BBC special on Cannabinoid Receptors... below an article by Steve Kubby, Sierra Times
...A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.
It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years, yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed.
Why?
According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition.
"If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way.
However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.
Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, families exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs.
Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.
Extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics detail the promises and the limitations of medicinal cannabis.
Even though the video has an American perspective, marijuana use is illegal throughout many countries of the world for reasons that are not clear.
This video is important because it mainly investigates the scientific basis underlying the medical benefits of marijuana use instead of focusing on the:
Molecular Biologist Explains how THC Completely Kills Cancer Cells
by Arjun Walia on February 18, 2014
THC - Tetrahydrocannabinol - Cannabinoid
Below is a video of Dr. Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist at Compultense University in Madrid, Spain, clearly explaining how THC (the main psychoactive constitute of the cannabis plant) completely kills cancer cells.
Not long ago, we published an article examining a case study recently published where doctors used cannabis to treat Leukemia, you can read more about that here.
Cannabinoids refer to any of group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis.
They activate cannabinoid receptors in the body.
The body itself produces compounds called endocannabinoids and they play a role in many processes within the body that help to create a healthy environment.
I think it’s also important to note that cannabis has been shown to treat cancer without any psychoactive effects.
Cannabinoids have been proven to reduce cancer cells as they have a great impact on the rebuilding of the immune system.
Although not every strain of cannabis has the same effect, more and more patients are seeing success in cancer reduction in a short period of time by using cannabis.
Contrary to popular belief, smoking cannabis does not assist a great deal in treating disease within the body as therapeutic levels cannot be reached through smoking.
Creating oil from the plant or eating the plant is the best way to go about getting the necessary ingredients, the cannabinoids.
The world has come a long way with with regards to accepting this plant as a medicine rather than a harmful substance. It’s a plant that could benefit the planet in more ways than one.
Cannabis is not something offered in the same regard as chemotherapy, but more people are becoming aware if it, which is why it’s so important to continue to spread information like this.
Nobody can really deny the tremendous healing power of this plant.
Watch Arjan and Franco discover Morocco in the 3rd Strain Hunters documentary: Strain Hunters Morocco Expedition by Green House Seed Company Amsterdam.
Strain Hunters is a series of documentaries aimed at informing the general public about the quest for the preservation of the cannabis plant in the form of particularly vulnerable landraces originating in the poorest areas of the planet.
The sole intent of Strain Hunters is to identify, locate and retrieve cannabis landraces that have not yet been studied, in order to give scientists and doctors the possibility to further enhance knowledge of the cannabis plant in the medicinal field.
Many previously unknown cannabinoid profiles are contained in cannabis landraces originating from areas where there is no possibility of scientific research.
One day these plants could be helpful in developing better medications for the sick and the suffering.
We feel it is our duty to preserve as many cannabis landraces as possible in our genetic database, and by breeding them into other well-studied medicinal strains for the sole purpose of scientific research.
During the making of the Strain Hunters documentaries no harm was done to any person, animal, plant, or the environment.
All carbon emissions generated by this project have been offset by planting thousands of seeds.
The Strain Hunters documentaries have the defined and limited purpose of information to the general public.
Strain Hunters do not endorse or promote illegal activities of any kind.
Big Pharma can't allow cancer or any other disease to be cured because they will lose their business of drugs, pills and all the illness causing products they make and distribute to the dis-eased.
The cannabinoid 1 (CB (1) and cannabinoid 2 (CB (2) receptor agonist Delta (9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been shown to be a broad-range inhibitor of cancer in culture and in vivo and is currently being used in a clinical trial for the treatment of glioblastoma.
It has been suggested that other plant-derived cannabinoids, which do not interact efficiently with CB (1) and CB (2) receptors, can modulate the actions of Delta (9)-THC.
There are conflicting reports, however, as to what extent other cannabinoids can modulate Delta (9)-THC activity, and most importantly, it is not clear whether other cannabinoid compounds can either potentiate or inhibit the actions of Delta (9)-THC.
We therefore tested cannabidiol, the second most abundant plant-derived cannabinoid, in combination with Delta (9)-THC.
In the U251 and SF126 glioblastoma cell lines, Delta (9)-THC and cannabidiol acted synergistically to inhibit cell proliferation.
The treatment of glioblastoma cells with both compounds led to significant modulations of the cell cycle and induction of reactive oxygen species and apoptosis as well as specific modulations of extracellular signal-regulated kinase and caspase activities.
These specific changes were not observed with either compound individually, indicating that the signal transduction pathways affected by the combination treatment were unique.
Our results suggest that the addition of cannabidiol to Delta (9)-THC may improve the overall effectiveness of Delta (9)-THC in the treatment of glioblastoma in cancer patients.