Marijuana And Cancer

"A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever...Desprez, a molecular biologist, spent decades studying ID-1, the gene that causes cancer to spread. Meanwhile, fellow researcher Sean McAllister was studying the effects of Cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-toxic, non-psychoactive chemical compound found in the cannabis plant...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Robin Wilkey in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html

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