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Re: Cannabis 'could kill thousands'
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
From the BBC:
Professor John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College London, says he fears that deaths attributable to cannabis could soar.
However, Professor Henry, in an editorial for the British Medical Journal, said that if, as many scientists suspected, regular cannabis smoking was as dangerous as tobacco smoking in the long term, the annual death toll from using the drug could be substantial.
He wrote: "It may be argued that the extrapolation from small numbers of individual studies to potential large scale effects amounts to scaremongering.
"For example, one could calculate that if cigarettes cause an annual excess of 120,000 deaths among 13 million smokers, the corresponding figure for deaths among 3.2 million cannabis smokers would be 30,000, assuming equality of effect.
"Even if the number of deaths attributable to cannabis turned out to be a fraction of that figure, smoking cannabis would still be a major public health hazard."
Professor Henry said that both cannabis and tobacco released approximately 4,000 chemicals when burned - most of them identical.
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