# Is THC a Cure for Cancer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988 "2001-08-24T21:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/1 "2001-08-24T21:05:30Z")
Not that I ever needed an excuse before, but, according to [this](http://www.projectcensored.org/c2001stories/22.html) article, it is. And whats more important is that this little known nugget of information has been supported for more than **25 years**! Is this another cover up by the powers that be? Including the strong arm of the DEA and the lobbyists for certain drug manufacturers’ (rhymes with dupe-aunt) and insurance companies? How much more scientific proof do we need before we decriminalize the advantages of theraputic marijuana!? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/2 "2001-08-24T21:14:54Z")
Errr . . . so has Guzman or any other researcher publushed these results in any of the international medical journals? [projectcensored.org](http://projectcensored.org) is not exactly an unbiased source. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/3 "2001-08-24T21:16:15Z")
(and I won’t even touch the irony of your post’s subject coupled with your sig ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/4 "2001-08-24T21:23:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*Errr . . . so has Guzman or any other researcher publushed these results in any of the international medical journals? > > [projectcensored.org](http://projectcensored.org) is not exactly an unbiased source. \*\* **andros** I am glad you brough that up because of a matter of fact they did > [@](#): > > Guzman provided the title of the work—“Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute—and author Raymond Cushing obtained a copy at the UC Medical School Library in Davis, California, and faxed it to Madrid… ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/5 "2001-08-24T21:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > which were featured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974 study in the local section of the Washington Post on August 18, 1974. ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/6 "2001-08-24T21:30:55Z")
I am not one of those flaming libertarians (uhh…no offense **Libertarian** ) that want to legalize everything. However I think that there are manny manny **legitimate** reasons why this plant should not be illegal to grow. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/7 "2001-08-24T21:35:55Z")
So they did. Sorry, I obviously didn’t read your link closely enough. Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids. Munson AE, Harris LS, Friedman MA, Dewey WL, Carchman RA. From the abstract: > [@](#): > > Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta9-THC), delta8-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta8-THC), and cannabinol (CBN), but not cannabidiol (CBD). Gotta love PubMed. I don’t see any followup papers, though, supporting or challenging Munson _et al._ I’ll keep looking. ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/8 "2001-08-24T22:54:56Z")
I dont know…but it does wonders for herpes! peace, JB ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/9 "2001-08-25T07:24:37Z")
YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thc-a-cure-for-cancer/77988/10 "2001-08-26T06:58:11Z")
I always thought that THC relieves the nausea associated with chemotherapy, and increases appetite.