Does cannabis have cancer causing carcinogens when smoked.?

Question

Medicaly and scientificly doctors do prescribe cannabis to their patients to help during from cancer therapy and recovery. Why would they prescribe cannabis if it had more carcinogens than tabacco like "Truth.com" and other websites imply when it caused more cancer? They will not allow tabacco use during this time but are often times prescribing cannabis to help with symptoms.

Answer 1

it actually has far less carcinogens than a cigarrette, also is smoked in much smaller quantities, and the nature of the smoke is such that it settles in the trachea and bronchial tubes rather than in the lungs like tobacco smoke. It has no additives, and it has varied excellent medicinal properties which cannot be found in other drugs.
Rather than looking at sponsored sites like "truth.com", check out your local university medical library, there is a massive amount of work done on this subject, partially due to the controversy, and partially to the vast array of uses for the drug.

Answer 2

First of all, they do not "Often" perscribe it, hell, they don't perscribe it in most states. However, to answer your primary question, the statistics on truth.com is refering to an equal amount of cannabis smoked to the amount of cigarettes. Now anybody with half a brain knows you don't smoke 20 pot cigarettes in a day. However, a good rule of thumb is, 1 cigarette packed with pot is about 3 cigarettes. That over time, can still do damage to your body, and even cause cancer.

Answer 3

Yes, and that fact is one of the biggest reasons we will not see it fully legalized, because of the frontal onslaught on smoking in general.

Answer 4

Yep, but you'll be so stoned the cancer will be hilarious...