Green | April 02, 2009 | 3 comments

Active Ingredient in Cannabis Kills Brain Cancer Cells

source: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/04/01/active-ingredient-in-marijuana...

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New research out of Spain suggests that THC -- the active ingredient in marijuana -- appears to prompt the death of brain cancer cells. The finding is based on work with mice designed to carry human cancer tumors, as well as from an analysis of THC's impact on tumor cells extracted from two patients coping with a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Explaining that the introduction of THC into the brain triggers a cellular self-digestion process known as "autophagy," study co-author Guillermo Velasco said his team has isolated the specific pathway by which this process unfolds, and noted that it appears "to kill cancer cells, while it does not affect normal cells."
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3 comments // Active Ingredient in Cannabis Kills Brain Cancer Cells

  • davzap
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      davzap  

    • Goto YouTube and see "Run From the Cure"
      Rick Simpson makes marijuana extract and cures melanoma skin cancer plus internal
      condition treated as well. Absolutely amazing.

    • 3 years ago
  • Herbal_Minded
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      Herbal_Minded  

    • Once again Spain shows research on how marijuana kills cancer cells and the America media is completely silent on the issue.

      But if a CRAZY guy got high and shot a cop, the stories of the dangers of weed would be nonstop and everwhere.

    • 3 years ago
  • alish
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      alish  
    • Herbal_Minded:

      very true. the US is being so dumb about this.
      we are in a hella bad economic crisis right now and they still are putting people in jail for weed when it costs them money to keep them incarcerated. so of couse the US wont have this in the paper because they are fuckin retards

    • 3 years ago
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