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Tashkin's study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.

They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted 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."
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yeaaah its mee every1 i wrote it and hopefully it will knock some sense into all the people on this site that are agenst smoking
"yah i got busted for stealing a bottle of liquor from the liquor store and now the court wants mee drug tested...i love to smoke weed alot but now i cant because weed stays in your system for a month..but liquor only stays in your system for 24 hours so all there doing is obligating me to drink more! (every night i must always get f***ed up some how) but now i cant drink because there gonna start coming to my house with a breathalizer now i cant have fun and my whole life is all screwed up because of this."

Andy, your own words have come back to haunt you on this one.

I'm not necessarily against recreational drug use, but irresponsible drug use represents a huge social problem. And while it's true that weed isn't as dangerous many people seem to think, it's still a mind-altering substance that puts people like you at risk for acting out in ways that are harmful to youself and others.

If you seriously believe that your "whole life is all screwed up" when you can't use, you are very likely an addict. And having been there myself for many years, I can guarantee you that NOTHING good comes of it.
dude i take drugs (not weed, that shit rly fucks ur head) but using a study like this to prove your shit is a joke.

Studies like this come out all the time. Never ever listen to these stupid once off things they are all just manipulated experiments to give results the author wants.

You hear on the radio one week eating soy gives u cancer then the next that it cures cancer. Its a fucking joke.
I wouldn't say weed was adictive at all. Smoking may be but adding weed to it makes no difference whatsoever in my oppinion. Yes, I smoked weed for years quite regularly but had no ill effects when I wasn't smoking it.
I have recently given up smoking full stop and again, no ill effects, withdrawal symptoms or wat ever. 3 Months down the road and I don't want one.
What weed does do, and no one has yet mentioned it, is mess your brain cells (litterally) up. It is not a good thing to smoke. However, I wouldn't try to stop anyone smoking it because there is less problems caused by weed smokers than those who abuse acohol. The damage is not as obvious either except you tend to lose your ability to remember things short term after a while.
who said anything about less addictive?
WEED SHOULDN'T BE ILLEGEL
Sorry, Uni. My funky lovin' would likely kill you. I wouldn't mind having that on my conscience, but I also wouldn't like cleaning up the mess.
I genuinely feel sorry for people who really could benefit from medicinal marijuana, such as cancer patients. The laws in the U.S. are incredibly fucked up. In California, it's supposed to be legal with a doctor's prescription. But the feds don't seem to agree, so the doctors and patients get busted all the time. Very sad.
ok i just dont get it. the whole i'm in pain and i need to smoke weed thing. Maybe if people would stop eating mcdonalds so much,and smoking they wouldn't get cancer,or pass the bad genes to their kids.Now yes i know some people get cancer from natural causes,but honestly if a person has lung cancer,and they smoke marijuana; that's just about the equivalent as a person binge drinking,and having liver disease. If they let people smoke weed in hospitals, and give them a 'legal' prescription for marijuana then they will eventually legalize marijuana ,and everyone will become zombified,sluggish slobs.

-dirt dobbler
i dont blame anyone for calling me an idiot (for stealing the bottle of liquor)(see 2ant comment of page) it was a long time ago but i just recently went to court for it..back then i didnt realize the conciquences and i thought i could do whatever i wanted, and nobody could f**k with me....ill admit i did steal liquor many times before, i was scared the first time but then it became a habit...i even stole video games and movies that just came out from wal-mart but now that i got caught i realize i would give back everything i ever stole just to get the law off my back. and if i see one of my friends doing anything to get themselves into trouble, ill try too talk them out of it, and if that dosent work ill just walk away and have nothing to do with them...im not going to have any more regrets
Hey, Andy. We all make mistakes. Mine own list of misdeeds would probably make yours look pretty insignificant in comparison. But I'm glad to see you owning up to them. It's an important first step -- good luck to you.
@: JanIAm
yeah thanks alot :)
As a pharmacy grad, and x weed smoker i can tell u that most drugs are less detrimental to the brain (with the exclusion of crack ice and a few other stimulants). This is partly due to the frequency at which weed users use, compared with other drugs such as extacy. Whilst frequent extacy use is considered once a week/fortnight, constant marijuana use is more like 10x times a day. Also I dont mean to be rude or anything, but u represent what happens if you use marijuana for an extended period.

KIDS, DONT USE POT OR YOU WILL END UP A 30 YEAR OLD ARGUING WITH 13 YEAR OLDS ON A STUPID WEBSITE.
also your bullshit studies about marijuana smoke coating cancer cells are a fucking joke. They were obviously written by some jacked up hippi scientist trying to get recognition. AS for removal of chemicals from soil. There are a lot of genetically engineered plants that are designed to rip these chemicals out of the ground then die. They do a much better job than some fucking weed plants. Fucking hippis that try to spread bullshit like this make me sick. Like the fucking hemp and paper one. sure you can make a shitload more paper with hemp than you can with woodchips, but this is the case with heaps of other fucking plants.

Hippis piss me off
your a douchebag
You still a druggy then I see!
You just advertised it, so your short term memmory is not affected no? I think that I could argue otherwise!
Also, im fresh to this site under this new name, is this the real chris UFC that always use to bif on with stargirl? if not wateva happened to that cracker?
you obliviously never talked to a crack head and saw how messed up thir brains are, i live in a town full of crackheads and heroin addicts and i see what it does to people..you oviously dont know wat the fuck u r talking about. weed does not do all that shit to you
and i doubt he is a pharmacy grad
did you spastics even read wat i wrote??

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also you are fucking ignorant if you believe that weed has no harmful effects. Go to the psyc ward in a hospital. I think you will find it enlightening.

Read the real stats, or i can give them to you. At any one time we probably have three to four poeple in the hospital who have been permanantly or short term fucked up, from the effects of marijuana. As for ecstacy, maybe one to two a week (these are usually gone within a few hours).
AS i said read wat i wrote... I see that shit all the time at my work. Crack is a fucked up drug u would have to be an idiot no to realise that, the same with heroin. These are more immediate effects though, and i like to think of it as natural selction (if ur dumb enough to get hooked on that shit then...). AS for pot, its often really sad the really good people, who had no idea it was effecting them, then one day they just snap. Sometimes they recover, sometimes they make a partial recovery, and sometimes they dont. It is a horrifying experience to see the family of a person who doesnt recover. And that is enough to turn you off that shit forever. As for me taking drugs, i used to take pills about once a year, but am pretty much over that stage.

I am not arguing that certain drugs are better for you than others or watever you guys think. I just reccomend you dont live your life thinking that smoking pot every day wont effect you because you cant feel/see any of the effects.
if you read my latest submission your probly gonna say its bullshit but before you do just look it up 4 yourself
lmfao! thats so true
stargirl- comment my other submission i think you will find it very intersesting
I dont associate with black especially druggy blacks
LOL, don't let anyone tell you smoking weed is wrong. You're at the age when you have to decide whether you're going to buy into the the government propaganda (which is motivated by racism, wood pulp, textile, and tobacco industries) or whether you're capable of making your own decisions with an open mind. People who smoke weed aren't bad, they're not endangering their health, and they're certainly not sadistic or malevolent. They're a mix of hard working people and more laid back people like any other group. They just want to be left alone in peace, not persecuted for their beliefs, not oppressed, not forced to live in a cage because they think differently than wealthy politicians. Stay high, my friend, and never let anyone convince you you're doing something wrong. And be careful, people hate us. Just try to remember that most people are unenlightened and ignorant, and will hate what they're told to hate, like sheep. Follow your own heart, not your high school D.A.R.E. program, and not those clever commercials advocating the "war on drugs" (which is little more than a war on lower income families). Roll yourself a fat spliff and smoke it, look deep into your own heart and make your decision based on what you feel is right, if you feel it's wrong than stop smoking, but please never attempt to oppress your morale code on your neighbors. Be careful out there, and remember, just because the majority believes in something doesn't make it absolute truth (slavery, anyone?).
Well....I can remake a comment I had made on an earlier post.

I am 51. In 1974 I began smoking weed on a daily basis for 24 years.

Near the end of my habit in 1998 I was on my way home, driving at 2:00am down a major highway, I did as I always had, taken a few hits off of a joint. Within minutes I felt the most awful feeling. I felt as if I were going to explode. To wink out and die. It was so bad nearly pulled over to flag someone down to get help. But as I went along this feeling subsided only to come back but not as strong. Like a wave. Finally about 20 minutes later it stopped and I made it home OK.

Throughout the next few months, I laid off the stuff. Each time I then smoked the feeling either came back or I could feel it just underlying, ready to surface. I finally quit altogether. A few years later at a party thought I would try it again, and sure enough after only two hits this feeling was back in full force. I had to leave the party to walk around until it subsided.

Back then, I did some internet searching only to find that it seemed I was alone in this. The only thing I could figure from symptoms was that I was having panic or anxiety attacks. To this day I have not touched the stuff.

Mind you. My sources for the weed were extremely reliable. Nothing treated. Also, over the time the weed had also come from different sources. Different weed. So don't tell me that it was laced. No one else in my group was having this problem.

Over the past couple of years, I have again done some internet searching to suddenly find that I am not alone. LOADS of people are reporting the same thing. Chronic users for many years to suddenly find themselves unable to smoke because of marijuana induced panic attacks. this is not the typical "weed paranoia" stuff. These are full-blown-I'm-gonna-die panic attacks.

The medical community has found in recent years through legitimate studies that chronic use of MJ in SOME PEOPLE lowers the trigger point for panic attacks, thereby inducing them. It is also attributed to modern day hybridization of marijuana which has resulted in MJ that is ten times or more powerful than the stuff I grew up with.

NOBODY can tell me that weed doesn't hurt you. IT DOES. I am proof. I have experienced it.

In addition to this, weed makes you complacent. It makes you lazy. It takes away your motivation.

Don't smoke it if you haven't atarted. Quit if you do.
MeatCurtain, go fuck yourself you fucking liar. I can't believe what bullshit that just was, I hope no one believes you.
Meat curtains, saying weed is more potent nowadays refutes your point dumbshit. You need less weed to get high, so less tar and shit is getting into your lungs. Weed is HEALTHIER now.
yeah bacically theres more THC and less of everything else
oh and for the record.......im white