Tag: Marijuana

Heavy Marijuana Use Raises Oral Cancer Risk 300%+

A new study shows heavy marijuana use is strongly linked to a 325% increased risk in oral cancer.

Heavy marijuana use is associated with memory problems, birth defects, and cancer. Powerful marijuana products and cannabis use disorder are causing such serious health problems that some people have needed treatment in a hospital or emergency room. Researchers writing in Preventive Medicine Reports now say those people may be at greater risk of developing oral cancers.

Researchers collected data and analyzed clinical records from the University of California Health Data Warehouse from 2012 to 2024. The study found that cannabis use disorder — that is, heavy marijuana use or the inability to stop using marijuana despite the negative consequences — was linked to “a more than threefold increase in oral cancer risk over five years.”

Studies like this one should serve as an important warning to Arkansans. In the past five years, there have been multiple efforts to legalize marijuana by writing it into the state constitution or by letting companies manufacture and sell dangerous drugs made from hemp. Fortunately, voters and lawmakers have rejected these bad proposals.

The truth is marijuana is harmful — whether it is marketed as “medical” marijuana or “recreational” marijuana.

Marijuana has been tied to a number of deadly heart problems — including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. In fact, researchers now say marijuana use doubles a person’s risk of death from heart disease.

Marijuana use during pregnancy has been shown time and time again to hurt unborn children and newborns.

Experts have found heavy marijuana use is linked to paranoia, memory loss, schizophrenia, and other serious problems.

Nationwide, marijuana products are sending kids to the emergency room.

And instead of decreasing crime, marijuana legalization has actually emboldened drug cartels and increased the flow of illegal drugs across America.

The tax revenue that states receive from marijuana sales does not justify the damage that marijuana causes.

All of this underscores what we have said for years: Marijuana may be many things, but “harmless” simply is not one of them.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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EPA Sounds the Alarm Over Illegal Pesticides, Marijuana in California

News outlets report Siskiyou County in California has declared a local emergency due to toxins from illegal pesticides used at illegal marijuana grow sites.

EPA officials say the crisis is “part of an international criminal enterprise” and that some of the illegal pesticides imported from China are the same chemicals used as “nerve gas agents in warfare” that can attack a person’s respiratory and nervous systems.

Even after legalization, California still struggles with a black market dominated by international drug cartels.

The DOJ has said organized crime from Mexico and China may be making millions of dollars from illegal marijuana in California, Maine, New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.

Besides being a criminal enterprise, these illicit marijuana operations often pollute the environment and jeopardize public health.

Authorities in states like California, Maine, and Oregon routinely seize illegal pesticides at massive marijuana grow sites.

Unfortunately, marijuana products often carry serious health risks from pesticides — even when they are manufactured legally.

The marijuana plant itself easily absorbs toxins in the soil as well as chemicals or other substances sprayed on the plant. As a result, marijuana may contain pesticides, heavy metals, mold, or other contaminants.

These toxins are passed along into marijuana products — posing serious health risks for marijuana users.

Last year the Wall Street Journal reported that studies have found marijuana users have higher levels of heavy metals in their blood and are more likely to develop fungal infections. These toxins can cause serious — or even life-threatening — illnesses.

Research continues to underscore that marijuana is dangerous.

Researchers have found marijuana users are twice as likely to die from heart disease.

Heavy marijuana use has been linked to psychosis — especially among young men.

All of this underscores what we have said for years, marijuana may be many things, but “harmless” simply is not one of them.

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Situation in California Underscores Legalization Did Not Stop Illicit Marijuana

Stories out of California continue to underscore how legalization has not stopped illicit marijuana.

Last week state officials announced law enforcement seized $476 million worth of illegal marijuana from April to June of this year.

Photos reveal many of these illegal marijuana sites are enormous, operating on an industrial scale.

However, legal marijuana operations in California are also under investigation.

The Washington Stand reports that last week, raids at two marijuana farms owned by Glass House Farms in California “led to the arrest of over 300 illegal aliens, including children.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has indicated the situation looks like “potential exploitation, forced labor and human trafficking.”

The problems extend beyond California.

The FBI recently announced charges against seven Chinese nationals for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar marijuana scheme that involved money laundering, drug smuggling, and human trafficking.

Oklahoma has legalized marijuana, but in June, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced his Organized Crime Task Force seized nearly 41,000 illegal marijuana plants and more than 1,000 pounds of processed marijuana in a single sting operation. Drummond indicated “Chinese crime syndicates and Mexican drug cartels” are behind the illegal marijuana.

We have written time and again how marijuana’s legalization has actually emboldened drug cartels and organized crime who profit from marijuana.

Some of these illegal marijuana operations are tied to labor trafficking, violent crime, and foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party.

Authorities in Arkansas routinely confiscate illegal marijuana grown in other states. Arkansas State Police patrol a “drug pipeline” along Interstate 40 from Oklahoma to Tennessee.

All of this simply further underscores how marijuana may be many things, but “harmless” simply is not one of them.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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