Quote Originally Posted by Weedhound
As someone WITH LUNG CANCER I must say something here.

It's extremely peachy for everyone to run around saying yes or no but how many of the folks saying yes or no have actually SEEN this work or are fighting cancer themselves. I'm sure there's plenty here that use pot for appetite or whatever. How come they're not all getting cured and their tumors aren't disappearing? THESE are the people I want to hear from. DO THEY THINK IT HELPS OR DOESNT??

Storm Crow, you're a sweetie and I love you but you can find a study or "source" to back up ANYTHING you want on the internet as I discovered while researching my own cancer type, therapies, and txs so while these articles etc dangle quite nicely let me warn you Moeburn that you are playing with fire. There are TONS of other ways to use ganja.....vaping, cooking, capsules, tinctures that you KNOW 100% won't cause lung cancer. Why would you screw around?

The question is rheotorical.......from someone who smoked cigerettes (and pot) for 35 years and is now paying the price. Was I warned? Hell yes!! Just didn't want to believe it could happen to me and so I just used some good old fashiioned denial and it really was just THAT simple.

Try one of those methods and give your lungs a break.

From someone who is now living the nightmare of lung cancer....trust me ........this argument will mean NOTHING to you if you are indeed diagnosed with cancer.
While I don't have lung cancer, I have two uncles, one with MS, and one with leukhemia, and neither of them have smoked a single joint since they were diagnosed (only eaten), so I understand your position. The argument really does indeed mean nothing when you are diagnosed with cancer.

Why smoke pot with all the risk? Because it is the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to get high. Cooking with weed takes time, and generally requires more weed to do. Vaporizing requires a vaporizer, something not very portable or cheap, and doesn't always work well. Capsules don't work (tried em, even with ghee, they waste a LOT of weed to get high), and tinctures take weeks or months to make.

The fact is that there is no other way to just grab some weed and get high without smoking, otherwise this discussion wouldn't even need to take place, because nobody would be smoking.

But with tobacco, I used to occasionally partake in a cigar or shisha smoke, because the word wasn't yet in on whether it caused cancer. The risk wasn't high for me, but as soon as I heard of a definite connection, I stopped. That's the breaking point for me. I smoke pot a lot more, so I have made it a goal of mine to uncover everything I possibly can about the link between cannabis and lung cancer. Maybe pot will never cause cancer on its own, but if you combine it with tobacco, it will make you even more likely to contract cancer, combining the physically damaging effects of pot smoke with the cancer-causing effects of tobacco smoke. This is the kind of thing I want to find out.

That's the second thing that bothers me. I understand that tobacco is likely to cause lung cancer, and that cannabis isn't. I don't understand why, or what makes the difference. But I do know that if you tell a kid that pot causes cancer, and then they can't find a single case of pot actually causing cancer (on its own), then they might assume that tobacco doesn't cause cancer either.
Finally, I am sorry to hear about your condition. My best wishes are with you, and I hope your life is full of love.