{"id":870,"date":"2009-05-21T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=870"},"modified":"2009-05-21T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:58:46","slug":"brain-cancer-and-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/brain-cancer-and-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAIN CANCER AND MARIJUANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cancer\/brain-cancer\/news\/20090401\/marijuana-chemical-may-fight-brain-cancer\" target=\"_blank\">Web MD &#8211;<\/a> The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report. Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain have found that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy. Autophagy is the breakdown of a cell that occurs when the cell essentially self-digests. . . The findings appear in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-766 aligncenter\" title=\"Ganja from my garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mypot.png\" alt=\"Ganja from my garden\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mypot.png 350w, https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mypot-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web MD &#8211; The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report. Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain have found that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy. Autophagy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[456,3,263],"tags":[762,1128,26,142,763],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-revolution","category-health","category-hemp-and-ganja","tag-brain-cancer","tag-health","tag-marijuana","tag-pot","tag-thc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}