PROVE MY DUMBASS FRIEND WRONG PLEASE GOD

[Pepper]

:rasta: http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_ch...?storyid=12360

[krustythfreakinclown]

We should all assume smoking weed *could* give you cancer just due to the sheer fact that you are smoking it.

But, really, would any of us stop smoking weed if we found out it causes cancer? I somehow don't expect to see most smokers stopping.

[Fan o KmK]

Ok, this calls for us to think about it logically.

Cannabis has no direct link whatsoever with any form of cancerous tissue, although, i hate to say it, any smoke will be bad for your lungs, altohugh maybe cannabis really isnt. What i do know is, no one has ever died from cannabis, no one will ever die from cannabis, which makes me think, maybe it actually doesnt cause cancer, and maybe it does prevent it. I dont know, but im gunner carry on smoking it, and if i get cancer, i'll let you know.

yea. my arguement is so logical. i kept saying, "yes, you are smoking, therefore it cant possibly be good for you. however, no one has ever died from smokig weed, and no one has ever gotten cancer"

then he comes back with some quote from Whang Zu or something like that which said soemthing like "as a result, i have now linked cannabis consumption with head and neck cancer"....

i was like are u kidding me lol.

then i was liike ok dude im starting a debate on cann.com, come post, (hes already a member) and hes like "well no shit no one on there is going to admit that its harmful and can cause cancer"....

we need some 100% true facts guys.

[mushka]

:rasta: tell youre mate he is full of utter shit and dosnt have a clue what the fuck he is on about and boot him in the nuts.

[Hollandica]

Shit on cancer. In the netherlands every one in three persons gets it, so how about I would rather get cancer for sure and smoke weed, instead of not smoke weed and still get cancer. I'll die anyway.

There was actually a purpose to this post but I forgot. Oh yeah. I do believe cannabis can give you cancer. It doesn't cure cancer anyway, you can get cancer even from eating potatoe chips. Everything is causing cancer these days, and I don't see why smoke (God didn't *really* mean humans to set plants on fire and then inhale all the smoking hot fumes of that) wouldn't cause cancer any less

[BestTonicIsChronic]

Your buddy is dead wrong, ppl get cancer for cigarrets because of the fact that the government has growers grow the tobacco in some kind of soil that has small amounts of radioactivity, I wich I could remember the soruce, if any has heard of this post it. But anyways ya its the radioactivity that is giving ppl lung cancer not so much the carbon from the smoke. Im not saying carbon from the smoke is good but its not even close to the main cause of the cancer, I think like only 1-2% of lung cancer was caused by the carbon, and the rest was air pollution and the radioactivity in cigarrates.

[Polymirize]

I think you have to be incredibly stupid to think that pulling smoke into your lungs is going to have anything but negative effects on the tissue.

Yeah, mj is probably a contributing factor to lung cancer. Of course, these days, so is breathing the air downtown in a major metropolitan area. Pick your poison I guess. It's not like we're going to live forever afterall. Live by the smoke, die by the smoke...

[birdgirl73]

This discussion interests me, and so I asked my husband, who's a cardio-pulmonary physician, about it. My sister has advanced cancer and smokes to alleviate the symptoms of chemo, so no one here is very worried about her getting lung cancer since she already has it somewhere else But anyway, my husband is now a big advocate of medical MJ, and here's what he said.

"You won't find many reasonable, educated folks going around recommending that people inhale combustible raw vegetable matter of any kind into their lungs. Unless you grow it yourself and know what's been/not been sprayed on it, you simply can't fully know what you're getting, but chances are that the tar and the carcinogens folks get in cigarettes aren't present in MJ in the same way. We know cigarettes cause cancer because we've seen decades of evidence of that and because we know the cigarette companies manipulate their contents. But no one has ever actually done tests on MJ smokers, and since the FDA is so stupidly against the substance, we probably won't find out anytime soon."

He said that even the heaviest grass smoker probably doesn't take in nearly as much smoke as a cigarette smoker does. "If folks are really worried about the carcinogenic effects--or if causes breathing problems in some individuals--they ought to take it some other form." He figures most folks don't get enough smoke to be worried. Someday if they make it legal, perhaps we'll know because we can study the long-term effects. To me, it'd be interesting to go to Amsterdam and see if cancer rates among long term, frequent MJ smokers are higher.

Anyway, thought I'd pass that on. . .

[Fan o KmK]

^ yea i agree. im not denying that its bad for you, and im sure inhaling burning plant matter does have some of the same cancer causing toxins, however, they must be so small and miniscule that no one has ever gotten cancer as a direct result from cannabis consumption...i really dont know. i wish someone who had hardcore proof would step up and say the facts one way or the other. "will excessive cannabis smokers get lung cancer"???

[Winks]

I can tell you I have had cancer twice and after lots of surgery I am in remission only since I have started smoking it. I still have a small spot on my arm that has now had no changes in 4 years. Funny that is when I stopped taking meds from the dr and switched to MJ.

So that is my testimony.
your friend is only gonna believe what he wants to. That is the curse of ignorance. Tell him you respect his misguided opinon and what ever he says will not change the truth for you. That you agree to disagree. Steal the wind back and make it a non issue. Then maybe you won't get bothered by it everyday.
If his mouth is open, his ears are closed. Sad.

I hate it when people try and preach to me and get the facts wrong. Makes me wanna make a homie bat.

Good Luck!