Posted on 02/25/2014 10:51:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
I'm curious about this. Since most people in Colorado now are purchasing edibles or using vapes and inhaling the vapor (no smoke), what is the link with lung cancer?
Why not? If only a couple people in the world have died from marijuana use in the last decade+ it proves the drug is relatively safe, doesn't it?
cue captain obvioius.
DWI/DUI murders go up.
stoners kill
stoners kill themselves.
they said nothing will happen...
nothing is what they became.
If researchers have to search that much, for that long, and this is all they come up with (which, even then, is dubious at best) I think they’re unwittingly making the other side’s argument.
If anything, I would have expected lung cancer rates to be higher, instead of looking for evidence of arrhythmia.
It has to do with inhalation. When you inhale a toxic substance, it will kill the delicate cilia that waft particulates up and out of your lungs. The epithelial cells that line your lungs (and your alimentary tract) are secretory. The cilia are on the edges of these cells. When the cilia die, the secretory cells are no longer protected and can begin a process called metaplasia, where they start transitioning into protective epithelial cells ( like your epidermis). But protective epithelial cells don’t belong in your lungs. This protective layer can begin to multiply at random and that can begin the cancerous process. BTW, I work in cancer detection.
I've know a couple people to this day who have smoked pot all their lives and they have had no physical problems. The problem with pot is it diminishes a persons' will, ambition, and self-concern. I experienced the above while experimenting with it in the late 60's and noticed how complacent I had become. Stopped using it and went on to great success!
Besides, it truly is a "gateway" drug. Watched SO many progress to harder drugs. Weak willed people will always move on to something else that makes them feel better, much like alcohol.
FMCDH(BITS)
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