Drug user grew £26,000 cannabis farm at his Accrington home (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  woolywords wrote:
  Whilst I do not condone the use of cannabis, I feel that I must point out some popular misconceptions that appear regularily in the commentary.
  
  Cannabis is considered to be a 'soft' drug by most people and, apart perhaps from the mistaken belief that it will lead to 'hard' drug use, it is seen by many as a fairly benign drug. However, this does not mean that the use of cannabis entails no health-risks.
  
  It has been argued that cannabis smoke contains carcinogenic substances. The British Lung Foundation recently reported that smoking 3 cannabis 'joints' was equivalent to 20 cigarettes. When cannabis is smoked mixed with tobacco, the problems associated with tobacco smoking also become relevant. Cannabis smoking is also believed by some experts to be associated with conditions such as bronchitis. The point here is that as soon as you start to burn something and inhale that smoke a range of health risks are created. Evidence to cannabis's relative harm in this respect (compared to say cigarettes) is as yet contradictory.
  
  Some experts believe that cannabis use must also be seen as involving some risk of dependence. It is clear however that while some individuals may suffer from problems not dissimilar in many ways to a dependence syndrome, for the majority of users dependence is not an outcome and as such cannabis would not normatively be understood as a drug of addiction.
  Alcohol is thought to cause around 28,000 excess deaths per year in England and Wales, Tobacco more so and yet both are legal substances.
  So to state that someone growing cannabis is a 'peddlar of death' is both fallacious and unsupportable by the facts.

  Just so you are aware of the full facts regarding cannabis "carcinogens";
  
  Studies have found that Cannabis, when burnt, has some of the same nasty carcinogens as tobacco.
  
  Here's the amazing thing though - even though millions and millions of people have caught cancer from those carcinogens from smoking tobacco - no-one has ever caught cancer from the exact same carcinogens from smoking cannabis - no-one, not ever. Isn't that weird.
  
  The truth therefore, which scientists now know, is that cannabis, or actually THC, has anti-cancer properties - it has to, otherwise people would get cancer, but they never ever do.
  
  If a study only looked at the bad effects of those same shared carcinogens (acetaldehyde for instance is one common to both cannabis and tobacco) - then it is flawed in saying that cannabis is as dangerous as tobacco - because it doesn't take into account the hugely positive counter effect which THC has.
  
  It needs to look at what cannabis does as well which tobacco clearly doesn't. Cannabis is looking after it's users - incredibly it is making these highly dangerous carcinogens completely safe.
  
  That's a guaranteed fact - because no-one has ever got lung cancer from cannabis."
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