New Study Shows Marijuana Can Alter DNA, Create Mutations

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• Study not necessary... everyone knows that nothing happens to pot-smokers. Nothing, meaning they're generally not interested in doing anything, for long stretches of time. Of course, not every person has this reaction. That's a good enough reason for pot-heads to become psychologically or physically addicted, to see whether they're the ones who aren't as reactive. LOL. They like being social-science experiments.

  Then, in another 50 years, the Surgeon General will put out warnings about the dangers of pot, while aging hipsters dying of lung cancer attempt to sue the pot industry for billions of dollars, all shouting, "Those capitalists lied to us again!!"

  I can hear it now...

• And here I was thinking it was all that LSD and Cocaine.

• Jeez, a mind altering drug has negative effects? I saw some people saying that smoking weed had no cancer causing chemicals- like for some reason tobacco is fundamentally different from weed.

  This MJ as mother's milk is a real insult to intellect.

  • WA has notshown proper scholasticism in the past... This doesnt mean that they are breaking any ground.
    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/24/university-of-wa-academics-demand-end-to-deal-with-climate-change-contrarian
    http://learnaboutmarijuanawa.org/factsheets/tobacco.htm
    Next week: eating bar b q will change your DNA, and that of any descendants you may have produced post-rib infusion.

• In truth most anything can affect our DNA and create generational mutations. This is the reason for diseases and for good awesome traits in individuals.It explains how some people from certain regions get this or that whereas others from other regions do not. A child gets a terrible disease and people ask why... well if it is possible to go down the generations the possibility of someone or two people coming together that lived a certain way, ate a certain way or was around certain substances or acted a certain way or was affected physically and spiritually due to a situation could have very easily be transmitted through the generations until it hit that kid down the line. From substances, food, and actual behavior it CAN affect our DNA through our mind processes, bodily functions and even if I dare say our spiritual condition. I don't see why anyone needs a story about the possibility of anything affecting our DNA and creating issues that may not be seen in the individual but may take a few or several generations to be seen.

• Not much in the link about how the study was conducted. I'm not a big fan of meta-analysis, which seem to be the methodology for nine out of ten studies about human health nowadays. Most of the numbnuts conducting these studies have barely a passing acquaintance with the mathematics of statistics and come out with some truly bizarre conclusions. Which are good for big headlines but not much else. That "97% consensus" on global warming started with some flawed meta-analysis, for example.

• Well that explains Libtards....Smoke pot, get stupid and vote for the person who will give you free Doritos...