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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (6007)2/19/2007 9:50:17 AM
From: Gersh Avery  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
The text below is quoted from your post 5882 to me. Please note how many times Tashkin used the word "suggests."

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Studies further suggest that marijuana is a general "immunosuppressant" whose degenerative influence extends beyond the respiratory system.

Regular smoking has been shown to materially affect the overall ability of the smoker’s body to defend itself against infection by weakening various natural immune mechanisms, including macrophages (a.k.a. "killer cells") and the all-important T-cells.

(4:20 note-> he didn't say "smoking marijuana" in the second sentence. He just said "smoking." I believe that he is extrapolating based on cigarette smoking. I conclude this because the first sentence says "suggests" and the second says "shown." BTW this extrapolation process is what he used to determine that smoking pot causes lung cancer.)

Obviously, this suggests the conclusion, which is well-supported by scientific studies, that the use of marijuana as a medical therapy can and does have a very serious negative effect on patients with pre-existing immune deficits resulting from AIDS, organ transplantation, or cancer chemotherapy, the very conditions for which marijuana has most often been touted and suggested as a treatment.

It has also been shown that marijuana use can accelerate the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS and increase the occurrence of infections and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

(4:20 note->Do you have any links to that last statement? I would like to examine the study documentation.)

In addition, patients with weak immune systems will be even less able to defend themselves against the various respiratory cancers and conditions to which consistent marijuana use has been linked, and which are discussed briefly under "Respiratory Illnesses."

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Tashkin jumps to conclusions and tries to make his assumptions sound like scientific studies.

"What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

dang .. there's that word suggest again. How much of this guys stuff is it wise to believe?

It seems that he just looked at ciggarette smoking studies and figgured that everything about smoking ciggarettes would be true for pot also.
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