A Drop at a Time: How Cannabis Oil is Changing Lives of Cancer Patients in the UK
The UK has a far less liberal stance on cannabis than the states and users still face harsh penalties for growing and possessing cannabis. Read on to see how one man’s passion has already touched the lives of several people searching for just a little more time on this earth.
A chance meeting one day between a documentary maker and a sick cancer patient, whilst both in a health food store, has begun an extraordinary chain of events which could potentially change the lives of countless people. The patient in question merely asked the owner of the health food store how he could source cannabis oil. George, the filmaker says “As his story came out, we found that he had lung cancer. It had spread from his lungs to his hips, then to his bones, and to his neck. He had a lump under his skin. He couldn’t really walk, he was on crutches. After he had been through two bouts of chemotherapy, he had been told by the doctors that they weren’t going to offer him anymore.” Neither George nor his friend, who was the owner of the store, knew anything about cannabis oil , let alone how to source it. But they were touched by this mans story as he was only in his early 50′s. This search for cannabis oil seemed to be his last chance.
They were both intrigued and started investigating. Obviously these days with the internet being the obvious tool, they were overwhelmed with how much they found out almost immediately. George says “It was overwhelming. It was almost like this white noise of information.” Not long after beginning his search, George stumbled vast amounts of research that suggested cannabis could be an effective tool for reducing tumors and beating cancer. As recently as 2013, studies completed at the Compultense University of Madrid have found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) actually causes cancer cells to auto-digest in animal models, thereby drastically reducing tumor size and prevalence (i). Despite the fact that there is a huge expanse of information on the subject, found in various academic journals, (there is even an annual international convention on cannabinoid medicine where doctors and researchers present their findings(ii)), most of this research is under-publicized and remains in the form of difficult-to-understand scientific language. Yet, at the same time, many people find it hard to give legitimacy to the waves of anecdotal information that claims cannabis is effective for everything from phantom limb pain to cerebral palsy.
Read the full article at Natural Cures Not Medicine
(http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2014/05/drop-time-cannabis-oil-changing-lives-cancer-patients-uk.html)
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