More Good News About Pot

Everyone knows that cigarettes - always perfectly legal - cause a number of serious health problems - not the least of which is cancer.

Pot, on the other hand, does not cause cancer according to a new study. As reported by Reuters:

The nicotine in tobacco makes cigarette smoking more likely to cause cancer,while the THC in marijuana may help protect users from the carcinogens in the drug, a University of Colorado researcher says.

The BBC reported Oct. 17 (2005) that researcher Robert Melamede said that while tobacco and marijuana were chemically similar, tobacco posed more of a cancer threat. "Compounds found in cannabis have been shown to kill numerous cancer types including lung, breast, prostate, leukemia, lymphoma and skin cancer," said Melamede.