SwampMama
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I've always been against medical
marijuana until the past year.
I guess I really never understood all the benefits until I started researching when my BIL was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer.
I spent hours/days/weeks at the computer looking for ANYTHING that would give me/him hope.
I stumbled across a doctor in Texas that swears Hemp Oil (the real thing, not the useless stuff they sell in stores) not only slows cancer growth, but can kill cancer cells. It's more effective for some cancers than others.
Colon cancer was on top of the list!
So, now keep in mind, I've never touched marijuana AT ALL. But little old me was digging up YouTube videos on how to make the oil in a crock pot!
I was DETERMINED to make D a big ole batch but had no clue where to even get the marijuana to begin with.
I was obsessed.
I talked to my SIL about it and she said D "may have" gotten some from somebody else already.
Long story short, D was given 2 weeks to live months ago. He's taking pretty strong chemo and "may" be enjoying the occasional brownie.
His latest pet scan showed NO GROWTH of his previous very aggressive fast growing cancer!
Maybe it's just the chemo????
Maybe not!
I say give these cancer sufferers ANYTHING that may help.
JMO
Yeah I've often heard smoking pot help with nausea and appetite.
Have you read the studies about ingesting the hemp oil?
It's pretty remarkable.
Some people even say their skin cancer was cured by rubbing it on the cancer spots.
With colon cancer, by ingesting the oil, it passes through the colon so the oil actually has contact with the cancer cells that way.
I agree with your last sentence too.
I've never smoked it and have always been against legalizing it. I still am except for medical use.
It has to do with the THC in the oil.
Google "hemp oil cancer" and take a look!
It's amazing.
I've always been against medical
marijuana until the past year.
I guess I really never understood all the benefits until I started researching when my BIL was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer.
I spent hours/days/weeks at the computer looking for ANYTHING that would give me/him hope.
I stumbled across a doctor in Texas that swears Hemp Oil (the real thing, not the useless stuff they sell in stores) not only slows cancer growth, but can kill cancer cells. It's more effective for some cancers than others.
Colon cancer was on top of the list!
So, now keep in mind, I've never touched marijuana AT ALL. But little old me was digging up YouTube videos on how to make the oil in a crock pot!
I was DETERMINED to make D a big ole batch but had no clue where to even get the marijuana to begin with.
I was obsessed.
I talked to my SIL about it and she said D "may have" gotten some from somebody else already.
Long story short, D was given 2 weeks to live months ago. He's taking pretty strong chemo and "may" be enjoying the occasional brownie.
His latest pet scan showed NO GROWTH of his previous very aggressive fast growing cancer!
Maybe it's just the chemo????
Maybe not!
I say give these cancer sufferers ANYTHING that may help.
JMO
They bring up one thing in the video that sounds conspiratorial, but I'm sure is true. Pharmaceutical companies want no part of MJ research. When I worked at the hospital, I asked several of the pharmacists that I worked with, why no drug company had tried to prove or disprove that MJ works. The answer; there's no money in it for them. All of them said the same thing.
It costs a lot of money to get FDA approval on a drug and because MJ is so readily available there is no financial incentive to conduct studies that would pass FDA scrutiny.
I forget the exact amount of money but my cancer treatments would have cost over $100,000 and a lot of it was the new drug Rituxan. The price may have come down since then but because it was so new at the time it was uber-expensive.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which has seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food.
They do this with "orphan" diseases as well. Not enough $$$$$$$$$ for them to bother, no matter how those with the disease suffer. It is all about the dollar.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
http://bible.cc/genesis/1-29.htm
Genesis 1:29
I note that that passage doesn't say "every synthetic chemical they can dream up to give you"..........
Not surprising at all. Alcohol abuse has all but vanished from our society, at least compared with what it once was. The easy (if illegal) availability of a less harmful and less impairing option has played a huge role, I'm sure.