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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 07:39:49 -0800, "bobbie sellers"
> <blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com> wrote:
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> You're missing the point. Tobacco research alone adds up to a
> phenomenal amount of well-established science, to which you must add
> hundreds of times as much biology not specifically related to
> carcinogen inhalation. You cannot start from the position "We know
> what happens when people inhale tobacco smoke but we don't know what
> will happen if people inhale smoke from cannabis". You must start from
> the position "We know what happens when people inhale tobacco smoke so
> we *do* know what will happen if people inhale smoke from cannabis".
> Any anomalous studies *must* be subjected to intense skepticism
> because there are only three possibilities:
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> 1 Existing cell biology is all wrong
> 2 The studies are not properly designed
> 3 There really is something specifically about cannabis smoke
> that makes it different from all other smokes ever looked at
I'll take door number three, please: there's good evidence that this is
precisely the case.
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