New anticancer properties for cannabis and fish oil
Two commonly administered substances were today attributed with some new anti-cancer properties: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main active constituent of cannabis, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oil.
Reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, THC was shown to induce human glioma (brain cancer) cell death through a process known as autophagy, [...]