They don't give weed to cancer patients because it cures cancer nor does it help fight cancer. It is given to cancer patients to help alleviate symptoms like pain and make you hungry while taking chemo. Anyone that has seen someone go through chemo knows that without it it is near impossible to eat food and keep it in you, weed helps with this. In the end it is still a carcinogen if smoked and that can still cause cancer of the lungs.

 

Well buddy, never said it cures or fights cancer. However it has been proven that coffee drinkers are less likely to aquire cancer.

And as far as smoking it causing cancer... Why would they give something to cancer patients that CAUSES cancer? There's a small possibility it could lead to cancer yes, but as far as proven facts go... Theres never been a single case of cancer related to the smoking of Marijuana.

 

THC given to lab rats shrinks their cancerous tumors.

 

Not to be "that guy" but the opposite of causing cancer is...well...preventing or curing...

And thats the dbag thing to point out. hopefully I'm not taken seriously with that.



Anyway...there are other ways of ingesting pot. Eating, vaporizing, rubbing it on your face....

 

Anything smoked could cause cancer. I know people who smoked cigs all of their lives, and no cancer. Some people get hit by busses.

It has been proven that the active chemicals in marijuana inhibit the growth of cancer. Inhibits, not cures. Let's say ppl who smoke only cigarettes have a 75% chance of getting lung cancer, someone who smokes weed and cigarettes has a 50% chance, and only weed 25% chance. No my numbers aren't accurate, made them up to show a point.

When people are prescribed marijuana for cancer, smoking is never recommended, except for vaporizing. When you vaporize, all you are doing is baking the tuff that gets you high, not burning the carcinogens. Eat, and drink and vapor is what try tell you.

There is a receptor in your brain, that is only activated by one thing on this earth, the cannabinoid receptor, activated by cannabinol.
Why? Except for the appendix, we really don't have to many useless parts in our bodies.

 

Rubbing it on your face, huh..... I'll have to try that. LMAO!

 

Never really messed with it. Didn't have any other examples.

Sounded good tho.

 

I keep seein people say that whether its legal or illegal it's not gonna affect those who already smoke pot.
I think this can be used as an argument against gun control laws. People who want to get a gun to commit a crime arn't gonna care if there's a law saying you can't buy one. The only people who follow the laws are the ones who are now going to be victims to the guy who has the gun.
Kinda of topic, but I just thought of it while reading this.

 

Yup. Only upstanding citizens turn in their guns for gift cards. Alcohol is legal, the people that are alcoholics are going to be alcoholics no matter what. All control does is creates a black market. It's easier for a high school kid to get weed than alcohol. Alcohol is legal.

 

there are 33 known carcinogens in weed, carcinogens cause cancer of the lungs. As to why they would they give something to someone who is dying of cancer that could cause cancer I already explained. Without it many people could not survive the chemo to beat the cancer they have. In order to get chemo you have to be able to be strong enough to survive it, hence weed makes you eat and keep the food in your stomach, which in turn gets nutrients in your body in turn making your body strong enough to be able to get chemo and survive your cancer. The funny thing is smoking anything ruins most of the benefits from the item, there are better ways to get high from it other than smoking it.
If you think doctors won't give you something bad to fight your symptoms take the time to look up the side effects of Tylenol that is about a 3 page warning on different ways it can kill you all in the name of a headache

 

kids today. So that meth Joe is smoking on the corner isn't causing cancer so it must be preventing or curing...

 

Not sure what your getting at there, but my statement was pointing out what others were saying. I never said smoking doesnt cause cancer.

I was pointing out that someone said "it does the exact opposite of causing cancer..."

 

You also have to remember that people smoke a whole lot more cigarrettes because they are addicting. Weed is not addicting, so therefore people are less likely to smoke the quantities to cause cancer to arise, like we see with people who smoke packs of cigs a day throughout their life. These aren't facts, just what makes sense to me.

 

I personally voted no on the Legalization of Marijuana in the state of Washington. I've never personally smoked anything. I grew up with a father who smoked and after Quadruple Bypass Surgery he still sneaks a ciggy now and and again. Smoking will kill him eventually. I also had a Father-In-Law who smoked ciggys all his life and died from Lung Cancer. It was already said in this thread a few times as I read. Anything that is smoked is POISON to your lungs. It will kill you and OBTW the second hand smoke will kill others who are around you when you smoke and breathe your poison in. That being said, I'm all about Legalizing it in Washington so long as the state government taxes the S**T out of it and puts the money toward better schools, better pay for teachers, better highways, law enforcement, fire fighters and of course the DNR and Forestry Service. Let people who want to smoke, ciggys, pot or whatever else into their lungs smoke up and kill themselves off. Also let them foot the bill for a big chunk of the state debt our wonderful Democrat politicians who keep getting voted in have caused. One less smoker causing clouds where I have to be and Weed smokers paying a chunk or bigger chunk to get Washington out of debt, works for me.

 

Or you could play in traffic... No reason to put in your opinion since you don't smoke, never have, voted against it, yet still are all about it being legalized and taxed. And by the way, second hand smoke is a non issue in outside areas. Not enough bad stuff when mixed with all the open air. You will get it worse sitting in traffic. We should ban traffic, it kills.