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Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana’s health benefits

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Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com

Spend a few minutes surfing Twitter and you’re likely to encounter a startling claim that comes without proof:
Cannabis cures cancer.
The online world is awash with such posts, startling scientists and physicians who are urging marijuana proselytizers to hit the brakes.

“We know that a component in cannabis — CBD — might be useful in treating cancer,” said Dr. Joseph A. Califano III, director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. “But we don’t know if marijuana can stop or cure it. In some cases, cannabis might make things worse. It’s going to take time to find out.
“What’s happening right now with marijuana reminds me of tobacco at the end of World War II. There was an explosion in its use, but little science to let people know what we were dealing with.”
The admonition appears to be falling on deaf ears.
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Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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The people that want to hear what they want, are the people that actively deny the medical benefits of marijuana, and try to act like it's somehow as or more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (a complete lie). Fact is, there is no reason to ban marijuana, just like alcohol, and thankfully this country is slowly realizing that, as more and more states legalize it. Hell, even Trump said he'd sign a bill legalizing weed on the federal level.
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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As far as I have seen with medical marijuana use, it is used for TREATMENT of a disease to make the patient more comfortable like with cancer treatments. I have never seen anything peer reviewed that says it cures a disease.

However, regardless of its medical treatment use, there is still NO REASON to make it illegal.
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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I think that government doesn't really allow the testing of it. So we should test it then. CBD has been known to have some benefits particularly as a non-opiod pain reliever. And not everything is smoked.

So maybe we can get some studies in, why is the government so insistent on limiting research on it?
 
Wholly crap.

While I had cancer, I studied a ton of research, and hung out on a pot medical forum.

There is so much wrong in that article, I am simply not going to waste my time debunking it all, it's just old propaganda.

Pot is a medical treatment in a number of countries. Israel pioneered the field.

It is quite useful in some ways, chronic pain, dealing with chemo symptoms, PTSD. It helped me a LOT when I had cancer.

I still use it to deal with PTSD.

I never smoke, and I suggest the same whenever I can to other people. One option is vaping, which does no real damage. What I do is make extracts and put them into pills.

I will mention one thing from that article, because I am still angry and disgusted about it a half century later. Back in the 70s, cancer Docs noticed their patients that used pot lived longer. They had started doing research into that when the government came down on them like a ton of bricks. I wonder how many died since then that didn't have to.
 
Praxas said:
However, regardless of its medical treatment use, there is still NO REASON to make it illegal.
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Big tobacco doesn't want it legal. They could make some money from it, true, but it's a lot easier to grow and cultivate that tobacco plants, so they cannot completely control that market.
 
Praxas said:
As far as I have seen with medical marijuana use, it is used for TREATMENT of a disease to make the patient more comfortable like with cancer treatments. I have never seen anything peer reviewed that says it cures a disease.

However, regardless of its medical treatment use, there is still NO REASON to make it illegal.
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That's debatable.
 
cuban smokes said:
so, you hate marijuana; we get it .........
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But because of that, and despite the evidence that it has quite positive medicinal purposes, no one should get it!
 
TheGoverness said:
The people that want to hear what they want, are the people that actively deny the medical benefits of marijuana, and try to act like it's somehow as or more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (a complete lie). Fact is, there is no reason to ban marijuana, just like alcohol, and thankfully this country is slowly realizing that, as more and more states legalize it. Hell, even Trump said he'd sign a bill legalizing weed on the federal level.
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That fact that it alleviates pain in a medical setting doesn't mean there are no social problems with it.
 
Ikari said:
But because of that, and despite the evidence that it has quite positive medicinal purposes, no one should get it!
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No weed for you! And no weed for you!

So much for freedom.
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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In a relative sense, MJ isn't harmful.

However, understanding that requires accepting reality.

Which is hard for a lot of people.
 
TheGoverness said:
No weed for you! And no weed for you!

So much for freedom.
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Conservatives love Freedom so long as it's the freedom they agree to allow you to have and under proper government supervision.

lol
 
TheGoverness said:
Your "questioning" isn't based upon reality. Do you deny that marijuana has actual medical benefits?
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I can question what I like, and it's plenty real. You're hyper obsession and attempt to slam me is noted. It's hysterical to watch. The same people always converge on anyone who dares to question anything. No surprise there. You don't have enough data to know that there are no problems.
 
Ikari said:
Conservatives love Freedom so long as it's the freedom they agree to allow you to have and under proper government supervision.

lol
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Libertarians are known for being potheads, just one of the many reasons they don't get elected.
 
American said:
Libertarians are known for being potheads, just one of the many reasons they don't get elected.
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I mean, given Clinton and Bush, I don't think drug use precludes election.

lol
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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The problem is more about price. California’s tax greed ran the price up to the point that cartel weed - often incidentally grown with state weed - is out undercutting state weed, plus has created a whole new avenue for sales of other drugs to people who were once afraid to deal with shady drug dealers. Now in a sense, the cartels have gone legit as if Al Capone sold cheap liquor outside the door of the state run liquor stores!

As far as the impact on society, time will tell.

RE: medical marijuana - it was always mostly a scam. Pay $100 to a “doctor” to get scrip for dope. Probably one in 10 bought it for medicinal use.
 
American said:
I can question what I like, and it's plenty real. You're hyper obsession and attempt to slam me is noted. It's hysterical to watch. The same people always converge on anyone who dares to question anything. No surprise there. You don't have enough data to know that there are no problems.
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Straw-man. I didn't say that there are no problems.

What I actually said, was that marijuana has real medical benefits, and is significantly less harmful than both alcohol and cigarettes. I could care less if you ignore that reality.
 
TheGoverness said:
The people that want to hear what they want, are the people that actively deny the medical benefits of marijuana, and try to act like it's somehow as or more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (a complete lie). Fact is, there is no reason to ban marijuana, just like alcohol, and thankfully this country is slowly realizing that, as more and more states legalize it. Hell, even Trump said he'd sign a bill legalizing weed on the federal level.
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I am middle of the road on MJ, but in general I agree. If it as bad as alcohol then either ban booze or allow MJ. And you better not touch my scotch.

As for medical benefits, if those using it think it helps, then it probably does. It seems like a non issue to me.

President Trump is correct. A federal rescission is long overdue. Repeal it and be done with the issue.
 
I put a little THC in the gas tank of my truck whenever I fill it up. I find that the truck ignores things like a lack of oil pressure and the sound system is vastly improved.
 
American said:
That's debatable.
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What about alcohol (including beer) and cigarettes?
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There are zero medical benefits from either of those and both have significant medical issues from consumption?
 
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