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Re: Cannabis lifts emphysema risk - er um *cough*, *cough* *cough*,
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| bobbie sellers 2006-03-30, 12:08 am |
| On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:25:19 +0100,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
Two things actually are different about cannabis smoke.
1) It does not contain nicotine.
1) It does contain some cannabinoid compounds.
Some cannabis compound have demonstrated anti-tumor activity.
Cannabis compounds tend to energise the cilia lining the
Respiratory
Tract as opposed to nicotine which inactivates them,
But some cannabis compounds have also demonstrated anti-nauseant
activity.
Aspririn kills people and is sold over the counter,
Acetominophen kills people and is sold over the counter.
Why do you resist the legalisation of safe and effective
medications?
Do you support drug prohibition because it finances
criminals at home or because it finances terrorists abroad?
Question courtesy of: M. Simon September 21, 2001
later
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bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
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