Q: My sister has cancer, and cannabis oil is said to be a cure, but it’s expensive. Does it work?
A: Decades of scientific investigation have proven that treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy cure, or at least slow, cancer. Many of these chemotherapies are derived from natural substances, like the bark of the Pacific yew. But that doesn’t mean eating tree bark helps cure cancer.
The active part of cannabis oil includes THC, which is what gives people a ‘high’, but other elements called cannabinoids are being investigated for their cancer-killing properties. These studies are on highly purified cannabinoids, not on cannabis alone, which is a cocktail of chemicals, some good, some bad. The most recent study that found that cannabinoids caused the death of cancer…
