Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer

[Bill]

So, I guess those two studies last year, and the other studies in previous years, that found that grass had a protective effect on lung cancer, were just horrible hippie propaganda then.

Will those filthy medical hippies never give up?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...501729_pf.html

http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/new...ht-lung-tumors

http://www.webmd.com/news/20000508/m...o-cause-cancer

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html

Dirty medical hippies, daring to release studies that don't claim grass causes cancer - haven't they read this 20 year old much debunked propaganda? Why do they hate america?

[hashbury]

Originally Posted by Bill

So, I guess those two studies last year, and the other studies in previous years, that found that grass had a protective effect on lung cancer, were just horrible hippie propaganda then.

Will those filthy medical hippies never give up?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...501729_pf.html

http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/new...ht-lung-tumors

http://www.webmd.com/news/20000508/m...o-cause-cancer

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html

Dirty medical hippies, daring to release studies that don't claim grass causes cancer - haven't they read this 20 year old much debunked propaganda? Why do they hate america?

I saw one of those articles in high times.

[dunc]

I suppose it depends how big you wrap 'em

[Bill]

I did want to add, I thought you were referring to the old studies, I didn't realize you were referring to this new one.

The new study still has to explain why the epidemiologists and pulmanologists just released a series of large studies that showed that cannabis had the effect of reducing lung cancers.

Here's an example of the older articles - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/141891.stm

these kinds of claims have been contradicted by several large studies, one released in 2006, the other in 2007.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...7F0000&ref=rss

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2696726.shtml

This new study will get peer reviewed and repeated - I'm sure the governments will fund repeat tests - so we'll see if they come up with an explanation for the different results.

This new NZ study was done with roughly 300 people, the studies above are described as large, one was done with about 2500 people, the other I thought was even more.

[FanTC]

I vote double diddly dog bullshit too.
I'm living proof of it. I smoke a minimum of a pack and a half to 2 packs of cigs a day and since Katrina, a minimum of 5 3.5 to 4 gram joints a day.

I use a rolling machine so I don't roll those pregnant hooters that are quarter inch of paper on each end and a gram or 2 of reefer in the middle.
According to that, I'm smoking bout the equiv of a carton of cigs of cancer a day.

Pre 2005, I smoked cigs about the same rate and prolly a minimum of 2 joints a day. Shouldn't I have died sometime in the early 90's?

Sometimes you wanna get higher
And sometimes you gotta start low
Some people think they gonna die someday
I got news ya never got to go
~Ted Nugent