News 5 Investigates: Mother claims cannabis cured son's cancer

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by Eric Ross

Nearly two years ago, a Colorado Springs mother made the controversial decision to treat her son's cancer with cannabis, instead of chemotherapy. Her 4-year-old son, Landon, is now in remission.

Could marijuana really help fight cancer?

We talked with doctors who say a lot more research needs to be done for those claims to be validated. However, we found evidence of more parents allowing their children to use medical marijuana during chemotherapy to ease the side effects.

In Sierra Riddle's case, she stopped her son's chemo all together. It was a dangerous move according to doctors, but one Sierra believes saved her son's life.

Landon looks like your typical boy, riding his tricycle almost every afternoon. Unfortunately, he didn't always have this much energy. "Landon was 2 when he was diagnosed with aggressive T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia," Sierra said...>more + video

http://www.koaa.com/news/news-5-investigates-mother-claims-cannabis-cured-son-s-cancer/

Federal Government NIH Q&A: Have any preclinical (laboratory or animal) studies been conducted using Cannabis or cannabinoids?

A. Studies in mice and rats have shown that cannabinoids may inhibit tumor growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumors to grow. Laboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids may be able to kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells.

...A laboratory study of delta-9-THC in hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) cells showed that it damaged or killed the cancer cells. The same study of delta-9-THC in mouse models of liver cancer showed that it had antitumor effects...
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/patient/page2

[logosoco]

1. So many people have suffered and too many will until the government finally gets on the ball with

this. Sad. But we are, at least, in the right direction now, despite a 40+ year set back.

Reading those side effects is almost comical compared to the side effects they list for the drugs that are advertised on tv.

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4. They were on the ball in 2003

when they were granted a patent on the use of Cannabinoids

US Patent 6630507 Assigned: 2003

Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

In fact, look at all these cannabis related patents (not assigned to the DHHS)

US Patent 4189491 – Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in a method of treating glaucoma (1980)

US Patent 4315862 – Process for preparing cannabichromene (1982)

US Patent 5389375 – Stable suppository formulations effecting bioavailability of Δ9-THC (1995)

US Patent 5508037 – Stable suppository formulations effecting bioavailability of Δ9 -THC (1996)

US Patent 6132762 – Transcutaneous application of marijuana (2000)

US Patent 6328992 – Cannabinoid patch and method for cannabis transdermal delivery (2001)

US Patent 6383513 – Compositions comprising cannabinoids (nasal spray) (2002)

US Patent Application 20050042172 – Administration of medicaments by vaporisation (2002)

US Patent Application 20070151149 – Methods for altering the level of phytochemicals in plant cells by applying wave lengths of light from 400 nm to 700 nm and apparatus therefore (2004)

US Patent Application 20040049059 A1 – Method for producing an extract from cannabis plant matter, containing a tetrahydrocannabinol and a cannabidiol and cannabis extracts (2004)

US Patent 6713048 – Δ9 tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9 THC) solution metered dose inhalers and methods of use (2004)

US Patent 6974568 - The invention discloses the existence of cannabinoid receptors in the airways, which are functionally linked to inhibition of cough (2005)

US Patent Application 20050266108 – Methods of purifying cannabinoids from plant material (2005)

US Patent 6949582 – Method of relieving analgesia and reducing inflamation using a cannabinoid delivery topical liniment (2005)

US Patent Application 20050070596 – Methods for treatment of inflammatory diseases using CT-3 or analogs thereof (2005)

US Patent 6949582 – Method of relieving analgesia and reducing inflamation using a cannabinoid delivery topical liniment (2005)

US Patent 7088914 – Device, method and resistive element for vaporizing a medicament (2006)

US Patent 7025992 – Administering lipophilic drug through mucous membranes(2006)

US Patent Application 20060242899 – Method of cultivating plants (2006)

US Patent 7109245 – Vasoconstrictor cannabinoid analogs (2006)

US Patent Application 20080057117 – Pharmaceutical Composition Made Up Of Cannabis Extracts (2007)

US Patent 7344736 – Extraction of pharmaceutically active components from plant materials (2008)

US Patent 7402686 – Cannabinoid crystalline derivatives and process of cannabinoid purification (2008)

US Patent 7399872 – Conversion of CBD to Δ-THC and Δ-THC (2008)

US Patent 7622140 – Processes and apparatus for extraction of active substances and enriched extracts from natural products (2009)

US Patent application 20100249223 New Use for Cannabis Containing Extracts (2010)

US Patent application 20100239693 Cannabinoid Containing Plant Extracts As Neuroprotective Agents (2010)

While the Feds were busting legal dispensaries, they were granting Cannabis related patents, and holding the most valuable

Truth in Media: Feds Says Cannabis Is Not Medicine While Holding The Patent on Cannabis as Medicine

[B Calm]

2. Early in the last century you could order cannabis extract from Sears.

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3. And now you can order CBD extract from Amazon

Apparently from anywhere (18+)



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MNOAIR6/

Check out those reviews!

[rurallib]

6. Just yesterday I said to Mrs. Lib

that if I knew how to get ahold of some cannabis oil I would buy some. I am having a great deal of back problem due to arthritis. But like most, no way could I afford to spend time in the pokey.

[kmlisle]

5. As a leukemia patient I find this a disturbing story

Although I definitely endorse the use of cannabis for medical reasons (my mother used with great success it for glaucoma back in the 70's - her doctor actually suggested it). But you cannot use one example of reversal of Leukemia as proof it cures the disease since according to my oncologist who is also a researcher in the field approximately 10% of cases spontaneously disappear.

I can understand a mother not wanting her 4 year old to suffer the side effects of chemo but the fact is that the survival rate for leukemia is much better with it than without it. She made that choice and it worked for her but to make it based on the idea that Cannabis is a cure all for cancer which this article implies is simply not based on any available evidence. It is a valuable medicine but it is not a substitute for all other medicines.

Think about what decisions you may be leading people to make by presenting this information this way.