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odd_duck

(107 posts) Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:50 PM Oct 2015

Yet another cannabis oil wonder....

This cannot be allowed! People curing themselves with things they can grow in their own garden?!? We must protect our medical-industrial-complex at all costs!!! They are such generous campaign donors!

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/10/oil-cures-3-year-old-boy-of-cancer-after-doctors-gave-him-48-hours-to-live/#

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Yet another cannabis oil wonder.... (Original Post) odd_duck Oct 2015 OP

Free the plants! Let freedom ring! nt. WDIM Oct 2015 #1

Obviously due to the cannabis oil. No way could it have been COLGATE4 Oct 2015 #2

It's cannabis' ability to suppress nausea and vomiting which allows... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #3

That part may be accurate. I have problems with COLGATE4 Oct 2015 #4

WDIM

(1,662 posts)

1. Free the plants! Let freedom ring! nt.

Reply to odd_duck (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:55 PM

Oct 2015

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. Obviously due to the cannabis oil. No way could it have been

Reply to odd_duck (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 02:17 PM

Oct 2015

a result of the chemo. Got it.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

3. It's cannabis' ability to suppress nausea and vomiting which allows...

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 02:27 PM

Oct 2015

a patient to keep down food and rebuild vitality, an vital component in recovery. I don't as of now see any indication that it directly goes after an acute cancer, but it seems a good treatment for the huge side effects of cancer treatment itself.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

4. That part may be accurate. I have problems with

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 02:29 PM

Oct 2015

the assumption that the cannabis produces a 'miracle cure' for cancer.

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