Smoking Pot prevents certain types of Cancer?
 

Medical Marijuana is legal in California because it manages the pain of chemotherapy and the painful aftereffects of certain therapies. But what if smoking herb actually cuts down the risk of GETTING CANCER? http://www.reuters.com/article/healt...57O5DC20090825

In a study, researchers have found that long-term pot smokers were roughly 62 percent less likely to develop head and neck cancers than people who did not smoke pot.

If this is true, then Rastafarians have really low rates of head and neck cancers? :helpme:winkwink:

you also wont get skin cancer, cause youre too stoned to go outside...

LMAO.. So true..

:thumbsup

If you want to see a great documentary on marijuana check this one out...

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

... probably THE best documentary I have ever seen on the subject.

And while we talk about benefits let us not forget hemp... that stuff that is ridiculously illegal to grow when it has the ability to feed us, clothe us, and used for fuel.

:2 cents:

tree of life

Another good reason to twist one up

I rarely twist anymore:

:1orglaugh

While we're at it:

Do those things generate less odor or about the same? And are they better on the lungs as far as smoke goes?

Heard of them, just never did any research.

marijuana has cancer cells in it and it goes to your brain and then the thc kills it , weird but thats what i learnt in drug treatment.

It really shouldn't matter what it cures or "helps"

The bottom line is that if a FREE man wants to get high...it shouldn't be anybody else's goddamn business. Much less a fucking law.

I think people are getting too hung up on the medical implications (because it seems to be working with the stupid govt) and we should all question what authority the govt. has to keep running our lives and telling full grown men and women what they can and can't do.

They are supposed to work for US.
lol

Having said all that and going back to the thread starters premise...smoking pot sure didn't help Bob Marley. :(

I have a vaporizer....I even made a thread about it after I bought it....But gotdamn if it doesn't take all kinds of steps just to take a puff....

I don't want to plug the shit in and have it heat up just so I can suck hard and not have my lungs feel full...It's cool if you need to get high and can't have smoke in your room....But I'd rather just use my glass spoon pipe and a lighter, take a puff, and blow it out the window.....

I'm about to take a puff in a few minutes before I go to bed....The pipe still has herb in it from earlier...I would HATE to set up the vaporizer just for a pre-bedtime puff.

I have a vaporfection that I haven't used in like 4 years, (I quit smoking weed). It's a glass on glass top of the line vap, (glass heater, glass pieces) it takes 2 minutes to heat up and you can turn up the heat a little higher to produce a hookah type thin smoke mixed with vapors.

If I still smoked weed I wouldn't use anything else, it cost me $500 though. You can buy mine though! :thumbsup

Oh and as for weed preventing certain cancers, I wouldn't be looking for benefits from burning and inhaling smoke that contains over 300 chemicals.

If you enjoy getting high, then whatever, but I'm kinda of tired of hearing it's "healthy". :1orglaugh

less odor and absolutely better on the lungs, and if you are a heavy smoker it will make you cough up black tar when you vaporize. medically approved.

this was the best documentary i feel, of course best is very subjective.
american drug war.

yes let us not forget about hemp. the biggest fuckup by the dea to date and what is funny is that it is the very tool they needed to destroy the marijuana production in the us. like always though such groups get blinded by their faith and look past the powers of what they prevent, take .xxx for instance. it would start the destruction of adult but the christian right is against it and is the biggest fighter against it too.
if the dea would of allowed widescale farming of hemp, which they keep illegal because it makes the cops job harder spotting marijuana it would of started the plants destruction. growers of marijuana would be up shit creek unless they moved all opperations indoors and filtered all air entering the building down to the size of pollens. the hemp plant can breed with the marijuana plant and would just make the pot weaker and weaker. strains would die off and most pot would go back to low grade mexican unless you would of had the indoor hookup guy. though most indoor started fairly recently, they could of allowed hemp dating bacj a decade or more.

Dont smoke alot of weed, but I know 2 or 3 blue xanax and I am not worried about cancer or a hurrricane bearing down on my pad :)

I'll be there in a few days. How much and is all the residue off so I can fly it home? :pimp

Sounds like somebody is gonna have a good time.

That's how come I don't have no cancers. :upsidedow

Well I won't sell you the whip, so there will be no residue.

Just buy a new whip

http://www.vaporfection.com/zencart/...409185b4dce56f

There's nothing like a bag-ful of vaporized bud smoke.

http://kayden420.com/images/bongrip.jpg

Well ... cancer is the result of stress. And weed sure is relaxing. Although, smoking causes lung cancer, so it's best to eat the magic brownies.

I concurr. Also watch the documentary 'run from the cure' about how THC can be used to cure cancer and other conditions and diseases.

i suggest you watch the latest episode of bullshit. it covers your magical stress.
oh ya and you saying that is one of the most asinine things i have read around here yet, cancer is not the result of stress. weed also is not always a stress reliever, for many they have not so good effects from it like any other drug. this includes paranoia as well as panic attacks.
studies have also shown that smoking it technically has its harmful effects reduced by the same properties that have been shown to fight cancers. baking it is not the most effective way to consume it either. you are only getting select canaboids when you make a pot butter to cook with. full on studies have not been done either on the health aspects of the many consumables of which brownies are just one. your surefire way to get the most out of it is to reduce the weed to a fine pulp or powder and then produce a tincture out of it. you may then strain and use or strain and allow the alcohol to mostly or entirely evaporate. you can also speed up process in a mini still.

High!

420

Man this is soooo old news!

everything that seems to be good comes with a new bad thing.
smoking weed might prevent cancer, but it also prevents you from having a life ( in some cases ) ... so i don't know whats worse, thinking you live a life and being goddamn high all the time, or leading a live and facing things with a clear mind. Even when you do smoke and get cancer, what you say " ohh will work on that tomorrow gota get high first ? "

Getting high is not illegal.. Possessing the drug is..

The problem with it is responsibility. Tooo many people get high and do stupid shit.

hold on a minute..I have to prevent cancer. lol.

I don't really know anyone that gets high and does stupid shit... at least, not if we're just talking about weed...

I see FAR more people do stupid shit when drunk... FAR FAR FAR more people.

NICE ILLADELPH! Theres only one shop in NJ that sells them! Ill snap some pics of my glass after i clean it up i have a nice little collection, and a few DE roor's before they stopped coming to the US.

there u have it, i think this would be the best way to intake the thc , if u have alot of money this may be the way to go. i have never done this b4 but i am sure u would lose alot of the thc when u do it this way

Well, there aren't many stoners and potheads I can stand to put up with. But I don't see a reason in the world for it to be any more illegal than alcohol. Alcohol is the most effective medication and most deadly poison I've ever enjoyed. I tried being high two or three times. I tried the best in the world one time. It all makes me very scared and mad. When I'm scared and mad I'm looking for blood, like any animal. Needless to say I don't become high. Because I don't like it.

I don't know how in all hell weed smoke would be any better on your lungs than tobacco smoke. Only thing I see is that they don't generally put weed through the horrible process they do with tobacco. Still, burning something is burning something. The combustion process creates all sorts of carcinogens. Even eating burned food for a long time can give you stomach cancer. I remember reading that pot smoke has alot of tar. That tar in tobacco smoke paints the lungs and builds up in there. It destroys your lungs. Causes cancer to develop. It make some kind of squamous sell and then one day one happens to break loose and BLAM you have lung cancer.

Use the vaporizer... why don't they have a small portable one, yet?
They have the e-cig for nicotine addicts..
A nicotine vaporizer.. e-cig.com

Weed illegal, alcohol legal.. doesn't really make sense. The only reason I can figure is that the government can't afford THAT many of us being unproductive losers. If weed came from a corner store, 75% of the country would be fat lazy good for nothing... wait.. we're already there.. If weed came from the corner store, 90% of the country would be fat lazy good for nothing losers.. and while the government can pander to most of them with entitlements, SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING..

I guess that the government figures it this way... alcohol causes alot more hell and death, but more alcoholics are functioning in society, so it is okay.. plus they've figured out ways to profit from all of the suffering..... weed they figure has to be controlled??
I'm not sure.

Well I have a theory about marijuana users being "lazy"...

Consuming alcohol is legal. You can go to a bar, hang out with friends, and be publicly visible. When you smoke marijuana you are pretty much forced to stay in the house... People that do things around the house that are productive hold the same amount of productivity... e.g. artists, musicians, designers... They can all continue about their normal routine while being high. However if you aren't one of the aforementioned you're stuck doing "lazy" things.

In addition to that the culture that surrounds it also supports the laziness. When people smoke weed they're used to hanging out around the house, watching movies, playing video games, etc... whereas people that drink are you usually out and about with friends, partying, eating dinner, whatever...

If you were to take only drinkers who drink at home and compare them to marijuana smokers you would probably find the same laziness apparent in both types of people...

Check out the documentary by Rick Simpson

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw

True i guess... :1orglaugh

yea right

Believe it!

In addition there are also quite a few tests that have proven it to be effective against brain cancer as well. THC will destroy cancerous cells while leaving every other healthy cell in tact. Don't believe all the propaganda that the government has fed you. Go read some medical documents from actual scientists and doctors... Fight ignorance!

:thumbsup:thumbsup His hemp oil makes more sense to me than just smoking it.

Helps with my stomach issues.

My dental Hygienists sister used this when she was diagnosed with 2 weeks to live just before her 18th birthday. She was sent home to die. A month later Sick Kids couldn't find any leukemia in her body and she is alive to see many more birthdays.

Watch the whole video on Google its about 50 minutes long
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...06790306000271

Or watch it in parts on Your Tube
Run For the Cure


CRUSH CANCER WITH HEMP AND TRUTH


CTV NEWS


Dalhousie University, November 3

Yes they are supposed to be more healthy for your lungs...

Vapor, no smoke.... no tar in the vapor...

All the thc (especially the part destroyed in flame) none of the horrible butane and bad biproducts of reefer...

I'm high just by looking at this thread...

LOLz :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Sounds like somebody needs to smoke a joint and relax.

another great reason to keep smoking!!!

I'm a weed smoker so you know that I WANT this to be true....However, Bob Marley smoked like a chimney and died of cancer in his 30's.....

Bruce Lee was healthy as a horse and took all kinds of supplements including bee pollen....He died of cancer in his 30's...

So you never know.

I don't think bruce lee died of cancer.