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[–] spiritfiend 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

This article doesn't really support your statement:

Evidence shows that smoking of cannabis preparations caused cancer of the respiratory and oral tracts or, at least, potentiated tobacco smoke-induced damages [3].

Maybe it did? Maybe it didn't?

Oral cancer is mainly occurs in the mouth including lips, tongue and throat. Smoking, tobacco chewing and alcohol consumption increases the incidence of oral cancer. Radiation therapy and surgery is the common treatment for oral cancer. Δ9-THC induced apoptosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a malignant form of oral cancer [120].

Apoptosis is programmed cell death. If cancer is doing this, it's a good thing.

Marijuana smoking increases the incidence of head and neck cancer in young people but its constituent, cannabinoids have anti-tumor properties. One study reports that moderate marijuana use is associated with reduced risk of HNSCC [121].

Looks like we have studies going either way.

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[–] DoubleOhGadget 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I mean I'm fine with people doing whatever they want to. I fully support marijuana legalization. But let's not pretend that smoking joints is going to prevent cancer.

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[–] spiritfiend 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I'm not pretending anything, nor did I say anything about smoking joints preventing cancer. The article you linked doesn't really say what you claimed it did.

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[–] spiritfiend ago  (edited ago)

Not really comparable to tobacco. It's one thing to deny research that's been conducted, and another thing to invent results when there isn't any data. It was possible to do studies with tobacco because it was widely available. Marijuana distribution has been mostly illicit, and controlled. Let's revisit this when there's some real data?

Also, we're getting better at finding out why some people respond differently to different drugs.