Wednesday 10/09/2013 - ...And the battle begun

Today in class we picked our topics.  At my work, I overheard from several of my patients that a man named Rick Simpson had been producing a special type of hash oil that had been wildly successful in curing various types of cancer.  So often had marijuana been accused of causing cancer, that upon hearing that there had been several thousand cases of cancer treated with Phoenix Tears going into remission, I had to find out more.  However, upon searching through the academic channels, I found little current information.  Most of the information I did find was biased, had a negative view, or was dated and contained erroneous or skewed data.  With little other than first hand testimonials and pop culture articles to go off of, I retired my search and set out to divine a new research question on a topic that piqued my fascination.