Medical marijuana may help prevent and/or treat cancer

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according to research sited by Bernie Ellis in his interview at Democrats for Progress.

http://www.democratsforprogress.com/

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First, research has shown that components in cannabis not only reduce nausea and pain in cancer patients and increase their appetites but they may also play a powerful role in preventing cancer from occurring in the first place and serve as a powerful chemotherapeutic agent to reduce and eliminate cancer once it develops.

The recent large-scale case-control studies of Tashkin et al at UCLA and Kelsey et al at Brown University have shown that using cannabis not only does not cause head, neck and lung cancers, but that its use appears to reduce the risk of these cancers, even among people who concurrently smoke tobacco.

This research finding caused Dr. Tashkin (once a major voice for marijuana prohibition) to reverse his position completely and favor marijuana legalization now.

In addition, research from Spain, Israel and other countries have shown that cannabinoids exert a powerful chemotherapeutic effect in killing cancer cells in at least six major cancer cell types, including gliomas, a virulent type of brain cancer that has resisted successful treatment to date.

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According to Ellis, recent research has also showed medical marijuana may slow or relieve the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers, Lou Gehrigs, and auto-immune diseases.