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Related: About this forumHow cannabis was used to shrink one of the most aggressive brain cancers
Widely proscribed around the world for its recreational uses, cannabis is being used in a number of different therapeutic ways to bring relief for severe medical conditions. Products using cannabinoids, the active components of the cannabis plant, have been licensed for medical use. Sativex, for example, which contains an equal mixture of the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), is already licenced as a mouth spray for multiple sclerosis and in the US, dronabinol and nabilone are commercially available for treating cancer-related side effects.
Now, in a study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, weve also shown that cannabinoids could play a role in treating one of the most aggressive cancers in adults.
There are more than 85 cannabinoids, which are known to bind to unique receptors in cells and which receive outside chemical signals. These receptors feed into signalling pathways, telling cells what to do. Recent studies have shown that some cannabinoids have potent anti-cancer action. For example, both THC and CBD have been shown in a number of laboratory studies to effectively induce cell death in tumour cells by modifying the faulty signalling pathways inside these cells. Depending on the cell type this can disrupt tumour growth or start to kill it.
The psychoactivity associated with some cannabinoids, principally THC (which gives people a cannabis high), is also mediated via the same receptors. Because these receptors are found in the highest abundances in brain cells, it follows that brain tumours also rich in these receptors may respond best to cannabinoids.
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https://theconversation.com/how-cannabis-was-used-to-shrink-one-of-the-most-aggressive-brain-cancers-34038
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)tridim
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Makes it a cancer preventative as well. Hello? Medical establishment? Komen?
Unfortunately it has the horrible side-effect of losing everything and being sent to prison, so it's baaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!11
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)but I think soon it will be gone.
byronius
(7,395 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and traditional medications did not help. MJ did. She's ok now.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Lots of real good info on full extract cannabis oil (FECO).
In my opinion there are much safer methods than Rick Simpson advocating plastic containers and using naphtha solvent.
This group advocates organic grain alcohol such as Everclear as the solvent.
Many wonderful folks here.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/416702921703509/
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)It seems fitting for cannabis to come into its own at this time.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)By not heating cannabis, one not only does not get high, but the myriad of perfectly ratio acids and oils are able to perform phenomenal synergistic functions.
In a nutshell, we're sick and dying due to a lack of cannabinoids.
Personally, I have been suffering from a gum bacteria that neither hexachloridine, nor H2O2 would kill. One week chewing on cannabis, and it's gone.