Intoxicant helps patients

Cancer patients from all over the world struggle to make medical cannabis legal – and justly so. According to an extensive study, cannabis drastically relieves a series of chemotherapy side effects. 47 % of the patients who were given the intoxicant experienced markedly less nausea as compared to just 20 % of the patients who received placebo treatment. In some cases, the intoxicant turned out to relieve pain related to the chemotherapy.

The reason for the beneficial effect of the intoxicant is that its active ingredients, cannabinoids, bind to specific proteins on nerve cells. Consequently, they can moderate the cells’ pain signals or change the quantity of hormones liberated by the cells.

Cannabis has also been tested as a means of killing cancer cells, and the Internet is ripe with claims that the intoxicant is able to combat cancer tumours, although there is no scientific proof of this. When cannabis has been tested on humans, scientists have not been able to observe any effect whatsoever on the cancer cells.