From: NORML California <[canor m l] at [igc.apc.org]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Date: 13 Oct 94 23:45 PDT
Subject: Re: Marijuana causes cancer & Marijuana

  Here are some references concerning the carcinogenicity of marijuana:
  Paul Donald, "Advanced malignancy in the young marijuana smoker," Adv Exp
Med Biol 288:33-56 (1991)
  FM Taylor, "Marijuana as a potential respriatory tract carcinogen," South
Med Jounral 81: 1213-6 (1988)
  Donald Tashkin, "Is Frequent Marijuana Smoking Hazardous to Health?" 
Western J of Medicine 158 #6: 635-7 (June 1993)
  Paul Donald, "Marijuana smoking - Possible cause of head and neck carcinoma
in young patients," Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 94#4: 517-21 (1986)
  James Endicott, "Marijuana and Head and Neck Cancer," in H. Friedman et al,
ed.  Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and AIDS (Plenum Press, 1993).
  The above articles pertain specifically to the link between marijuana
and observed cases of cancer in humans.  There is a much larger literature
on the carcinogenicity of marijuana tars in animal and in vitro studies.