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very interesting study from Saint George's University of London
about cannabinoids and their effectiveness
as anti-cancer drugs there's new research which shows that the non
hallucinogenic components of cannabis
could act as very effective anti-cancer
agents the anti-cancer prop properties of THC which is the primary
hallucinogenic component of cannabis has been known for many years
but research into similar cannabis derived compounds known as cannabinoids
has been limited
and the study actually shows that I either alone or in combination with each
other
cannabinoids have I did have bad
appeared to be effective in these laboratory conditions
in I their anti-cancer actions related to leukemia
have six cannabinoid studied each demonstrated anti-cancer properties
as effective as those seen in thc
and importantly they had an increased effect on cancer cells when combined
with each other so it seems clear to me Lewis at this point that
even if this not isn't exactly
where marijuana ends up providing medical advances although it very well
may
that somewhere it will and we have a situation here we have two conflicting
elements we've got the war on drugs
and the US government which maintains that marijuana is a very dangerous drug
and that it doesn't contain true medicinal properties are beneficial
beneficial affect and at the same time
you have research going on which shows that it actually may
and in the midst of this the war on drugs continues to put
nonviolent drug offenders disproportionately minorities
in prison eventually something has to break here
slowly slowly ID's and it all starts I guess with the legalization of marijuana
and then
real research can begin on it and a year who knows what will find
with other illegal drugs I mean who knows what types to
interesting compounds in I knew changer chemicals we may find in the coca leaf
oren salvi are in things like that
and we need you be able to researchers to of course by the way listen to this
completely unbelievable situation the US federal government has consistently
denied
that marijuana has medical benefits and at the same time the US government
holds patents for the medical use of marijuana lookout bill
look up US Patent 663
05 07 it's called
cannabinoids as anti-oxidants and neuroprotective
its which is assigned to the United States America
as represented by the Department have health and human services
it's been 10 years since this patent was
created 10 years but we're still hearing Louis that we need to
prosecute the war on drugs against marijuana and that there are no medical
benefits to marijuana
something here is going to change the question is whether the pharmaceutical
industry
will get to marijuana before it a
or just we'll get to it both stop and that it will become
a illegal in the recreational sense
but at the same time highly profitable drug
for pharmaceutical industries it is just a we already can see how this is going
to develop
yeah well we know who has the advantage right and that of course the
pharmaceuticals