Cannabis & Pesticides, Side-By-Side

All commercial Cannabis smokers, like all cigarette and tobacco product smokers, inhale multiple pesticides with every toke or puff. None of these pesticides have ever been tested, by EPA, FDA or by the manufacturer, for their intermediate and long-range impact on health when they’re inhaled. However, because of their inherent disease-causing properties, pesticide exposure by all other routes except inhalation has been linked by decades of medical and scientific research to dozens of diseases.

Significantly, the intermediate and long-term health effects of tobacco product smoking have also been researched extensively, and are well-known.

This makes for an interesting side-by-side comparison with Cannabis.

“Epidemiological Evidence Review Report:

Exposure to pesticides and fertilizers and human health“

The first two columns are Disease Outcomes and their known association/lack of association with Pesticide Exposure, taken from the UN report linked above.

The Tobacco Product and Cannabis columns are the result of Semantic Scholar and PubMed queries I decided to make just for fun. While individual associations (or lack thereof) can probably be questioned, and while the federally-enforced absence of Cannabis research is almost certainly reflected in the absence of all known associations except one, the overall pattern seems clear. The case for Cannabis as powerful natural Medicine is pretty strong, as is the case for pesticide-free Cannabis.

Disease Outcomes	Pesticide Exposure	Tobacco Product Smoking	Cannabis Smoking Vaping
Abnormal glucose regulation	YES	YES	NO
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia	YES	NO	NO
Allergic asthma	YES	YES	YES
Allergic rhinitis	YES	YES	NO
Allergy-related disease	YES	YES	NO
Alzheimer’s disease	YES	YES	NO
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	YES	NO	NO
Anencephaly	YES	NO	NO
Autism	YES	NO	NO
B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma	YES	YES	NO
Barrett’s esophagus	YES	YES	NO
Behavior and affect symptoms	YES	YES	NO
Birth weight	YES	YES	NO
Brain tumors	YES	YES	NO
Breast cancer	YES	YES	NO
COPD	YES	YES	NO
Cancer	YES	YES	NO
Cholesterol	YES	YES	NO
Chronic bronchitis	YES	YES	NO
Chronic kidney disease	YES	YES	NO
Chronic myeloid leukemia	YES	YES	NO
Couple fecundity	YES	YES	NO
Cryptorchidism	YES	YES	NO
Depression	YES	YES	NO
Dementia	YES	YES	NO
Diabetes	YES	YES	NO
Endometriosis	YES	YES	NO
Essential tremor	YES	NO	NO
FSH	YES	NO	NO
Fasting glucose (mg/dL)	YES	YES	NO
Free T3	YES	NO	NO
Gastroschisis	YES	NO	NO
Gestational diabetes mellitus	YES	YES	NO
Gestational hypertension	YES	YES	NO
Head circumference	YES	NO	NO
Height	YES	NO	NO
Heterotaxia	YES	NO	NO
High blood pressure	YES	YES	NO
Hodgkin lymphoma	YES	YES	NO
Hyperuricemia	YES	YES	NO
Hypospadias	YES	YES	NO
Hypothyroidism	YES	YES	NO
Idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM)	YES	NO	NO
SLE	YES	YES	NO
LH	YES	NO	NO
Left ventricular mass	YES	YES	NO
Length of Gestation	YES	YES	NO
Leptin	YES	YES	NO
Leukemia	YES	YES	NO
Lung cancer	YES	YES	NO
Lymphoma	YES	YES	NO
Myelodysplastic Syndromes	YES	YES	NO
Metabolic syndrome	YES	YES	NO
Minor psychiatric disorders	YES	YES	NO
Miscarriage	YES	YES	NO
Multiple Myeloma	YES	YES	NO
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	YES	YES	NO
Nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate	YES	YES
Obesity	YES	YES	NO
Oligozoospermia	YES	YES	NO
Overweight	YES	YES	NO
Parkinson’s disease	YES	YES	NO
Preterm delivery	YES	YES	NO
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy	YES	NO	NO
Prostate cancer	YES	YES	NO
Pubertal growth	YES	NO	NO
Rheumatoid arthritis	YES	YES	NO
Stomach cancer	YES	YES	NO
Stroke	YES	YES	NO
Suicidal ideation	YES	YES	NO
Neural tube defects	YES	YES	NO
Thyroid cancer	YES	YES	NO
Urinary bladder cancer	YES	YES	NO
Gastroschisis	YES	NO	NO
Glaucoma	YES	YES	NO
Lower respiratory tract infections	YES	YES	NO
Male genital malformation	YES	NO	NO
25(OH)D3	YES	NO	NO