Marijuana keeps challenging politics. The health benefits of controversial substance continue piling up. Now research has discovered that marijuana can help shrink an aggressive form of brain cancer, bolstering the argument for legalization. British researchers have found that glioma masses, an aggressive and deadly type of brain tumor, shrunk substantially in mice when radiation treatment was coupled with two different marijuana compounds.
Marijuana helps cure aggressive brain cancer
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