the country is going to be at freezing or below. so unfortunately more cold weather is headed your way. gillian: well, thanks for nothing. [laughter] leland: adam, a lot this time of year. gillian: we will check back with you later in the hour even though we don t want to. leland: can t wait, moving on, centers for disease control named vitamin acetate as culprit and found in lung samples of 29 people who got sick, garrett tenney with more on this and where vitamin acetate is found on the pods, hi, garrett. leland, good afternoon to you, after 8 months of searching health officials are calling this a breakthrough, oily substance found in foods in skin care products but also often now being used to dilute the liquid in vaping products that contain thc, the component of marijuana,
it s sometimes used to dilute thc oil, the active ingredient in marijuana that produces a high. when inhaled, it can affect how the lungs work. one scientist says it s like honey. the cdc calling it a very strong culprit of concern, saying it found the substance in all 29 lung samples tested. more than 2,000 people have gotten sick in the outbreak, including 15-year-old zane martin. it s very bad. don t vape unless you want to end up in the hospital. reporter: this, as the white house considers banning certain flavors popular with teens and raising the age to buy vaping products to 21. on thursday, juul labs, the nation s largest e-cig company, announced it would stop selling mint flavored pods. david, the cdc says more testing is needed and it s too soon to say whether vitamin e acetate is causing the illnesses, but it s clear this is an important clue in solving the mystery. david?
surprising. while many mainstream doctors do support the use of cannabis to offset the side effects of chemotherapy, as things stand now, no doctor would recommend cannabis instead of chemo, myself included. but there is a growing body of promising research. dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book. it turns out that it actually fights the cancer itself. reporter: you re a doc. you ve studied this, you ve talked to the researchers. right. reporter: you re saying marijuana can kill cancer cells? i m saying that and there are many other researchers who are saying that, too. we ve got lung samples from our treated mice reporter: like san francisco researchers pierre desprez and shawn mcallister, who say they have seen firsthand what the cannabis compound cbd can do. in their lab, they used cbd to kill mice and human cancer cells. we asked the american cancer society what they thought about all of this, and in a statement to cnn, they said, there is no
to alter the chemo plan. they re not. they did not do that at all. reporter: that s not surprising. while many mainstream doctors do support the use of cannibis to offset the side effects of chemotherapy, as things stand now, no doctor would recommend cannibis instead of chemo. myself included. but there is a growing body of promising research. dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book. it turns out it actually fights the cancer itself. you re a doc. you ve studied this, talked to the researchers. you re saying marijuana can kill cancer cells. i m saying that and there are many other researchers who are saying that, too. we ve got lung samples from our treated mice. reporter: like san francisco researchers, pierre despre southbound and shawn mcallister, who say they ve seen first hand what the cannibis compound or cbd can do. in their lab, they use cbd to kill mice and human cancer cells. we asked the american cancer society what they thought about all of this.