.Kudos to the ‘Chronicle’ For Covering Cannabis Science!

This morning, a little good news. The San Francisco Chronicle turns over its health section to more heretical research showing the molecules in marijuana fight cancer. This time it’s non-psychoactive cannbidiol, which has been shown to halt the menace of some breast cancer cells. Dang.

The Chronicle‘s Victoria Colliver reports that Dr. Pierre Desprez and Sean McAlllister from the S.F. California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute have discovered that CBD applied to metastatic cancer cells cause them to cease their attack-like behavior and return to a normal state, by shutting off a mutated gene that produces too much protein called “ID-1”. Too much ID-1 protein makes normal cells go “crazy”, in scientific parlance. CBD coaxes cells to turn off the ID-1 spigot, and hence the crazy, a finding that fits with existing research showing cannabinoids’ role in homeostasis.

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