Table 1. Ten most popular news stories referencing cannabis and cancer on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest.
a Engagements include social likes, comments, and shares on social media sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Pinterest). Article covering the same story were combined for engagement.
| # | Article Title | URL | Type | Author (type) | Engagements (K)a |
| 1 | Cancer institute finally admits marijuana kills cancer [14] | https://usahealth24.com/cancer-institute-finally-admits-marijuana-kills-cancer/ | News | Website (unknown) | 4,267 |
| 2 | Mum who took illegal cannabis oil to battle terminal cancer given the all-clear [15] | http://www.ladbible.com/community/interesting-mum-who-took-illegal-cannabis-oil-to-battle-terminal-cancer-is-clear-20180612 | News | Rebecca Shepherd (reporter) | 375.7 |
| 3 | Cancer survivor tells how cannabis oil 'saved her life' after being told incurable brain tumour would kill her in months [16] | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cancer-survivor-tells-how-cannabis-11126336 | News | Stephanie McCourt (reporter) | 329.3 |
| 4 | Let all terminal cancer patients try cannabis oil [17] | https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/let-all-terminal-cancer-patients-try-cannabis-oil | Campaign | Tracie Lane (unknown) | 266.4 |
| 5 | 50-year-old man cures lung cancer with cannabis oil, stuns CBS News [18] | http://www.trueactivist.com/50-year-old-man-cures-lung-cancer-with-cannabis-oil-stuns-cbs-news-t3/ | News | Amanda Froelich (unknown) | 82.3 |
| 6 | Study: CBD From marijuana plus chemotherapy tripled cancer survival rates in mice [19] | https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2018/07/31/study-cbd-from-marijuana-plus-chemotherapy-triples-cancer-survival-rates-in-mice/ | News | David DiSalvo (contributor) | 78.7 |
| 7 | There are now 100 scientific studies that prove cannabis cures cancer [20] | https://www.somatagenesis.com/2018/05/12/there-are-now-100-scientific-studies-that-prove-cannabis-cures-cancer/ | News | Website (unknown) | 45.5 |
| 8 | Woman rids body of cancer in 4 months using cannabis oil [21] | http://ehealthmagz.com/2018/07/09/woman-rids-body-of-cancer-in-4-months-using-cannabis-oil/ | News | Website (unknown) | 44.4 |
| 9 | Pot doesn't cure cancer and stop saying it does, FDA says [22] | https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pot-doesn-t-cure-cancer-stop-saying-it-does-fda-n816606 | News | Maggie Fox (reporter) | 36.2 |
| 10 | Wil Dasovich says medical marijuana helped him battle cancer [23] | http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/02/23/18/wil-dasovich-says-medical-marijuana-helped-him-battle-cancer | News | Website (unknown) | 33.8 |