This kind of stuff gets me so mad!

[AlwaysBlazed]

http://abovetheinfluence.com/the-ads/default.aspx

Just watch the ads, you will see.

Weed is bad for you because you should be yourself.

Thats their message

wtf

and if you want to get really mad

http://abovetheinfluence.com/the-inf...ythbusters.htm

Marijuana causes cancer? 4 times as much tar as a cigarette? Lung cancer is 90% of the time causes by radiation which happens from smoking cigarettes, not tar.

AlwaysBlazed Reviewed by AlwaysBlazed on 12-20-2006. This kind of stuff gets me so mad! :mad: http://abovetheinfluence.com/the-ads/default.aspx Just watch the ads, you will see. Weed is bad for you because you should be yourself. Thats their message Rating: 5

[MastaChronic]

send them an angry letter

[AlwaysBlazed]

send them an angry letter

no because thats pointless, I sent them nice letts and explained to them about how they should spread the truth

[Its a Plant]

They're right about everything . .

[MastaChronic]

but if nice letters arent working you should send them angry ones, like.....your angry about how they present their information as fact while its never been proven that marijuana smoking causes cancer and that people should be allowed to make their own decisions and research this kind of stuff for themselves and so on and so forth

[AlwaysBlazed]

send them an angry letter

no because thats pointless, I sent them nice letts and explained to them about how they should spread the truth, not try what they are doing... seriously just look at the commercials theyre just being assholes

[BizzleLuvin]

radiation from cigarettes? what?

[AlwaysBlazed]

radiation from cigarettes? what?

Tobacco crops grown in the United States are fertilized by law with phosphates rich in radium 226. In addition, many soils have a natural radium 226 content. Radium 226 breaks down into two long lived 'daughter' elements -- lead 210 and polonium 210. These radioactive particles become airborne, and attach themselves to the fine hairs on tobacco leaves.

Studies have shown that lead 210 and polonium 210 deposits accumulate in the bodies of people exposed to cigarette smoke. Data collected in the late 1970's shows that smokers have three times as much of these elements in their lower lungs as non smokers. Smokers also show a greater accumulation of lead 210 and polonium 210 in their skeletons,though no studies have been conducted to link these deposits with bone cancer. Polonium 210 is the only component of cigarette smoke which has produced tumors by itself in inhalation experiments with animals. When a smoker inhales tobacco smoke, the lungs react by forming irritated areas in the bronchi. All smoke produces this effect. However, although these irritated spots are referred to as 'pre-cancerous' lesions, they are a perfectly natural defense system and usually go away with no adverse effects. Insoluble tars in tobacco smoke can slow this healing process by adhering to lesions and causing additional irritation. In addition, tobacco smoke causes the bronchi to constrict for long periods of time, which obstructs the lung's ability to clear itself of these residues. Polonium 210 and lead 210 in tobacco smoke show a tendency to accumulate at lesions in specific spots, called bifurcations, in the bronchi. When smoking is continued for an extended period of time, deposits of radioactivity turn into radioactive 'hot spots' and remain at bifurcations for years. Polonium 210 emits highly localized alpha radiation which has been shown to cause cancer. Since the polonium 210 has a half life of 21.5 years (Due to the presence of lead 210), it can put an ex-smoker at risk for years after he or she quits. Experiments measuring the level of polonium 210 in victims of lung cancer found that the level of 'hot spot' activity was virtually the same in smokers and ex-smokers even though the ex-smokers had quit five years prior to death.

(source: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi..._health2.shtml)

[JohhnyPotSmoker]

the best "marijuana is bad for you" commerical is the one in harold and kumar

[birdgirl73]

Marijuana causes cancer? 4 times as much tar as a cigarette? Lung cancer is 90% of the time causes by radiation which happens from smoking cigarettes, not tar.

Lung cancer is caused by not only the radioactive particles but also from tar and other carcinogens in tobacco.

As far as MJ causing cancer, there's real good evidence that the THC in cannabis has a cancer-protective/preventative effect. But anti-cannabis ad campaigns either won't hear that or don't want to know that. They certainly don't want to advertise that because it doesn't serve their purpose.

The detail about marijuana containing more carcinogens/tar than cigarette smoke, is, I'm afraid, true, and this is a hard-to-understand fact. In numerous tests, cannabis smoke has been found to be very dirty, carcinogenic smoke--containing more carcinogenic chemicals than tobacco smoke. I'm explaining this here because this is information that's worth communicating and understanding. It's dirtier smoke, and yet it's not associated with an increase in lung cancer or higher rates of head or neck cancers, either. That seems to be because it contains THC, which appears to have strong anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory properties. So weed smokers--and even cigarette smokers who also use weed--seem to derive some remarkable protective benefits from cannabis, even if the cannabis smoke they're inhaling has higher amounts of carcinogens than regular tobacco smoke. This hasn't been tested yet at high enough rates for people who smoke cigs or have had, say, heavy exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke to go out and begin smoking lots of weed to prevent any future lung cancers, but it's very promising information. THC and the other cannabinoids are amazingly beneficial chemicals.