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Your response has the same logic that living gives you cancer. In all my years of medicine I have not seen this clear link you establish between mental illness and marijuana. I'd be very interested in learning more about it, if you have some resources for me to look at it.

I did not suggest that cannabis is harm free. I stated we cannot explicitly identified marijuana as the cause of illness.

How am I doing "great harm" to campaigns aiming to legalize drugs? (That's an honest question, I'm not quite processing your viewpoint on my argument, and am actually interested in your response.)




> I did not suggest that cannabis is harm free. I stated we cannot explicitly identified marijuana as the cause of illness.

Yes you did - using phrases like "there are no known health risks" you dismiss all the evidence we have that cannabis can cause harm.

Here's just one link, but there are many other reputable sources. This one discusses lung health.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/06june/Pages/cannabis-lung-healt...

> The report says that the constituents of cannabis smoke are similar to those of tobacco smoke apart from the presence of THC (which is only in cannabis) or nicotine (which is only in tobacco). This means that cannabis smoke has the same carcinogens (substances that cause cancer) as tobacco smoke, although concentrations of these may be up to 50% higher. Like tobacco, cannabis also contains toxic carbon monoxide

Saying that this is equivalent to "no known health risks" is intellectually dishonest.


Unless he edited, he didn't use the phrase "there are no known health risks"

The phrase used was "no known health detriments", by which I believe he meant a direct causal link, such as with cigarettes and lung cancer.


I did not edit, and that is precisely what I meant. Thank you.




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