Thursday, September 20, 2012
Cannabidiol
Just to balance off yesterday's story about people going to jail for possession of tiny amounts of that "dangerous" drug marijuana, here comes a story that's truly amazing. It appears that a non-psychoactive component of the marijuana plant, a substance called Cannabidiol or CBD, acts to turn off the gene that causes cancer to spread. Got that, folks? We're talking about a possible breakthrough that will kill metastasizing cancer cells. Laboratory results show that the substance acts on This is HUGE. The two California scientists who have made the discovery are hoping for a quick approval to begin testing with human subjects. Lab tests and tests on animals have already been done with the astonishing results now coming to light. (Read the story here.)
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All of which most probably helps to explain why the human body creates its own cannabinoids itself.
The article is so terrifically ironic that it is like reading "The Onion": oh, you know those substances we've outlawed for years, even though the human body itself produces close variants of them....
they're miracle drugs!
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