STUDY: Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

[dejaboutique]

http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v05/n1065/a03.htm?134

Marijuana smoking -"even heavy longterm use"- does not cause cancer of the lung, upper airwaves, or esophagus, Donald Tashkin reported at this year's meeting of the International Cannabinoid Research Society. Coming from Tashkin, this conclusion had extra significance for the assembled drug-company and university-based scientists ( most of whom get funding from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse ).

[Goldmund]

1. Phew... Good.

:evilgrin:

[devilgrrl]

3. You can say that again!

:smoke:

[enigmatic]

8. I hear you..

Heh.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. LOL ok...

so whats the drawback?

[TheGoodCitizen]

4. Awesome...

...guess I'll go ahead and roll another. ;)

[evlbstrd]

5. Oh, good! Now my brain will grow back,

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

6. But It May Cause You To Buy "Ben & Jerry's" Ice Cream...

...And maybe some cookie dough too, if you are ever stoned at the store.

Woo, that Marijuana is some dangerous drug!

[funflower]

7. Don't think I've met too many 3-pack-a-day pot smokers!

[greyl]

9. It would still be better to eat it.

If only it were in quantity...

Holding smoke in ones lungs probably causes something, right?

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Suppositories

not real social, though.

[greyl]

13. Probably an acquired taste as well

I'll stick with the little bong. :)

[chknltl]

16. Gets you high.

(well you DID ask)

[Taylor Mason Powell]

10. Best news I've read all day!

Hell, all decade!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. It does, however, cause total insanity...

...that is, on the part of our would-be drug jihadis-- ever eager to blow billions of our tax dollars in the righteous quest to lock up ever-increasing numbers of dangerously non-violent pot smokers.

[Ms. K]

14. Funny, I have yet to meet a pot smoker...

Who couldn't quit anytime. Or who had an altered personality thanks to marijuana.

However, meth is a scourge that changes your personality, but I guess if your voting base is snorting or smoking it, you're not going to care too much, hmmm?

:sarcasm: But by God, we're gonna go after them dangerous pot smokers, and all the black people who sell and use crack.... :sarcasm:

[Selteri]

15. This is what... the 10th study in the past decade

That has come out saying this now....

I rememebr one said the reason they believed is that Marijuana doesn't tend to be radioactive like ciggies.

[dejaboutique]

17. it's too bad they

won't pay attention to studies and understand it can greatly relieve stress and pain in sick persons :(

[Johonny]

18. Hmm

Call me a little skeptical of that finding…