Legalizing marijuana is a bipartisan effort!

The only relation marijuana has to cancer is that it is used to treat the side effects of chemotherapy. The fact is that marijuana has several medicinal properties and no link to lung cancer at all. So yes, that point is debatable unless you limit the statement to cigarette smoke only. But I don't expect you to take my word for it.

Pot Smoking Not Linked to Lung Cancer

 

No, only if I can make a buck off of YOU. I have consideration for everyone else. And just what do you have against the sun? Are you afraid of its radiation or sunspots? You owe the sun an apology...

 

That's what they said about tobacco at one time.

 

No you don't. You're loyal to the buck. That's it. You're about the most a-typical example of the far right wing possible. Whoever can make the most, have the most, squeeze the most, extract the most, is absolutely fine with you. You'd sell the sun's light if you could (at exponential profit and regardless of who else might need it). You're a right wing whacko. You owe generations of human beings an apology.

 

The sun hates you, Tom. Always has. As does the Illuminati and the Rothschilds. Probably the Snake People, too.

 

Brilliant commentary. I think the best part of you leaked back out long ago.

 

You probably hate puppies and kittens, too. Do you snitch on the kids selling lemonade in your neighborhood for not having a permit? Do you purposefully run into people with your power chair at the mall just to get attention? Do you ever mail a letter to yourself just to prove you're still alive? I'm betting you do all those things. Well, I'd like to chat with you more Tom, but I'm sure your "fun time" on the computer is over and the nurses are calling you back for your nightly psych medications. So, go on now... I think there's also some re-runs of Matlock that you can watch. Yes, you heard me right, MATLOCK! Buh-bye now.

 

Well according to NIDA it does contain carcnogenics but with no real evidence of a link to lung cancer

Marijuana - InfoFacts - NIDA

Just one point to make on Toms comments if the smoking of it was made legal then you woudnt be inhaling Illicit smoke fumes you would be inhaling legal fumes

 

I'll let you get back to reruns of the highly unsuccessful reruns of "The Rush Limpbaugh Show". Enjoy, my whacked out right wing financial rapist.

 

I started smoking in cigarettes in 1988 and there were cancer warnings on the pack back then. Exactly when did they say that cigarettes did not cause cancer? Furthermore, who is they?

BTW I quit smoking 3 years ago.

 

You gotta be kiddin' me man. You're gonna claim that big tobacco DIDN'T fight the idea of cigarettes causing cancer? 88? Kinda late in the game there isn't it? Word was out by then.

Glad you quit. You'll live longer.

 

well the US started with warnings about risks to health some 45 years ago and from September next year they will be showing realy graphic detailed pics on the packs
But as for admiting that tobacco could cause health problems the largest company in the world Philip Morris (Malboro, Benson & Hedges & Chesterfield) did not admit it till 1999 They disputed the findings of the US Surgeon General and other medical authorities for years, they also at that time finaly admited that they were adictive.

BBC News | Health | Tobacco giant admits health risks

 

The warnings came from the Surgeon General, the Government. The tobacco companies were not in a position to admit that their product killed people. Even someone as anti-capitalistic as yourself can understand that. The actions of the tobacco companies do not change the fact that the government was aware that cigarettes caused emphysema, cancer, and other medical problems and every pack of cigarettes since 1965 has carried a warning.

Again, who is they?

 

"They" are the tobacco companies that made mega profits off of selling death to human beings, and pretending all was well and cool. John Wayne with a smoke. Cool! Joe Camel! Cool.
Tobacco was first put into use in 1965? Where was the warning prior? Kinda like the corporate pharma conglomerates churning out their poisons and without being thoroughly tested, then lobbyists on the same side of the fence complain about litigious activities. Put back some actual accountability in place of the profit motive, put some folks in jail, and you might just see those kinds of problems start to resolve themselves. Geez...what was I thinkin'? Responsibility ahead of profit? Very anti capitalist of me.

 

I don't dispute that the tobacco companies profited from the sale of their product or defended those products by failing to admit the dangers of their product. My original statement had nothing to do with the ethics of tobacco companies. My point was that it has been common knowledge for a very long time that smoking cigarettes causes cancer and not a secret as you would like to believe. They have studied the effects of marijuana and found that it does not increase the risk for cancer despite your wish to the contrary.

I was born in 1972, so I have no idea what happened with cigarette health warnings prior to 1965. It is not exactly a topic that is taught as any part of any history curriculum. If you hate capitalism so much, try moving to a socialist country. I hear that Greece needs some help!

 

Nah...that's alright. Greece is coming to us very soon.

I hate the current corporate climates version of crapitalism. The "hooray for me and FU" mentality you're so fond of.

I don't want to breathe cigarette smoke or burnout weed smoke. Currently, I don't have to either because well, oops, it's illegal. What a shame. Users are criminals. Suits me just fine.

 

Smoking cigarettes which causes cancer is legal while smoking marijuana which does not is illegal. Now that makes sense.

 

There are plenty of arguments counter to that which you hold so dearly.

Makes great sense. You go smoke your brains out, enjoy some deep delusional thought, a few bags of cookies, and I'll continue to breathe my whacky weed free air, and enjoy the criminals that get busted for their illicit, illegal behavior.

 

Wanna back that statement up? I already posted a link to WebMD which shows that smoking marijuana has no correlation to cancer.

 

So WebMD is complete confirmation that burnout enhancement is safe? Heroin is good for numbing pain too. Why not have that on the shelves at Walmart? Good, capitalist move there, wouldn't you say?