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If Smoking Marijuana Is Harmful, Why Doesn’t It Cause Cancer?

Joe | Dec 29, 2011 | Comments 9

Earlier this year we devoted an entire issue of The 420 Times magazine to the emerging research linking cannabis to anti-cancer effects in people. What is already known is quite stunning – as evidenced by those articles and the video below – and there is yet more to be discovered.

While it’s true that smoking marijuana produces harmful carcinogens and carries them into your lungs, there has been no link found between smoking marijuana and lung cancer. Have you ever wondered why that is?

This video tells you exactly why in great detail.

- Joe Klare

And be sure to check out our Open Letter on Behalf of 30 Million Cannabis Users and join us in our fight!

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  • sanyars

    I just saw a scientific study program that showed a pot smoker who has used cannabis for 40 years now has only 85% of his total lung capacity now. The introduction of harmful carcinogens through pot smoking is quite real. He is at increased risk of lung cancer. That is a fact.

  • Goofstr

    There can be no doubt, that if it did cause lung cancer, that they would be shouting with joy. This is one of the key arguements about cannabis they have spent a lot money trying to prove, but they can’t. I smoked cigarettes and cannabis for over 40 years. I stoped cigarettes 6 years ago and still smoke(vaporize) cannabis every day.I have many physical ailments that require me to go the doctor often. I also had TB as a child. All of my doctor’s give my lungs a good listen to and chest xrays. My lung’s have never been in better health.

    As far as someone with only 85% lung capacity, things like work conditions, city and the many other factors, that weren’t mentioned.

    The biggest problem with all of this, is the fact that the DEA and NIDA only support finding things that are bad about cannabis. The problem with this agenda, is it has put us decades behind in any truly appropriate scientific studies.

  • mjjoan

    sanyars, that is only one person and you can’t determine for a whole group what one person’s reaction is. you don’t know if there are other factors involved , did he smoke cigs?or do other drugs, smoke crack or opium? Did he have weak lungs due to pneumonia or some other ailment?was he a couch potato who got no exercise? did he work in an environment that was harmful to his lungs, did he live in a large city with lots of pollution? I have smoked MJ for 40 years also ,I just had a chest xray yesterday and it is free and clear. I get out and walk a mile everyday with no problems. What about the risk of lung damage to the legal cigarettes? I have lost three people I love ( father, husband and son) to cigarettes. but yet they are considered ok and redily available.

  • sanyars

    Yes I hear both of you loud and clear. The research and data is not conclusive at this time. That is not to say that MJ does NOT cause cancer, it’s just that no definitive link has been established. More research needs to be done and clearly there are many other possible contributing factors. Here is some data on this that I found…

    What About Cancer?
    Although one study found that marijuana smokers were three times more likely to develop cancer of the head or neck than non-smokers, that study could not be confirmed by further analysis.
    Because marijuana smoke contains three times the amount of tar found in tobacco smoke and 50 percent more carcinogens, it would seem logical to deduce that there is an increased risk of lung cancer for marijuana smokers. However, researchers have not been able to definitively prove such a link because their studies have not been able to adjust for tobacco smoking and other factors that might also increase the risk.

    Studies linking marijuana smoking to lung cancer have also been limited by selection bias and small sample size. For example, the participants in those studies may have been too young to have developed lung cancer yet. Even though researchers have yet to “prove” a link between smoking pot and lung cancer, regular smokers may want to consider the risk.

  • Charles Queen

    The best thing to do is to use the vaporisers.It eliminates any smoke at all and therefore no lung problms at all

  • Goofstr

    Please! Please! Please!

    Everyone needs to read “The Pot Book”

    They believe that one of the things that make cannabis anti-cancer, is that it allows the dead cells that form in cancer to be released. Cancer cells don’t know to stop reproducing when they “bump” into other cells, as normal cells do. It’s these cells that die and start to form the “lumps” that we reconize as cancer. With cannabis allowing the dead cells to break free, the cancer is essentaly eliminating the lumps.

    Again, please read about this yourselves and please correct me if I’m wrong.

  • letitbeknown840

    MJ helps me with my Asperghers syndrome(mild), insomnia(mild), and social anxiety(moderate-severe). If used properly it can also help with suicidal tendencies.

  • Jim Geesman

    My daily use of cannabis and the absence of any recurrance of my glioblastoma multiforme are enough evidence for me that this weed has some anticancer properties. Legalize it and start doing some serious research. I’ve exceeded the sixteen month median life expectancy given to my brain cancer diagnosis by 56 months. I think I’ll keep smoking it.

  • vjiced

    ( sanyars says:
    December 29, 2011 at 3:47 pm
    I just saw a scientific study program that showed a pot smoker who has used cannabis for 40 years now has only 85% of his total lung capacity now. The introduction of harmful carcinogens through pot smoking is quite real. He is at increased risk of lung cancer. That is a fact.)
    THATS BECAUSE HE DIDNT SMOKE ORGANICS
    OR VEGANICS
    DONT SMOKE 202020
    SMOKE ORGANIC

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