If cannabis has anti-cancer properties, why did Bob Marley die?

He had a brain tumor And cancer in the brain, lung and stomach.

It didn't matter how much weed he smoked. It's not magical, no matter how much we believe it is.

 

Depends on the cancer

 

im just waiting for the day when they legalize cannabis in cali and some scientist there makes a cure for cancer from it..that will be a good day in my book

 

Why do people who never smoked weed get cancer?

The cause was something else, and cannabis isnt a cure. Studies show that it can reduce the size of tumors, not cancer. It just hasnt been linked to cancer

 

exactly.

just because there are properties of marijuana that can be beneficial in treating cancer, it doesn't mean its a 100% cure.

EDIT:

Not all treatments are the same for everyone. Expecting a treatment to work on 100% of patients is just being ignorant to facts.

 

He did live four years after he had these.

That's pretty amazing.

 

You get most of the anti-cancer effects from edibles and stuff I'm sure smoking weed doesnt always have all the good cannabinoids to reverse cancer growth

 

You never know. It could have gave him a year or so. It just wasnt going to save his life

 

And cannabis can cause cancer...apparently most of you weren't paying attention when you were watching "The Union" if you smoke from a bowl or bong you're inhaling heated plant material which will release the cancer causing agents, however by using an ionizer or some type of cannabis treat(cookies, candy etc) where you aren't actually inhaling smoke but vapor or eating the THC.

 

maybe it doesnt kill the cancer/tumor cells, but helps to slow the growth. If he lived for 4 years, without any treatment, thats damn impressive in my book. People with treatments still get sick, but damn. What i think it is, is that he smoked enough weed to succesfully slow the growth

 

The union said cannabis does not cause cancer, theres never been one case of it. Watch it more carefully buddy, blaze on

 

^ Has no idea what he is talking about.

To OP I never knew that cannabis had anti-cancer properties so thankyou for informing this, as others said of course it won't cure it 100% but maybe help when its first starting. Also as someone else stated, he did live for 4 years with cancer.

 

He was a rastafarian and refused to have his foot amputated. If he had it amputated, the cancer would not have become malignant and spread. It was his choice to pass away at such a young age.

I'm sure marijuana eased his pain and made his life much easier while he had the disease.

 

Unfortunately, with cancer, think there are just too many unpredictable elements involved, not to mention the several different strains (no pun intended) of the disease. That, and think that although marijuana does have a whole host of healing/soothing qualities--many I'm sure that we don't even know about yet--like all medicine, it isn't a guaruntee or antidote, sadly.

 

Smoking weed can give you cancer. Smoking anything can give you cancer. SMOKING GIVES YOU CANCER. When you inhale ANY kind of smoke you're inhaling carcinogens.. so don't even try to say smoking the ganj can't cause it.. *rolls eyes*

However vaporizers eliminate this risk completely.

 

Find one case where marijuana ALONE was identified as the cause of cancer. I highlighted the operative word for you.

 

Actually he does. It's quite accepted in the medical field that anything you smoke can cause cancer. Whether or not weed is the direct cause of certain cancers, has not yet been discovered. The inhalation of smoke however, has been proven to cause certain cancers. Cannabis does not contain cancer fighting agents, it contains tumor reducing properties. Just word of advice, don't trust the word from any human 100%. Even what I just told you could be wrong or proven wrong someday (you won't know unless you do the research). Do the research for yourself, use NIDA or NIH or NIAAA as resources duuuude. peace