# Pot it Does a Boob Good!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061 "2007-11-19T18:30:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061/1 "2007-11-19T18:30:06Z")

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[A compound in marijuana has been found to halt the spread of breast cancer.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7098340.stm)

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> A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.
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> The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team are hopeful that cannabidiol or CBD could be a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
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> Unlike cannabis, CBD does not have any psychoactive properties so its use would not violate laws, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics reports.

Apparently, toking up won’t help.

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> The authors stressed that they were not suggesting patients smoke marijuana.
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> They added that it would be highly unlikely that effective concentrations of CBD could be reached by smoking cannabis.

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061/2 "2007-11-19T19:10:00Z")

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> The authors stressed that they were not suggesting patients smoke marijuana.
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> They added that it would be highly unlikely that effective concentrations of CBD could be reached by smoking cannabis.

That right there sounds like a challenge.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061/3 "2007-11-19T19:37:58Z")

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> The authors stressed that they were not suggesting patients smoke marijuana.

But it’s (possibly) the only breast cancer medicine with an \*enjoyable \*effect!

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061/4 "2007-11-19T19:51:55Z")

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Just wait. There’s going to be a contingent of assholes who are going to try to get this stuff made illegal.

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-it-does-a-boob-good/427061/5 "2007-11-19T20:04:43Z")

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Proponeth **Tuckerfan** , “Apparently, toking up won’t help.”

[Seinfeld] Not that there’s anything wrong with that… [/Seinfeld]