LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Breast cancer cure or breast cancer quackery?
Published 4:26 pm Friday, October 24, 2014
Editor,
As this is breast cancer awareness month, I would like to make everyone aware of the possible cure. Please take an hour from your life and watch “Clearing the Smoke: The science of cannabis.” This documentary, produced by Montana PBS and available for free viewing on their website, contains an explanation of the mammalian endocannabinoid system and the use of cannabidiol to trigger cell death in cancers. This will give you a very good place to start in your understanding of cannabidiol, the endocannabinoid system and receptors, and programmed cell death. Science, instead of rhetoric or politics.
Rick Simpson of Canada has been conducting human trials for over 20 years now. Judge the results for yourself. Tommy Chong may have been the most widely known human single case trial of a medication in history. When diagnosed with prostate cancer he treated it with a similar compound extraction from cannabis. Look it up.
The National Cancer Institute has a variety of scholarly papers and research results on this topic. This is from the NCI website, “An in vitro study of the effect of CBD (Cannabidiol) on programmed cell death in breast cancer cell lines found that CBD induced programmed cell death, independent of the CB1, CB2, or vanilloid receptors. CBD inhibited the survival of both estrogen receptor–positive and estrogen receptor–negative breast cancer cell lines, inducing apoptosis in a concentration-dependent manner while having little effect on nontumorigenic, mammary cells.”
I remain unconvinced that cannabidiol is “The Cure For Cancer” but I have been convinced by scientific and real world studies that an effective, non-toxic treatment is available.
In response to those people who say, “You just want to get high” I reply, industrial hemp is now legal to grow under federal, state and local law, contains high concentrations of cannabidiol, contains virtually no tetrahydrocannnabinol (THC, the stuff that makes people high) and can be concentrated in an average kitchen for a few dollars per pound. We just don’t. Our county elected officials will not even discuss it.
Do not be ignorant. Cannabidiol. Learn, discuss and debate. If our community would only have this frank discussion, lives could be saved. Breast cancer awareness means more than a couple dollars for a pink ribbon.
CAPTN BLYND
Freeland
