Top Cancer Institute Says Cannabis Can Reduce Tumours, Then Changes Its Mind

The United States' National Cancer Institute finally comes clean on cannabis :

'The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect."

But only for a few days. That sentence was scrubbed and replaced, with this :

'The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. Though no relevant surveys of practice patterns exist, it appears that physicians caring for cancer patients who prescribe medicinal Cannabis predominantly do so for symptom management.'"

But even the reworded advice from the NCI counts as a victory for medicinal cannabis advocates :

Medical marijuana advocates said they suspected political pressure forced the change, but considered even the current website language a victory, since NCI still touts the "potential benefits" of cannabis for treatment of symptoms of people living with cancer, such as pain and sleep problems.

"We're very pleased that NCI, and really NIH, have finally recognized marijuana as a complementary alternative medicine," said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, which promotes medical marijuana use and research. "That is a significant step forward. But just as importantly, it points to a contradiction in the federal policy on medical marijuana, and it's a contradiction that needs to be resolved."

Good Luck With That Whole Anti-Cannabis Christian Movement

Raw Story publishes the results of a "Well, Duh!" study into inhaled cannabis and the conclusions reached that it is likely as good as or better than most of the pharmaceuticals prescribed for a variety of ailments.

But there it is in the comments. Again. A jarring screed with plenty of CAPITALISED words. Comments very similiar to the one below - in subject matter, thrust and word choice - are dumping into comment streams across the independent and so-called 'conspiracy' American digital media.

It's not an opinion, and it's not from a deeply religious person. It's like an auto-comment, designed to annoy just about every reader who comes across it, making them reluctant to bother with making or reading comments, at all, anywhere :

"Here we go with the liberal hippy proaganda! This is a drug! A harmful drug! A drug that has harmed countless American lives and continues to destroy the very fabric of God's America. As a Christian woman, I will not stand idly by as another MENACE is bestowed upon my America in the guise of medicine. ALCOHOL IS BAD ENOUGH! This is an instrument of the devil, and the ragged degenerate god hating Americans who support this crap are going to be a) incarcerated in the coming years, b) shunned from his HOLY word. Have no doubt that this crap was put on our earth to weed out the truthsayers from the sinners. THIS IS AN INSTRUMENT OPF THE DEVIL....AND THOSE USING IT WILL REEP WHAT HE HAS SOWN!!!!!!!!!!!! THE COMING GOD REVOLUTION IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE USE OF THIS INSTRUMENT OF SATAN. Allhe who washes their hands in the blood of the LAMB before the SABBATH of HIS WORD will BE SENT INTO THE FIRE! YOU SICK BASTARDS MAKE ME glad knowing that the revolution is UPON US. AND THAT HIS HOLY WORD WILL SHINE AGAIN ON THIS, OUR GREAT NATION."

God is anti-medicinal cannabis, apparently.

Now you know.

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