Chronic Marijuana Use: 35% Increase in Testicular Cancer
Well here we are in Canada over one year now since marijuana was legalized.
The potential medical benefits of marijuana consumption are significant however due to the historic U.S. government attitude towards drugs published research has not been very extensive.
Here are a couple of good resources which I use when discussing the potential medical benefits of marijuana:
Project CBD is an excellent research oriented resource on the science and application of CBD:
ProjectCBD
Here is a link to their Science page
NORML– National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation
This is a U.S. based lobbying organization which has for over 40 years been working to change legislation relating to marijuana – both for recreational use as well as medical use.
There is one particular pageon this website which does a good job of outlining the potential medical applications of marijuana – copied below.
I am not consuming any marijuana compounds currently however I have personally used marijuana products at certain times over the past 15 years to help to manage a chronic pain condition.
I don’t currently need it as I am able to manage this condition with my own developed pain/inflammation formulation.
When I was using it in recent years, I would use a CBD tincture which worked quite well without any psychoactive effects from THC.
Before CBD fractions became available, I tried using a THC/CBD tincture formulation for my pain condition. I was hoping that by being able to titrate the dosage that I could manage the psychoactive effects while achieving the pain/inflammation benefits but I had to abandon this strategy as I found the psychoactive effects too profound when I was working (something about trying to work on complex spreadsheets while feeling “buzzed” did not work!)
Today I want to share with you an article and a new study that suggests that chronic smoking of marijuana over a protracted period of time can increase the potential of developing testicular cancer in men by some 36%.