To say "Marijuana does not kill you, and it does not cause cancer." is not entirely accurate.jonsimon wrote:
Marijuana does not kill you, and it does not cause cancer.ryan_14 wrote:
wow, there must be lots of pot heads on this site. why smoke marijuana, it will just kill you eventually. just like smoking.
1. Smoking just cannabis carries a lower cancer-risk factor than tobacco. But it's not zero.
2. Mixing cannabis with tobacco, as expected, carries a higher risk.
3. But, interestingly, some studies suggest that a cannabis-tobacco mix carries a lower risk than if you were to take the cannabis out (i.e just smoking tobacco alone).
It is this last fact that often gets missquoted, missrepresented and missinterpreted - it does not in any way suggest that cannabis protects against cancer nor that it can not itself cause cancer.