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

[Bobc01]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

naa i dont believe that, if so then at least 60% of the dutch community should have bin ill of cancer. Most of my friends who use that stuff mix it with the normal tabocco thing, for the record i dont smoke weed myself, but most of my friends and fam do (hell even some grow that stuff themself), about the lung cancer thing, some weeks ago a message came here in the news that more and more non smokers get lung cancer and not because other people smoke and they have to live in the the smokey area , no they get it because of the bad air outside, all the smoke and dirt they get in their lungs from cars and the fabriks (if i say that right) and here we get back on the facted of something mentioned years ago, its not the smoking......

I think that aswell, with all the shit in the air it's more likely to kill you than smoking weed.

Anything can cause cancer, too much sun, too little sun, too much of this, too little of that, it goes on and on.

If they spent more time trying to cure cancer than telling us what can cause it, maybe they'd have a cure by now.

[RedCherry]

I've had both parents die with lung cancer, and neither smoked pot. One had the kind from asbestos exposure (my dad) and my mom had regular old lung cancer...that after she quit smoking in the 70s and she was a light-weight when she did smoke. Not sure if the 2nd hand smoke got her, the times she did smoke, the fact she worked in the printing industry for 10 years...all I know was it wasn't pot that did it.

I too used to smoke pot, quit in 89. Living in Hawaii for 18 years, it is hard not to smoke some, lol. That shit was so strong though I was one hit and gone for hours so never smoked very much.

I knew a LOT of people over there however that never had lung cancer that smoked a HELL of a lot of pot daily. I tend to believe the studies that show it has a helpful effect against getting cancer.