Scientists working in the UK have revealed that cannabis has the potential to destroy leukemia cells.
The team – based at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry in London – have followed up on their previous findings that the main active ingredient in cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has the potential to be used effectively against some forms of cancer.
Use of cannabis as a therapeutic agent continues to be controversial due to its psychoactive side effects and consequent legal status, however, leader of the team, Dr Wai Man Liu, explains: “It is important to stress that these cannabis-like substances are far removed from the cannabis that is smoked. These novel compounds have been specifically designed to be free of the psychoactive features, whilst maintaining anti-cancer action.”
THC has previously been shown to attack cancer cells by interfering with important growth-processing pathways, however its mechanism of doing so has remained a mystery. Now, Dr Liu and his colleagues, using microarray technology – allowing them to simultaneously detect changes in more than 18,000 genes in cells treated with THC – have begun to uncover the existence of processes through which THC can kill cancer cells and potentially promote survival.
The researchers hope that the findings will provide a crucial step towards the development of new therapies for many types of cancer. Dr Liu said: “Ultimately, understanding the fundamental mechanisms of these compounds will provide us with insights into developing new drugs that can be used to effectively treat cancers.”
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“Dr Wai Man Liu, explains: “It is important to stress that these cannabis-like substances are far removed from the cannabis that is smoked.”
Such a waste of medicine – smoking it! The cannabis oil distilled from the bud crystal is much more effecacious.
Rick
Rick
first of all thank you for your work.
Wanted to share with you a quick story.
I am a 2 yr vet tech who is retired.
Cured a Black and Tan coon hound of horrid tumors on his legs with cannabis oil and salve that I use on my self as a Michigan med can card holder.
In fact the hound would come to me each morning “asking” for his meds.
When he was cured he simply stopped asking.
He has since been adopted out to a wonderful farm in the country rather than being euthed and tossed in a hole by the shelter that I rescued him from. I was given the animal free of charge because he quite simply was close to death.
Am in the process of curing a small tumor on my own face as well.
Never got the doctor’s opinion.As it turns out he would not have had a clue or the ability to do what I am able to do for my self as a 2 yr Vet science tech legally.
people look at me as if I’m form mars when I tell them this…
Keep pushing Rick the truth will set us free…
peace and better health
brothermike
Saw this report on other sites. We should really try and support scientists who want to beat cancer by using new approaches. Good on you Dr Liu.
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I was diagnosed with lymphoma in December of 2006 at the age of 20. Honestly, the ONLY thing that helped me through my chemotherapy and the extreme nausea associated with it was smoking marijuana. Without it, I don’t know if I would have done as well getting through the treatments (CHOP chemotherapy, RICE chemotherapy, BEAM chemotherapy, and my stem-cell transplant). I would go home from a treatment, smoke with friends, and would actually be able to eat, laugh, and enjoy myself during such a difficult time. The damn thing is, no doctor even recommended the option of a THC pill or any other form of cannabis. In fact, they all told me to refrain from smoking anything, especially marijuana. They gave me Ativan and other anti-nausea medications and NONE of them helped… at all. I would beg for high doses of Benadryl so I could actually go to sleep. A year out of my stem-cell transplant and I’ve had no reoccurance of lymphoma. I’m 100% for the scientific studies and suggest the “at-home” studies for cancer patients. Spark it up!
I think tonight, before dinner I eat some good hashish. Fry it gently in the olive oil, and just eat it.
@Rick Simpson
I respect and admire your work deeply. However, the smoke and vapour of Cannabis flowers have medical qualities, and contribute to the society. First of all to keep me sane. But maybe for anti carcinogenic properties Cannabis can better be eaten. I think you have a point there. However smoking Cannabis is not a waste, if the user decided it is so.
I applaud Dr. Liu for his discoveries. I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009 and the drug that I am taking has been very effective in bringing my blood back to normal. I like to thank doctors like Dr. Liu who are finding creative ways to combat cancer. May God bless you.
To day at 12:50 my Aunt died of Cancer, she was 60, You have no idea how angry and disapointed i am at this. There is a cure there that has a social stigma attached to it but this denys peoples biggest right, life. This propaganda is costing people their lives what is their problem with it?
I was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, I tried Rick Simpson way and it worked. The doctors said I was lucky and I told them how I cured my cancer with hemp oil, he said nothing and said you don’t have to make a new appointment your cancer free Thanks to Rick Simpson.
So for all of you that have cancer believe it because it cured my cancer.
I hav Chronic Lymphatic Leukimia I smoke cannabis, & it has helped me cope with this, get through 2 lots of 6 mths chemo & I start a 3rd session of 6 tomorrow & cannabis wil help me through that.Doctors gav me all the pain killers I wanted & had I used that quantity I would hav a healthy addiction by now, I dont & I still use them when its to much the rest of the time I smoke through it.Ive also noticed the night sweats are not as intense. it works 4 me what more can I say…thks
this is exciting news and one more reason we should fight to make cannabis legal, especially for cancer patients. Legalization would undoubtedly lessen the social stigma (that has already declined in recent years) and i think a lot more doctors would take the time to learn about the benefits and/or prescribe cannabis, especially because any fear they had of scrutiny from the ama, acs, or of losing their licensure because they haven’t taken the side of the pharmaceutical companies, would subside.
also, and this is huge,
A CURE ALREADY EXISTS and HAS EXISTED FOR NEARLY 90 YEARS!
but very very few people know about it because no one is offering alternatives to extremely harmful medical intervention. i encourage anyone who is curious, knows someone with a terminal (or any other) illness, or is suffering themselves, to research GERSON THERAPY. also, the documentary, THE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH, is an excellent way to learn the basics about what is causing these illnesses and about the cure.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I took part in the sentinel node training programme on the 31/12/2007.
I had FEC Chemotherapy and there are numerous side effects with this treatment. After my first treatment I got real sick so bad in fact I thought I was going to die. I lost my appetite and could not eat anything as everything just tasted weird.
Numerous people told me cannabis would stop the sickness, and help me eat so on my second treatment I smoked 2 joints of cannabis bush before my chemotherapy and 2 joints of cannabis bush after my chemo treatment and I stopped being sick.
These joints gave me my appetite back and I started to eat well again this helped me stay strong for the rest of my treatment.
I also find that cannabis reduces my night sweats considerably as well as alleviating pain and helping me sleep. This has totally changed my life as I hardly slept before owing to the frequency and severity of the night sweats. I tried all kinds of things to stop them but nothing else worked.
I’m a Norwegian citizen with a history of cancer in my family, til now there are 5 in my family at the age of 40+ without cancer, four of them smoke cannabis and the fifth is 41 years old. I strongly recommend cancer patients to either smoke or eat cannabis under treatment, what you like is the best way for you. I DO know it’s illegal in most contries but what is a fine vs. a slow and horrible death?
I personally smoke cannabis for it’s medical use against depression and my personality disorder, and I’ve found it to work much better than what I get from my doctor, the pills made me wanna commit suicide but the cannabis made me wanna laugh of it, not that it ain’t serious, but why see everything in black when you can have all colors of the world?
thank you to all those who participate in showing cannabis to be a good medicine…a suppressed medicine is criminal..research should be accelarated not suppressed..people are suffering because of our political direction.
alcohol and tobacco are drugs..this makes our leaders drug dealers .Makes me so angry. more funding for cannabis research will save lives.
pawpaw is also cancercellkiller
Full marks to the team doing this valuable research. It is an utter outrage that outdated, biased and frankly nonsensical laws can be standing in the way of worldwide research into curing cancers. Cancer affects vast numbers of people and causes untold suffering and misery; much of this is needless.
I have just watched a documentary called what if cannabis cured cancer, and I am shocked that anybody can deny continued and advanced research is a must for the sake of humanity.
I applaud and condone anybody who will stand up and fight for an end to the stigma associated with cannabis.
Let us end the suffering now.
Look, I dont have cancer, but i do have a few benine tumours, and am only 16, and even though they are benine, they still scared the hell out of me. So i started smoking weed, after i heard they can reduce cells, and guess what it worked, all 3 have gone.
Legalize weed man, it doesnt do out wrong, drinking is worse for you man, you could drink 8 cans and get alcohol posioning and die, you could smoke an ounce be so stoned u wont move for a few days but you wouldnt die! also say 100 men are in a bar drinking, theres bound to be fighting, 100 men in a bar smoking weed, theyll all be best mates, as you cant be bothered to fight! haha legalize cannabis.
I have been growing and smoking cannabis since1998 for my rueumatoid arthritis..its been a lifesaver as the meds the dr gave me where horrific..some now withdrawn. 3 crown court appearances ..12 months in prison..now I am up again on 3rd june,I have indications of prostrate cancer and was going to make rick simson oil.police took it all.
had abnormal psi reading and dr felt a lump on my prostrate..I refused a biopsy and am on a regime of abservation as soon as I get some oil I will be able to see if it works on my psi tests
what people in the uk get who use cannabis as a medicine is persecution and punishment
human trials are going to be held in thailand. The results will be interesting for medical science not the prohibition by governments which I believe is responsible for the deaths of many good people
I call this manslaghter by my government
unless people stand up against unjust laws they will remain and cause damage
its all about money not people apekria.com
68 years old disabled and persecuted pensioner
best wishes ERIC MANNPS CURED MY SKIN CANCER WITH THE OIL..its on my medical recordslike to thank dr Liu for his work
can not imagine the restrictivered tape involved in his research.I wish him good fortune in his quest to help people thank you sir
Regarding the so called “mind-bending” effects, the majority of those who experience them find them to be generally positive and do not suffer any kind of adverse effects. There are certainly cases where they would want to be avoided… subject has bad experience with them in the past, or maybe a moral objection of some kind, for instance. But if simply providing the plant will be just as effective and no more expensive, it should at least be pursued as an option to give people (that the psychoactive effects can help some people to deal with other facets of their condition is, of course, relevant). And if it is in fact *more* expensive to produce the synthetics, as I expect that it probably is, then the plant, if just as effective, should be the first choice and the pills a backup in case the individual patient reacts badly to the plant.
The point is that the synthetics made thus far have been far too expensive, and generally agreed upon by patients to be inferior for treating their conditions than the raw plant matter. That it’s “natural” doesn’t make this true, it’s simply what we know from talking to people who use it medicinally and who have tried synthetic preparations. What’s the point in charging more for something that works less? The reductionist impulse is to find “the active chemical” and provide just it… but in this case that’s actually counterproductive and wasteful, considering the plant is not terribly dangerous and works just fine by itself.
dr liu , if only there were more good people like yourself … i am a long term epilepsy sufferer and have found good quality cannabis far more effective than the epilim and phenetoin that i have been prescribed . my seizures have calmed down considerably in the last 6 months since taking cannabis . my mother has been diagnosed with stage 2 n/h lymphoma and is presently undergoing chemo , i have recently showed her some of your info regarding cancer treatment with cannabis and she is now cooking with it regularly … she is presently waiting for her scan results after her first 3 months of chemo .. i hope to report back soon with good news . she has certainly perked up since using it as the first 2 sessions of chemo made her really ill , carry on the good work , your a diamond ……
Hi my daughter has recently been diognosed with leukemia and is having tests done ie bone marrow etc can you tell me if cannibis would be of any use drs have offered transplant or /and chemo
Been reading a lot about hemp oil being a cure for all types of cancer, mostly on American sites where there are videos of several people stating that they are cured. The benefits of hemp oil have been known for years why oh why has it not been made readily available??? Apart from the fact that pharmaceutical companies and all those who invest in them would lose mega amounts of money of course.Oh dear does that sound cynical?
Ive been told that in a lab test on rats cannabis was found to hav an apoptoctic effect. This means that essentialy the plant can help cancer cells to die. Surely this is reason enough to allow further research!
They will never use Cannabis as they cant make any money from it the world revolves around MONEY & they cant patent cannabis so no MONEY no cannabis medicine this is a GREEDY world we live in. we have just lost a family member to lymphoma & it hurts to see what kind of a society we live in. they have known for over 2000 years that cannabis has a important part in human survival but again no money not worth having. they want us to be ill so they can charge us for medicine look it up, what make the most money in the world MEDICINE & RESEARCH all for what they have a cure for all kinds of illnesses from natural herbs & plants but no money no point in using them. i could go on forever about this but what use no 1 listens.
been researching cannabis oil for medissinal purpose recently and there is tons and tons of stuff out there. if only HALF of it is correct and true then cannabis is truly a miracle drug. more research MUST be carried out, but the goverenment wont. i say if you have an illness which is said to be treatable with cannabis oil, give it a go. it might just save a life. screw the police, live!
Hi Aaron
I hope you’re well and cured from your cancer
I read your thread with great interest as i too have been diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma and am a regular smoker. Untill now i have smoked whilst doing my treatment but felt incedibly guilty at the same time. In the UK cannabis smoking is a bit of a taboo and so i didnt want to discuss it with my oncologists i just carried on smoking regardless as it offered relief to the side effects of the chemo (depression and lack of appetite mainly). I was pleasantly surprised to see that most online content really promotes the benefits of cannabis for cancer patients instead of demonising it. i also see that cannabis or the THC has cancer fightng properties….perhaps its be being a skeptic but i am still dubious…what are your thoughts??
it would be great to chat to you as maybe then i will stop feeling guilty everytime i spark up a joint.