News: Heavy marijuana use linked to bladder cancer

[dopesmoker]

man that is such bs. especially the bold print, i sure hope the government doesnt start using that "study" against marijuana.

[beachguy in thongs]

It's time to take a trip back to Erowid's Cannabis vault.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi..._health2.shtml

So, you thought it was the tar that caused cancer...

Think again. Cigarette companies will have you believing
anything just as long as you continue to buy their products. The
fact is, although insoluble tars are a contributing factor to the
lung cancer danger present in today's cigarettes, the real danger
is radioactivity. According to U.S. Surgeon General C. Everette
Koop (on national television, 1990) radioactivity, not tar,
accounts for at least 90% of all smoking related lung cancer.

The Berkeley carcinogenic tar studies of the
late 1970's concluded that "marijuana is one-and-a-half times as
carcinogenic as tobacco." This finding was based solely on the
tar content of cannabis leaves compared to that of tobacco, and
did not take radioactivity into consideration. (Cannabis tars do
not contain radioactive materials.) In addition, it was not

considered that:

1) Most marijuana smokers smoke the bud, not the leaf, of
the plant. The bud contains only 33% as much tar as tobacco.
2) Marijuana smokers do not smoke anywhere near as much as
tobacco smokers, due to the psychoactive effects of cannabis.
3) Not one case of lung cancer has ever been successfully
linked to marijuana use.
4) Cannabis, unlike tobacco, does not cause any narrowing of
the small air passageways in the lungs.

Due to the
efforts of various federal agencies to discourage use of
marijuana in the 1970's the government, in a fit of "reefer
madness," conducted several biased studies designed to return
results that would equate marijuana smoking with tobacco smoking,
or worse.

MYTH #5
5. Marijuana is much more dangerous than tobacco

Smoked marijuana contains about the same amount of carcinogens
as does an equivalent amount of tobacco. It should be remembered,
however, that a heavy tobacco smoker consumes much more tobacco
than a heavy marijuana smoker consumes marijuana. This is because
smoked tobacco, with a 90% addiction rate, is the most addictive of
all drugs while marijuana is less addictive than caffeine. Two
other factors are important. The first is that paraphernalia laws
directed against marijuana users make it difficult to smoke safely.
These laws make water pipes and bongs, which filter some of the
carcinogens out of the smoke, illegal and, hence, unavailable. The
second is that, if marijuana were legal, it would be more
economical to have cannabis drinks like bhang (a traditional drink
in the Middle East) or tea which are totally non-carcinogenic.
This is in stark contrast with "smokeless" tobacco products like
snuff which can cause cancer of the mouth and throat. When all of
these facts are taken together, it can be clearly seen that the
reverse is true: marijuana is much SAFER than tobacco.

[Rarrr]

good point

[Fabolous]

theres to many CANCER problems these days, soon theres gonna be finger and dick cancer's out soon.

[bonsaiguy]

I don't think there has ever been any link to marijuana use and lung cancer or any kind of cancer. For that matter, the chinese have yet to find a link between tobacco use and lung cancer which has, in part, been attributed to the differences in the way tobacco is treated and processed in Asia, as opposed to the US.

[bonsaiguy]

[QUOTE=beachguy in thongs]It's time to take a trip back to Erowid's Cannabis vault.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi..._health2.shtml

So, you thought it was the tar that caused cancer...

The Berkeley carcinogenic tar studies of the
late 1970's concluded that "marijuana is one-and-a-half times as
carcinogenic as tobacco." This finding was based solely on the
tar content of cannabis leaves compared to that of tobacco, and
did not take radioactivity into consideration. (Cannabis tars do
not contain radioactive materials.) In addition, it was not

Due to the
efforts of various federal agencies to discourage use of
marijuana in the 1970's the government, in a fit of "reefer
madness," conducted several biased studies designed to return
results that would equate marijuana smoking with tobacco smoking,
or worse.



Also, keep in mind that most of those "experiments" were carried out on monkeys that were exposed to the equivalent smoke of about a pound of weed per day. Bob Marley could not have smoked that much if he tried.

[vengeance]

I HATE the way the goverment twists everything to make it SOUND crediable when its a load of SHIT! i dont know whether the legality of cannabis his been up for vote but if it was i bet the govenment would PUMP hundreds of anti cannabis ads everywhere newspapers, tv, radio and such. yet the group supporting marujiana would not be allowed to advertise or would not have enough money to leaving the public in a brian wash and there goes the vote. I HATE THE WORLD!!!!....*sparks bowl*....ahh i guess its not so bad.....