Marijuana Does NOT Cause Lung Cancer

solar powered, of course.

haha, the doctor is a pulmonary researcher at UCLA Medical Centre .. one on the best in the world, & you complain about other "major" medical groups? loL, do you do ANY medical journal readings at all??

research done 3 yrs ago saying tobacco causes lung cancer & kills over half a million lives a year is still valid research. the same goes with marijuana research with people that do studies on the scientific facts rather than outside lobbyists who do things for the money factor.

You misunderstand my statement. If the research was done 3 years ago Why is it still unknown? In science there is a process called peer review. When a scientist does research he publishes in a peer review journal and all kinds of other scientists go check his work and see if they can replicate it. Marijuana not causing cancer is big news. Very big news. This means that either:
(A) it was big news 3 years ago and everyone forgot or just missed it (unlikely but still barely possible)
(B) The research could not be or has not yet been replicated or some other flaw was found and it never made it into the mainstream
(C) it took 3 years to replicate the research, in which case there would be an article on it in a science (rather than pot) magazine newer than 3 years old.

actually, I believe the doctor stated the research was done of a couple of DECADES.

I know I read about this study more than 7 years ago seeing as it was while my exwife was pregnant with our youngest who is going to be 7 in September. I remember due to the long drawn out discussion she and I had with a few friends of ours that night.

I'm sure he's been studying it that long. That's how it works. It hasn't been one long 20 year experiment though. you start with and idea, look into it, maybe change it a couple of times, fiddle around with stuff, maybe learn something interesting, explore that venue, get blocked, try another, etc.. Eventually you either run across something really interesting or manage to make something work. Then you publish that. The only thing they test is the end product. That usually doesn't take that long in biology, though it can. Sometimes that test can be more involved than the original research, like with the hadron supercollider

If I remember this right though he was playing with guinea pigs which means unless he's doing generational studies it can't take that long. Guinea pigs only live maybe 5 years.

sorry about the typo..i think fast and i write fast..(i know most liberals are good in reading and writting, now try COMPREHENSION)

try smoking weed and going to work for a living,

( you know that thing one does to earn some money so they would NOT BURDEN the rest of us by using welfare programs of course not unless its a lucrative thing to do these days is to sit idle somewhere staring at each other)..

notice it does not mix to well?

marijuana renders the user INCAPABLE OF making sound judgements and decisions..IT MAKES THEM DEPENDENT..it makes them the 'cheech and chong' of society..YOU CAN SMOKE ALL YOU WANT as long as you know when to stop..kapish??

"marijuana renders the user INCAPABLE OF making sound judgements and decisions"

Quite possibly the SILLIEST thing I've ever heard!

Try smoking pot and working...um yeah been there do that. I've had a job since I was 13, and I've kept my current employer for over 4 years now. Moved out when I was 17, Graduated with 4.4 (AP CLASSES) I really don't know what all the fuss is about, it's harmless.
I know people who are straight sober and can't make shit happen, like my parents. If anything Smoking Cannabis has improved my life. Legal or not I fully intend on keeping it a part of my life.

Potential Liberal Stool Softeners?

liberal bashing FAIL

Being cool kid FAIL

maybe if you had some SCIENTIFIC PROOF that marijuana turns you liberal people would take u seriously, barbarian man (godsnliberals - thats you).

but theres not any so youre just blabbering ignorantly and making generalizations.

alchohol causes people to lose thier judgement... its very legal. So does codene and doctors perscribe it and its legal. It doesnt seem fair to say that for marijuana and neglect that fact about alchohol.

A lot of things can cause a person to be of the liberal persuasion... should things like COLLEGE and BOOKS be illegal?

Panzer_Tanzer TROLL

Randall Cunningham BUTTHURT

get used to it..you would be always be looking up with your hand out with that weed obsession.

grow up!

Panzer, you're a jerk.

Why do you enjoy pestering people?

And why are you making fun of my name?

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I'm not retarded.

Alot of marijuana smokers are aslo successful more successful than you.

Is that your excuse?

If you can’t use pot constructively than that is your problem.

I am a senior business student and nothing works better for relieving stress, lowering social anxiety and generally having a good time.

If it doesn’t work for you than that is fine. However, do not generalize every successful person to ever smoke pot. That list includes people who are a lot smarter and more successful than you.

Successful pot heads= Not as successful as me

My excuse= Correct excuse

Senior Business Student= Pot head with no job

pretty arrogant use of the = sign

here's my version

Panzer_Tanzler = cannabis prohibitionist
cannabis prohibitionist = idiot

Successful troll = Successful

I have a job on top of being a full time student. I have worked internships at fortune 500 financial institutions. You don’t know anything about me or how hard I have to work. Fuck you panzy tanzler

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Working at your local community college's snack bar does not qualify it as a fortune 500 company.

Is there anything you can’t solve by making ignorant generalizations?

Can you formulate an argument that isn't based around you trying to prove stoners are reasonable?

Some of those "stoners" include Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Have you accomplished a fraction of what any of these men have?

Have you? It wouldn't matter anyway, as all of those dudes suck, why would anyone look up to them?

I never said I did, but you did apparently, just read your post above

“Successful pot heads= Not as successful as me”

I’m done with this, good day sir

TROLL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLARGH!!!!!! *Showing off awesome muscles*

Panzer, why the d-bag attitude?

Everything on here seems to be marijuana/marijuana legalization/police brutality/ anti- Fox News related. If you stand for it whatever, but don't come at me with "fuck you bro"s when I call you guys stoners, when this is the only thing you put your time and effort into (not YOU per se, bet everyone who keeps asking for legalization when they know it hasn't happened yet, and is nowhere near being legal). I've seen at least 30+ articles entitled (kinda) "So Legalized, Brace Yourselves for Bong Frenzy", only for it to be a three page rant on how some governor in butthole nowhere vetoed that shit and people still can't smoke it.
Until something worth value is posted, I'll probably keep blasting stoners.

Cigarettes cause retardation too.

I'm sure you can find a pretty consistent correlation between any drug and retardation.

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Facepalm.... and yes, pretty much everything makes retards.

You're right about one thing, Panzer, we are a longer way from Marijuana legalization than some would like to think. But I'd like to point out a few things:

Pot doesn't "make" retards, and while I'm sure you didn't mean retard in the literal sense of the term I work with the developmentally disabled so I just gotta tell ya, that's a crazy thing to say (and insensitive. If you care.)

There is no reason to blast stoners just because pot isn't legal and there is no reason to stereotype people who smoke pot as lazy, stupid, or any other generalizations you may have. Many, MANY people from all walks of life, job titles and social circles smoke marijuana; whether or not that qualifies them as a "stoner" in your mind is yet to be seen, but the classic stereotype of the pot smoker is way off base. Also, "some governor in butthole nowhere vetoed that shit and people still can't smoke it."- Oh, we can still smoke it alright, don't you worry about that. It's just not legal :)

There are a number of reasons to legalize marijuana that range from medicinal purposes to money made from taxes to the variety of uses for hemp. If you'd like to make an argument against stoners and weed, at least come prepared with some actual information; baseless personal attacks and nonsense make other users think you have no clue what you are talking about.

Bow howdy, that Gary Busey face is freaky!

I disagree with you, Panzer. While all of the things that you mentioned are news, I see no reason why marijuana related things shouldn't be considered news as well. Marijuana is a serious issue in the world today- people like you might think it's all stoners who want to get high, and if you are ignorant on this subject, fine. But many of us here on Current are not, and we are educated about the issues surrounding Marijuana legalization. Plus, this post is also about lung cancer, and I consider medical considerations news worthy.

I also disagree with your assessment that the thread has been turned to shit- as you see, all of these comments are neatly packaged underneath your original inaccurate comment, and the only person who ends up looking like they are posting garbage...is you!

This is why trolls will never really win. And if you think I'm the type of person who gets fed up and stops arguing, you don't know me very well, do you? ;)

The weird thing about me is even tho Fox news does make me mad, I still watch it. I like to watch a little of all the news channels to get a well rounded view, even if watching Hannity ends up with me arguing with the television. I must be a media masochist.

Those two things have nothing to do with one another it's like saying car accidents can't kill people because ambulances exist.

Ha ha. You said "bluntly"

And there it is.. Good find! thanks :)

The next step I guess is to find out which cannaboids bind, which cells have CB2 receptors, (could be all of them) and what it does exactly to make the cells stop growing.

This sounds a lot like a major research breakthrough for cancer. Still doesn't necessarily mean that smoking pot doesn't cause lung cancer since there's also a ton of ta in it, but it might mitigate. assuming the correct cannaboid (there's probably only one that does this, that's how it usually works) can actually enter the blood stream from smoke and attach correctly after someone sets it on fire.

This research sounds like it's worth watching though