http://www.physorg.com/news164348909.html
A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found “convincing evidence” that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans.
Using a newly developed highly sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method, the University of Leicester scientists found clear indication that cannabis smoke damages DNA, under laboratory conditions.
They have now published the findings in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.
If cannabis really does “alter human dna” and cause cancer then, after more than **5,000 years** of continuous use we’d know all about it by now. We wouldn’t be needing “highly sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods under laboratory conditions” to find it out now!
I’m going to bet that this exciting new discovery is discredited in the near future.
If cannabis truly is so deadly that we really do need a perpetual world-wide prohibition of it, causing more than 2,000 arrests in this country every day and more than 6,000 brutal murders a year, then it’d be blatantly obvious every time we looked in the faces of the poor saps who use it. We wouldn’t be needing hair and pee tests just to determine whether a person has consumed cannabis or not!
But it’s not obvious at all. Law enforcement can’t tell whether a driver is under the influence of cannabis or not – they don’t have puss oozing from the face or are drooling green stuff from the mouth. They don’t have open lesions forming over 90% of their bodies or are tearing at their faces to remove the imaginary spiders that are crawling over them. There are no signs at all, apart perhaps from a sweet smell in the air and possibly diluted pupils. Big deal!
We need Maia Szalavitz from stats to take a look at these findings.
If they can pass her scrutiny then I’ll believe them.
when i found this story i threw it up on the fresh stash..
my tr.im account says 47 people read it
my friend in medicines states..
They had to invent a method/machine to verify the hypothesis in order to justify the funding.
self serving ‘science’ is always debunked in the end…
‘our’ ability as a community to defend these
‘news paper’ articles is impossible..
there for i consider this particular story to be yellow journalism..
it incites but has no real value other than to incite..’we’ as a community cannot fall into these traps by and even beginning to legitimize these statements by even acknowledging they exist.
Jillians statements holds tru..if a marijuana user is driving a car and an officer using observation cant tell..than he/she is NOT an impaired driver…they just happen to be high while driving..and if you think that people don’t drive around high everyday…I got bridge for sale
Jillian, thanks for the heads-up.
Russ, can we got Dr. Mitch Earlywine on this, STAT?
Count down to Fox News’ Marijuana terror story about Marijuana altering kids DNA.
T-minus 10 hours and counting.
-snicker-
IF this has some merit id be interested to see how and where they grew this marijuana… and can i get some of that DNA changing ganja. but seriously where and how was this grown? I DO KNOW that tobacco is undislosed locations is grown with radiation so… i wouldnt be surprised if this cannabis was tainted with radiation