Cancer risk to kids from cannabis use...

Hi All

This research is very important please read and forward to other drug prevention NGO’s.

The Audio Slides presentation is also very important the slides details the evidence very clearly.

http://audioslides.elsevier.com/getvideo.aspx?doi=10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2016.05.002

Subject: University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person's DNA structure

Fact of the week: Cancer risk to kids from cannabis use

University of Western Australia found that cannabis alters a person’s DNA, potentially exposing future generations to serious illnesses such as cancer. “In my 20 years of research on human cells, I have never found any other drug, including heroin, which comes close to the DNA damage caused by marijuana” – Dr Akira Miroshima.

WA researchers have warned that cannabis use causes genetic mutations that can be passed on to children and grandchildren.

Chromothripsis and epigenomics complete causality criteria for cannabis- and addiction-connected carcinogenicity, congenital toxicity and heritable genotoxicity

Albert Stuart Reece^, Gary Kenneth Hulse

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027510716300574

University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person’s DNA structure, potentially exposing future generations to serious illnesses and diseases such as cancer.

They said the implications for future generations had not been understood and were alarming.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/31678799/cancer-risk-to-kids-from-cannabis-use/

Herschel Baker

Drug Free Australia

www.drugfree.org.au

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