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by mohawk 3330 days ago
Sorry haven't got much time at the moment, here's the paper that got me interested

Anti-tumoral action of cannabinoids: Involvement of sustained ceramide accumulation and extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v6/n3/abs/nm0300_313.html

Put that into Google Scholar (the paper title or just "guzman thc"), then click on the Cited by xxx below in the search results to find newer papers.

GW Pharma is a company doing clinical trials, and i think Canadian licenced producers of cannabis are doing trials as well (though i don't know how many are about cancer/anti-tumoral activity).

Here's a long list of research papers on cannabinoids:

http://www.cannabis-med.org/studies/study.php

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Oh I know that, I mailed Cristina Sanchez about her research. I looked for the GW trial (brain metastasis IIRC) in UK but so far couldn't find any results.

thanks for the other link, I never looked at that website before.

ps: and to add to the theories, Desprez cbd research hints at ID-1 transcription regulation; ID-1 appearing to be a embryogenic-time gene, turning cells into highly mobile and differentiating regime => aggressive tumor. If CBD does interfere with ID-1 expression, it's not implausible that tumors grow much more slowly and locally, which is probably always good.

pps: one more thing, cbd and cannabinoids have a huge image problem; people just dismiss it as hippie shit.