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Posted by FoM on February 28, 2000 at 12:15:38 PT The Associated Press Source: Fox News 
Marijuana-like drugs eradicated some brain cancers in rats and helped other animals live longer, possibly hinting at a new approach for treating the disease, researchers say. But brain cancer experts said they aren't impressed. The study dealt with gliomas, the most common category of cancer arising in the brain. Gliomas are highly lethal in people despite treatment with drugs, surgery and radiation. The rat study was published in the March issue of the journal Nature Medicine. It was conducted by scientists at the Complutense and Autonoma universities in Madrid, Spain. They injected glioma cells into the brains of rats to produce tumors. Untreated rats died within 18 days. Other rats were treated with drug infusions for seven days through a tube leading to the tumor. Fifteen rats got infusions of THC, the main active component in marijuana. Tumors disappeared in three animals, and nine other rats outlived the untreated ones, surviving up to 35 days. When researchers used a different but similar drug, five of 15 rats became tumor-free and four others outlived untreated animals, the researchers said. But Dr. Philip Gutin, chief of neurosurgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said other experimental therapies work better in rats. And the paper doesn't demonstrate that the effect came from the drugs rather than simply the infusion of liquid into the brain, he said. Dr. Rolf Barth, who studies brain tumors at Ohio State University, called the work interesting. But he said the type of glioma cells used to create the tumors does not provide a very good mimic of the human disease. New York (AP) Published: February 28, 2000 http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/asearch?type=all&query=cannabisnews+medical http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/asearch?type=all&query=cannabisnews+medical+cannabis Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #8 posted by steevy on July 22, 2002 at 11:15:19 PT:
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| this is just the kind of evidence we need to say enough is enough. make love not war, stop the war on drugs. we should not have a government policing us around and trying to tell us whats good for us, i know what i need and i don't use drugs to party. i smoke marijuana recreationally every day . i gained 20 lbs ask me how
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| Comment #6 posted by CongressmanSuet on February 28, 2000 at 18:28:15 PT |
| Comment #5 posted by Puritan on February 28, 2000 at 18:21:55 PT |
Of course smoked cannabis should be available for medical uses whenever and wherever it proves benefical.
| Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on February 28, 2000 at 16:09:41 PT |
The antis have always jumped to conclusions, right from the beginning. We shouldn't emulate them.
| Comment #3 posted by Thomas on February 28, 2000 at 13:40:26 PT |
| Comment #2 posted by greenfox on February 28, 2000 at 13:36:09 PT |
I hope this was sarcasm. If not, all I have to say about it is when I was dealing with food poisoning they gave me comizine (sp?), which as they so nicely said "*MAY* create a diseuphoric side effect reaction". Well, it did. I felt suicidal the entire 12 hours I was on this particular FDA-approved drug. It was the most unpleasant feeling I've ever experienced, and if faced with the situation again, I'd sooner continue to vomit blood then to take that particular drug.
So cannabis creates EUPHoRIA, which makes it... bad? i'm missing the logic, here.
-greenfox.
| Comment #1 posted by Puritan on February 28, 2000 at 13:12:17 PT |
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