be buying herbal remedies that they need to inject in themselves.
 
and we can generate a lot of tax dollars and spend that on fighting shit that actually fucks up peoples lives (like pain pills).
 
Injecting thc=death. Only 2 ways so far to get thc: smoking and consumption. Hence why stoners have yet to shoot up weed.
 
injecting THC at a given concentration is no different than injecting any other drug. obviously the safe effective dosage would be determined in clinical trials like any other drug.
 
Thc is stored in fat, not circulated thru the bloodstream. So putting it in your blood would be pointless
 
fat storage just means it's not hydrophilic. it's solubility can be modified by adding different functional groups to the compound.
 
i guess this would explain why people with cancer are legally allowed to smoke weed... and still die from the disease, clearly not a "cure".
 
LOL! Rehab from what? Being hungry happy and sleepy all the time?

damn son, I need to eat less junk food, exercise more, and drink a cup of coffee. thats the only rehab for weed.
 
do you people actually expect a straight up cure? like the way antibiotics halt disease type cure? until doctors invent little nanobots that can skitter across your skull eating cancer cells, i think treating symptoms isnt a bad bet...
 
yeah and you know why? it's because of the high effect it produces. it might help for a bit but you're not making any progress. he's right, until they get some concrete evidence all anyone can conclude is that everyone just wants a reason to smoke weed.
 
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