Cannabis link to Maori cancer

STUFF National News ^ | 10/10/2005 | By DAVID MCLOUGHLIN

[A CA Guy]

Hey Joe, seems cannabis is about 7 times worse than cigarettes if you figure 3 is like 20 camels. Looks like the regular smokers finally catch a break with this finding.

Wonder in America how many cancers are cannabis and not regular smoking caused but are attributed as regular smoking? Could be a ton of them Joe.

[A CA Guy]

Article says cannabis 7 times worse tham smoking regular stuff, not counting the effects cannabis has on the brain and the gateway drug stuff though.

[A CA Guy]

"The tandem study mentioned in the article sounds a lot more scientific, although the sample sizes are still very small."

You could be right, the cancer from cannabis could be killing everyone andyk. Good point!

[headsonpikes]

This is probably why NZ's All Black Rugby teams continue to be throttled by the clean-living, er, Chinese, etc.

Right, Kool-Aid Guy?

[A CA Guy]

The study seemed to have isolated this issue to the cannabis, so there is no grounds here for that speculation.

Could be in places where the ground has poisons there could be arsenic of other transfers that kill people as well, but this seems specific to lung cancer.

[Clemenza]

WHOA! We finally found something we can agree on! Cannabis CAUSES CANCER! Just as alcohol causes Cirroses, red meat causes cancer and heart disease, sexual activity can cause about 1,000 diseases, etc...

[A CA Guy]

The Asians seem to like to smoke 80 cigarettes a day, so both would be messed up people IMO.

The Chinese are such obsessive smokers when they do smoke that they could be doing it enough to maybe be in competition for the lung cancer as well.

You made a good point.

[Clemenza]

Remember kids, Marijuana is the fuse, LSD is the bomb! Cigarettes are OK, however.

[A CA Guy]

Why would anyone want to do any recreational drug? They'd have to be idiots or get that from approval of their parents I would think.

[dakine]

hahaha...well, there's a thousand diseases I safe from...

[A CA Guy]

Cigarettes do kill, before smoking took off, the only know cases of lung cancer were pretty much limited to coal miners.

Look up history regarding smoking.
This deal with cannabis being 7 times worse as something to smoke compared to a cigarette is bad news.

[stuartcr]

Mashed Cassava with marijuana? Yam and marijuana pie?

[little jeremiah]

I was just going to ping you to this!

[A CA Guy]

Mashed brains for sure!

[A CA Guy]

LOL, somehow I knew!

[Bigh4u2]

"before smoking took off, the only know cases of lung cancer were pretty much limited to coal miners."



Really??

"Oldest Descriptions of Cancer

Cancer has afflicted humans throughout recorded history. It is no surprise that from the dawn of history doctors have written about cancer. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors, human mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts. Bone remains of mummies have revealed growths suggestive of the bone cancer, osteosarcoma. In other cases, bony skull destruction as seen in cancer of the head and neck has been found.

Our oldest description of cancer (although the term cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to approximately 1600 B.C. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, or writing, describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by cauterization, with a tool called "the fire drill." The writing says about the disease, "There is no treatment."

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_the_history_of_cancer_72.asp?sitearea=CRI

[A CA Guy]

Yeah really, I was talking lung cancer as your own quote of me shows and you posted back something totally different.

Yeah really!!!! There is no **historic reference** to lung cancer in that article at all you linked. The ONLY reference is to how a lung cancer is different from another cancer, which has nothing to do with what I said.

Thanks for trying, but consider reading what I post first and then go so far as to even read the article you are linking to me.

In a way, your post may have just made a major statement about cannabis though, thanks.

[stuartcr]

That's for suer. I don't care either way what the Maoris' do, but if inhaling smoke is proving to be bad for their health, perhaps, they should ingest it with one of their dietary staples.

[A CA Guy]

You would think they would have used it to save the trees by not smoking it but only making clothes and rope with it. :-)

[stuartcr]

Perhaps they did.