Pot vs. Tobacco: Which Is The True Cancer Risk?
As the reality of legalized non-medical marijuana looms large, Canadians want to know if it's as dangerous as cigarettes.
Or is pot actually "infinitely worse," as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper famously declared during the recent federal election?
It's neither, science now asserts. In fact, Harper couldn't have been more wrong - at least in terms of pot's purported threat as a deadly carcinogen. So suggests the U.S. government's National Cancer Institute (NCI), which even claims that cannabis can actually combat the risk of cancer.
The NCI's findings represent a stunning about-face by the U.S. government, which insisted for decades that cannabis has no medicinal value. Yet the feds finally admitted a few weeks ago that "cannabis has been shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory" in the latest update of the NCI's web site.
Animal studies were cited as proof that cannabinoids can destroy cancer cells,...
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