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International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) is
putting hemp oil on its cancer protocol. It is a prioritized protocol list
whose top five items are magnesium chloride, iodine, selenium, Alpha Lipoic
Acid and sodium bicarbonate. It makes perfect sense to drop hemp oil right into
the middle of this nutritional crossfire of anti cancer medicines, which are
all available without prescription.
Hemp oil has long been recognised as one of the most
versatile and beneficial substances known to man. Derived from hemp seeds (a
member of the achene family of fruits) it has been regarded as a superfood due
to its high essential fatty acid content and the unique ratio of omega3 to
omega6 and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) – 2:5:1. Hemp oil, is known to contain up
to 5% of pure GLA, a much higher concentration than any other plant, even
higher than spirulina. For thousands of years, the hemp plant has been used in
elixirs and medicinal teas because of its healing properties and now medical
science is zeroing in on the properties of its active substances.
Both the commercial legal type of hemp oil and the
illegal THC laden hemp oil are one of the most power-packed protein sources
available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in many nutritional and
transdermal applications. In other chapters in my Winning the War on Cancer
book we will discuss in-depth about GLA and cancer and also the interesting
work of Dr. Johanna Budwig. She uses flax seed oil instead of hemp oil to cure
cancer – through effecting changes in cell walls – using these omega3 and
omega6 laden medicinal oils.
Actually
there is another way to use medical marijuana without smoking the leaf.
According to Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, “The usual irritating and toxic breakdown
products of burning utilized with smoking are totally avoided with
vaporization. Extraction and inhaling cannabinoid essential oils below ignition
temperature of both crude and refined cannabis products affords significant
mitigation of irritation to the oral cavity, and tracheobronchial tree from
pyrollytic breakdown products.[iii]
Rick Simpson, the man in the documentary below, has
been making hemp oil and sharing it with friends and neighbors without charging
for it. In small doses, he says, it makes you well without getting you high.
“Well you can’t deny your own eyes can you?” Simpson asks. “Here’s someone
dying of cancer and they’re not dying anymore. I don’t care if the medicine
comes from a tomato plant, potato plant or a hemp plant, if the medicine is
safe and helps and works, why not use it?” he asks.
When a person has cancer and is dying this question
reaches a critical point. The bravery of Rick Simpson from Canada in showing us
how to make hemp oil for ourselves offers many people a hope that should be
increasingly appreciated as money dries up for expensive cancer treatments. We
are going to need inexpensive medicines in the future and there is nothing
better than the ones we can make reasonably cheaply ourselves.
For most
people in the world it is illegal so the choice could come down to breaking the
law or dying. There is no research to indicate what advantages oral use of hemp
oil vs. vaporization but we can assume that advantage would be nutritional with
oral intake. Dr. Budwig Below work would sustain this point of view especially
for cancer patients.
The Science
According to Dr. Robert Ramer and Dr.
Burkhard Hinz of the University of Rostock in Germany medical marijuana can be
an effective treatment for cancer.[v] Their research was published in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access on December 25th of
2007 in a paper entitled Inhibition of Cancer Cell Invasion by Cannabinoids via
Increased Expression of Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinases-1.
The biggest contribution of this breakthrough
discovery, is that the expression of TIMP-1 was shown to be stimulated by
cannabinoid receptor activation and to mediate the anti-invasive effect of
cannabinoids. Prior to now the cellular mechanisms underlying this effect were
unclear and the relevance of the findings to the behavior of tumor cells in
vivo remains to be determined.
Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in
half, a 2007 Harvard Medical School study shows.[vi] The active ingredient in
marijuana cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the
ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who
tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.
This is the first set of experiments to show
that the compound, Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits EGF-induced
growth and migration in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing
non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers that over-express EGFR are
usually highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy. THC that targets
cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function to endocannabinoids,
which are cannabinoids that are naturally produced in the body and activate
these receptors.
“The beauty of this study is that we are
showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to
therapy against lung cancer,” said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a researcher in the
Division of Experimental Medicine. Acting through cannabinoid receptors CB1 and
CB2, endocannabinoids (as well as THC) are thought to play a role in variety of
biological functions, including pain and anxiety control, and inflammation.
Researchers reported in the August 15, 2004
issue of Cancer Research, the journal of the American Association for Cancer
Research, that marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread of brain cancer in
human tumor biopsies.[vii] In a related development, a research team from the
University of South Florida further noted that THC can also selectively inhibit
the activation and replication of gamma herpes viruses. The viruses, which can
lie dormant for years within white blood cells before becoming active and
spreading to other cells, are thought to increase one’s chances of developing
cancers such as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s
disease.[viii]
In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s Complutense
University discovered that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in
brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. Then
in 2000, they reported in the journal Nature Medicine that injections of
synthetic THC eradicated malignant gliomas (brain tumors) in one-third of
treated rats, and prolonged life in another third by six weeks.[ix]
Led by Dr. Manuel Guzman the Spanish team
announced they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting
them with THC. They reported in the March 2002 issue of “Nature Medicine” that
they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose
presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th
day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic
compound similar to THC.[x]
Researchers at the University of Milan in
Naples, Italy, reported in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics that non-psychoactive compounds in marijuana inhibited the growth
of glioma cells in a dose-dependent manner, and selectively targeted and killed
malignant cells through apoptosis. “Non-psychoactive CBD produce[s] a
significant anti-tumor activity both in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting a
possible application of CBD as an antineoplastic agent.”[xi]
The first experiment documenting pot’s
anti-tumor effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the
behest of the U.S. government. The results of that study, reported in an Aug.
18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana’s psychoactive
component, 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.”[xii]
Funded by the National Institute of Health to
find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC
slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer,
and a virus-induced leukemia. The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and
all further cannabis/tumor research even though 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.”
“Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” an
article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports, “Lewis lung
adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)” — two types of cannabinoids, a
family of active components in marijuana. “Mice treated for 20 consecutive days
with THC and CBN had reduced primary tumor size.”
Marijuana relieves pain that narcotics like
morphine and OxyContin
have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from
illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer.[xiii]
have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from
illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer.[xiii]
According to Devra Davis in her book Secret
History of the War on Cancer, 1.5 million lives have been lost because
Americans failed to act on existing knowledge about the environmental causes of
cancer. It is impossible to calculate the added deaths from suppressed ‘cancer
cures’ but we do know of the terrible suffering of hundreds of thousands of
people who have been jailed for marijuana use.
Hemp oil with THC included has the making of
a primary cancer treatment, which even alone seems to have a great chance of
turning the tide against cancer tumors. It has the added advantage of safety,
ease of use, lack of side effects and low cost if one makes it oneself.
Surrounded by other medicinal anti-cancer substances in a full protocol it’s
hard to imagine anyone failing and falling in their war on cancer.
THC should be included in every cancer
protocol.
Sodium bicarbonate is another excellent anti
tumor substance that reduces tumors but is much more difficult to administer
than THC hemp oil. Cannabinoids are able to pass through all barriers in the
body like Alpha Lipoic Acid so simple oral intake is sufficient. With
bicarbonate we need intravenous applications and often even this is not
sufficient, often we have to use catheters and few doctors in the world are
willing to administer this way.
In the end all cancer treatments that are not
promoted by mainstream oncology are illegal. No licensed doctor is going to
claim that are curing cancer with sodium bicarbonate though they will treat
people with cancer explaining they are balancing pH or some other metabolic
profile with this common emergency room medicine found also most kitchens of
the world. More than several states have passed laws making medical marijuana
legal but the federal government will not relax and let people be free to
choose their treatments even if their lives depend on it.
Davis notes that the cowardice of research
scientists, who publish thoroughly referenced reports but pull their punches at
the end, by claiming that more research needs to be done before action can be
taken. Statements like these are exploited by industry that buys time to make
much more money. It is a deliberate attempt that creates wholesale public doubt
from small data gaps and remaining scientific uncertainties.
They have done that with everything right up
to and including sunlight. Everything is thought to be dangerous except the
pharmaceutical drugs which are the most dangerous substances of all. Stomach
wrenching chemotherapy and the death principle of radiation are legal yet safe
THC laden hemp oil is not.
It is legal for doctors to attack people with
their poisons but you can go to jail for trying to save yourself or a loved one
from cancer with the oil of a simple garden weed. Our civilization has put up
with this insanity but there is a great price being paid. In a mad medical
world people die that need not and this is a terrible sadness that has
destroyed the integrity and ethics of modern medicine.
The science for the use of hemp oil is
credible, specific fact-based, and is documented in detail.[xiv] There is
absolutely no reason to not legalize medical marijuana and create an immediate
production and distribution of THC hemp oil to cancer patients. Unfortunately
we live in a world populated with governments and medical henchmen who would
rather see people die cruel deaths then have access to a safe and effect cancer
drug.
Meanwhile the Food and Drug Administration
approved Genentech’s best-selling drug, Avastin, as a treatment for breast
cancer, in a decision, according to the New York Times, “that appeared to lower
the threshold somewhat for approval of certain cancer drugs. The big question
was whether it was enough for a drug temporarily to stop cancer from worsening
— as Avastin had done in a clinical trial — or was it necessary for a drug to
enable patients to live longer, which Avastin had failed to do. Oncologists and
patient advocates were divided, in part because of the drug’s sometimes severe
side effects.”[xv]
The differences between Avastin and hemp oil
are huge. First Avastin will earn Genentech hundreds of millions where THC hemp
oil will earn no one anything. Second there are no severe or even mild side
effects to taking hemp oil and lastly it is not a temporary answer but a real
solution. Certainly hemp oil will ensure a longer life.
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