Dr. Donald Tashkin

Dr. Donald Tashkin, M.D., the Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory at U.C.L.A., has been studying marijuana for over 30 years.  

Back in 2006, he concluded ...

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. 

The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles.   

"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."

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Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

Read more on that study here.

Dr. Tashkin does a lot of government research on marijuana.  More recent studies, which I will highlight in some future posts, even suggest that marijuana can arrest and reverse the effects of some kinds of cancer.  

I've said it before, but we are looking at one of the most beneficial and useful plants on Earth.   The U.S. government knows marijuana is not harmful but is sitting on much of the information.  One has to wonder why.

Here's a short video of Dr. Tashkin talking about the nonexistent link between smoking marijuana and lung cancer.