Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study

[Suzie]

Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study

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<!-- end storyhdr --> HONG KONG (Reuters) - Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung cancers linked to cannabis.


MORE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/hl_nm/cancer_cannabis_dc;_ylt=Ar86Z0QrAIy1YHEPYjROYB.s0N UE)

:popcorn:

[Wolfcounsel]

Oh golly, what's next? Touch can kill?

[Air Force Guy]

Think potheads give a rat's rectum about this news?

Listen to the dopers on this forum...they want what they want. It's all about free-ee-ee-ee-dom!!!!

"Oh yuh?!!! Beer's worse! Huh-huh!"
"Duh, don't cops have more imp.. uhhh, what wuz I sayin'??"

[Wolfcounsel]

OOH! I know! Beer and sex cause cancer. Hello? Is anybody thinking that maybe these scam artist research people know how to scam money for studying and finding baloney in various things? I also don't give a rat's anus about what marijuana smokers think about this new crap. Their god is marijuana. PERIOD. Nothing else, not even sex, matters to dopers.

[Elgalad]

Because you know..

Hemp is uh..

Yeah, Hemp is a much more natural crop to raise than soybeans and it's so much more useful that we really need to legalize Acapulco Gold man, because it's so smoooooth, and

er..

Where's the cheetos?


-E

[Elgalad]

That wasn't me, but a former incarnation, circa 1992.

Anyways, to the OP: It seems obvious that smoking dope would be more harmful than cigarettes.

Cigarettes have filters, joints dont.

Filters might not stop all the nasty bits, but they do stop a bunch.


-E

[DeclinetoState]

But duuuude . . . that's why we should legalize the graaaasss. Then we could (cough, cough) smoke saaaaafe weeeed man.

[jayson]

That wasn't me, but a former incarnation, circa 1992.

Anyways, to the OP: It seems obvious that smoking dope would be more harmful than cigarettes.

Cigarettes have filters, joints dont.

Filters might not stop all the nasty bits, but they do stop a bunch.


-E

Ok, so use a vaporizer... problem solved.

[Elgalad]

Or better yet, for those of you potheads Paulheads who want your medical marijuana legalization so badly..

Let's bring out the THC in a pill form.

There, put that in your er.. mouth and don't smoke it.

:smirky:


-E

[jayson]

Well, since I don't smoke or require medical marijuana to function, I cannot attest to whether or not marinol actually works or not.

:rolleyes:

[Elgalad]

You haven't been to Iraq or Afghanistan either, but you seem perfectly willing to accept your candidate's skewed version of our "miserable failure" there over those who have.

I guess you just choose to apply your faith in the unknown selectively.


-Elgalad

[DoctorDoom]

Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: studyLike that's you know really a downer, man. But I like need my weed, you know, and anyway like none of my friends who do joints has like cancer, dude, so like *cough hack* like ... oh WOW man, the ceiling like just turned into milk, like.

Bill Cosby: The weirdest thing about drugs is that people on it start to laugh, and no one knows what they're laughing at, they just go: [he starts talking in a high-pitched voice] "Ahh... No, wait a minute... I went over to the... WHOOO!... Ahh... I went over to the Burger King... And so a guy took a piece of meat... and threw it on the grill... I said 'Oh, wow!'... Then he turned it over... It was all brown!... I said 'Far out!'... And then he put it in between two pieces of bread... I said 'Oh, no!'... and a guy ate it."

[jayson]

Whats the use arguing E? You aren't going to change my mind, and I am not going to change yours...

[DoctorDoom]

Whats the use arguing E? You aren't going to change my mind, and I am not going to change yours...If you and Luc were the only two Freecers, that would be a valid question. However, there are many members and lurkers who read these threads, and debates are more for them than for the participants.

[Chris]

Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study

<!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> Tue Jan 29, 4:44 AM ET

<!-- end storyhdr --> HONG KONG (Reuters) - Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung cancers linked to cannabis.


MORE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/hl_nm/cancer_cannabis_dc;_ylt=Ar86Z0QrAIy1YHEPYjROYB.s0N UE)

:popcorn:

Well, that means most of the liberals I know are screwed. Funny thing is that they are the same PC types that reeeeeeeaaaally hate smokers. How ironic!!! :biggrin:

[jayson]

If you and Luc were the only two Freecers, that would be a valid question. However, there are many members and lurkers who read these threads, and debates are more for them than for the participants.

True, but any attempt to debate and state why I think hemp and/or marijuana should be legalized seems to be in vain because Elgalad and others insist on bringing up my support for Ron Paul, regardless of whether it relates to the topic at hand or not.

In this case, it really doesn't relate to Ron Paul, so why even bring him up? It was a cheap shot at ending my argument in its tracks, because I'm tired of defending Ron Paul's positions when I am trying to speak my own mind.

While it may come across as such, I am not complaining... I just want to get it out there to the lurkers that I am here to debate with others, which is what I was trying to do. While there is a time and place for expressing my support of Ron Paul, this is not it.

Now, if E wants to debate with me without continuously bringing up my decision to support Ron Paul, then I would be more than happy to take part. But if he wants to keep brining RP up, forget it, I'm not going to play.

[Elgalad]

Oh, you support Ron Paul!

:ooo:

Well that explains some things.

I guess I was under the mistaken impression that you liked Kucinich. How else was I supposed to know who your guy was? I mean it's not like you advertise it with everything you say, and I'm certainly not a mindreader, so..

I guess it's true that you learn something new every day. :rotflmbo:


-Elgalad

[Air Force Guy]

The darkest side of this bad news for weed sucking airheads is that we all pay for their cancer treatment under the nopotheadleftbehind socialized health care system of the "party of entitlements."

How mucked up is THAT!

[DeclinetoState]

The darkest side of this bad news for weed sucking airheads is that we all pay for their cancer treatment under the nopotheadleftbehind socialized health care system of the "party of entitlements."

Likely to happen if Hillary gets elected.