Does Marijuana Cause Cancer? Research Says Marijuana Fights Cancer | True Activist

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You might remember Cash Hyde, the 3-year-old boy from Montana diagnosed with brain cancer but who beat it with his father Mike’s help and marijuana oil.  Well, Hyde’s case isn’t the only one revealing the positive relationship between marijuana and cancer.

 

Does Marijuana Cause Cancer? THC as Therapy

In 1998, Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University in Madrid reported in a European biochemistry journal that THC—the famed psychoactive component in marijuana—“induces apoptosis [cell death] in C6 glioma cells,” which are a type of brain cancer.

Lead author of another study and Harvard University researcher Anju Preet says, “THC can have a potential therapeutic role.” His findings, presented in a 2007 American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles, showed that THC has a direct antitumoral effect…»

Does Marijuana Cause Cancer? Research Says Marijuana Fights Cancer | True Activist