New Study: Cigarettes Tied To Increased Stroke Risk But Not Marijuana

According to the American Cancer Society, “Half of cigarette users will die because they smoke. Six million people die every year because of tobacco. This figure includes five million smokers, but also about 600,000 non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke. It is expected that, without any action, eight million people will die annually, by 2030.”

Those are some scary facts, which is why marijuana opponents try very hard to paint marijuana as ‘the next big tobacco.’ Marijuana opponents hope that people don’t look further into the matter and take the claim at face value. That boogeyman reefer madness spreading doesn’t help anyone, and hurts a lot of people that refrain from using cannabis for fear that it will kill them like tobacco does.

There is not one recorded case of someone dying from marijuana in the history of human civilization. That fact alone is enough to debunk claims that...

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