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Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows

Researchers suspect cannabis does many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions.

Aired 07/13/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows

Clip: 7/13/2016 | 8m 53s

Researchers suspect cannabis does many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions.

It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There are still tight restrictions but weed is increasingly coming into the scientific mainstream. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.

Aired 07/13/2016 | Rating NR

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