Media Scare.

Story Here.

When the average person picks up a paper or opens there favorite news site I doubt they read much more than the headline for most stories. I would image they would click on a few a read through them but for the most part my guess is they skim and soak up what they can. So when someone sees a headline like "Cannabis Bigger Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes" or "Smoking One Joint is Equivalent to 20 Cigarettes, Study Says" its easy to see why people who don't smoke and don't have an interest in marijuana have such a distorted view of it.

I would just like to give you this quote from the above story.


"For those who actually bothered to read the study's full text, which appeared in the European Respiratory Journal days after the global feeding frenzy had ended, they would have learned the following. Among the 79 lung cancer subjects who participated in the trial, 70 of them smoked tobacco. These individuals, not surprisingly, experienced a seven-times greater risk of being diagnosed with lung cancer compared to tobacco-free controls. As for the subjects in the study who reported having used cannabis, they -- on average -- experienced no statistically significant increased cancer risk compared to non-using controls."


Now I don't know about you but I don't really think a sample group of 79 is big enough to support any findings, pro or con for marijuana.

Why does the media feels such a need to throw stories out without even the slightest of fact checking? If the media were writing an essay I can sure as hell tell you they would get it back with a big note on the front that said "Check Souces, Rewrite" But thats the problem with todays media no one cares about facts they care about readers and the fact of the matter is that a headline like "Experts Warn of Cannabis Cancer 'Epidemic." sells more papers.

Its time for the people of this country to stop letting everyone tell them what to think and really start to create some thoughts of there own.


Maybe they just need a bowl to get the juices flowing.