There has been a long debate over marijuana and it being the cause for lung cancer. Well today, We Smoke Marijuana want’s to put it’s two cents into the debate.

Marijuana Lung Cancer

Allow me to quickly answer the question “Does marijuana cause lung cancer”? I can definitively say, NO!!! Don’t listen to all the half-cocked garbage that you hear people saying about the negatives of marijuana. Marijuana does not cause lung cancer.

Research finding after research finding supports what we already know here at We Smoke Marijuana, it doesn’t cause lung cancer. I don’t blame people for thinking that it might contribute to the development of lung cancer, but it actually fights it off.

Largest Marijuana Lung Cancer Study

According to the Washington Post in 2006, the largest marijuana lung cancer study every done was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved over 1,200 people in the Los Angeles area who had lung, neck, or head cancer. In addition, 1,040 people without cancer at all was included, matched by age, sex, and neighborhood. Was an extensive study, but what was interesting was what the researcher found.

The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.

“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”

Source: The Washington Post to read more

The fact that the research Tashkin had previously thought that marijuana was bad for the lungs and in fact did cause lung cancer in the past, had a complete reversal of his opinion and now believes that their is no correlation is amazing. In fact, in the article he mentions that he believes the use of marijuana actual stops, shrinks, and prevents the grow of cancer in the lungs. Talk about a complete turn around.

The research is in. Marijuana does not cause lung cancer.