Misleading Health Headlines

There were big headlines on MSNBC today warning that pot is "A Bigger Cancer Risk than Cigarettes!" I'm guessing that smoking anything regularly is a cancer risk, but anyway, their point is that smoking one joint is around equivalent to twenty cigarettes (if you read the article instead of getting a headline stuck in your head like a lot of people seem to), mostly because it's smoked unfiltered and all the way down to the end. On the other hand, (1) most joints are shared, so one person isn't smoking the whole thing, and (2) the average casual smoker may not smoke even part of one joint in a day, while most smokers smoke a pack or more.

When you get all the way down the article, you see that this is a study of 80 people with lung cancer, and that they have deduced that smoking more than one joint per day leads to a fivefold increase in lung cancers. Since everyone in the group had cancer, with no control group, I'm not sure how they deduced the relative risk.

This is not about marijuana, folks. It's about the Mainstream Media putting out alarmist headlines then burying the facts in the part of the article by which most people have stopped reading and the rest are skimming enough to miss it. These people are controlling our elections. They're feeding "wars" on concepts that affect our politics, our healthcare, even the forms of entertainment we use to escape.