Bamakhepa from Bengali Film 'Jai Maa Tara 1978'.
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The study by Manuel Guzman of spain found that cannabinoids,
the active components of marijuana,
inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals.
They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways,
thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells,
as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels
that supply the tumor.
The
Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo, a
neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: “Cancer occurs
because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to
turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires
that cells die on cue.
This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death.
That process fails to work in tumors.
THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types
will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.”
“But,
that is not all,” explains Dr. Russo: “The other way that tumors grow
is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to
promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels.
CANNABINOIDS turn off these signals as well.
It is truly incredible, and elegant.”
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