Uh-oh, if you were a doobie smoker back in the day, or you happen to still be blazing a trail even in older age, then you may be unknowingly and unnecessarily raising your risk for a particularly agressive form of testicular cancer, research is seeming to allude to.  The research is admittedly not conclusive or complete yet, but scientists are trying to pull together different groups of men and see what the common factors are in those that develop testicular cancer, and have seemed to find a significant correlation between those who smoked pot at least once a week in their youth and also may still be frequent pot users, and those that developed testicular cancer.

Marijuana does have some agents in it that may increase the risk of cancer, especially lung cancer, because when it is lit up and smoked, and especially because marijuana is usually smoked without filters and other things that may filter out the harmful and most carcinogenic aspects of the drug, become very harmful to the body’s tissues and therefore may be cancer causing as well.

So, if you used to light up a lot when you were younger, you may want to be more aware of being screened for testicular cancer and checking your testicles more often than you would have if you had not known about the possible risk increasing agents in this common and often smoked drug.   Testicular cancer is kind of a hard one to study, and even researchers admit they are sometimes baffled as to what the causes of it are exactly, especially since it many times strikes men who are in their twenties and thirties.

But smoking marijuana has other health repercussions as well and should be avoided anyways.  It has been shown to decrease sperm quality, and of course there is just the fact that you are smoking a carcinogenic substance into your lungs which can actually be much more harsh than a cigarette because it lacks any filtering, and there is the fact that smoking this drug does kill brain cells, which to me is reason enough to leave well enough alone.

I’m all for a little experimentation when you’re younger, if you’re a controlled person that does not have an addictive personality, but there is definitely a time to kiss any kind of drug or vice good bye, especially as you get older and your body responds more negatively to anything harmful.

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