GOD MADE IT. MEN USE IT. GOVERNMENTS WANT PEOPLE IN CAGES FOR IT. What if i told you a plant oil could cure cancer? What if i told you it could also treat many other very serious illnesses with little or no side effects. What if i told you peanuts KILL more people every year then this plant. A plant some label the most useful plant on eARTh. What if i told you this plant could be grown EVERYWHERE by almost ANYONE. THE MOST USEFUL PLANT ON eARTh CURES CANCER, TREATS MANY OTHER SERIOUS ILLNESSES. Now what if i told you if you attempt to grow, possesses, sell or give away this miracle plant ARMED THUGS FROM AN UNJUST GOVERNMENT will kidnap you and throw you in a cage and if you defend yourself THEY WILL KILL YOU. Researchers at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI, a Sutter Health affiliate) have found that a compound in cannabis previously shown to decrease metastatic breast cancer now shows promise in stopping aggressive brain cancer as well. The findings are particularly important given the safety of the cannabis compound and the fact that patients with advanced brain cancer have few options for treatment. “These findings offer some hope in an area where there’s been very little, and give even greater potential to our earlier research,” said Pierre-Yves Desprez, Ph.D., senior scientist with CPMCRI and corresponding author of the new study. “We thought that the mechanisms for the progression of brain cancer would be quite different from that of breast and other cancers, and the fact that we were able to duplicate the same success for brain cancer that we did for breast, quite frankly, amazed us.” There are about 20,000 people diagnosed with brain cancer each year in the US alone, and very few therapies exist to help those with the most aggressive form of the disease. Brain tumors, known as gliomas, are the fourth most frequent cause of cancer-related death in younger patients aged 35 – 45; the median survival span from the time of diagnosis is 14 months. And the incidence of the most malignant type of tumor, glioblastoma, appears to be on the rise. The journey to this discovery is almost two decades in the making. CPMCRI scientists, led by molecular biologist Dr. Desprez, had previously discovered that Id-1, a gene first identified in 1991 and known to be a key player in embryonic development, was a culprit in the metastasis of certain types of breast cancer – particularly those that do not have hormone receptors (“triple negatives”) and thus do not respond to non-chemotherapy treatments such as Tamoxifen or Herceptin. Subsequently, as a collaborative effort with CPMCRI pharmacologist Sean McAllister, Ph.D., the researchers found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic and non-psychotropic compound found in cannabis, inhibited (“down-regulated”) Id-1 in human breast cancer cells – meaning that CBD stopped Id-1 from causing cancer invasion and metastasis. Initial research conducted in cell cultures was followed with animal studies. “Originally, our research was focused on cannabis compounds similar to THC, the primary psychoactive compound in the plant. We were excited to realize that CBD, this lesser known compound in cannabis, could halt breast cancer metastasis through the inhibition of Id-1,” said Dr. McAllister, senior author of the new study. cpmc.org/about/press/news2012/cannabis-brain.html
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