Despite the FDA lying about there being no medicinal use for marijuana, a declaration that contradicted the government’s own studies in addition to myriad studies done in the medical community, there is ample evidence to show it is not the threatening drug politicians want to make it out to be. In fact, alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous on scales orders of magnitude greater than anything attributed to marijuana.
Basically, the drug can not be definitively proven as the cause of death or injury in any substantive case. You’ll even find that statistical data goes so far as to indicate that the drug poses no substantial direct or indirect risk to the human body, something both tobacco and alcohol can not claim.
I can hear you now: “Oh, but Jason, what about cancer? If you’re smoking marijuana, and we know smoking causes cancer, then the marijuana must also cause cancer — and that’s causing harm. So there.”
Silly little people with no brains… You’re so funny. You sound just like the clueless governments that propagate such dishonest gibberish.
Even heavy marijuana use fails to cause cancer. Oops.
People who smoke marijuana–even heavy, long-term marijuana users–do not appear to be at increased risk of developing lung cancer, according to a study to be presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference on May 23rd.
Marijuana smoking also did not appear to increase the risk of head and neck cancers, such as cancer of the tongue, mouth, throat, or esophagus, the study found.
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People who smoked more marijuana were not at any increased risk compared with those who smoked less marijuana or none at all.
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The new findings are surprising for several reasons, [said the senior researcher, Donald Tashkin, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles]. Previous studies have shown that marijuana tar contains about 50% higher concentrations of chemicals linked to lung cancer, compared with tobacco tar, he noted. Smoking a marijuana cigarette deposits four times more tar in the lungs than smoking an equivalent amount of tobacco. “Marijuana is packed more loosely than tobacco, so there’s less filtration through the rod of the cigarette, so more particles will be inhaled,” Dr. Tashkin said. “And marijuana smokers typically smoke differently than tobacco smokers–they hold their breath about four times longer, allowing more time for extra fine particles to deposit in the lung.”
Given the lies coming from government officials regarding marijuana, what do you suppose they’ll do with this evidence? I suspect, like the medical use deception, that they will simply lie about it, refute undeniable proof with blatant misdirection, and otherwise pretend this study didn’t happen.