Health - Study finds marijuana testicular cancer link

[stinky_plant]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7869709.stm

Go to the link to read the article.

This is posted in lieu of the recent thread about the adverse health effects of Marijuana. SWIM read another thread about how most of the studies are about "long-term and heavy users" this study seems to be a bit ambiguous in that regard, the key quote from the article is

Just being a marijuana smoker seemed to carry a 70% extra risk

Seems rather ambiguous. And also odd, since Marijuana has been shown to shrink tumors, well, at least brain tumors http://americanmarijuana.org/pot.shrinks.tumors.html and breast cancer http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312132,00.html (note for all SWIM's friends across the pond, foxnews is pretty much the media puppet for the Republican party and the Bush administration...which you probably knew, and even they reported this, at least on the web).

So SWIM is wondering what the SWIY's make of this finding. The article (got to love the BBC) acknowledged that ~300 some people wasn't the greatest sample size and could be a "statistical blip." However, SWIM finds the study could be clearer about the magnitude of smoking of the participants. But maybe that was the key, even a little bit increases your risk.

SWIY's two cents?