Recent medical research has shown that marijuana may actually PREVENT lung cancer. Do you feel safer, now?

Question

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html

This was a research project at UCLA. Earlier research at Johns Hopkins corroborates the UCLA study.

If you've read research that has come to the opposite conclusion, post a link.

Answer 1

Not really

Answer 2

No, not so much.
Tashkin's group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers -- exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.

Did you read this part?????
Smoking any substance can cause chronic irritation with chemicals that can cause mutations leading to cancer....Wake up.

Answer 3

I know someone who never smoke cigarretes but did smoke weed and still got a huge tumor in his lung. so I don't think that is true. According to research I have read, smoking 1 maijuana joint is like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. The effects of weed can be passed from the sperm to the egg and into the fetus causing health and learning problems.

But I am all for the medical uses. If it truely can help someone in dire pain. Go for it!

Answer 4

Absolutely not.
Somebody was smoking it in this building the other night. When I opened my door for a friend to leave the fumes hit me so bad that my sinus burned, my throat hurt, I started coughing, and had to cover my nose and mouth, and had to shut my door, but by that time it was too late, my head was now aching. I spent a miserable night with dry hacking cough, watery eyes, and runny nose. It was as if someone was burning garbage in the hallway. Don't try to tell me it was something else, because it happened twice before, and I was told by the caretaker who knew what it was.
Like someone else said, shortly before me, the research is BS!!

Answer 5

for people who think the THC can be passed trhough the sperm and make kids retarded Im living proof thats untrue. I have a 136 IQ have a scholorship and my dads smoked weed everyday since way before i was born and I beleive that cuz whats the toxin that hurts your lungs in weed? There is none in ciggarretes theres tar and other toxins. stoners r winning the arguement about legalizing weed these days i think. Too bad we're all too lazy to go vote.

Answer 6

Tobacco additionally started existence as a plant, in the past being processed into the little white cylinder with a tip that we call a cigarette. it quite is the tabocco interior the joint that makes the marijuana risky to the lungs.

Answer 7

Huh that is funny all the research I have read says that it increase the chances, but then again..... I still don't this is a good idea.

Answer 8

No- smoking is smoking and very irritating to the lungs. They are only meant to filter the air- not excessive pollutants.

Answer 9

Ha! I still don't like smoking anything, but I can't say I'm THAT surprised. Maybe someday the paranoia will die down and pot will be recognized as the beneficial medicinal (and hedonistic) herb that it is.

Answer 10

Safer than what? I don't smoke pot, so I didn't feel threatened in the first place.