Cenk Uygur
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Marijuana And Cancer

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September 21, 2012

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"A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever...Desprez, a molecular biologist, spent decades studying ID-1, the gene that causes cancer to spread. Meanwhile, fellow researcher Sean McAllister was studying the effects of Cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-toxic, non-psychoactive chemical compound found in the cannabis plant...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Robin Wilkey in The Huffington Post

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