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To the moron who says pot is bad for you mentally and physically, you might want to do a little research on recent studies so you can stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.

First report to read: Dr. Donald Tashkin's groundbreaking 2006 study on lung cancer and cannabis. Tashkin is a government researcher whose studies have long been used by prohibitionists to suggest that cannabis is dangerous. Tashkin performed a long-term study that compared lung cancer rates among tobacco smokers, cannabis smokers and non-smokers. Guess who had the highest lung-cancer rates? That's right, the tobacco smokers. Now, guess who had the lowest lung-cancer rates? If you said non-smokers, you are wrong. It was the cannabis smokers who had the lowest lung-cancer rates.

Most of the mainstream media ignored this story, perhaps because they get federal advertising dollars (a.k.a. your taxes) to run nonsensical anti-drug ads.

Not every media outlet blew it, though - Fox News carried a very balanced report on the Tashkin study - see http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html

After you read Tashkin (or at least the Fox report) then do a Google search on cancer and cannabis. There are numerous studies suggesting cannabinoids have tumor-shrinking qualities, as well as other potential health benefits.

If you want to avoid cannabis, you are free to do so. But intelligent, informed people know better, and using an archaic law and bad information to try and punish them for their knowledge isn't just unethical, it's criminal.