A couple articles. First, with a hat tip to Instapundit, is this article from the UPI: "Bacterial toxin implicated In [sic] young adult colon cancers." Essentially, the researchers state that "[a] bacterial toxin called colibactin, produced by certain strains of E. coli, appears to alter gut DNA in a way that prompts colon cancer, researchers report in the journal Nature." But, the article continues, "[m]ore research now is needed to figure out how children are being exposed to colibactin-producing bacteria, and what can be done about it, researchers said."
In addition, I separately came across an article from the Daily Mail reporting that "[c]onsuming cannabis nearly every day increased the risk of dying from colon cancer by up to 20-fold, the research found."
Researchers at the University of California San Diego tracked over 1,000 colon cancer patients and compared daily marijuana users to non-users.
The difference was stark — people who used weed daily before their diagnosis had a 56 percent chance of dying within five years of spotting the cancer. That was 11 times higher than those who never touched the drug.
The outlook was even worse for patients who had an official cannabis addiction diagnosis. They were 24 times more likely to die than their peers within five years.
The experts believe THC, the active ingredient in cannabis that causes hallucinogenic effects, may cause inflammation in the colon, which causes cancer cells to grow.
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