Let me start this blog by sending my condolences to all the families and persons that have lost someone to cancer.
We have all heard the conspiracies about the drug companies having a cure to cancer, but out of greed they don’t release it because we all know that cancer is big money. Many of you know that I am far from a fan of big pharmacy or the FDA, and I’m less of a fan of the government. But why is it that we have neither cured nor eradicated a single disease in 20-40 odd years? If you ask me, it’s because sick people are big money.
Last week I was having a hard time coming up with a new blog for this week; then I came across a small article that brought up an old study by Spanish researchers who discovered that injecting THC directly into the tumor, the active agent in marijuana, destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats. What is interesting about this study is it showed the same thing that a 1974 study had done.
“In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been 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, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the 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, who set out - unsuccessfully - to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."
Since then, President Ford did his best to hide any research on this subject. The government has done everything in its power to suppress any positive findings about marijuana ever. A sad reflection is that the Spanish study is the first one in 25 years, that’s 25 years that we could have been testing these findings and saving lives. While the Spanish research would be considered big news, the three big new providers ignored the story. This makes one wonder if the government is suppressing this research, as a way to make sure marijuana is not legalized. And this is at the expense of lives.
