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UK Letter: Don't believe all you read about cannabis

Dilys Wood

The Sentinel

Monday 16 Feb 2009

IN REFERENCE to your article in the national and international news section on February 9 referring to a report linking cannabis with testicular cancer, I wanted to give some context to what could be a very worrying story for some of your readers.

The study, carried out in Seattle, was an interview of 369 patients with a rare and fast-growing form of testicular cancer called nonseminoma. The results were compared to 1,000 randomly selected healthy control subjects. Some 73 per cent of the cancer patients reported that they had used cannabis at some stage, compared to 68 per cent of the healthy subjects.

The findings are speculative at best and certainly do not prove that smoking cannabis causes cancer.

Dr David Bell, an urologist in Halifax, states: "This is a very rare malignancy, seen in about one per 100,000 men, per year. One has to really question the significance of this."

I believe that the significance is the over-zealous reporting of negative cannabis stories, while any positive studies are blatantly ignored.

Where are the newspaper reports about experiments which show THC (a main ingredient of cannabis) killing cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone?

What about the study by the Ohio State Department of Psychology which suggests that cannabinoids can be used to reverse memory loss and may be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease?

Cannabis may have harms associated with it, but surely this should be a matter for the Department of Health and not the Home Office.

Why should we protect people by criminalising them?

Again it is the utter hypocrisy of the situation which forces me to put pen to paper.

DILYS WOOD
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Stoke

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Don-t-believe-read-cannabis/article-699855-detail/article.html

 

 

 

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