...and to think there are those who say this stuff will...um...that uh...what I mean is that, umm...what was I saying?

Ah, read the article.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/26...481.DTL&type=science

I'll see y'all for another hundred years or so...

"The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer."

good to know, thanks black

"The heaviest marijuana smokers had lit up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied."

NOTE: smoking one joint a day for 30 years = 10950 joints

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...NOTE: smoking one joint a day for 30 years = 10950 joints

Pshaw, Lightweights...

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Originally posted by WebMonkey:
"The heaviest marijuana smokers had lit up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied."

I wonder if tobacco would have the same statistics if it hadn't been loaded down with additives and shit for all these years by "big tobacco"

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I wonder if tobacco would have the same statistics if it hadn't been loaded down with additives and shit for all these years by "big tobacco"

Or maybe it just needs MORE harmful additives. Here's the real meat of the article:

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Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

The day may come when tobacco execs explain their heroic pro-health strategy as "We had to destroy the lung to save it."

To use an analogy: if we would adopt the Logan's Run society, and kill everyone when they turn 30, then we don't ever have to worry about the next Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot coming along. He'll be killed before he makes too much trouble, thus saving us all from murderous atrocities.

Don't think about it too hard. :-)

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I find of more interesting uh.... topical subject... uh, oh, damn. What do you call it. Ah, fuck it. Read more... Damn, I just had it. Oh, here it is. What? AAAAH!!!! GET THESE ANTS OFF ME!!! AAAAAAAH!!!!!