COULD HAVE CANCER CURABLE A LONG TIME AGO?

On February 2000, the world was startled on the announcement made by Spanish researchers in Madrid that they had eradicated brain tumors in rats. They did this by injecting known marijuana content, THC.

This research on cancer marijuana treatment is only the second time that rats with tumors were injected with THC. American researchers from the Medical College of Virginia way back 1974 were also experimenting with tumor-bearing mice, searching for proof that marijuana is damaging to the immune system. What they discovered however is the effect of THC in leukemia, lung and breast cancer. Marijuana is a probable source of cure since THC can slow the progress of cancer inside the body of the mice.

According to Jack Herer, author of the book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, the Drug Enforcement Agency locked the research on cancer marijuana treatment right away as well as all other related researches. A couple of years thereafter, the then American president Gerald Ford stopped all government-sponsored marijuana and cancer research. In the process, private pharmaceutical firms were vested exclusive rights of marijuana and cancer research in order to find a synthetic form of THC. This is so to source THC, along with all its medicinal benefits and without the addicting “high” side effect.

As reported in the March 2000 issue of the magazine Nature Medicine, the Spanish researchers used 45 rats with cancer cells. They confirmed the presence of tumor through magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. Upon verification, they injected two types of substance, the organic THC and the synthetic Win-55,212-2. Fifteen rats were subjected to THC and another 15 to Win-55,212-2 on the 12th day. The other 15 rats that were remained untreated died within 12-18 days. The main cause was glioma cell inoculation, a form of brain cancer. Those treated with THC survived much longer. Nine of them were able to survive up to the 19th to the 35th day. THC did not affect three of the THC-treated mice, and were able to live up to the 16th to the 18th day only. Most importantly, three of the THC-treated mice had their tumor effaced altogether. According to the researchers, the result with the Win-55,212-2 had the same result.

In testing for toxic effects, Dr. Manuel Guzman of Complutense University who also served as the lead researcher filled the brains of healthy rats with progressively large doses of THC. After seven days, no side effects resulted.

Concluding through MRI, the researchers verified that no significant damage occurred to healthy rats that could possibly lead to trauma, edema, necrosis or even infection. Other possible side effects were also observed but only insubstantial behavioral change in set parameters in physical activity and motor coordination resulted. During and after THC irrigation, weight gain and the level of food and water intake of the mice remained practically the same. Blood tests were also employed and the researchers found that hematological profiles of the mice were normal. They have therefore concluded that THC does not affect both the biochemical make up and tissue damage markers of the cannabinoid-treated mice within the span of the whole seven-day duration of treatment to a couple of months thereafter.

This Spanish discovery may be considered the first official study on the subject since the Virginia research was kept from the public. Even during the consecutive tenancies of both Ronald Reagan and George Bush, all possible information, from articles to compendiums in university libraries were hidden or systematically destroyed.

Dr. Guzman finally obtained a copy of a 1975 journal article about the Virginia study from an American journalist that practically verified his findings—two components of marijuana namely THC and CBN successfully reduced tumor in mice treated with such for twenty successive days. A 1974 The Washington Post article titled, “Cancer Curb is studied” also reported that the spread of damaging cells in cases of leukemia, breast cancer and lung cancer, marijuana component THC is possibly the cure.

Why the American government censored such an important finding, only they would know. Much has been written about the other effects of marijuana on the body and mind of a human being, but little did the public know that through the active components of marijuana, cancer could have been curable as early as the 1970s.

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