Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html?referrer=digg

^a pretty interesting article if you ask me

 

That is great news.

This just proves that the great herb is God's gift to mankind

 

Yeah there have been plenty of studies like that over the past few years.

I had to post that same article the other day to show it to this ignorant fuck who was saying marijuana is bad for your body and lungs.

 

and there are plenty of studies saying otherwise

just because it dosnt cause lung cancer does not mean its ok to smoke. smoking causes a lot of mouth, throat, and lung problems. whether its marijuana or not, smoking is only harmful.

 

True.

I know it isn't that bad for me but I still know that smoke going into your lungs can't be a good thing.

 

Smoking isn't ONLY harmful. Wtf kind of shit is that? There are onvious, and proven benefits to smoking marijuana. It has been proven to help prevent lung cancer and brain cancer. It has been proven to delay the onset of alzheimers. It has been proven to effectively treat ADD/ADHD. Sure, smoking anything has it's drawbacks, but smoking marijuana certainly isn't ONLY harmful. hahaha you make me giggle

 

I was going to post this when it was dugg last week but the article is from 2006.

 

it has no been proven to prevent lung cancer, only to not cause it, it helps reduce the size of cancerous cells, but not 100% of the time and does not prevent brain cancer. you have to realise these things are not "proven", studies just show that a majority of people in a test group had these results. it does not prevent, treat, or cure anything 100% of the time. it only helps some people with different medical problems. most studies that show these results are not usually smoking it but eating it. smoking anything is harmful to your body, smoking marijuana does have some possative effects to its user but smoking is still harmful to your body. only recently has marijuana been smoked compared to the length of time it has been used for medical purposes, it is more benificial when eaten than smoked.

 

I didn't say it "prevents" anything. I said it can "HELP" to prevent lung cancer and brain cancer; meaning it plays a part in keeping it from happening. All of the studies I have read have always specifically stated that they were the results of smoked marijuana. Surely it is healthier if you eat it, but I've never seen any studies about eaten marijuana. The studies stated that the THC can at least partially protect the body from the carcinogens in the smoke; that clearly means that the study was performed with smoked marijuana. I never said anything was 100%, but it's not even 100% if you don't smoke anything; there is always a chance that someone will get any of the diseases in question, whether they smoke weed, tobacco, or nothing at all. The everyday air we breathe is FAR more detrimental to our lungs than marijauna smoke could ever be, and studies have suggested that people who smoke marijuana actually have a smaller chance of getting lung diseases than people who don't smoke anything at all, so I'm GUESSING THC protects our lungs from the airborne pollutants in our atmosphere, as well.

 

i have never heard of THC protecting anything in our body, that i would like to hear about, so if you have a link to that study, please post. saying that the air we breathe is "FAR" more detrimental than marijuana smoke is a joke, not only is it subjective to where you live, but air pollution has gone down in the last couple of years versus past. THC does not protect out lungs from airborne pollutants, where are you getting that?

 

These are from the article posted in this thread, but I have seen other articles about studies that have had similar results.

Notice they were EXPECTING a positive association between marijuana and cancer, but actually found evidence that suggests protection from the carcinogens in the smoke. It would only stand to reason, if this is true, that THC would protect from other carcinogens as well, including carcinogens in air pollutants.

This suggests that THC has a counteractive effect on the carcinogens found in the smoke. So, even though their are cancer-causing chemicals in the smoke, THC kinda cancels them out, so to speak.

Notice the extent of the study. Of course, we don't know how accurate the study actually is, but it seems that they took the proper measures to ensure it's accuracy, and I tend to believe it. I may just be too potheaded, which may sway my objectivity, but I am gonna believe this until I see anything convincing me otherwise.

 

be careful when you use the words, "PROVEN". statistical and clinical studies don't prove anything, they just identify associations between certain things. i'm not saying these aren't fantastic results for our community, but be careful when saying that these studies demonstrate proven facts. what needs to happen, and what we as a community need to petition more for are rigorous chemical, molecular, and cellular studies with THC...only then will these things likely be proven. unfortunately when the federal goverment refuses to fund such studies because of their biased view of the drug, these studies are few and far between.

 

Yeah I see what you're saying. Just proposing the possibilities, and even probabilities, through research and results is not enough to make it scientific fact. That's true, but some of these results do seem entirely possible, and even likely. Like I said, I am gonna choose to believe it until I see/hear something that proves, or even suggests otherwise through legitimate and non-biased research.