The International Medical Veritas
Association (IMVA) is putting hemp oil on its cancer protocol. It is a
prioritized protocol list whose top five items are magnesium chloride,
iodine, selenium, Alpha Lipoic Acid and sodium bicarbonate. It makes
perfect sense to drop hemp oil right into the middle of this nutritional
crossfire of anti cancer medicines, which are all available without
prescription.
Hemp oil has long been recognised as one
of the most versatile and beneficial substances known to man. Derived
from hemp seeds (a member of the achene family of fruits) it has been
regarded as a superfood due to its high essential fatty acid content and
the unique ratio of omega3 to omega6 and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) –
2:5:1. Hemp oil, is known to contain up to 5% of pure GLA, a much higher
concentration than any other plant, even higher than spirulina. For
thousands of years, the hemp plant has been used in elixirs and
medicinal teas because of its healing properties and now medical science
is zeroing in on the properties of its active substances.
Both the commercial legal type of hemp
oil and the illegal THC laden hemp oil are one of the most power-packed
protein sources available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in
many nutritional and transdermal applications. In other chapters in my
Winning the War on Cancer book we will discuss in-depth about GLA and
cancer and also the interesting work of Dr. Johanna Budwig. She uses
flax seed oil instead of hemp oil to cure cancer – through effecting
changes in cell walls – using these omega3 and omega6 laden medicinal
oils.
Actually there is another way to use
medical marijuana without smoking the leaf. According to Dr. Tod H.
Mikuriya, “The usual irritating and toxic breakdown products of burning
utilized with smoking are totally avoided with vaporization. Extraction
and inhaling cannabinoid essential oils below ignition temperature of
both crude and refined cannabis products affords significant mitigation
of irritation to the oral cavity, and tracheobronchial tree from
pyrollytic breakdown products.[iii]
Rick Simpson, the man in the documentary
below, has been making hemp oil and sharing it with friends and
neighbors without charging for it. In small doses, he says, it makes you
well without getting you high. “Well you can’t deny your own eyes can
you?” Simpson asks. “Here’s someone dying of cancer and they’re not
dying anymore. I don’t care if the medicine comes from a tomato plant,
potato plant or a hemp plant, if the medicine is safe and helps and
works, why not use it?” he asks.
When a person has cancer and is dying
this question reaches a critical point. The bravery of Rick Simpson from
Canada in showing us how to make hemp oil for ourselves offers many
people a hope that should be increasingly appreciated as money dries up
for expensive cancer treatments. We are going to need inexpensive
medicines in the future and there is nothing better than the ones we can
make reasonably cheaply ourselves.
For most people in the world it is
illegal so the choice could come down to breaking the law or dying.
There is no research to indicate what advantages oral use of hemp oil
vs. vaporization but we can assume that advantage would be nutritional
with oral intake. Dr. Budwig Below work would sustain this point of view
especially for cancer patients.
The Science
According to Dr. Robert Ramer and Dr.
Burkhard Hinz of the University of Rostock in Germany medical marijuana
can be an effective treatment for cancer.[v] Their research was
published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access
on December 25th of 2007 in a paper entitled Inhibition of Cancer Cell
Invasion by Cannabinoids via Increased Expression of Tissue Inhibitor of
Matrix Metalloproteinases-1.
The biggest contribution of this
breakthrough discovery, is that the expression of TIMP-1 was shown to be
stimulated by cannabinoid receptor activation and to mediate the
anti-invasive effect of cannabinoids. Prior to now the cellular
mechanisms underlying this effect were unclear and the relevance of the
findings to the behavior of tumor cells in vivo remains to be
determined.
Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth
in half, a 2007 Harvard Medical School study shows.[vi] The active
ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and
significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say
researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab
and mouse studies.
This is the first set of experiments to
show that the compound, Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits
EGF-induced growth and migration in epidermal growth factor receptor
(EGFR) expressing non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers
that over-express EGFR are usually highly aggressive and resistant to
chemotherapy. THC that targets cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is
similar in function to endocannabinoids, which are cannabinoids that are
naturally produced in the body and activate these receptors.
“The beauty of this study is that we are
showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new
road to therapy against lung cancer,” said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a
researcher in the Division of Experimental Medicine. Acting through
cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, endocannabinoids (as well as THC) are
thought to play a role in variety of biological functions, including
pain and anxiety control, and inflammation.
Researchers reported in the August 15,
2004 issue of Cancer Research, the journal of the American Association
for Cancer Research, that marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread
of brain cancer in human tumor biopsies.[vii] In a related development, a
research team from the University of South Florida further noted that
THC can also selectively inhibit the activation and replication of gamma
herpes viruses. The viruses, which can lie dormant for years within
white blood cells before becoming active and spreading to other cells,
are thought to increase one’s chances of developing cancers such as
Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease.[viii]
In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s
Complutense University discovered that THC can selectively induce
programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting
surrounding healthy cells. Then in 2000, they reported in the journal
Nature Medicine that injections of synthetic THC eradicated malignant
gliomas (brain tumors) in one-third of treated rats, and prolonged life
in another third by six weeks.[ix]
Led by Dr. Manuel Guzman the Spanish team
announced they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by
injecting them with THC. They reported in the March 2002 issue of
“Nature Medicine” that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer
cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats
with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic compound similar to
THC.[x]
Researchers at the University of Milan in
Naples, Italy, reported in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics that non-psychoactive compounds in marijuana inhibited the
growth of glioma cells in a dose-dependent manner, and selectively
targeted and killed malignant cells through apoptosis. “Non-psychoactive
CBD produce[s] a significant anti-tumor activity both in vitro and in
vivo, thus suggesting a possible application of CBD as an antineoplastic
agent.”[xi]
The first experiment documenting pot’s
anti-tumor effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia
at the behest of the U.S. government. The results of that study,
reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were
that marijuana’s psychoactive component, THC, “slowed the growth of lung
cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory
mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.”[xii]
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
even though the researchers “found that THC slowed the growth of lung
cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice,
and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.”
“Antineoplastic Activity of
Cannabinoids,” an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer
Institute reports, “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the
oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)”
— two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in
marijuana. “Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBN had
reduced primary tumor size.”
Marijuana relieves pain that narcotics like morphine and OxyContin
have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from
illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer.[xiii]
have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from
illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer.[xiii]
According to Devra Davis in her book
Secret History of the War on Cancer, 1.5 million lives have been lost
because Americans failed to act on existing knowledge about the
environmental causes of cancer. It is impossible to calculate the added
deaths from suppressed ‘cancer cures’ but we do know of the terrible
suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been jailed for
marijuana use.
Hemp oil with THC included has the making
of a primary cancer treatment, which even alone seems to have a great
chance of turning the tide against cancer tumors. It has the added
advantage of safety, ease of use, lack of side effects and low cost if
one makes it oneself. Surrounded by other medicinal anti-cancer
substances in a full protocol it’s hard to imagine anyone failing and
falling in their war on cancer.
THC should be included in every cancer protocol.
Sodium bicarbonate is another excellent
anti tumor substance that reduces tumors but is much more difficult to
administer than THC hemp oil. Cannabinoids are able to pass through all
barriers in the body like Alpha Lipoic Acid so simple oral intake is
sufficient. With bicarbonate we need intravenous applications and often
even this is not sufficient, often we have to use catheters and few
doctors in the world are willing to administer this way.
In the end all cancer treatments that are
not promoted by mainstream oncology are illegal. No licensed doctor is
going to claim that are curing cancer with sodium bicarbonate though
they will treat people with cancer explaining they are balancing pH or
some other metabolic profile with this common emergency room medicine
found also most kitchens of the world. More than several states have
passed laws making medical marijuana legal but the federal government
will not relax and let people be free to choose their treatments even if
their lives depend on it.
Davis notes that the cowardice of
research scientists, who publish thoroughly referenced reports but pull
their punches at the end, by claiming that more research needs to be
done before action can be taken. Statements like these are exploited by
industry that buys time to make much more money. It is a deliberate
attempt that creates wholesale public doubt from small data gaps and
remaining scientific uncertainties.
They have done that with everything right
up to and including sunlight. Everything is thought to be dangerous
except the pharmaceutical drugs which are the most dangerous substances
of all. Stomach wrenching chemotherapy and the death principle of
radiation are legal yet safe THC laden hemp oil is not.
It is legal for doctors to attack people
with their poisons but you can go to jail for trying to save yourself or
a loved one from cancer with the oil of a simple garden weed. Our
civilization has put up with this insanity but there is a great price
being paid. In a mad medical world people die that need not and this is a
terrible sadness that has destroyed the integrity and ethics of modern
medicine.
The science for the use of hemp oil is
credible, specific fact-based, and is documented in detail.[xiv] There
is absolutely no reason to not legalize medical marijuana and create an
immediate production and distribution of THC hemp oil to cancer
patients. Unfortunately we live in a world populated with governments
and medical henchmen who would rather see people die cruel deaths then
have access to a safe and effect cancer drug.
Meanwhile the Food and Drug
Administration approved Genentech’s best-selling drug, Avastin, as a
treatment for breast cancer, in a decision, according to the New York
Times, “that appeared to lower the threshold somewhat for approval of
certain cancer drugs. The big question was whether it was enough for a
drug temporarily to stop cancer from worsening — as Avastin had done in a
clinical trial — or was it necessary for a drug to enable patients to
live longer, which Avastin had failed to do. Oncologists and patient
advocates were divided, in part because of the drug’s sometimes severe
side effects.”[xv]
The differences between Avastin and hemp
oil are huge. First Avastin will earn Genentech hundreds of millions
where THC hemp oil will earn no one anything. Second there are no severe
or even mild side effects to taking hemp oil and lastly it is not a
temporary answer but a real solution. Certainly hemp oil will ensure a
longer life.
