It's not that simple dude.
We have methods, they are just either invasive, dangerous, or difficult to do.
For example we can burn tumours out of the body with argon lasers and gold nanoshells, but that requires a surgeon who is incredibly well trained in the use of the laser, and incredibly expensive gold nano shells which are incredibly difficult to make.
And how do you think the public will feel about this cancer treatment "What they wanna fix cancer by giving me salmonella!!! fuck that!!"
I remember watching a document about the corruption of medicine industry, I don't know which it was, but some certain disease had a medicine that costed fucktons. But then some country developed a cheaper one, the result was all the med.corporations trying to force them to rise the price by placing sanctions or something, ultimately placing somekind of curtain around the country so that nobody could buy that medicine from them.
Luckily, that didn't work, and people come to that country just to get treatment for the disease.
So yes, it's a possibility that there's a lot more into it other than just testing and trialing the cure.
[QUOTE=LedZeppelin;24024931]Huge
Fucking
Difference
Smoking is a choice.[/QUOTE]
Still doesn't change the fact that it kills (I says as I smoke a cigarette.) And they have known that fact for years.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24020327]AHAHAH
OH WOW YOU ACTUALLY THINK THAT CANNABIS IS STRONGER THAN WHAT PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES CAN PRODUCE?
Amazing, I mean, never mind the fact that they could isolate the THC in a heart beat if they wanted to, in fact I'm sure some do.
Seriously what you just said is like this.
"eating coca leaves is more effective than snorting pure cocaine."[/QUOTE]
Artificial THC has more side-effects in some cases is unsuccessful in treating certain ailments that cannabis itself could cover. You can't replicate a complex, naturally occurring substance in it's [I]exact [/I]form on an atomic/molecular level.
Besides, why would you need concentrated THC when simply growing the plant is both cheaper and usually gives you the dosage to treat whatever you're suffering from.
Really, cannabis itself can treat hundreds of common ailments that are normally treated by expensive artificial drugs. Isolating THC would be a valid option for some stages and forms of cancer, but it might not apply to all considering concentrated THC has more worse side effects than small dosage. Pharmaceutical companies would lose major profits if marijuana was legalized.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;24034689]In the last year alone there's been about 20 of these "Look! Now THIS kills cancer too!" reports.
Does any of this shit even work?! Christ... With all the supposed magical cancer treatments you keep hearing about, you figure SOMEONE would have done something with them. Instead we just keep reading about more and more "X kills cancer cells" and "Y reduces tumor growth".
Ok, cool. Can we see some practical results now? You know... Actual 'field testing'?[/QUOTE]
Clinical testing takes years and many of these treatments get abandoned for a multitude of reasons. There's also the aspect of making the treatment into one that someone might want to take before we can start testing on humans. "Let's inject some salmonella into you and cross our fingers" isn't how things work.
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