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Compound found in marijuana shown to 'turn off' cancer$1:
After their initial study was published in November of last year, the two researchers continued to study the effect of CDB on various cancer cells. Desprez told Yahoo News:
"Now we've found that Cannabidiol works with many kinds of aggressive cancers — brain, prostate — any kind in which these high levels of ID-1 are present."
High levels of ID-1 have also been found in ovarian, breast, prostate, cervical, liver and endometrial cancers according to the Journal of Experimental and Clinic Cancer Research.
'Vansterdam' visitors want to partake in city's liberal approach to pot$1:
Ground Zero for ganja in Vancouver is the 300-block of West Hastings Street, which is home to the B.C. Marijuana Party headquarters and Vapour Lounge, Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the New Amsterdam Cafe.
"You don't have people selling or dealing in here. We don't do that," says Phil, an employee at the New Amsterdam. "But people can come here and experience it and if they bring their own stuff they can smoke it here."
The warehouse-style brick and concrete cafe-come-head shop offers vegetarian wraps and vaporizers, lattes and hand-blown glass bongs. Patrons even have the option of gift cards and reward points for purchases.
Next door is the headquarters of Cannabis Culture magazine and the B.C. Marijuana Party, a registered political party that offers tax receipts for donations and has run candidates in elections provincially and federally.
"Overgrowing the government," is their motto, and they appear to be giving it a pretty good go.
Elections BC recently approved an activist's initiative petition to decriminalize marijuana. The results are not binding on the provincial government, but the movement to repeal drug laws that prohibit the drug has become almost mainstream in B.C. It's even on the agenda at this year's gathering of municipal politicians, the Union of B.C. Municipalities.
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