A new study confirms that cannabinoids, which are a category of active compounds in cannabis, can successfully kill cells that are cancerous. They also discover that the mixture of substances as well as also the sequence in which they're given is crucial. The findings will, undoubtedly, open up the door to more effective remedies. People were using cannabis plants for recreational and medicinal purposes for centuries, but cannabinoids themselves were first purified from cannabis plants from the 1940s. It was not until the late 1980s that investigators discovered the first cannabinoid receptor, followed soon by the discovery which we create cannabinoid-like compounds within our own bodies, called endocannabinoids. Cannabinoids, also referred to as phytocannabinoids, behave as cannabinoid receptors in the brain. The most well known of the substances, and among the very carcinogenic, is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) So far, there were over a hundred cannabinoids recognized, all ...