By MrSpof on April 1, 2009
The active ingredient in marijuana appears to reduce tumor growth, according to a Spanish study published on Wednesday.
The researchers showed giving THC to mice with cancer decreased tumor growth and killed cells off in a process called autophagy.
“Our findings support that safe, therapeutically efficacious doses of THC may be reached in cancer patients,” Guillermo Velasco of Complutense University in Madrid and colleagues reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
via – Reuters “Marijuana ingredient may reduce tumors: study“
Posted in ACTIVISM, SCIENCE | Tagged cancer, Complutense University, Guillermo Velasco, Madrid, Spain, tumors
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Reuters = Conflated News at Its Best™
sameoldwine says:
“Why confuse them even more…”
I believe it’s their job to confuse the public.
The writers at “Reuter’s Digest” are merely junk-scientists, if that.
Am grateful that someone
posted link to the original JCI study itself.
(Though it certainly wasn’t Reuters).
sameoldwine says:
“Why confuse them even more…”
I believe it’s their job to confuse the public.
The writers at “Reuter’s Digest” are merely junk-scientists, if that.
Am grateful that someone ;) posted link to the original JIC study itself.
(Though it certainly wasn’t Reuters).
“The findings add to mixed evidence about the effects of marijuana on human health. Studies have suggested the drug can raise a person’s risk of heart attack or stroke and cause cancer.”
Huh? They didn’t study the “studies” very well, just blathering out more BS to add to the subject matter?
Ugh!
Mr. Factcheck here, I would have expected more facts out of a Reuters article. The writers seem to be scattered when they go into this at the end:
“Velasco and his team’s study included an analysis of two tumors from two people with a highly aggressive brain cancer which showed signs of autophagy after receiving THC.
The researchers said the findings could pave the way for cannabinoid-based drugs to treat cancer, although that approach has so proved unsuccessful when it comes to obesity.
Sanofi-Aventis SA in November terminated further development of its cannabinoid drug Acomplia, and Pfizer Inc, Merck & Co Inc and Belgium’s Solvay have also scrapped similar products recently over health fears.
The drugs, which work by blocking the same receptors in the brain that make people hungry after smoking marijuana, have also been linked to psychiatric side effects, such as depression and suicidal thoughts.”
This is how it ends. It reads like there are “drugs” associated with cannabis that cause “depression and suicidal thoughts”. That story is about the cannabinoid suppression drug that flopped (no duh
)
Wrong story different drug, Reuters. Somebody got mucked-up. A thousand lashes with a hemp stalk.
Don’t you know that there are uninformed people reading your articles? Why confuse them even more than you already are?
