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Marijuana:
Smoking
It
Doesn't
Cause
Lung
Cancer,
Study
Finds
5/26/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/437/tashkinstudy.shtml
A new study by researchers
at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine led by Dr. Donald Tashkin,
a prominent marijuana researcher, has found no link between marijuana smoking
and lung cancer. While smoking cigarettes greatly increases the risk
of lung cancer, smoking marijuana did not appear to have any effect, the
study found.
""We know that there are
as many or more carcinogens and co-carcinogens in marijuana smoke as in
cigarettes," said Tashkin. "But we did not find any evidence for
an increase in cancer risk for even heavy marijuana smoking."
The study involved more than
600 lung cancer patients, more than 600 patients with other head and neck
cancers, and a control group of more than 1000 people without cancer.
Previous studies had found
high levels of carcinogens in pot smoke. Given that users tend to
inhale deeply, researchers theorized that they were at increased risk of
cancer. But the study found that even heavy marijuana users -- more
than 22,000 joints smoked -- had no elevated risk of lung cancer.
We can now add lung cancer
to the seemingly endless list of things marijuana has actually not been
found to cause, government claims to the contrary: axe-murdering, male
breast enlargement, amotivational syndrome, brain damage, the urge to use
other drugs...
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