{"id":26163,"date":"2016-06-06T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26163"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:09:43","slug":"national-cancer-institute-on-cannabis-and-cannabinoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/national-cancer-institute-on-cannabis-and-cannabinoids\/","title":{"rendered":"National Cancer Institute on Cannabis and Cannabinoids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Cancer Institute has an interesting update<\/a> on cannabis … Basically, marijuana is not yet universally approved as a medical treatment for cancer (only in a few states for now), but quite a few large studies suggest that not only it’s not harmful, but quite helpful for both cancer treatment and post-treatment relief.<\/p>\n

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I think this is a good step in the direction of “the world is not black and white”. \u00a0We’ve been tagging everything as just good or bad for way too long. \u00a0It’s time to start looking at benefits and side effects in a bit more detail.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

National Cancer Institute has an interesting update on cannabis … Basically, marijuana is not yet universally approved as a medical treatment for cancer (only in a few states for now), but quite a few large studies suggest that not only it’s not harmful, but quite helpful for both cancer treatment and post-treatment relief. I think … Continue reading National Cancer Institute on Cannabis and Cannabinoids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"National Cancer Institute on Cannabis and Cannabinoids #cancer #weed #drugs #health #medicine #usa","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2836,430,350,432,351,1117,2395,431],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cancer","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-marijuana","tag-medicine","tag-research","tag-usa","tag-weed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12189,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/20\/drug-use-doubled-over-last-three-years-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":26163,"position":0},"title":"Drug use doubled over last three years in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail runs an article with some statistics of drug use in Cyprus. \u00a0It is said that drug use doubled over the last three years. \u00a0That's not too good. \u00a0But the report itself is hard to understand - quotes say one thing and numbers say another. \u00a0For example: \u201cCannabis is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15173,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/17\/gene-mutations-unique-to-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":26163,"position":1},"title":"Gene mutations unique to Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: TWO Cyprus-specific gene mutations that increase the likelihood of breast cancer have been identified by the Institute of Neurology and Genetics. 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