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Nature Medicine 6, 255 - 256 (2000)
doi:10.1038/73088

Pot of gold for glioma therapy

Daniele Piomelli1

  1. Department of Pharmacology, 360 Med Surge II, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4625, USA
    e-mail: piomelli@uci.edu


Cannabinoid agonists arrest tumor progression in a rodent model of malignant glioma. Will these molecules provide a starting point for new strategies for anti-cancer therapy (313–319)?


Cannabinoids have had a long and interesting medical history. Soon after the British physician W.

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