Non Toxic Dose Of THC Kills Human Brain Tumor Cells

[Jim Finnel]

SETH scientists discovered that THC, the major active compound in medical marijuana, can selectively kill human brain tumor cells in Petri dishes at non-toxic concentrations (see Featured Experiment).

The work has been published in the peer-reviewed medical journal, The Journal of Neuro-Oncology (2005), volume 74, pages 31-40. A synthetic compound that mimics the activity of THC did not perform as well as the herbal compound in parallel tests.

Parallel experiments were performed testing the effect of Δ9-THC on human brain cancer cells (glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM) and also on normal brain cells. Putting this herbal compound through the same tests that a new chemotherapeutic agent would go through revealed a potent and remarkably specific anti-cancer effect. Both types of cells were treated with the same concentration of Δ9-THC but after 20 hours only the cancer cells died. Cell death is seen in the lower right panel as cells shrinking to inanimate white spheres.



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[Herb Fellow]

Looking at the featured experiment it is quite remarkable to see all the brain cancer cells dead and the normal brain cells unaffected.

 

[Keith Lake]

WHO KNEW

We old guys can remember the stereotype from the old west where the huckster salesman with his bottle of magic potion cured any and everything that ailed ya.

And it only cost 2 bits

This was common in many old western movies and was in part based on an early hustle

WHO KNEW IT WAS TRUE

That little bottle of Cannabis mixture actually had antibiotic, anti-glioma, appetite correction, headache & arthritis relief, neuropathic pain alleviation etal in it.

 

[Jim Finnel]

 

[darkrail]

What a great story.

If you go to the source website (sethgroup.org) you can click on a video of the doobie kicking the cancer's ass. It's just a motion version of image posted above, but it's really fun to watch.