Feds Admit Cannabis Kills Brains Tumor Cells
(CannabisNow) A new report issued from a U.S. government-funded research group called the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) may have put the federal government in a bit of an awkward situation.
NIDA, which receives an annual budget a year of over $1 billion and had been given the task of studying drug abuse and addiction involving marijuana, admits that using marijuana can be helpful in killing specific types of brain tumors and weakens the cancer cells so they are less resistant to radiation treatment.
And while this may seem to be somewhat of an old news story, with research on this very topic being around for a few years now, this is one of the few times that the federal government has openly admitted to cannabis having any kind of medical value.
According to the Daily Caller, NIDA released a revised report for April based on research done at St. George’s University of London and published last year in the medical journal Molecular Cancer Therapies. The initial research found that when patients who suffer from brain tumors are administered THC or cannabidiol that “dramatic reductions” were found in the size and aggressiveness of the tumors when coupled with radiation therapy.
NIDA released this report just a few days after the United States Justice Department announced that they were going to continue to prosecute any and all medical marijuana cases against those that they deem to be “in defiance of Congress.” This, ironically, is also an act against Congress in itself, as the Justice Department is acting in direct defiance of an amendment that was adding to a spending bill last December. The amendment states that the Justice Department is not legally allowed to interfere with states that allow the sale of medical marijuana from being able to implement their laws.
