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Pot linked to bad teeth

Submitted by David Borden on
I tried in vain to get the story from the paper, but try to call up Yesterday's news. This is junk science at it's best. Reports from Toronto have found that pot smokers that use at least once a week are more than three times as likely to get periodontal disease. Now they claim it's the pot. Nothing to do with munching all those Cheetos or eating brownies. Nope, it's smoking dope. Once a week. Dr.James Beck, a dentistry professor at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, described how users' teeth would eventually fall out. He then goes on to warn of dire consequences from the resulting gum disease that would lead to heart disease and stroke. This is really scary. I think I'm going to go watch TV and relax to try and relieve some of the tension. By the way,The report said that 26% of Ontario students used cannabis at least once in the past year. 10% are daily users, increasing with each grade from 4% of seventh graders to 45% of grade 12's. It doesn't say how many years it takes a pot smoker to get to grade 12, which is surprising given the other claims.

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