Anecdotal Reports of Anti-Cancer Effects from Cannabis 'Oil' Starting to Pile Up Fred Gardner - O'Shaughnessy's
go to original March 28, 2013

Increasing numbers of people have been using Cannabis “oil”  - plant extracts consisting of 50% or more THC and/or CBD - to treat conditions ranging from mild rashes to potentially fatal cancers.
 
Reports of success are circulating among medical Cannabis users and on the internet. They gain plausibility from a parallel stream of papers published in scientific journals establishing that cannabinoids have anti-tumor effects on the cellular level and in animals.
 
The anti-cancer properties of cannabinoids were a recurring theme at this year’s meeting of the International Cannabinoid Research Society, and also in a course for physicians presented Oct. 24, 2012, at the University of California San Francisco.

One speaker, Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, described a particularly dramatic case seen by a San Diego colleague: a 90% reduction in the size of an infant’s brain tumor achieved over the course of a year by parents applying hemp oil to the baby’s pacifier before naptime and bedtime.

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