Cured A Cannabis Story (A film by David Triplett)

[SHEEPinWOLFskin]

Cured A Cannabis Story YT video

 

David shows his skin cancer being cured and talks about Cannabis healing. EndoCannabinoids ftw!

[Nooby]

Nice vid.

[SHEEPinWOLFskin]

I agree, he does a good job of putting the info together while showing his cancer being cured I made oil out of vapor poo and used some today to apply on a semi crushed little finger at the base of the nail....OUCH. Any way I ran in side and put a dob of my vapor poo oil on the damaged area and the pain went in 5-10sec Now hoping it heals the skin

 

Cannabis oil ROCKS

[Ozman]

If everyone in the world watched this film the world might be a better place !

 

More and more people are starting to listen its just a matter of time maybe this is the awakening of the human race we have been told lies for so long its like the goverment want us to be sick so they get more money .

 

I said to a friend of mine when did all these cancers start happening i said hold on i bet around late 1930s etc cause thats when the us goverment made it a illeagle drug and he said yea your probably right wich meant no more medicine.

[Sylar420]

it is a shame! as long as pharmaceutical company's hold a monopoly of the "legal" drug market hemp oil will continually be denied as a form of treatment cos it much cheaper and not on the pbs system we have in Australia. thank god for capitalism, making money even if it kills people and your product dosnt work

[The Green Dragon]

I like the part about Brown University doing a study that shows that long term pot users are 62% less likely to develop head and neck cancers. Fuck. Yes.

 

I dunno about you guys, but seeing as how my uncle just had throat cancer (thankfully he beat it) I'm not about to stop smoking pot

[freddie]

I wish people wouldn't put up youtube clips as evidence that cannabis cures cancer. Cannabis helps a lot of things but it doesn't cure everything. Where is the scientific evidence to back this up? Anyone can make a youtube clip claiming anything at all. Cannabis has been shown to be of use in some cancers and many other ailments but it does not help if it keeps getting pushed as a miracle 'cure all'. It is not.

 

From the words of a well known cannabis researcher and cannabis advocate, Lester Grinspoon.

In the January 2010 issue of HIGH TIMES, Steve Hager published an article, “Rick Simpson’s Hemp-Oil Medicine,” in which he extols the cancer-curing virtues of a concentrated form of marijuana which a Canadian man developed as “hemp oil.” Unfortunately, the anecdotal evidence on which the cancer-curing capacity is based is unconvincing; and because it is unconvincing, it raises a serious moral issue.

 

 

Simpson, who does not have a medical or scientific education (he dropped out of school in ninth grade), apparently does not require that a candidate for his treatment have an established diagnosis of a specific type of cancer, usually achieved through biopsy, gross and histopathological examinations, radiologic and clinical laboratory evidence. He apparently accepts the word of his “patients.” Furthermore, after he has given the course of “hemp oil,” there is apparently no clinical or laboratory follow-up; he apparently accepts the “patient’s” belief that he has been cured. According to Hager, he claims a cure rate of 70 percent. But 70 percent of what? Do all the people he “treats” with hemp-oil medicine have medically established, well-documented cancer, or is he treating the symptoms or a constellation of symptoms that he or the patient have concluded signify the existence of cancer? And what is the nature and duration of the follow-up which would allow him to conclude that he has cured 70 percent? Furthermore, does this population of “patients with cancer” include those who have already had therapeutic regimes (such as surgery, radiation or chemotherapy) which are known to be successful in curing some cancers or holding at bay, sometimes for long periods of time, many others?

 

 

There are patients who have a medically sound diagnosis of pre-symptomatic cancer (such as early prostate cancer) but who, for one reason or another, eschew allopathic treatment and desperately seek out other approaches. Such patients are all too eager to believe that a new treatment, such as hemp-oil medicine, has cured their cancer. Unfortunately, this cancer, which was asymptomatic at the time of its discovery, will eventually become symptomatic, and at that time the possibility of a cure is significantly diminished, if not inconceivable.

 

 

This lesson was brought home to me when I was asked by the American Cancer Society, during a period early in my medical career when I was doing cancer research, to participate in an investigation of a man in Texas who claimed that a particular herb that his grandfather discovered would cure cancer. I was able to locate two women who had well-documented diagnoses of early (asymptomatic) cervical cancer who had decided not to have surgery but instead went to Texas and took the “medicine.” When I first met them some months after each had taken the “cure,” they were certain that they were now cancer-free. With much effort, I was able to persuade them to have our surgical unit perform new biopsies, both of which revealed advancement in the pathological process over their initial biopsies. Both were then persuaded to have the surgery they had previously feared, and there is no doubt that this resulted in saving their lives.

 

 

There is little doubt that cannabis now may play some non-curative roles in the treatment of this disease (or diseases) because it is often useful to cancer patients who suffer from nausea, anorexia, depression, anxiety, pain and insomnia. However, while there is growing evidence from animal studies that it may shrink tumor cells and cause other promising salutary effects in some cancers, there is no present evidence that it cures any of the many different types of cancer. I think the day will come when it or some cannabinoid derivatives will be demonstrated to have cancer-curative powers, but in the meantime, we must be very cautious about what we promise these patients.

http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6013

[SHEEPinWOLFskin]

I wish people wouldn't be mind numbed and will only believe you if your wearing a white coat

 

You're welcome to get cancer and get treatment from this system of things(the world) no one is stopping you.

 

Must say this site seems very anti Cannabinoid healing and not sure why that would be :? BTW re: my crushed little finger, it was fully healed in 3-4 days by the Cannabis oil(not that you'd believe that).

 

I come from a family of doctors so maybe that's why I don't worship them or their opinions.......

 

PS burnt the back on my hand today stoking the fire, 3 guesses what I applied on it and yes it works great.

 

[freddie]

I wish people wouldn't be mind numbed and will only believe you if your wearing a white coat

 

You're welcome to get cancer and get treatment from this system of things(the world) no one is stopping you.

 

Must say this site seems very anti Cannabinoid healing and not sure why that would be :? BTW re: my crushed little finger, it was fully healed in 3-4 days by the Cannabis oil(not that you'd believe that).

 

I come from a family of doctors so maybe that's why I don't worship them or their opinions.......

 

PS burnt the back on my hand today stoking the fire, 3 guesses what I applied on it and yes it works great.

 

I don't only believe what people in white coats tell me. In fact I am quite skeptical of the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies in general. However this does not mean I can't be equally skeptical of a snake oil salesman who simply makes a youtube clip without anything to back it up. I simply ask that this be tested. It isn't hard to do double blind tests is it? If cannabis is this helpful for all these ailments then it is something that can certainly be tested. Simpson has had years to do this. Why on earth would you believe a youtube clip over scientific evidence?

 

Your crushed little finger on its own tells us nothing at all about the healing or not of cannabis oil. A double blind test on a few hundred crushed fingers using a placebo and control groups does tell us something. How do you know your finger didn't heal by itself?

 

The site isn't at all anti cannabinoid healing. Ridiculous statement. Many here (including myself) use it for medical purposes. It is well known that cannabis helps many things (including some cancers) but to suggest a cancer "cure all" is doing the community a disservice in my opinion. Do you really think the general community would take notice of someone making claims like Rick Simpson does?

 

It is healthy to be skeptical both of the medical profession and alternative therapies.

 

I would love it if it was proved that cannabis oil cured all cancer. Hopefully someone will test this soon. Until then I remain very skeptical.

Edited August 13, 2010 by freddie

[cybergenesis]

I wouldn't be surprised if marijuana has some role in preventing and slowing the growth of certain types of cancer, but as of yet this relationship is poorly understood and incredible claims require hard evidence.

[snooch]

I wish people wouldn't put up youtube clips as evidence that cannabis cures cancer. Cannabis helps a lot of things but it doesn't cure everything. Where is the scientific evidence to back this up? Anyone can make a youtube clip claiming anything at all. Cannabis has been shown to be of use in some cancers and many other ailments but it does not help if it keeps getting pushed as a miracle 'cure all'. It is not.

 

I don't disagree with what you're saying there freddie, but I also don't see the harm in someone putting up a youtube video sharing their own personal stories about canna working as a cure for them. It's certainly not a standalone case. Simple fact is we don't know yet whether or not cannabis could be a cure-all because a lot of the science is being thwarted due to prohibition.

 

This week I received an email from a former work colleague, very young and very fit, saying they had been diagnosed with a serious form of cancer. One that requires extensive surgery followed by extensive chemotherapy. While to an outsider the diagnosis looks bleak, one of the first things I wanted to do was to email them back and tell them to consider cannabis, particularly when it comes to the nausea they will have as a result of the chemo. I wouldn't for a second say "don't do the chemo, stick with pot and you'll be cured" - only because I don't know that to be a fact. But there needs to be more research done, independent of political and social stigmas and influences, to see exactly what the benefits of cannabis could be as a cure (and if not a cure, at least a benefit) to all sorts of ailments, not just cancer. The wheels are in motion, to a degree, but our current society still has this tendency to be swayed by those in power who have vested interests in NOT fully finding out what this plant and its properties can actually do in a positive way. Most things we read or see in the media, lines that politicians, law enforcement, religious lobbies etc push, focus on the perceived abuse or "addiction" caused by cannabis. It just isn't seen as a legitimate medicine in our day and age, despite having been one for many, many years up until probably the 1930s when prohibition was enforced. Just think of the advancements in scientific knowledge we as a species has gained between say 1930 and today, and the steps forward we could make if properly allowed to do so now.

 

But the saddest thing is that I haven't emailed this person (yet) because I know they're not a canna user - if anything they are completely anti-canna use - and the stigma about pot use is still very strong in our society. They are more than likely going to stick with what their doctors/surgeons tell them, and I can understand that. It's just a great shame all-round imo

 

I understand and agree with your scepticism freddie. I honestly think scepticism is a healthy thing, particularly when something hasn't been fully proven yet. But I know for a fact that cannabis could help my former colleague and friend, who is in an extremely dire situation. So, in all seriousness (and I know this is a loaded question so please don't be offended), should I email this person and tell them to try canna to help with their fight, despite the lack of scientific evidence, or just let them try "conventional" medicine and see what eventuates? I'm actually really torn on this one, so any advice from anyone would be appreciated (taking into consideration all of us on here are pretty much on the same page).

 

Edited August 13, 2010 by snooch