Case study: Remission of metastatic breast cancer may have been due to use of cannabis oil and magic mushrooms

A small team of medical researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. has found that a cancer patient may have put her cancer into remission by taking cannabis oil and magic mushrooms along with receiving a standard course of chemotherapy. In their paper published in the journal Drug Science, Policy and Law, the group describes their study of the circumstances surrounding the patient and the possible ramifications of her experiences.

In 2018, a 49-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer—it had metastasized to her lymph nodes, liver and parts of her bones. Her prognosis was bleak, to say the least. She was immediately put on a course of chemotherapy. She also took it upon herself to begin ingesting both cannabis oil and psilocybin, a hallucinogenic alkaloid found in some mushrooms. The latter was given to her via a trained therapist.

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