Does Marijuana Cause Cancer?

Well as the title suggests, does it?

 

Man people need to read these days.

http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20070417/marijuana-may-fight-lung-tumors

Marijuana may prevent cancer.

 

The only part of using marijuana that might be physically harmful is the smoke.
If you eat it instead, there is no proven link to cancer or any other disease.

 

i think it did for bob marley... but i don't really care, it provides a lot more positive things for me that would make up for it. anyways, i'm gonna die some day, right??

 

yeah dude, i did that once when i didn't have a pipe and i only had a lil bit and i got a buzz off it.than i went to a movie with my dad. good times...

 

Vaporize it, not a cheap method of achieving your high but no smoke, and no baking or extracting thc for canabutter.
This is not to downplay the JOY of eating marijuana

 

people who dont no what there talking about say it does, there is no proof and if there was proof that would be on all those stupid anti drug commercials there is no real proof it causes canser, but it is stil bad for ur lungs, just not that bad

 

Nah. Bob Marley actually got it from an injury on his left toe. He didn't believe his toe should of been amputated, causing it to spread throughout his body to his brain.

 

For real people dont know shit. Im not pointing no finger towards anyone, but if you look at todays society and what we consume. Who knows man. You can say this will cause that and that will cause this. Cigs cause cancer and drinking a 20oz pop a day will give you diabetes due to high lactose corn cyrup. Statistics is one thing, but if you use your common sence and own judgement based upon your current situtation. Who gives a fuck we all die. If you die from cancer a happy human then fuck the rest. Enjoy what you got for all you know tomorrow may be it.

 

lol

 

^ haha
isn't it high fructose corn syrup or whatever?


ahhhaa

 

Nope, somebody already posted the link I wanted to.

http://www.mapinc.org/newscc/v01/n572/a11.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html

Pot cures cancer everyone. Or at least it doesn't cause it.

 

IT DOESNT CAUSE LUNG CANCER, I did an entire project about marijuana. It can actually prevent it, because it kills aging cells that may cause cancer.

This article was in the Washington Post-

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.

"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin's previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.
Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

Tashkin's study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.

They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.

"This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use," he said. "Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning."

Tashkin's group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers -- exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.

While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana in their youth, when it is most often tried.

 

not one person has said "yes.." a little one-sided on the hipforums, eh? heh

 

no it doesnt. if it does i must already be dead

 

i dont think it does

 

Bob Marley's cancer started in his TOES!!!! He got cancer by putting on a pair of boots that had a metal object that pierced his toe where his cancer started. The boots were a "gift" from a person that was later ID'ed as a CIA agent.

The CIA killed Bob not ganja.

 

Listen.
Breathing any kind of smoke into your lungs can't be good for you and it is a common fact that Marijuana contains carcinogenics (CANCER causing agents).
You're a fool if you live in ignorance.
You're a fool if you toke up now and have an image of you being perfectly healthy years and years down the line.
You're a fool if you're under educated and rush in head first.
Marijuana is as potentially cancer causing as any other carcinogenic.

 

You are wrong on that, you can't say marijuana causes cancer. Marijuana doesn't cause cancer, the carcinogens of smoking anything is what cause cancer. It caused by smoke. If you vaporizer or eat marijuana you will not get cancer.

 

Bob Marley had cancerous brain tumors. The injury to his foot and his foot not healing led the doctors find that bob had cancer. The injury itself did not cause it. The injury not healing and getting worse led to the discovery.