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Medical marijuana users should be concerned “because no one is checking the [aluminum] content of cannabis before it is smoked or used for medical conditions.”
Christopher Exley, PhD, FRSB is professor in bioinorganic chemistry and group leader of the Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Keele University’s Birchall Centre (Staf- fordshire, UK). You can find more information at the Centre’s aluminum and silicon website (keele.ac.uk/aluminium/) and in Dr. Exley’s blogs at The Hippocratic Post (hippocratic- post.com/?s=Exley). Professor Exley can be contacted at c.exley@keele.ac.uk.
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CANNABIS AND ALUMINUM
A few years ago, a medical doctor blogging for a pro-medical marijuana website in Europe reported some “rather unsettling information” that the author described as “so disturbing that it stands to redefine medical cannabis use, and its implications in treating diseases.”23 The “unsettling” discovery had to do with research by Professor Exley showing that modern cannabis contains high levels of biologically available aluminum.
In a 2006 study of both tobacco and cannabis, Exley and colleagues observed that both “active and passive smoking... will increase the body burden of aluminum.”24 Doing some calculations, the blogger reached the astonishing conclusion that “the average one joint-per-day smoker may be absorbing as much as 3,700 micrograms of aluminum per joint into his or her pulmonary circuit,” representing “a significant risk factor for neurodegeneration.”
Where does the aluminum in cannabis come from? In an interview with the doctor/blogger, Professor Exley hypoth- esized that it comes “both from the soil where it is grown and also that the ‛processing’ of cannabis for recreational use may also result in its contamination” by aluminum. Exley agreed with the doctor that medical marijuana users should be concerned “because no one is checking the [aluminum] content of cannabis before it is smoked or used for medical conditions.” Exley also speculated that “long-term cannabis use may predispose to chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.”
SOURCE: medicalmarijuana.eu/harmful-levels-aluminum-cannabis-plants/.
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