http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/520524 /
Newswise — People who smoke marijuana—even heavy, long-term marijuana users—do not appear to be at increased risk of developing lung cancer, according to a study to be presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference on May 23rd.
Marijuana smoking also did not appear to increase the risk of head and neck cancers, such as cancer of the tongue, mouth, throat, or esophagus, the study found.
The findings were a surprise to the researchers. “We expected that we would find that a history of heavy marijuana use—more than 500-1,000 uses—would increase the risk of cancer from several years to decades after exposure to marijuana,” said the senior researcher, Donald Tashkin, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles.
The study looked at 611 people in Los Angeles County who developed lung cancer, 601 who developed cancer of the head or neck regions, and 1,040 people without cancer who were matched on age, gender and neighborhood. The researchers used the University of Southern California Tumor Registry, which is notified as soon as a patient in Los Angeles County receives a diagnosis of cancer.
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Billions spent studying this utterly harmless psychoactive and medicinal herb. And nothing whatsoever has ever been found wrong with it that stood up to scrutiny.
LEGALIZE IT.
posted by Name Held by Request | 9:55 PM
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I remember reading something about that in the past year
There's also this: "Marijuana may block Alzheimer's"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4286435.stm
There is no reason MJ should be illegal for adults. None.
But science is the work of the devil!
Jesus cries every time you smoke MJ.
Oh wait.. http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/christ.h...
So there! The only lung cancer I'm going to get
will come from perfectly legal cigarettes and perfectly legal air pollution, but NOT the harmless wonderful weed that has been the only drug I have never regretted.
Let me add to that shout: LEGALIZE IT.
Pot is smoked for asthma relief , look it up it opens air pathways
as well as cardio, it is a plus not a minus.
Of course...
...Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,86...
Legalize it? Are you nuts?
For one thing, it would be free. For another, it would make people more relaxed, which is very bad for politics. And for another still, you need to be lucid when you're going to church.
Heathen devil weed. Hrrrummm, is that why my Dr. Rxd Marinol to give me an apatite while treating for Hep C?
so when are we getting to learn about cow maintenance?
The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana,
even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin,
a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer,
and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead
was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”
Marijuana contains THC, which may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.
Oh God, hide the children - we can't let them hear the truth about drugs!
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