California: Researchers Hope To Test Cancer Fighting Marijuana Compound
The pain-relieving and nausea-relieving effects of medical marijuana and its chief psychoactive ingredient, THC, are becoming well known for those fighting cancer and other serious diseases. But for more than five years now, a group of researchers in California has been focusing on another of the cannabinoids found in marijuana, cannabidiol (CBD). “Cannabidiol is a non-toxic agent from cannabis that is not psychoactive,” said Sean McAllister, Ph.D., a lead researcher in the recent study at California Pacific Medical Center in [...]