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Re: Cannabis lifts emphysema risk - er um *cough*, *cough* *cough*,
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| Derek Potter 2006-03-29, 5:06 pm |
| On 29 Mar 2006 07:15:28 -0800, "brian bennett" <shpoym@hotmail.com>
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>actually, there has also been a lot of research that indicates that
>cannabinoids (even when smoked) have anti-cancer properties which
>include not only stopping tumor growth, but actually causing tumors to
>shrink. the first such paper dates to 1974.
Tumour reduction can be caused by all sorts of things. A tumour is a
complex organ, the end result of multiple mutations. The fact that a
chemical causes tumour to shrink just means it affects the mature
tumour tissue in a particular way. It has no bearing on whether it
protects against the mutations occurring.
>however, the "health" aspects of cannabis use vis a vis the drug war is
>a red hering (one of hundreds) that causes people to lose focus on the
>aspects of the issue that actually matter. primary among them: no one
>has the right to hold another acountable under law for lighting plants
>on fire and inhaling the ensuing smoke.
Describing it in that way is disingenuous. Whether cannabis should be
illegal does not depend on the fact you can describe it by the
innocuous-sounding phrase "lighting plants on fire and inhaling the
ensuing smoke", it depends on whether it harms other people.
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