(CNN) "Yup, life's a tradeoff," Susan Sarandon tells co-star Julia Roberts while smoking weed in the 1998 tearjerker "Step Mom." In the film, Sarandon plays a woman dying of cancer while struggling to accept leaving her kids to the much younger, much hipper woman her ex-husband married. "It's finally legal to smoke dope, but you've got to have cancer," Sarandon says, exhaling a puff of smoke. Like many people suffering with cancer, Sarandon's character used weed to ease some of the pain of her disease and the nausea that treatment often brings. But a new review of studies done in Europe is casting doubt on the ability of marijuana to truly address cancer pain.

Source: CNN January 20, 2020 23:26 UTC