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[Eckhart Tolle]

Just Say No ... or Else You Get Cancer?
Smoking Marijuana May Be Tied to Testicular Cancer, Researchers Say

By RADHA CHITALE
ABC News Medical Unit
Feb. 9, 2009


Internet photos of swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps, 23, possibly indulging in an Olympian lungful of marijuana smoke scandalized many and may have caused him to lose face and the faith of some of his fans -- not to mention a lucrative sponsorship from Kellogg.


Male marijuana users may be at increased risk of developing testicular cancer, researchers say.


But according to new research, if Phelps makes a habit of smoking up, he could stand to loose more than a fan base.

For the first time, researchers have linked frequent marijuana use to an increased risk of testicular cancer, according to an article published today in the journal Cancer.

"There's been very little research done on marijuana use and its association with cancer risk," said Janet Daling, the senior author of the article and an epidemiologist and member of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle. "This is the first time this association has been shown."

Using a population-based, case-control study, Daling surveyed 369 men diagnosed with testicular cancer and 979 healthy men between ages 18-44 about their history with marijuana use.

After controlling for family history and lifestyle factors, including alcohol and tobacco use, which could also be associated with testicular cancer, the researchers found that being a marijuana smoker was associated with a 70 percent increased risk of testicular cancer.

Heavy Users at Risk

Participants who used marijuana once a week or more or who had long-term exposure to marijuana since adolescence were at twice the risk for testicular cancer than those who never used marijuana.

In addition, the association between frequent marijuana use and testicular cancer was more pronounced among men who had nonseminomas, a more aggressive form of testicular cancer, than those who had seminomas. Nonseminomas also tend to strike in younger men.


Although this research has the most implications for habitual users, it goes against commonly held beliefs that marijuana is one of the more benign recreational drugs, a potential concern given the number of people who have tried marijuana in their lives.

Marijuana Drug Abuse

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2006, 14.8 million Americans age 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month before they were surveyed, making it the most common illicit drug of abuse.

Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in white American males ages 15-34. Between 2001 and 2005, nearly half of all testicular cancer diagnoses were in men between ages 20-34, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Established risk factors include family history, undescended testes, and abnormal testicular growth. However, with about 8,000 cases diagnosed each year, testicular cancer is one of the rarer types of cancer.

But some have mixed feelings about the report.

"It is both surprising and not surprising," said Dr. Omer Kucuk, an expert in cancer and nutrition and a professor of hematology and medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta. Kucuk was not associated with the research.

Kucuk pointed out that while this was the first paper amid limited research on marijuana and cancer to show a causal effect, there is evidence that marijuana does affect parts of both the male and female reproductive systems, including hormones and sperm quality.

Trusting the Tokers

In addition, Stephen Schwartz, co-author of the study, epidemiologist and member of the Public Health Sciences Division at the FHCRC, indicated that there may be room for improving the quality of the data gathered.

"We're reliant on them telling us what they did," Schwartz said. "We have to be a little skeptical of the accuracy of the reporting."

But the results showing that men with the aggressive, nonseminomal testicular cancer were more frequent drug users than those with seminomal cancer made Daling believe that patients were telling the truth overall, or were at least being consistent in their answers.

"If, when you're doing a cancer study, you might suspect that the cancer cases might be more honest when answering a question that is not routine," Daling said. "If that was the case, you'd see it across both histology groups. But we saw it only in nonseminomas, which indicates it's not just recall bias."

Marijuana Link to More Cancers

More substantial research on marijuana use being linked to increased risk for lung, head and neck cancers does exist, although it is not definitive. Kucuk said that trying to uncover the mechanism of how marijuana might be associated with cancer -- whether it could be hormonal or receptor-related -- could help focus future studies.

"Research like this is not meant for people to change their habits or ideas," Schwartz said. "It is one study out of many more that need to be done."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/Story?id=6823396&page=3

[snafu]

lol... this is how paid off people are

[Eckhart Tolle]

lol... this is how paid off people are

Well of course.. They must keep the marijuana propaganda going.

Everyone knows if pot wasn't illegal Drug Companies, Chemical Companies, and our Private run Prisons would quickly go out of business.

[Eckhart Tolle]

Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 26, 2006; A03

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.

"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin's previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.

Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

Tashkin's study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.

They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.

"This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use," he said. "Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning."

Tashkin's group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers -- exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.

While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana in their youth, when it is most often tried.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html

[Elliot Spitzer]

The study linking Pot and testicular cancer is based on surveys, in the medical community this evidence is very weak

[Eckhart Tolle]

Marijuana prevents cancer (Federal Research)

http://smokedot.org/blog/07/10/11/marijuana-prevents-cancer-(federal-research)

Submitted by dreagen on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 17:04

The United States Government has done research on Marijuana in the past and has thrown out many research topics because they prove the benefits of Marijuana. There have been Studies funded by the US Government that have encouraged the citizens to question the current laws.
Growing up in the 80's during the Reagan years hearing Nancy talking about saying no to drugs made me very scared to try Marijuana. I also thought that all Marijuana users were worthless and lazy and would become a burden to society.

After going to the Netherlands and trying Marijuana because of chronic pain I realized, "this is not that bad." When I came back to the United States of America I decided it was time I did a little research on my own about Marijuana.

I soon Found out that US Veterans Affairs Scientists did research to find out if excessive use of Marijuana as a teen would damage your life. They did this by surveying twins were one was a heavy user of Marijuana and the other did not use Marijuana more than 5 times. They Found, "Marijuana use had no significant impact on physical or mental health care utilization, health-related quality of life, or current socio-demographic characteristics." (Eisen SE et al. Does Marijuana Use Have Residual Adverse Effects on Self-Reported Health Measures, Socio-Demographics or Quality of Life? A Monozygotic Co-Twin Control Study in Men. Addiction. Vol. 97 No. 9. p.1083-1086. Sept. 1997)

The Government provided funding to Federal researchers to study the effect of THC on Cancer induced rats. These rats were treated for Leukemia and lung cancer with canaboids and THC found in Marijuana that increased their life span and decreased the size of the tumors. (Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Sept. 1975. p. 597-602) In 1994 federal researchers studied rats again by giving them massive doses of THC to look for cancer and other toxicity in the rats. Reasearch showed that the more THC the rat received the fewer tumors grew.

(NTP Technical Report On The Toxicology And Carcinogenesis Studies Of 1-Trans- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, CAS No. 1972-08-3, In F344/N Rats And B6C3F(1) Mice, Gavage Studies) Again in 1997 research funded by the federal government came close to proving Marijuana can prevent cancer. This research followed 65,000 patients for close to 10 years to study the effects of Cigarette smoking, Marijuana Smoking and Non-Smokers on Lung Cancer.

This showed that Marijuana smokers did not have an increase in chances to get lung cancer and also showed that they were at a lower percentage to get lung cancer than non-smokers. (Sidney, S. et al. Marijuana Use and Cancer Incidence (California, United States). Cancer Causes and Control. Vol. 8. Sept. 1997, p. 722-728.) Over a year ago the federal government gave Donald Tashkin funds to research Marijuana use and Lung Cancer. This found again that those Heavy Marijuana users had a decrease risk for Lung Cancer. (Tashkin D. Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer: Results of a Case-Control Study. American Thoracic Society International Conference. May 23, 2006.)


Over the years the federal government has tried to teach that Marijuana was the most dangerous drugs available with lies and deceptions. The federal Government has been giving grants to research the dangers and hazards of Marijuana but have ended up proving that Marijuana is not only a great medication but that it is helpful to prevent cancers.

[Eckhart Tolle]

Time to start eating pot brownies to kill off cancer cells.... .  13 years without it and it has been healthy for me? It does however make me very lazy no doubt about it.

Besides eating, You can also Vaporize marijuana.. As these are the healthiest ways to use it. 

[kadar]

Just Say No ... or Else You Get Cancer?
Smoking Marijuana May Be Tied to Testicular Cancer, Researchers Say

Sounds like a push for Gardisil.

[Eckhart Tolle]

"There's been very little research done on marijuana use and its association with cancer risk," said Janet Daling

You're a f**king sleazy, lying propagandist twat Janet Daling!

[cog]

Thought i'd have a look for a good bit of rebuttal, a report showing the effects of alcohol on testicular cancer, but i found this:
Conclusion: There is no firm evidence of a causal relation between behavior risks and testicular cancer. Nevertheless, interventions for smoking cessation, less alcohol consumption and adapted diet can also be protective for other cancers and diseases. Good health education and prevention are therefore extremely useful, even if future studies demonstrate no effect on testicular cancer. http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowAbstract&ArtikelNr=106534&Ausgabe=234558&ProduktNr=231997


Then theres always this massive page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer

[blind_sided]

Smoking marijuana leads users to unfounded beliefs in conspiracy theories new report reveals!

[Logic]

Is American made erb considered "supporting" terrorists? no its not its supporting Americans you POS neocon, Yeah lets compare these statistics to Alcohol & cigarettes and see how they stack up. neocon idiots think we will listen to there paid off propaganda scientists, we have been wise to your tactics for a long time.

[HillbillyHippie]

Ever notice how a new "government report" comes out everytime there is a push for decriminalization/legalization of marijuana?

[HillbillyHippie]

Is American made erb considered "supporting" terrorists? no its not its supporting Americans you POS neocon, Yeah lets compare these statistics to Alcohol & cigarettes and see how they stack up. neocon idiots think we will listen to there paid off propaganda scientists, we have been wise to your tactics for a long time.

Neo-marxists and Neo-Cons are all on the same team.  Its time you recognize reality!

[strgzr]

I'd give my left nut to be able to smoke marijuana legally.

[iamc]

Most of the law makers; who have made pot illegal, are the biggest drunks on the planet, and most are on speed/ or coke...pot is a natural cure for many things, and the drunken; coke speed freaks in wash dc make it illegal...?...drunks get dizzy and sick...pot heads just get high and healthy....!

[Damascus]

Well of course! Something grown in nature naturally will cause a greater chance of cancer then something made artificially with chemicals by the pharmaceutical industry. All you stupid people out there need to wise up and start taking our pills because something that grows in nature is unnatural.

[Hagbard Celine]

If it's green and it live then...it must be a dragon!!