- Tests late last year revealed Mike Cutler had cancerous cells in his liver
- Worried he might die, he took to the internet to search for a cure
- Discovered cannabis oil – and bought some of the drug to make his own
- Claims his excruciating pain disappeared three days after taking the potion
- And that tests a few months later showed the cancer cells had gone
- Research currently underway into whether cannabis can help treat cancer
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A grandfather battling cancer claims he managed to cure himself of the disease using cannabis oil.
Mike Cutler, 63, was diagnosed in 2009 after blacking out at work – and was given a transplant in November that year.
He was given the all-clear but says the disease came back in late 2012 – attacking the new organ he had been given.
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Mike Cutler claims the cancerous cells in his liver disappeared after he began taking home-made cannabis oil
Desperate to survive, he began to look online – and found a YouTube video which described the use of cannabis oil as a cure.
He claims that just three days after taking the class B drug, his excruciating pain disappeared.
In May this year, the grandfather-of-nine went for a biopsy at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
CANNABIS OIL: AN EXPERT’S VIEW
Dr Kat Arney, Cancer Research UK’s science communications manager, told MailOnline: ‘We know that cannabinoids – the active chemicals found in cannabis – can have a range of different effects on cancer cells grown in the lab and animal tumours.
‘But at the moment there isn’t good evidence from clinical trials to prove that they can safely and effectively treat cancer in patients.Â
‘Despite this, we are aware that some cancer patients do choose to treat themselves with cannabis extracts.
‘These stories can help researchers build a picture of whether these treatments are helping or not, although this is weak evidence compared to properly-run clinical trials.
‘Cancer Research UK is supporting clinical trials for treating cancer with cannabis extract and a synthetic cannabinoid In order to gather solid data on how best these drugs can be used to benefit people with cancer.’
To his relief, doctors told him the new cancerous cells had vanished.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Free Hospital confirmed Mr Cutler had not
received any cancer treatment since his transplant in November 2009.
Mr Cutler, a retired builder from Hastings, East Sussex, said: ‘Finding out I could die was terrible.
‘All I had in those dark days was my laptop, and that’s when I began searching for something else that could help me – I couldn’t accept I was going to die.
‘When I found out I was cured I was just completely shocked. I’m a normal family man, not a druggie. I had a serious illness and this helped.’
He started taking cannabis after watching a video online about how it could help cure the disease.
After purchasing the drug through a dealer, he began to cultivate his own tablets from the oil, taking one capsule a day.
When his symptoms disappeared after three days, he began growing his own cannabis plant to keep up a steady supply of the medication.
Mr Cutler was one of the speakers at an event last week about the medical use of cannabis – along with Professor David Nutt and MP Caroline Lucas at Brighton Community Centre.
He is now campaigning for changes in the
law to allow the oil and other forms of cannabis to be legally used
medicinally to treat other people.
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stukaville,
Manchester, United Kingdom,
36 minutes ago
Cannabis oil has extended my mums life. She was diagnosed last August with stage 4 NSCLC Lung cancer. Prof Caliafarno at christies i Manchester gave her 2 to 4 months without treatment and an maximum of 10 months with Gemcitabine, the only treatment offered. She is in the final stages of her cancer now, cannabis oil doesnt cure cancer, or stop all cancers but it can certainly do those things for some cancers and all other cancers I know of are slowed down when it is in your system.
observer,
kansas city, United States,
1 hour ago
Cannabis oil and Breaking Bad ? .no where close
Jon Sims,
Ningbo, China,
2 hours ago
It would be marvelous if this were able to be verified. Imagine being sick and the way to health was by getting stoned!!! Anyway..The problem with the story is the hospitals said he had no further treatment with them after they got rid of the original cancer. The story does not state that the hospital said that the cancer returned.
Red-pill,
London, UK,
2 hours ago
Start by watching the documentary ‘Run from the cure’. This is a plant with incredible benefits if only this campaign to demonise it would stop, the rest of the world would be livid it was ever illegal in the first place. Its illegal because nature cannot be patented (“intellectual property†if you like) and cancer treatments are making pharmaceutical companies BILLIONS! There is no money in curing people. When are people going to wake up… This is a big deal.
Steve Danks,
Hastings, United Kingdom,
3 hours ago
hempworkscharityuk
Bill Abong,
Dunedin, New Zealand,
3 hours ago
Anyone should be allowed to use natural herbs to fight cancer, after all it’s self defence when the grim reaper is holding a gun to your head you should be able to fight back.
Kingss,
London, Morocco,
4 hours ago
YEs, cannabis can cure cancer and some of the biggest pharma companies are already trade marking some of the cannabis substances….Search and you will see some trade marks already has been given or shall we say, sold to those companies…
nikki27,
croydon, United Kingdom,
4 hours ago
So now they are going to take YEARS of testing this drug to see if it works ,when the evidence is pretty clear that it does? How much more proof do they need?
AussieJohn,
Sydney,
4 hours ago
This is the very reason why cannabis was banned thanks to the lobby of pharmaceutical companies.
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knowhere, United Kingdom,
4 hours ago
So what happened to Bob Marley then? He smoked more weed than any other known man, yet he died of cancer.
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SueLynn,
Waimea,
3 hours ago
stukaville,
Manchester, United Kingdom,
32 minutes ago
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