The therapeutic potential of
cannabis appears limitless, extending far
beyond just relieving nausea or pain in the
terminally ill. Christina Sanchez, a molecular
biologist from Compultense University in
Madrid, Spain, has been studying the molecular activity of cannabinoids for more
than 10 years, and during this time she and her
colleagues have learned that
tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the primary
psychoactive component of cannabis, induces
tumor cell "suicide" while leaving healthy cells alone.
This amazing discovery was somewhat
unexpected, as Sanchez and her team had
initially been studying brain cancer cells for the
purpose of better understanding how they
function. But in the process, they observed that, when exposed to THC, tumoral cells not
only ceased to multiply and proliferate but also
destroyed themselves, both in lab tests and
animal trials.

Sanchez first reported on this
back in 1998, publishing a paper on the anti-
cancer effects of THC in the European biochemistry journal FEBS Letters. "In the early 1960s, Raphael Mechoulam from
the Hebrew University in Israel categorized the
main compound in marijuana producing the
psychoactive effects that we all know,"
explained Sanchez during an interview with Cannabis Planet. "After the discovery of this compound that is called THC, it was pretty
obvious that this compound had to be acting on
the cells, on our organism, through a molecular
mechanism."

Human body designed to utilize
cannabis compounds, research finds Later research in the 1980s revealed that the
human body contains two specific targets for
THC: an endogenous framework that
processes THC and other cannabinoids, known as the endocannabinoid system, and
various cannabinoid receptors throughout the
body that utilize them. Together, these two
natural systems allow the body to benefit from
the cannabinoids found in cannabis, some of which aren't found anywhere else in nature.
"The endocannabinoids, together with the
receptors and the enzymes that synthesize,
that produce, the endocannabinoids and that
degrade the endocannabinoids, are what we
call the endocannabinoid system," added Sanchez. "And we now know that the
endocannabinoid system regulates a lot of
biological functions: appetite, food intake,
motor behavior, reproduction, and many, many
other functions. And that's why the plant has
such a wide therapeutic potential."

When a herb is termed "weed"....

The stone the builders rejected...

Our governments ehn...

Tho nw a passive smoker, I'v no regrets. All this talk cant sha make africans esp see the good in this wonder leaf.

#ILove Nature
#Kush moderately
#Strictly Green
#Legalise Weed