Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer

Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer


Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer

Cannabidiol, a non-toxic marijuana-like compound, can stop metastasis in aggressive forms of the disease

Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed’s benefits without the high, might stop metastasis in aggressive cancer, “potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.”

The pair, molecular biologist Pierre Desprez and researcher Sean McAllister, mixed CBD and cells with high levels of ID-1, the gene that spreads cancer, in a petri dish. What happened next was a bit of a miracle: ID-1 cells stopped spreading and returned to normal.

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