Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Teetotalling is bad for you


I'm beginning to come to a startling conclusion about lifestyle choices and their effects on health. Drinking is good for you, smoking pot is good for you, and smoking cigarettes is, ahem, kinda good, in a way.

update: as Anonymous pointed out, "smoking" pot may not be beneficial but injecting it's psychoactive ingredient THC into human tumour cells may cause them to shrink...if you are a mouse.

further update: also enjoy strawberry daiquiris as a spirited health tonic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Come now, let's not redraw our maps with headlines:

"Smoking pot is good for you."
Really? Did we read the same article? The article I read described a study suggesting that injecting THC into mice implanted with human cancer cells reduces the size of tumors. The article goes on to say that "some animal studies have shown that THC can stimulate some cancers." I don't recall reading anything about the effects of inhaled cannabis smoke on lung cancer in humans.