A new study has examined that Marijuana can kill cancer cells and even shrink brain tumours.
The study funded by a research grant awarded to WM Liu from GW Pharmaceuticals, United Kingdom showed extracts from the plants can help enhance the impact of radiation therapy, the Mirror reported. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded by the US government cited this study in a fact sheet on its website about marijuana.
According to the reports, recent animal studies have shown that marijuana can kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others and evidence from one animal study suggests that extracts from whole-plant marijuana can shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumors.
Research in mice showed that these extracts, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation.
