Myths About Pot

[double ewe]

Do you seriously think what were talking about in here has anything to do with the cannabinoids?

"Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous."

cannabinoids are EXACTLY what we're talking about.

 

[Danashae]

For the love of God.

I don't have time to argue all your points, but POT. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. CANCER. Period.

WebMD article

People who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancer, new research suggests.

While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users.

Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers.

Washington Post article

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 of the University of California at Los Angeles, 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."

Fox News story

“We know that there are as many or more carcinogens and co-carcinogens in marijuana smoke as in cigarettes,” researcher Donald Tashkin, MD, of UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine tells WebMD. “But we did not find any evidence for an increase in cancer risk for even heavy marijuana smoking.” Carcinogens are substances that cause cancer.

I could keep going, but you can look up other sources yourself. I never said it couldn't cause lung disease, such as emphysema, but NOT CANCER.

Get a life.

 

[squirrel_master]

pretty much what everyone else said. mj smoke and cigarette smoke both have about the same properties but THC it's self has anti-cancer properties as someone said before it keeps dying cells from forming into tumors and then into cancer.