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I'm sorry, but you're totally and utterly wrong.

I've sat in the oncology ward at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for a solid six months and watched scores of patients undergoing the most diabolical treatments anybody could ever conceive. People so blasted by the chemotherapy drugs that they can't even be visited, lest their damaged immune system succumbs to even the weakest of infections. I sat with someone as they dripped blood because there was a severe shortage of platelets and they had none of their own to clot with.

If there was a better solution, we'd be using it.

You also linked to a site claiming that Autism is caused by vaccinations.

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I don't think you should be so sure that all solutions to cancer have been tried.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-04-24/news/key-words-cannabis-o...

There is no money in natural cures, so most researchers don't bother.

I've read that story a dozen times. There must be some template out there, you just have to find one of those miracle cures and interview the well meaning, eloquent and chatismatic serial killer who promotes his snake oil to desperate people.

But for heavens sake, don't ruin your hit piece with basic background checks.

I am guessing that, without reading it, you summarily dismissed it as identical to other sham stories and go off rant about them all as a collective, not realizing there is a ton of evidence to back up marijuana's role in fighting cancer. And then, of course, this being in the internet and all, you insult the intelligence of the poster. All because it doesn't fit in your world view.

Well done, indeed. You have demonstrated you are steeped deeply in the internet culture.

Fool.

>And then, of course, this being in the internet and all, you insult the intelligence of the poster.

>Fool.

Cute.

I'am steeped deeply in having fucking cancer. This is the reason why I am a little invested in such discussions.

There are less than a handful of publications about cannabis as cancer treatment, all of them about preclinical research. That's not a ton of evidence. That's just an incredibly small step away from nothing. It does not, for fucks sake, justify advertising this stuff to people who can't think straight because they scared out of their minds.

>I don't think you should be so sure that all solutions to cancer have been tried.

He never said that.

>There is no money in natural cures, so most researchers don't bother.

Even if this is true, it doesn't mean the natural cures actually exist in a usable way currently.

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