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Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science: 'Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out'

by René | February 20, 2008 at 12:37 pm | 406 views | 2 comments

Recent weeks have seen a rash of new studies of marijuana hitting the mass media, generating scary headlines like "Smoking Pot Rots Your Gums," "Cannabis Bigger Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes" and "Pot Withdrawal Similar to Quitting Cigarettes. Most of this coverage can be boiled down to a fairly simple equation:

Flawed science + uncritical reporting = misinformation.

Mercifully, the U.S. mass media were so distracted by Super Tuesday, Heath Ledger's autopsy and the latest Britney Spears trauma that reports of these studies didn't get as much play as they might have. That's good, because the research had significant gaps, and the reporting ranged from slapdash to flat wretched.

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Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. Posted February 9, 2008.

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Agata

at 07:52 on May 29th, 2008

Too many negative news in a few days about smoking marijuana. Nevertheless, usually people smoke from 10-20 cigarettes a day, when they need just half- a cigarette of marijuana a week to achieve saturation. What has the more harmful impact in this case, marijuana or tobacco?

signature: “I like to drink coffee and smoking cheap cigarettes before bed. I dream faster.” (c) Steven Wright: Coffee and cigarettes

René

at 13:06 on May 29th, 2008

If anybody smokes 10 to 20 marijuana cigarettes, the size of a normal cigarette, they are going to comatose. Just more propaganda to justify keeping marijuana illegal.