Calif. Regulators: “Smoking marijuana may cause cancer, so have a cigarette and beer and forget about it”
July 5, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum
Remember folks, the real reason people are against legalizing marijuana is because it’s not good for you:
SAN FRANCISCO – It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.
The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients’ suffering must soon come with a warning saying it causes the disease.
State environmental regulators last month voted to place marijuana smoke on its list of hundreds of substances known to cause cancer. The decision could lead to warning signs in medical marijuana dispensaries and labels on packaged pot within a year.
A voter-approved measure made medical marijuana legal in California in 1996. Key backers included patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and AIDS who said pot helped them manage pain and nausea.
Medical marijuana advocates sought to downplay the significance of the state’s decision, arguing researchers have long known that the smoke contains cancer-causing compounds.
“This does not mean in any way that those carcinogens that appear in smoked marijuana, smoked cannabis, have any kind of causal relationship to cancer,” said Kris Hermes, spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, a pro-medical marijuana group.
It’s time to have a Lucky Strike, a pull from a whiskey jug and just forget about the demon weed. After all, anything that doesn’t have 5,000 lobbyists fighting for it can’t be good for you.
–WKW
Well of course not. It just means that it causes cancer.
meanwhile:
I have an Uncle whose kidneys were destroyed by medication he took for his liver.
How many people have committed suicide while on anti-smoking Rx medications?
Today’s winner in the ongoing “real-life facts about U.S. political life that make Orwell look like an optimist” contest.
Your prize is one free consultation with any surviving doctor you can find from those old “More doctors prefer Camels than any other cigarette” ads.
Seems whatever you choose you are screwed regardless?
Smoke the weed to ease the pain of the cancer that you may or may not have got from smoking, or smoke the weed to give yourself another form of cancer!
Is there anything that doesn’t come with a warning these days?
Today – THIS is good for you.
Tomorrow – THIS is no longer good for you try THIS
Next Week – turns out THIS and THIS is actually no good try something else!!!
Great!