{"id":2578,"date":"2004-09-15T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/15\/ok-maybe-not-all-smoking-is-bad\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T00:10:53","slug":"ok-maybe-not-all-smoking-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/15\/ok-maybe-not-all-smoking-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Maybe Not All Smoking is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3829'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nmarybomb.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"237\" align=\"left\">The chemical in cannabis that produces a high may help to combat the<br \/>\n        spread of cancer, research suggests. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered the active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol<br \/>\ncan block the spread of gamma herpes viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The viruses are linked to an increased risk of the cancers Kaposis sarcoma, Burkitts<br \/>\nlymphoma and Hodgkins disease.<\/p>\n<p>The research, by the University of South Florida, is published in the online<br \/>\njournal BMC Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/3655586.stm\">the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chemical in cannabis that produces a high may help to combat the spread of cancer, research suggests. Scientists have discovered the active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol can block the spread of gamma herpes viruses. The viruses are linked to an increased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/15\/ok-maybe-not-all-smoking-is-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}