Study finds cannabis has 'deadly' effect on melanoma

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13. Saving this for a read

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There are a lot of articles on pubmed on the topic. I have not had the time to go through them and see which ones are legit and which ones are likely to be bs.

I have my own bias - I am pretty pro-weed in general. But I tend to be somewhat cautious with formally scientific takes on stuff as opposed to hunches one informally follows through on.

I am specifically interested in marijuana’s anti cancer properties. Mainly in any potential preventive effect it could have. Of course that sort of thing is very hard to make formal conclusions about.

I still it is the main reason I have my weed prescription. It helped me kick drink too-which at least has a roundabout anti-cancer effect. It seems increasingly as though alcohol is a carcinogen and really worse for you than I realized. A doctor who is a friend of my dad’s told me a month or so back that completely avoiding alcohol is probably the safest bet.

But fwiw I am following my hunch here and sticking with my weed prescription for now.

I come from a family with a lot of cancer on my mother’s side-something I only noticed after she fell ill. I certainly would have dialed down the booze had I known :-/.

Some of the studies that tend to portray marijuana in a very negative light have struck me as sloppy*. I have a pro weed bias obviously, but then I have no vested interest really beyond trying to assess its effect on my likelihood of getting cancer. So I do want to separate the good science from the sloppy stuff whether it is assessing marijuana’s positives or negatives.

I am saving this thread. These were some other studies I saw that looked interesting.

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/active-ingredient-in-cannabis-protects-aging-brain-cells/



*: One major issue I have with a some of the studies I have seen that show negative effects of marijuana is that they don’t bother to separate out the negative effects of the mode of consumption from the drug itself. I think it is fairly widely accepted that the process of smoking is harsh on the body. It is why I never smoked anything. I would like studies to separate out oral ingestion from smoking when assessing its impact on things like cancer.


Edit: This otoh does give me a pause. I don’t think it is a reason to conclude that pot should again be demonised. It is just that all good and bad effects should be considered honestly re: physical health. (My own experiences with really lousy stuff has made me dismissive of the Reefer Madness type shit about paranoia etc. I was never paranoid irl except for this one bizarro world space and I am not anymore either. Of course that is just anecdotal. I have no idea once it is teenagers etc. I have used it much later in life.)

But wrt physical health the one area I have seen that makes me cautious is related to heart health.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.123.030178

Hopefully it is a dose-related effect.