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News about cannabis and cancer - shortglide - 08-21-2015
US National Cancer Institute Now Lists Cannabis as Potential Cancer Treatment
<p class="" style="font-family:'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-style:italic;">The National Cancer Institute now lists Cannabis as having strong potential for the treatment of Cancer, yet the DEA still lists Marijuana as a Schedule I substance, which by definition holds no medical application.
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From<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="https://gravernews.com/">Graver</a>:
<p style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">The National Cancer Institutes<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/cannabis-pdq">page for Cannabis and Cannabinoids</a>now lists several preclinical trials and studies in which the compounds have shown beneficialmedical applications. While these meritscome as no surprise for many, the real shocker here is Marijuana still being listedasa<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml">Schedule I substance</a>in the eyes of the DEA.
<p style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="https://gravernews.com/us-national-cancer-institute-now-lists-cannabis-as-effective-cancer-treatment/">https://gravernews.com/us-national-cancer-institute-now-lists-cannabis-as-effective-cancer-treatment/</a>
News about cannabis and cancer - SomeRandomGuy - 08-21-2015
What is great is that nicotine and tobacco have no real medicinal purpose and are extremely addicting. That is the definition of the first schedule of the list.
As long as they make money it's all good.