CANNABIS A LIFE SAVER AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY versus THE NIGERIAN DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY-NDLEA

I was doing some general reading on preventive or likely cures for some varieties of Cancer. In my research the focus is on possible natural remedies. One cure that is locally available and native to our dear country is CANNABIS aka "igbo" in yoruba dialect or "goof" in pidgin english. This product currently is grown and harvested illegally for now in Nigeria. Presently the NDLEA goes round the country in search of such farms to burn.

Cannabis is used by drug manufacturers who buy from control farms. So rather than go burning farms the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency -NDLEA should educate this growers on how to go about this business legitimately.

There are both local and export opportunities here.

Anticarcinogen
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An anticarcinogen is any chemical which reduces the occurrence of cancers, reduces the severity of cancers that do occur, or acts against cancers that do occur, based on evidence from in vitro studies, animal models, epidemiological studies and/or clinical studies.
Preventative anticarcinogens act by enhancing an organism's natural defenses against cancer, by deactivating carcinogens or by blocking the mechanisms by which carcinogens act (such as free radical damage to DNA).

Anticarcinoma agents participate in the selective destruction of cancer cells, or inhibit the growth and proliferation of cancer cells.
See also: Chemotherapy.

Interest in preventative anticarcinogens is motivated primarily by the principle that it is preferable to prevent disease where possible, and that positive actions can be effective as well as negative ones (such as reducing exposure to known carcinogens).

Anticarcinoma agents that do not have significant negative side effects have a similar potential role, by reducing the seriousness of any cancers that do occur.
[edit]Known anticarcinogens

There is epidemiological evidence that a diet rich in antioxidant vitamins and flavonoids is anticarcinogenic. Interest in many popular nutritional supplements, including essential antioxidant nutrients such as selenium compounds and hormones such as melatonin and DHEA, is partly motivated by evidence that these have significant anticarcinogenic effects in appropriate quantities. The major psychoactive component in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol, has been shown to have anticarcinogenic activity, when injected into mice.[1] The other major component of cannabis - cannabidiol, has also been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth, with low potency in non-cancer cells. Although the inhibitory mechanism is not yet fully understood, Ligresti et al. suggest that "cannabidiol exerts its effects on these cells through a combination of mechanisms that include either direct or indirect activation of CB2 and TRPV1 receptors, and induction of oxidative stress, all contributing to induce apoptosis.".[2]

SOURCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticarcinogen

Up Cannabis, the wisdon leaves

If like in everything where moderation is the key word as anything taken in excess can cause illness or even lead to death. The clinical use of cannabis should be encouraged and high time its farming is seen as a form of business.

Last i checked the great Afro Beat King Fela Anikpulapo Kuti did not die from Cancer given the intensity with which he smoked marijuana rather his brothers who are renowned medics said and i quote "that Fela died from possible infection from HIV which may have led to AIDS"

We all know it sounded more like propaganda then arising more from his life style.

Note that this not to encourage us to smoke or now become Cannabis junkies. Like all stimulants they have addictive elements same as Coffee; Cough Syrup; Coke; Nicotine; Alcohol; even recently some ice cream manufacturers are been investigated for adding some addictive elements to their mixtures which make users to always come back for more.

The danger here is that the bulk of the consumers of the Ice Creams under investigation are kids below 10 years of age.