Booze Causes Cancer
That alcohol causes cancer isn’t really news, but how it does so hasn’t been fully understood. A new study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, adds an important new piece of information. Alcohol, it turns out, stimulates a type of cell transformation that turns cancer cells more aggressive and thus more likely to spread throughout the body.
As we’ve noted before, research shows that cannabinoids (marijuana’s unique, active components) interfere with tumor growth and may actually prevent cancer.
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sigh..
Tim Lincecum is fighting his cancer!
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/11/baseballs-tim-lincecum-charged-marijuana-possession
its funny, and extremely sad and maddening, that we used to be told that marijuana causes cancer and kills brain cells…… but its really alcohol that causes cancer and kills brain cells…
silver lining: when drinking, just smoke marijuana and it will protect your brain cells from the detrimental effects of alcohol.
awesome. If pot isn’t legal by 2012 I’m out of this country. Can’t stand the hypocrisy.
Whatever… I have been drinking AND smoking cannabis for 25+ years, I am also cancer free. I’m completely disgusted with all this shit about every God damned thing causing cancer…I think worrying about what all causes cancer causes cancer.
Not too surprising to me… I was a bartender for about 12 yrs. and have known many alcoholicss/heavy drinkers that have developed different forms of cancer (at relatively young ages, at that).
Add to this news, a persons tendency to: (1) act like a total idiot while under the influence, (2) mow down a kid getting off of a school bus (yes, he died), (3) abuse and terrorize their spouse and/or children, (4) steal to support their distructive disease…etc….There’s not much good you can say about it….except maybe that it’s legal!!!
I stopped drinking but continued smoking at the beginning of this year just because alcohol no longer appealed to me, and I’ve never felt better!
Luke, same here man. It’s amazing what a difference it makes when you don’t imbibe alcohol. I was going down a horrid path with booze that was brought on from medication i was taking for seizures and depression. Maryjane literally saved my life and allowed me to stop drinking. I feel great.
Good stuff, Luke and Dayadog! I’m always impressed to see people make the safer choice.
I have been walking away from alcohol for years. Still have one or two on occasion,but my life is much better,feel much better.
Does cannabis have a few small draw back, of course but they are far out weighted by the draw backs of alcohol. If I was forced to become an alcoholic or a chronic, I’d choose to be a chronic hands down.
How else do they get to make up all theses fantasy Pharm drugs if there is no enemy to defeat. It’s no surprise. We’re all lab rats!
They create the illnesses so that they can cure them and make more money.
ugh…. wish my people can understand this….what a shame!
Hey Dan-o #5, Just so you know Cannabis has been proven to counteract most of the harmful effects of alcohol so you most likely have it to thank for remaining cancer free! Although, and please don’t quote me on this, the alcohol may still be killing your liver.
Cannabis cures cancer.
This was first reported 19 August 1974 by the U of Virginia Med College when (while trying to prove the opposite!) they cured three lab rats of cancer with insane doeses of THC.
(well, it wasn’t “reported” in the news, just in Science journals.)
the scientists of the world should start up a tv news station…. all scientific news….. science 24/7… now i know there is the science channel, the history channel and the discovery channel…. but its all lies(if lies means truth) so we need to envision a science news channel that reports scientific breakthroughs and look at current events in a logical and common sense fasion.
We need people reporting news that knows basic scientific things. The balloon story would have never been blown out of proportion if there had been a science news channel. think about it.
science… its in every single aspect of our lives. embrace it! science is our future….. and so is cannabis
It’s good news for those who are trying to quit alcohol before it’s too late to stop.
I have friends and family who are alcoholics. I’ve seen the effects of alcohol on individuals and on the people around them. The drug war is, to a large degree, a form of denial about the very real and pervasive problem our society has with alcohol. Even the language used in reporting on the subject is geared towards separating alcohol from “drugs”, as if it weren’t a drug, and a hard drug at that. How may stories do we read that speak of “drugs and alcohol” as if they were not in the same category. Even DUI reports will often warn of driving under the influence of “drugs and alcohol” as if illegal drugs were the bigger problem. Denial is the first and most difficult hurdle to overcome in alcohol recovery, and this denial is at the heart of the drug war.
Thanks for the post and all the comments.
I’ve been around for a while now and from what I can tell scientists change the opinion about a lot of substances year after year.
Eugenics…Eugenics…Eugenics…new word that keeps slapping me in the face…hard to accept the idea, but the powers to be leave me no other choice. They say one thing out of one side of their mouth while they are saying something different out of the other side. Just accept the fact that your health is not nearly as important as their profits, and it sure appears to me that there are lots more profits..especially the way they have rigged the system…in keeping we the people sick, rather than supporting true good health and well being. Sooooo, hope you don’t think I’m paranoid, but I believe they are really out to kill us…of course…not to fast, but slow enough to reap maximum $$$ as the plan to reduce earth’s population, by those who consider themselves our masters, will continue as planned. Am I a conspiracy theorists? Please prove me wrong!
Here’s my thing – yes, alcohol is the nastiest substances you can put inside of yourself. But we still have the right to do so. Realizing this, I still enjoy a few bears and/or a little Tennessee whiskey on the weekends. The problem with alcohol is the adictive nature of it, and the rowdiness it sometimes creates within the user. If someone can control it, as I do, there is absolutely nothing with having a few drinks. On the other token, we have tobacco. There is nothing more I enjoy after getting high is smoking a cigarette. I have seen so many people on here resound the battle cry “cigarettes bad! Beer bad!” I tell you, for a group who is against gov’t intervention into our lives, of what we enjoy getting high off of, we rather like hypocrites. Don’t get me wrong, I consider cannabis to be God’s gift, and has been so very wrongly labeled for so very too long. But please, let’s not persecute one thing in order to make the point that what the majority enjoys shouldn’t be persecuted.
So here we are… MLB Cy Young pitchers and Olympic gold medalists getting caught smoking the ghanja don’t get crap… safer substance by far I know, but this is just preaching to the choir. At least Lincecum doesn’t puss out like Phelps the puss did. We all know Timmy Lincecum will still smoke before games… My new favorite pitcher in the majors.
Can we please get some ballot movements going on in the Federal level, State level, any level. Go Breckenridge, CO.
Other Luke, I hope I didn’t give the impression I was looking down on alcohol or drinkers, I just do seem to feel better after giving it a long rest. I should point out that I don’t normally look at me not drinking as “quitting” , as I will drink again one day (currently considering a vacation in May 2010), and well… I’m not a quitter! I also quite enjoy my cigarettes.
Well, if we cant legalize mJ lets try to make alcohol illegal. Lets see what kind of arguments the mj prohibitionists will come up with then… oh yea it will be the same arguments of free will and choice that we are using right now…
Alcohol and cigarettes(tobacco) are the real cancer in society. I was 10 years old when my grandmother lay dying in a pool of her own lung fluids from smoking. I still, even after having witnessed that, smoked cigarettes for a time when i was in my late teens early 20s. I will never touch tobacco again. I cannot forgot my grandmother lying there on her deathbed when she was only barely 70 all from emphysema. She would probably still be here today perhaps if not for tobacco. Yet its LEGAL! Perfectly legal mind you. When it does nothing but KILL KILL KILL. Cannabis is medicine. I had problems and still do with alcohol. I smoke a bit of cannabis after drinking and its like a kick in the nuts/ gut check time where my conscience awakes and fills me with a sense of dread and fear or wtf am i doing using this harmful substance alcohol. Yet the authorities do nothing but demonize cannabis when it has the POWER to heal! The God from hindu mythology Shiva was often depicted with his pipe at his side, a Cannabis pipe. Cannabis is literally food from the GODs. The fact that the powers that be want to deny man of our right to partake in GODs gift that he gave us called CANNABIS is amazing to me. Thank you MPP and everyone who fights in this effort. You are the TRUE warriors who stand up to injustice and unlike the cowards and greedy egoist who prey on the weak and belong to the prohibitionist faction. If and when i ever am able to donate i will do so when that is possible until this battle is won!
Luke # 1.
I wasn’t singling you out – sorry if you felt that way. It’s just, I thought cannabis users were more grown up than a lot of other people. I personally believe that what an adult puts inside his/her own body is no one’s business but their own, so long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process. Whether it be pot, booze, nicotene, coke, or even scionide. I mean, it’s your life and your body, and the law of self-governance should apply to this. Is alcohol and tobacco harmful? Without a doubt. But whether to use and enjoy them is an individual right.
It’s just that, I am tired of hearing a majority of the pro-cannabis movement yelling out to persecute one thing in order to get their point across.
Also, people for pot and against tobacco need not worry. I guarentee that when (not if, but WHEN) cannabis is finally legal and regulated, tobacco will take its place in the legal system. One big reason cannabis was banned is because all of the revenuers and booze-cops needed a job, so they filled the need with pot. I guarentee that withing 5 years of cannabis being legitimized, tobacco will become the new prohibition. It’ll have a new comical name, though. Something like “tobacco penalization” or some stupid crap.
Luke (The Other One),
I too am not in favor of prohibition. However, the glorification of a substance that is known to cause serious harms is not something we should endorse as a society. I smoked butts for 18 years and know it all stated for myself with Joe Camel and Camel bucks.
As a society we need to expose those who seek too profit through a destructive device. One could argue that it is only destructive to those who abuse. My argument would be that due to my belief in allowing people to do with their bodies what they want, i still believe we should discourage the profiting and outright glorification of said substances.
I have heard the argument along the lines of free market and freedom of speech through advertising. This type of black and white ideological thinking has never worked before and has no chance in the future as there is always gray.
I often wonder where we would be without the greatest endorsement for alcohol, the Wedding at Cana…
The other Luke: When we were so fortunate to travel to Amsterdam a few years ago we had a meeting with a coffee shop owner and a cop. It was wonderful!
Anyway, the point being, the coffee shop owner did say he believed there would be an attempt to outlaw tobacco in the Netherlands. However, the people of the Netherlands love their tobacco and will put up a fight and will most likely be victorious in defeating any such attempt.
They do prefer to smoke their cannabis mixed with tobacco, rolled that is.
Holy Smokes. Booze the celebrated poison of choice. I have witnessed the destruction it can cause in families and other lives. I’m still a drinker and tobacco user. The tobacco is the nail in my coffin. Trying to quit. How many LEO find themselves in trouble with alcohol. Alcohol leads to violence, sexual abuse, cancer, and possibly premature death. Let’s stand together united and demand a SAFER choice. We are the people and the leaders work for us.
Rev.Sleezy
The Universal Life Church of the Holy Smokes
Potland, OR
lol, I quit tobacco as soon as I discovered marijuana. I haven’t looked back since. If I try to have a cigarette, it makes me feel ill. Marijuana does not. Why is that? Interesting, no?
I can’t believe we haven’t legalized cannabis & hemp yet after all this time…
Please go here to sign a great petition for the legalization of hemp, and to watch a great video about the recent hemp farming in Canada: http://www.change.org/actions/view/allow_us_farmers_to_grow_hemp
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