the writer of the article got a lot of the information correct. Some of it is misleading, however. To cite one study where they pumped pure cannabis extract into the tumors of a few people with advanced brain cancer and then saying it doesn't work because the people all died isn't very rigorous, and they even stated there was no control group.
The reason the article was from england is partly because the U.S. federal government FDA considers pot to be a drug that has no medical value, same as heroin, so the government doesn't fund grants to study its actual medical values. Several governors have petitioned the FDA to change this status, to no avail so far.
I think there is a large body of anecdotal evidence that points to some mechanisms of CBD versus cancer having a positive effect on tumor reduction. One such study in australia showed the treatment to be effective in treatment of melanoma when applied as a topical oil.
The article said: This is mainly because most people who use cannabis smoke it mixed with tobacco... an untrue statement in my experience, although some youngsters use cigar wrappers to roll joints (called blunts). No one that i know of mixes tobacco with marijuana as the author indicates.
Which brings up another point of mystery in the marijuana/cancer enigma-- The smoke of cannabis is known to contain some carcinogens, but marijuana smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer than non-smokers, and a way lower rate of lung cancer than tobacco smokers.
So to me, that indicates there is some sort of preventive effect going on, but that is presently not being rigorously studied, since again to experiment on such things is considered to be coloring outside of the lines, so to speak, in the U.S.
If marijuana is reclassified in the U.S., then the drug war could be de-escalated and more serious science can be applied. There are so many cannabanoid compounds in marijuana, hundreds actually, that many of them and in segregated combinations have not been studied in depth.
DD - “Cannabis cure for brain cancer” headline is misleading [/]
to me is no more misleading than the author's Cannabis cannot cure cancer when the article is about one form of cancer, when there are many many types of cancers, and many combinations of types of treatments using THC/CBD extracts and isolates.
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