Does Cannabis Cure Cancer?
One of the old, old arguments we’ve often had in the cannabis law reform movement is the question of whether cannabis is a “drug” or not. For a long time I was strongly of the opinion that it was, but over time I came to change my mind.
The term “a drug” is correctly applied to substances like THC, an active chemical which does interesting things in the brain and elsewhere. Cannabis of course contains THC, but cannabis isn’t just THC.
The cannabis “drug” effect isn’t the result of a the actions of a single drug, it’s a combination of at least two, some would argue many, substances we call drugs. Cannabis is more correctly described as containing a drug cocktail, rather than just “a drug” and different strains of the plant contain different proportions of these drugs and so have subtly – and sometimes not so subtly – different...
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