Posted on 05/24/2006 11:46:28 PM PDT by neverdem
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if they free the pot smokers they'd have enough room for the illegals
420
Another good reason to stop jailing, and release personal users and minor distributors of pot. We need more prison space for potentially dangerous illegal aliens (especially non Latin Americans) and gang members.
Chain smoking, as with tobacco, would be quite impossible with pot. The smoker would be too zonked to continue.
might be of interest to you guys.I wonder if you give this report to a second hand smoke nazi would thier heads explode :-)
A study of the cancer rates among cigarette smokers who also smoke marijuana might be interesting.
Legalize pot and ban malt liquor = empty jails
The whole smoking-cancer thing is suspect. For instance, the Japanese, who smoke far more than Americans on average, have a much lower incidence of lung cancer.
Personally, once again, I'm inclined to think this is nutrition/dietary deficiency related. Possibly Vit D.
That sounds racist when you consider that gangs and border crossers make their money in the drug trade. If we legalzie the drugs, they commit no crimss to arrest them on.
Or do we keep it illegal for "large" quantity? Would they still war over turf? How does that help things? Or would the criminals just fill the void with another illegal substance?
I don't believe it. The study seems flawed. The obvious way to answer the question is to compare the incidence of lung cancer in marijuana smokers and non smokers. Instead the study looked at the numbers of pot smokers and non smokers in a population of cancer patients. what does that show?
As if this is a legitimate study to be taken seriously? From the intitial report issued yesterday;
"The study was confined to people under age 60 since baby boomers were the most likely age group to have long-term exposure to marijuana"
Hmmm. Only 611 from how many millions of users? And, only under age 60? When I tried it back in the day, the majority using it were at least a few years older than me and I'm approaching 58 now. Could there be a reason they neglected to study those exposed longer?
"The results should not be taken as a blank check to smoke pot, which has been associated with problems like cognitive impairment and chronic bronchitis, said Dr. John Hansen-Flaschen, chief of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia."
Seems it isn't as harmless as potheads wish to think.
"Hansen-Flaschen also cautioned a cancer-marijuana link could emerge as baby boomers age and there may be smaller population groups, based on genetics or other factors, still at risk for marijuana-related cancers."
Oh? Are they worried about when aging Baby Boomers pass 60? They couldn't study them now?
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters05-23-183641.asp?t=renew&vts=52320061923
Now that's a relief, err, I mean, that would be a relief to some who may have tried it once or maybe three times.
"The researchers interviewed 611 lung cancer patients and 1,040 healthy controls as well as 601 patients with cancer in the head or neck region under the age of 60 to create the statistical analysis. They found that 80 percent of those with lung cancer and 70 percent of those with other cancers had smoked tobacco while only roughly half of both groups had smoked marijuana."
Apparently the researchers doing this study smoked dope while doing it.
The paragraph above is missing an important datum. What percentage of the control group smoked cigarettes vs. dope. I would venture to guess that there were a lot more that had smoked tobacco than dope, probably more than 8 to 5!
The same is true in France where they smoke stronger tobacco and mostly unfiltered cigarettes.
That people get cancer.
There's been a similar idea to that one regarding radiation (ie radiation is bad for you, yet because it kills aging/weaker cells, you sometimes get good effects). I dunno, I don't know much about it, but can't say i really buy into it.
70% smoked tobacco and 50% dope. But the dope is not correlated?
The entire article is very misleading.
If true it actually says more about the cause of tobacco promoting cancer in that the cause is obviously not known.
If this bears out it is a ajor finding in that it would indicate that they are wrong about what in tobacco causes cancer and the differences between dope smoke and tobacco can be used to perhaps find out what the actual causative agent is.
For example, there could be asbestos in tobacco but not dope.
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