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US: Another medical marijuana facility raided in a state where it's
Connietalk
Monday 15 Oct 2007 On Thursday night, federal agents seized cannabis and funds from a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Los Angeles. Twenty agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided the Arts District Healing Center on East 1st Street. They searched the two-story building for over three hours. The affidavit from the DEA stated marijuana is a schedule-one controlled substance, "which under federal law means that is not recognized for having any medicinal value." The state of California, where the raid took place, disagrees. California is one of eleven states in the US that allow the use of medical marijuana. The laws recognizing marijuana's medicinal value are also enacted in New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, and Illinois, and then spread through more states in the past 20 years since the passage of Proposition 215, a California initiative that was voted on by CA voters in 1996. This was the first medical marijuana legislation the USA had seen. (Edited - thank you, Jon!) In April of 2007, the American Association for Cancer Research published the following findings from researchers at Harvard University, who tested THC - the actice compound in cannabis - in both lab and mouse studies: They found the active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread. They say this is the first set of experiments to show that the compound, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), inhibits EGF-induced growth and migration in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Lung cancers that over-express EGFR are usually highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy. THC that targets cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function to endocannabinoids, which are cannabinoids that are naturally produced in the body and activate these receptors. The researchers suggest that THC or other designer agents that activate these receptors might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung cancer. "The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer," said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a researcher in the Division of Experimental Medicine. http://www.connietalk.com/laraid123.html
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