Cannabis Smokers Dont Smoke Enough to Develop Lung Cancer

Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA Geffen School of Medicine is a Pulminologist who is researching the anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis as well as genetic susceptibility to cancer.



Pulmonary research is underway on the use of marijuana and interaction with the lungs, which was funded by the Federal Government in America, to prove that lung cancer is caused by smoking marijuana.

However the results proved cannabis does not in fact cause lung cancer. Dr Tashkin is under absolutely no illusions regarding medical cannabis. He's sure (as was the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) that cannabis can pose a significant risk to health depending on the "delivery method" chosen by the cannabis consumer.

But Dr Tashkin also states the common denominator in the well-advertised risks involved with using cannabis, come from smoking, and not from the cannabis itself.
More reason to regulate cannabis and control it in a similar vein to how tobacco use is controlled.
Asked whether Dr Tashkin agreed with federal government in the US, who state cannabis has absolutely no medical use as well as having a high risk of being abused, he states quite categorically some of the well known uses for cannabis as medicine including pain relief, as an anti-inflammatory, as well as an anti-nausea agent used in conjunction with aggressive chemotherapy treatments.

All thats missing is the research to decide on what is the safest delivery route, but as Dr Tashkin points out in this interview, getting permission to research anything at all to do with cannabis is easier said than done.

We can only wonder why that would be.

View the entire interview below

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6pBw0bgmgA[/YOUTUBE]