(Editor’s Note: This is a story from 2015 but I wasn’t sure if everyone knew about it -I know I didn’t- so I thought I would post it!)
On November 27th, at a press conference in Madrid, the Medical Cannabis Bike Tour made history when it presented 100,000€ to fund the world’s first independent clinical trials involving the treatment of cancer patients with the cannabinods THC and CBD.
The trials will use 30-40 brain cancer (glioma) patients from a number of Spanish hostpitals. The treatment plans to use cannabinoids in combination with other cancer agents and is expected to be completed in 2016, at an estimated cost of 280,000€.
From the article:
“The trials are the result of years of scientific research by the team at Complutense University. Their research shows that cannabinoids prevent the spread of tumors and have the potential to kill cancer cells in non-human models.
Bike Tour founders, Luc Krol and Matej Munej, handed over a check to research scientist Dr Guillermo Velasco from the Madrid Complutense University and Dr Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, investigator of GEINO, the Spanish Neuroncology Investigation Group.”
GEINO will to work with the Spanish authorities to establish medical protocol and ethical guidelines.
We will update you on this story as soon as we have any additional info!
Source: Medical Cannabis Bike Tour
