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If marijuana has more carcinogens than cigarettes(as most doctors say) than why is it not definitively linked to cancer like tobacco is?
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How did you conclude: How did you conclude that? Have you done an extensive literature study? And if such a study (most likely would have been retrospective in nature) has not been done it does not mean that smoking marijuana is not harmful. Your line of reasoning is very similar to arguments I hear from others that use marijuana about how "it is not harmful " in other ways also.
Answered 8/7/2018
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