Recently I spoke to Brian Schmidt, a researcher at NYU’s Capstone facility whose life is dedicated to oral cancer. He’s trying to find medications that help his patients avoid the pain of their illness. For reasons that remain unclear, oral cancer is the most painful cancer. It is also difficult to treat the painful symptoms, so when Dr.Schmidt found out about the analgesic effects of cannabis at a pain conference he was prompted to put together his own study.
Schmidt got a team together and went about testing the effects of cannabinoids as an analgesic on rats. However over the course of his study he realized that not only were cannabinoids helping to decrease pain, they also arrested the development of tumors.
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(source VICE Land)
(source VICE Land)
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