{"id":2886,"date":"2006-05-24T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T13:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/05\/24\/smoking-pot-may-fight-cancer-growth\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T13:25:38","slug":"smoking-pot-may-fight-cancer-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/05\/24\/smoking-pot-may-fight-cancer-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Pot May Fight Cancer Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8491'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spliff.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"261\" align=\"left\"><em>These<br \/>\n        stories seem to run in bunches&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">NEW YORK &#8212; People who smoke marijuana may be at less<br \/>\n        risk of developing lung cancer than tobacco smokers, according to a study<br \/>\n        presented yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>        The study of 2,200 people in Los Angeles found that even heavy marijuana<br \/>\n        smokers were no more likely to develop lung, head, or neck cancer than<br \/>\n        nonusers, in contrast with tobacco users, whose risk increases the more<br \/>\n        they smoke.<\/p>\n<p>        The findings seemed to be a surprise; marijuana smoke has some of the<br \/>\n        same cancer-causing substances as tobacco smoke, often in higher concentrations,<br \/>\n        said the senior researcher, Donald Tashkin, a professor at the David<br \/>\n        Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.<br \/>\n        One possible explanation is that THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, a key<br \/>\n        ingredient in marijuana not present in tobacco, may inhibit tumor growth,<br \/>\n      he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/05\/24\/marijuana_cancer_risk_played_down\/\"> Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Which must mean that if Bob Marley HADN&#8217;T smoked a quarter-kilo<br \/>\n        of Ganga a day, he never would have lived long enough to write all those<br \/>\n      great Reggae songs&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Now, if we can just find that Willie Nelson story,<br \/>\n          we&#8217;ll go for the Mary Jane Trifecta after we get back from the Summer<br \/>\n          Semester<br \/>\n        Startup Meeting&#8230;.<\/em>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stories seem to run in bunches&#8230;. NEW YORK &#8212; People who smoke marijuana may be at less risk of developing lung cancer than tobacco smokers, according to a study presented yesterday. The study of 2,200 people in Los Angeles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/05\/24\/smoking-pot-may-fight-cancer-growth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}