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21st century snake oil

Massive US-wide and European population studies were published in 2021 and 2022 which demonstrated what research had portended decades before – that cannabis used medicinally or recreationally is causal for cancers and birth defects.

The studies used new computer geo-spatial-temporal software with a methodology described in one of the world’s top scientific journals – Nature Scientific Reports. They found it causal in 33 cancer types, more than double the 14 of tobacco, and causal in 89 of 95 birth defect types tracked by the European Medicines Agency. These birth defects include non-deadly as well as potentially fatal birth defects such as cleft-lip palate and hole in the heart. In a pre-2020 universe, these findings would have led to medicinal cannabis products being immediately withdrawn from the market, but in an environment of cashed-up institutional investors, captured regulators, and media organisations that parrot their talking points and guard their priorities, there is a deafening silence where previously they would have fallen over themselves to sound the alarm.

From in vitro and animal studies, cannabis has been known for decades to severely damage human chromosomes (genotoxic), cause mutations (mutagenic), and cause birth defects (teratogenic), the effects all of which have now been verified in spades at the population level. Yet any cursory glance at medicinal cannabis advertising paints the picture of the substance as God’s herbal gift to mankind, with miracle cures promised for virtually any malady, making it the 21st century snake oil. Front and centre is the non-psychoactive and ostensibly benign Cannabidiol or CBD which the population studies have demonstrated to be more causal for cancer than any of the other cannabinoids, being causal in 12 cancer types. It is not exempt from birth defects where it is fortunately less implicated than some of the other cannabinoids.

This newly confirmed destruction only adds to the doubled chance of psychosis and schizophrenia, the substantially elevated rates of suicide, violence – including domestic violence – and even homicide, which Alex Berenson’s Tell Your Children documents so well. Add to that the cognitive disorders and a motivational syndrome afflicting our young people and there is no redeeming reason to defend cannabis.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/21st-century-snake-oil/