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In article <1158672992.949572.65860@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "Jon von Leipzig@mayday.com" <JonLeipzig@myway.com> wrote:

> bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > In article <g%FOg.58778$JO5.23918@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
> >  Rusty Shackleford <rusty@shackleford.com> wrote:
> >
> > > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > > > http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/080906.html
> > > >
> > > > "According to the new Scripps Research study, which used both computer
> > > > modeling and biochemical assays, THC inhibits the enzyme
> > > > acetylcholinesterase (AChE), which acts as a "molecular chaperone" to
> > > > accelerate the formation of amyloid plaque in the brains of Alzheimer
> > > > victims." [,,,more]
> > >
> > >
> > > simply amazing how this little tidbit never seemed to make it on the
> > > national news. my guess it's the fascist society we live in.
> >
> > My sister-in-law is dying of cancer. Doctor has given her a couple of
> > weeks. She's at home in pain that I can't imagine. Over the past year,
> > she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on prescriptions.
> >
> > Now, she can't eat. Can't sleep.
> >
> > On the advice of an anonymous doctor, her sister urged her to try
> > smoking some pot.
> >
> > She refused, because it is illegal.
> 
> Imo, if she has any chance at all, it would have to start with pot.  It
> will (or may) alleviate the pain, then enable her to sleep. It should
> stimulate her appetite & enable her to hold food down.  Thousands of
> patients have already made these discoveries
> 
> If she's able to eat, she may last longer.  If it were my relative,
> think I'd try the
> Budwig Diet.  Unfortunately, it usually requires about 3 months, but
> it's probably better than doing nothing.
> 
> At this late stage, think I'd look into direct injections of ozone into
> the tumor (s?). Don't know if it's allowed in the US, it's quite common
> in Germany, but don't know if it's useful this late in the game.
> 
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> 
> http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html
> 
> Among the thousands of California actors, musicians and writers who
> legally use medical marijuana was famed author Peter McWilliams, who
> suffered from AIDS and cancer. He said, "If it weren't for the illegal
> pot dealers (before Proposition 215), there would have been no
> marijuana and I wouldn't be alive today. Marijuana eases nausea and
> makes it possible for me to keep down food and the pills I must take to
> combat my diseases.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> A tumor is a mass of swollen tissue. Researchers at the Medical College
> of Virginia discovered that cannabis is an incredibly successful herb
> for reducing many types of tumors, both benign and malignant
> (cancerous).   The DEA and other federal agencies had ordered these
> tumor studies done after hearing  erroneous reports of possible
> immunicological problems  associated with cannabis smoke.    But, in
> 1975, instead of health problems, an apparent medical breakthrough
> occurred and successful tumor reductions were recorded!    Following
> this remarkably positive discovery by the Medical College of Virginia,
> orders were immediately handed down by the DEA and the National
> Institute of Health to defund all furter cannabis/tumor research and
> reporting! Millions of Americans who might be alive today are dead
> because of these and other DEA orders regarding marijuana.  Since 1996,
> the Medical College of Virginia has again applied to receive grants for
> cannabis research and has been turned down by the DEA.
> 
> 
> ================================================
> 
> 
> Project Censored  2000
> 
> U.S. Government Repressed Marijuana-Tumor Research
>  Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74
> 
> 22 A Spanish medical team's study released in Madrid in February 2000
> has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in
> marijuana, destroys tumors in lab rats. These findings, however, are
> not news to the U.S. government. A study in Virginia in 1974 yielded
> similar results but was suppressed by the DEA, and in 1983 the
> Reagan/Bush administration tried to persuade U.S. universities and
> researchers to destroy all cannabis research work done between 1966 and
> 1976, including compendiums in libraries.
> 
> The research was conducted by a medical team led by Dr. Manuel Guzman
> of Complutence University in Madrid. In the study, brains of 45 lab
> rats were injected with a cancer cell, which produced tumors. On the
> twelfth day of the experiment, 15 of the rats were injected with THC
> and 15 with Win-55, 212-2, a synthetic compound similar to THC. The
> untreated rats died 12-18 days after the development of the tumors. THC
> treated rats lived significantly longer than the control group.
> Although three were unaffected by the THC, nine lived 19-35 days, while
> tumors were completely eradicated in three others. The rats treated
> with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results.
> 
> In an e-mail interview for this story, the Madrid researcher said he
> had heard of the Virginia study, but had never been able to locate
> literature on it. "I am aware of the existence of that research. In
> fact I have attempted many times to obtain the journal article on the
> original investigation by theses people, but it has proven impossible,"
> Guzman said. His response wasn't surprising, considering that in 1983
> the Reagan/Bush administration tried to persuade American universities
> and researchers to destroy all 1966/76 cannabis research work,
> including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer. "We know that
> large amounts of information have since disappeared," he says.
> 
> 
> Guzman provided the title of the work -- "Antineoplastic Activity of
> Cannabinoids," an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer
> Institute -- and author Raymond Cushing obtained a copy at the UC
> Medical School Library in Davis, California, and faxed it to Madrid.
> The 1975 article does not mention breast cancer tumors, which were
> featured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974
> study in the local section of the Washington Post on August 18, 1974.
> The headline read, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," and was followed in part
> by, "The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three
> kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction
> that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of
> Virginia team has discovered. The researchers found that THC slowed the
> growth of lung cancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced leukemia in
> laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
> 
> Drug Enforcement Agency officials shut down the Virginia study and all
> further cannabis research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on
> these events in his book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In 1976,
> President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and
> granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies.
> These companies set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms
> of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."
> 

and if you don't like to smoke, look into Vaporizers.
easier on the lungs.
>
g adds.
MONEY , what a concept