Cannabinoids: Potential Anticancer Agents

I came across something that I found to be very interesting and wanted to share it with you. Now keep in mind I am neither for nor against Medical Marijuana so hold the flames. As a personal with both a medical background and a legal foreground, I found it interesting on multiple levels and I wanted to provide it for everyone to read and make up their OWN minds.

Here is the opening excerpt of the article:

Cannabinoids — the active components of Cannabis sativa and their derivatives — exert palliative effects in cancer patients by preventing nausea, vomiting and pain and by stimulating appetite. In addition, these compounds have been shown to inhibit the growth of tumour cells in culture and animal models by modulating key cell-signalling pathways. Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies. So, could cannabinoids be used to develop new anticancer therapies?

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