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'Cannabis' may halt breast cancer

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Source: BBC

A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.

The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team are hopeful that cannabidiol or CBD could be a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.

Unlike cannabis, CBD does not have any psychoactive properties so its use would not violate laws, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics reports.

The authors stressed that they were not suggesting patients smoke marijuana.*

They added that it would be highly unlikely that effective concentrations of CBD could be reached by smoking cannabis.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7098340.stm

* nooooooo, we must wait for scientists to synthesize the compound and patent it so that Big Pharma and its stockholders can get a cut.

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