I just found this as well:
Cannabidiol as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gene expression in aggressive breast cancer cells.
From the article:
In conclusion, CBD represents the first nontoxic exogenous agent that can significantly decrease Id-1 expression in metastatic breast cancer cells leading to the down-regulation of tumor aggressiveness.If the CBD in marijuana helps my mom, I'm going to do whatever I can to help my mom get what she needs. If anybody tries to stop me they'll see the wrath of a ticked off dude who's already lost two family members.
I have no issue with it if it works. I just hope people aren’t being led down a path by those with an agenda just to make it more mainstream and acceptable. If I or a loved one could benefit from it I would say the same- I would make sure they got it somehow, some way.
We have only a smidgen of knowledge when it comes to usefulness of any plant to cure or ease illness and disease so it would not surprise me if it does turn out marijuana works for some things other than what is already known. My problem with all this hype now is the people promoting it that I know about are not researchers, doctors, or even patients. Those I know that are promoting it are old pot smokers.
My mother’s family came from the hills of Tennessee and my great grand mother was considered to be a “medicine woman” by many- she delivered babies, doctored people with her own mixtures of medicine. I grew up hearing all the stories and never really thought too much of it. The thing is when I worked on the family genealogy several years back I found that she had 13 children; raised them all to adulthood and she and her husband lived up to their 80s. That was very, very unusual back then and struck me that she truly was beyond a real doctor to accomplish anything close to that in those days. Oh what I would give for some of her recipes, notes, what ever. She had to have been pretty wise to plant uses. Her mother was a Cherokee so I have no doubt much of her knowledge came from her Indian family.