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Cannabis link to Maori cancer
STUFF National News ^ | 10/10/2005 | By DAVID MCLOUGHLIN

Posted on 10/10/2005 11:57:50 AM PDT by A CA Guy

Heavy cannabis use could be a cause of Maori having the world's highest lung cancer rate, groundbreaking research suggests.

Many Maori from children to kaumatua use cannabis in "epidemic proportions", says a study by Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington.

But cannabis might not be as safe as the proponents of its legalisation say. A paper by Professor Beasley on the health effects of cannabis was among the research that prompted Wellington coroner Garry Evans to urge last week that government policy on illicit drugs be changed from "harm minimisation" to campaigning against drug use.

The paper reviews the literature on cannabis and suggests it is more cancer-causing than tobacco, and, like tobacco, causes bronchitis.

Smoking three cannabis cigarettes a day is equal to smoking more than 20 tobacco cigarettes, it says.

Professor Beasley said last night that his institute was close to finishing what he believed was the world's first study on links between cannabis and lung cancer.

In his paper for the coroner, Professor Beasley said information was urgently needed on the potential role of marijuana in New Zealand's high lung cancer rate, particularly among Maori, who had the world's highest rate and were heavy cannabis users.

Research showed cannabis use had reached epidemic proportions and was generally accepted and tolerated among Maori. "Users range from children through to kaumatua."

Cannabis use was rising. The proportion of the population to have tried it rose from 43 per cent in 1990 to 52 per cent by 1998 and the proportion of regular users from 18 per cent to 21 per cent.

Studies showed regular smokers of three to four cannabis joints a day had chronic bronchitis and other symptoms similar to those of smokers of 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day.

(Excerpt) Read more at stuff.co.nz ...


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* Smoking three cannabis cigarettes a day is equal to more than 20 tobacco cigarettes

* Research suggests cannabis use had reached epidemic proportions

1 posted on 10/10/2005 11:57:54 AM PDT by A CA Guy
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To: A CA Guy

wow! - this report is really going to bum everyone out over at DU. I didn't realize the Maoris were such big stoners.


2 posted on 10/10/2005 12:03:24 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: A CA Guy
Obscure reference.
3 posted on 10/10/2005 12:04:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: A CA Guy
Here's your typical Maori party...just kickin' back, relaxin'...


4 posted on 10/10/2005 12:04:59 PM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the RATs and RINOs, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" - Arnie)
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To: A CA Guy
You like getting flamed by the anti-wods, don't you?

LOL, keep up the good work.

5 posted on 10/10/2005 12:05:03 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush.)
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To: A CA Guy

What the heck is the matter with the Maoris. Do they not have bongs over there.


6 posted on 10/10/2005 12:06:13 PM PDT by TBall
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To: ClearCase_guy

There are other regular news pubications where it is referenced, this was available first. :-)

Glad to help.


7 posted on 10/10/2005 12:06:59 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

They are probably using pot to treat their lung cancer.


8 posted on 10/10/2005 12:08:03 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: mattdono

Poor guy on the right evidently got cannabis elbow trying to hold a joint like that up.
See, more harmful effects of smoking that stuff... :-0


9 posted on 10/10/2005 12:09:33 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: mattdono

Poor guy on the right evidently got cannabis elbow trying to hold a joint like that up.
See, more harmful effects of smoking that stuff... :-0


10 posted on 10/10/2005 12:09:41 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Moonman62
"They are probably using pot to treat their lung cancer. "

Spot on, that will be the drug activists spin here.

11 posted on 10/10/2005 12:10:55 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: mattdono
Let's see. Smoke a BIG joint and then get behind the wheel of a car..

Note the keys -------------------------------^
12 posted on 10/10/2005 12:15:08 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: A CA Guy

Just what did you do with your rolling paper from Cheech and Chong album???


13 posted on 10/10/2005 12:16:12 PM PDT by Camel Joe (Proud Uncle of a Fine Young Marine)
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To: A CA Guy

Ok, well how about this alternative headline which is just as true:

Smoking (anything) as a habit, will give you lung cancer, even if you live in New Zealand.


14 posted on 10/10/2005 12:16:53 PM PDT by pnome
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To: pnome

http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizerstudy2.html


15 posted on 10/10/2005 12:18:20 PM PDT by pnome
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To: A CA Guy

If it burns it puts out Carcinogens.


16 posted on 10/10/2005 12:18:41 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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Cannabis Smoke link to Maori cancer

There, fixed. Other types of smoke cause cancer, and there are ways to partake of cannabis other than smoking, so the original title is misleading.

17 posted on 10/10/2005 12:19:29 PM PDT by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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Smoking three cannabis cigarettes a day is equal to smoking more than 20 tobacco cigarettes, [a study by Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington] says.

The study reviews all lung cancer cases from Hamilton to Canterbury with a focus on whether the sufferer used cannabis.

Studies showed regular smokers of three to four cannabis joints a day had chronic bronchitis and other symptoms similar to those of smokers of 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day.

The tandem study mentioned in the article sounds a lot more scientific, although the sample sizes are still very small.
18 posted on 10/10/2005 12:20:41 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: Camel Joe
I think the 8-track tape player of a neighbor ate them.
19 posted on 10/10/2005 12:22:25 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

And then again it could be from natural oils exuded from hundreds of millions of non-native fir trees grown by New Zealand's lucrative timber industry, and their effects on the lungs of aboriginal populations. The statisticians who trumpet this stuff should be very careful about drawing causal relationships because it's a double-edged sword.


20 posted on 10/10/2005 12:23:29 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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