Kenny_Powers Wrote:
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> > Dwight. Wrote:
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> > > Whats crazy is that legal tobacco kills over
> > > 440,000 Americans a year and illegal
> marijuana
> > > kills 0 Americans a year. Good job government
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> > > protecting your citizens!
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> > June 19, 2009 - Calif regulators find pot smoke
> > causes cancer
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
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> even if carcinogines have been found, there are
> still 0 recorded deaths from pot use. Smoking and
> alcohol kill about 500,000 a year ... pot has
> killed zero, ill stick with those odds.
It is the smoke that causes cancer. Neither Nicotine or THC cause cancer. The burning of the oils and fibers of the plant is what causes cancer. The irritant of the smoke on the lungs is what causes cancer. Hell, overcooking a steak or cooking with oil at too high a temperature creates carcinogens. Diesel engines spew carcinogens that cause more lung cancer than smoking and asbestos combined. Nobody is considering banning diesel buses, french fries and well-done hamburgers.
Eating Marijuana or using a vaporizer probably eliminates most or all of the carcinogenic properties/effects.
Marijuana is still safer than Nicotine in that there is a realistically achievable LD50 for nicotine, but it would be absolutely impossible to ingest the LD50 amount of THC.
(which is why it is alway funny to hear people say "marijuana is more dangerous now than in the 60's because it has a higher concentration of THC" as a way of scaring boomer parents into being afraid that their kids are in danger, because even with 10% THC, versus the 3-5% of the mexican shit they smoked back then, it would still be impossible to overdose on today's "stronger" marijuana.)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2009 01:26AM by Thurston Moore.