UNBELIEVABLE: Scientists Find Marijuana Can Stop The Spread Of Cancer

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103. So... just a few things

It'll be great if this ends up adding another tool in the tumor fighting toolbox. This is still in the very, very, very early stages, however. Also, you know they're actually using synthesized CBD, right? The stuff they're using has never known the woo-magic of being inside a cannabis plant. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but from I've seen of the way the true believers talk about marinol, I have a feeling the weed heads will be disappointed no matter how this one turns out.

Oh, and nearly all the drugs that end up having significant anticancer activity end up having to be used at significantly toxic doses. And one of the biggest tricks is to find an agent that gets its dose actually to the tumor(s), has a strong (and, even better, broad spectrum) effect, and doesn't end up killing you eventually with something like an adriamycin-induced cardiomyopathy. As for CBD, as a final aside, cannabis derivatives seem to actually get a whole *lot* of attention from researchers, all the silly conspiracy mongering notwithstanding. And like all the other bioactive compounds out there, once you've isolated it and synthesized it, labs all over the damned world will squirt it on their own cell cultures, or whatever they have, to see if it has an effect they might be looking for. Some will find those effects, and some of those effects just won't end up being real.