Cannabis doubles testicular cancer risk, says US study.

My nuts have never smoked weed.No worries here.

 

apparently if you are over 6ft tall you are more likely to develop testicular cancer than if you are shorter than 6ft

 

mmmm.Don't like the sound of that.

 

Simple phrase sums up this whole thing:
Correlation is not causation.
Bam.

 

I'm gonna die from lung cancer way before I get testicular cancer.

 

seconded

 

I'm 5'11'', but if I wear shoes then I'm just over 6ft. I guess then if I am going to smoke weed, then I ought to also run around in my bare feet like a proper hippie, thus keeping my within safe parameters, and cancelling out the added risk to my nuts from smoking weed.

 

Precisely. Im neither, but I wish I could actually know for sure what the truth is

 

I agree with Arlandis, I'm noticing it as well unfortunately. What's wrong with objectivity right? But now I've red how they studied this I think it's a bullshit publication indeed. They don't know anything for sure.

 

I don't know how anti-drug people are going to use it against pot smokers though

the study, which was based off of an unscientific data, even states at the end that this isn't enough to conclude that there is any connection what so ever to cannabis causing testicular cancer.

Had this been an actual controlled study, where the participants were screened for any drugs, alcohol, and what sort of diet they ate, then, maybe, then it would hold some water, but as it stands right now, even the news reporters I saw reporting this yesterday pretty much dismissed it.

Not to mention the fact that such a small group of participants were involved, I can't see how any type of conclusion could have been drawn from this.


but then again, what do I know

 

Thank goodness I don't have any testicles...

 

^ how many people have said that now?!
haha

 

it makes girls nipples fall off

 

i laugh at people who are so up in arms about the very IDEA that smoking pot could be risky in one shape or form. IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD. it HAS to increase a risk of something bad, it's like murphy's law of joy.

 

Who knows? I never read multipage threads entirely.

 

Flying in airplanes could cause you to die horribly...


(has anyone said that yet, PsyGrunge?)

 

I'd feel honored to die a death related to my heavy marijuana use


but sadly, it will be the alcohol that will kill me

the mix of alcohol and prescription drugs. all that acetaminophen is probably eating away at my liver and there can't be much left.

 

eating bacon causes cancer, but prevents another kind of cancer.

i'm gonna go belt down another gallon of coffee and smoke a cigarette and let you stoners cone to terms with the fact that all fun comes with a risk.

 

i'm thinking i should enter my liver in the beer olympics. my doctor keeps a very close eye on it. turns out the kidney problem i have that's given me high blood pressure all my life ALSO cleans my blood out extrememly fast. an evolutionary selection for alcoholics? perhaps.

 

Some sports are supposed to be healthy and are risky too. If it wasn't for the risk it wouldn't even be fun. So yeah!