CB2 Receptors act like a target for cannabinoids. Once they bind to the receptor they tell the cancer cell to die, to commit suicide. Cannabis can be used as an anti-cancer medicine.
See the entire documentary “Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis” by MontanaPBS at
http://watch.montanapbs.org/video/1825223761/
More video of the Seth Group featured experiment…
http://thesethgroup.org/featured_experiment.html
FRANCE
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16682966
GERMANY
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648025
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914218
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15026328
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16893424
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15361550
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889794
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19015962
HUNGARY
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608284
ISRAEL
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237277
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11586361
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692532
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571653
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18286801
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250836
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934890
ITALY
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12052046
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189054
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354058
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19047095
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10913156
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9653194
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18088200
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16909207
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17342320
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059457
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12723496
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442536
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16728591
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539619
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500647
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189659
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14617682
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18938775
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11106791
JAPAN
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19394652
KOREA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336665
NEW ZEALAND
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442435
POLAND
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15451022
SAUDI ARABIA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197164
SLOVAKIA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16835997
…for starters, because that is all that fits here.
Dr Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) speaks at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2011 on the development of smoking and how pipes filter smoke. This is an excerpt of a longer talk on the Science of Cannabis, which examined the chemical and pharmacological benefits and difficulties of medical cannabis: http://bit.ly/mE2bSq
Further information:
Blog post on the event: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2011/06/08/the-science-of-cannabis/
Dr Andrea Sella: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic_pages/andrea_sella
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