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GW Pharma on Cannabinoids

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by mos619, Mar 16, 2013.

  1. #1 mos619, Mar 16, 2013
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    People are still on the fence about medical marijuana, and here you've got a drug company basically saying it cures cancer. Of course, they don't want you to grow it, you gotta buy their drugs. Free medicine? That's socialism!

    GWPharma - Oncology

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    One of the most exciting and fast emerging areas of research in the field of cannabinoid science centres on the ability of certain cannabinoids to inhibit the growth and vascular supply of cancers of various types. The possibility that cannabinoids, including endocannabinoids, may treat cancer is supported by an ever increasing body of available evidence. In simple terms, cancer occurs because cells become immortalised; they fail to heed customary signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death and this process fails to proceed normally after malignant transformation. As will be discussed in greater detail below, THC, CBD, and perhaps other phytocannabinoids promote the re-emergence of apoptosis so that certain cancer cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.    ​
     

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