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Re: Cannabis lifts emphysema risk - er um *cough*, *cough* *cough*,
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| Michael 2006-03-30, 12:08 am |
| Derek Potter wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2006 07:15:28 -0800, "brian bennett" <shpoym@hotmail.com>
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> Tumour reduction can be caused by all sorts of things.
Among them - proven in practice - is the addition of cannabinoids (including
THC) into the bloodstream of the animal bearing the tumour.
> 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.
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> 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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