The Cyclists Crowdfunding a Medical Cannabis Trial
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.This weekend, a group of volunteers are wrapping up a 420 km bike ride with a very specific goal in mind: making money for a clinical trial of cannabis as a potential treatment to fight brain cancer
The Medical Cannabis Bike Tour in Europe is raising funds to support research led by Dr Guillermo Velasco at the Complutense University of Madrid, who has been studying the effects of cannabinoids on gliomas, a type of brain tumour. He’s actually looking at how cannabinoids could fight the cancer itself, rather than just alleviate symptoms. Having found evidence in earlier work that cannabinoids (the main active ingredients in marijuana, THC, and CBD) could help kill off these tumour cells, he’s keen to proceed with a clinical trial.
“We thought to design a protocol for treating patients with glioma with a combination of cannabinoids and temozolomide,” explained Velasco in a phone call. Temozolomide is...
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