(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Earlier today I had a very interesting discussion about cannabis (marijuana). When heated and turned into an oil cannabis can be used as a cure for cancer. Basically cancerous cells have receptors on them that react with the THC in marijuana. When this happens the cancerous cells are killed. The benefit to this is that healthy cells do not produce these same receptors, so the oil does not have any effect on healthy cells.

Chemotherapy is something that targets any rapidly dividing cell in the body (such as hair, which is why chemo causes hair loss). This is the advantage that using cannabis can have over chemo or other forms anti-cancer drugs.

The conversation then went on about legalization of marijuana (for both medical purposes and recreational purposes). An interesting point was made which was based mostly on speculation but certainly not baseless speculation that medical companies use their influence in the government to block the legalization of marijuana. This is because if the drug is legalized for medicinal uses one cannot patent a plant. This is something that is regularly talked where it sometimes seems that a company will not release something to ensure that the Business of Medicine continues (keeping the sick, sick). That is a very negative outlook on how medicine works but some certainly do find it valid.

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The site does a very good job at explaining it for those who have no background in medicine.

What do you guys think about this?

I do know how the body transports chemicals around the body but we are not talking about something that is easily targeted or be cured with some simple pain killers.

What I meant by a delivery system was, (using your example of Green Dragon) if it has spread elsewhere from the liver how would that cure be transported, let's face it cancer is never just in a key area, if unchecked it can spread from head to toe, just curing the liver will be pointless, the delivery system would have to be a cure that could target every cell in the body, or else you will be having a shot, pill, suppository, spray etc. all at once, plus the medicine would have to be really strong and that's if you can identify the disease as I said earlier, cancer isn't made of just one disease, then you would need a booster to help with the immune system to gain strength again, that's why radiation and surgery at the moment if the only cure for some cases.

It's estimated there are 200 million trillion cells in the human body (basically nobody knows) and you have to be able to target all the ones that have cancer and cure them all at once before it has chance to move to another area, without damaging the ones that are healthy. For some reason I just had the image of trying to catch a bar of soap in a bath, as soon as you think you have caught it, the bar slips and disappears somewhere else in the bath.

Its a good thing its a cure for cancer and its also a good thing for people who will sell this product on the streets