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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeds Quietly Admit Pot Helps Cancer Patients
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/29628-feds-quietly-admit-pot-helps-cancer-patientsAs the movement to end marijuana prohibition continues to steamroll its way through the United States, a formerly bitter rival may be softening its stance. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a government agency tasked with researching and combatting drug abuse, has offered a subtle change to the language on its page dedicated to marijuana.
On their website, drugabuse.gov, in the language under How Might Cannabinoids Be Useful As Medicine, they have noted:
For instance, recent animal studies have shown that marijuana extracts may help kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others. Evidence from one cell culture study suggests that purified extracts from whole-plant marijuana can slow the growth of cancer cells from one of the most serious types of brain tumors. Research in mice showed that treatment with purified extracts of THC and CBD, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation (Scott, 2014).
Viewed on archive.orgs Wayback Machine, the agencys former stance is much less positive. For example, a section visible last month titled Misperceptions of Safetyincluding a chart that the agency says could indicate that use of marijuana could begin to rise again in future years based on a poll of high schoolers views of marijuanahas been deleted.
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Feds Quietly Admit Pot Helps Cancer Patients (Original Post)
eridani
Apr 2015
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)1. Helps boredom too.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)2. But the DEA still has it in Schedule I
I guess any change in that direction is good. But language on some rather obscure government website doesn't mean much.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)3. Well, Feds, it's time to shout it from the rooftops! nt
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4. As long as the pharmaceutical industry profits all is well.