Medical Marijuana Stops Spread Of Breast Cancer

SCENE #1: ESTABLISHING SHOT/PAN DOWNWARDS- EXRAY OF HUMAN BRAIN-NARRATION.

SUBTITLE- "San Francisco, CA".

Narrator: Breast cancer kills more than...

SCENE #2: MEDIUM SHOT-WOMAN WALKING IN CROWDED STREET.

SUBTITLE- Marianne Favro/KNTV Reporting.

Narrator: 41,000 American woman every year...

SCENE #3: CLOSE-UP - SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: Researchers at a San Francisco lab...

SCENE # 4: FISH EYE SHOT - SCIENTISTS AT WORK.

Narrator: Are working to shrink that number and they're doing it with an unusual weapon...

SCENE # 5: CLOSE-UP - SCIENTIST CHEMICAL.

Narrator: Marijuana! Or at least a compound from it....

SCENE # 6: MEDIUM SHOT- DR. SEAN MCALLISTER.

SUBTITLE- Dr. Sean McAllister, CPMC Associate Scientist.

Sean: What we've found it that, this compound called cannabidial was particularly affective at inhibited aggressive breast cancers.

SCENE # 7: LOW SHOT- SCIENTISTS AT WORK.

Narrator: First, scientist at California Pacific Medicals have discovered...

SCENE # 8: OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT- SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: A key gene which enables breast cancer to spread...

SCENE # 9: CLOSE-UP- TEST TUBE.

Narrator: Then they tested the pot compound...

SCENE # 10: OVER THE SHOULDER- SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: And realized, that could actually inhibit the genes destructive path and stop the spread of tumor cells...

SCENE # 11: LONG SHOT- SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: And potentially do it without harming a patient.

SCENE # 12: MEDIUM SHOT- DR. PIERRE DESPEREZ.

SUBTITLE: Dr. Pierre Desperez, CPMC Staff Scientist.

Pierre: We know that this compound extracted from cannabis is non-toxic in the patient because it has already been used for a different kind of disease.

SCENE # 13: CLOSE UP SHOT- TEST TUBE.

Narrator: The benefits may not stop there...

SCENE # 14: MEDIUM SHOT - SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: Scientists say that cannabis compound may fight other aggressive cancers.

SCENE # 15: CLOSE UP- BEAKER BEING STIRRED.

Narrator: Including prostate cancer. The next step...

SCENE # 16: OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT- SCIENTIST AT WORK.

Narrator: Animal studies, then clinical trials. So it may be several years before patients can benefit from cannabis caner fighter...