it is more effective in treating aids victims who if it did cause lung cancer it wouldnt matter no other drugs will work for them they take them and throw them up and then they cant eat the pill form already being prescribed nationwide meridinol is used for many disease's aqcuired later on in life gluecoma alzheimers etc. look at all the other prescription drug commercials read the health risks caused by them "nausea heart attack stroke etc" people who are pregnant should not take this medicine... marijuana doesnt even cause that many things. its one of the leading treatments for multiple sclorosis parkinsons disease and turettes because it is also a muscle relaxant the pill forms dont work for this either because it is hard to manage the dosage due to the wait in effectiveness to kill the whole joint thing there were studies done and marijuana does not cause lung cancer it was one done at the university of california with over 2000 people 50 years old who smoked pot when they were younger the reasons it does not cause lung cancer are still unkown some leading theories include you dont smoke 200 joints (10packs) a day its not necesarry as it is with nicotine there is also cancer fighting agents in THC and in the possibility of legalization the use of Vaporizer's which almost completely demolishes the harmful things in the plant because it doesnt burn the plant it burns the chemical THC which would help people who have lung cancer Al Gore's sisters did it when they got lung cancer. it is also humanly impossible to overdose on Cannabis the closest thing to overdose ever recorded by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT was in one case a large dose of hashhish was consumed this is the strongest concentrate of THC known and resulted in a stomach ach a person cannot hummanly smoke enough to kill themselves they fall asleep before that happens and wake up 100% fine and of all the years i have participated in use of the drug i have seen one anxiety attack and that was someone who has mental disorders. any questions or challenges email me please jaredlowry515@hotmail.com