Anti-neoplastic

agent

There is a great deal of controversy surrounding Cannabis and Cancer. Anecdotal

reports as well as current medical and scientific studies

show that Cannabis has a high potential in the treatment of many Cancers. In a study done by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia researchers tested the hypothesis that Cannabis may treat or cure cancer. They used THC to treat human leukemia and lymphoma cell lines and this is what they found:



“Culture of primary acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells with THC in vitro reduced cell viability and induced apoptosis. Together, the current data demonstrate that CB2 cannabinoid receptors expressed on malignancies of the immune system may serve as potential targets for the induction of apoptosis. Also, because CB2 agonists lack psychotropic effects, they may serve as novel anticancer agents to selectively target and kill tumors of immune origin.”

In summary, this study shows undeniable evidence that Cannabis is an effective and non-toxic treatment for leukemia.

The leukemia

and lymphoma society provide these statistics:

a. One person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer approximately every four minutes.

b. An estimated combined total of 149,990 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2013.

c. New cases of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will account for 9 percent of the 1,660,290 new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year.

Essentially if one person is diagnosed every four minutes with this severely life-threatening form of cancer, and Cannabis can effectively treat this cancer, wouldn’t it be safe to assume that Cannabis does have medicinal value? Cannabis can save one life every four minutes if it was available as a treatment option. There are studies proving the efficacy of cannabis in the treatment of many other Cancers as well such as:

