[420 Girl]

I had been aware of the Madrid study by researcher Manuel Guzman referenced in this article for some time, in which they inserted THC (marijuana’s most notable active ingredient though hardly the only one) in the brains of rats with tumors and the tumors in most of the rats shrank and in some actually disappeared. Further studies have confirmed the results. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of it when I wrote my book, “Waiting to Inhale,” but I’m talking with a publisher about a revised, updated version. I was aware of Steve Kubby, however, who accidentally stumbled on cannabis to control his adrenal cancer. He met the doctor who diagnosed him some 25 years later, and the doctor was astounded he was alive — he had expected him to live six months at the outside. The doctor insisted on doing a comprehensive series of tests and decided by a process of elimination that cannabis was the only explanation for those tumors being under control, though he didn’t understand the mechanisms through which it worked.

I wasn’t aware that a similar study on rats with brain tumors had been done in the U.S. way back in 1974, but the DEA suppressed it. Can you imagine? A hopeful treatment for the most feared of diseases and the bureaucrats worked overtime to prevent the knowledge from getting out? I would say incredible, but the perverse cruelty of drug warriors perhaps should not suprprise me.

Although the Madrid study got little mainstream press attention, I figured that once word got out that cannabis had even an ameliorative effect on some kinds of cancer — well beyond the already well-known and long-known property of preventing violent throwing up in patients undergoing chemotherapy — that resistance to medicinal use of cannabis would fade away. Silly, naive, me! I don’t know why the drug warriors are so deeply invested in the lies they pretend to believe, but they are, and there is all too little push-back from scientists and doctors, so most people still don’t know. If anything the resistance to accepting a carve-out for medicinal use of cannabis has increased — look at all the municipalities that invent reasons to prohibit dispensaries. The profound cruelty to patients involved in all this is difficult to overstate.

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