{"id":5939,"date":"2009-08-06T20:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/marijuana-use-associated-with-a-%e2%80%9csignificantly-reduced-risk%e2%80%9d-of-head-and-neck-cancers\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:18:47","slug":"marijuana-use-associated-with-a-%e2%80%9csignificantly-reduced-risk%e2%80%9d-of-head-and-neck-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/marijuana-use-associated-with-a-%e2%80%9csignificantly-reduced-risk%e2%80%9d-of-head-and-neck-cancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Use Associated With a \u201cSignificantly Reduced Risk\u201d of Head and Neck Cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/cannabis_flower.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"260\" alt=\"cannabis_flower.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2009\/07\/30\/marijuana-use-associated-with-a-significantly-reduced-risk-of-head-and-neck-cancers-will-the-mainstream-media-care\/\">\n<p>For some 35 years the United States federal government has been well aware that cannabis possesses potent anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. And for the past three years, government-funded researchers have speculated that these qualities may offer \u201cprotective\u201d effects against the onset of various types of cancer in humans, including lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Yet to date, virtually no investigators have taken the time to assess marijuana\u2019s potential anti-cancer effects in humans \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>In a clinical abstract just published online on the Cancer Prevention Research website, a team of U.S. investigators report that marijuana use, even long-term, is associated with a \u201csignificantly reduced risk\u201d of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2009\/07\/30\/marijuana-use-associated-with-a-significantly-reduced-risk-of-head-and-neck-cancers-will-the-mainstream-media-care\/\" ><cite>Marijuana Use Associated With a \u201cSignificantly Reduced Risk\u201d of Head and Neck Cancers \u2014 Will The Mainstream Media Care? | NORML Blog<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for the past three years, government-funded researchers have speculated that these qualities may offer \u201cprotective\u201d effects against the onset of various types of cancer in humans, including lung cancer.  &#8230;  In a clinical abstract just published online on the Cancer Prevention Research website, a team of U.S. investigators report that marijuana use, even long-term, is associated with a \u201csignificantly reduced risk\u201d of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1xN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}