{"id":13574,"date":"2025-05-13T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:46:23","slug":"cannabis-usage-affects-epigenitics-similar-to-cigarette-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13574","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis usage affects epigenetics that increase cancer risk and creates similar effects as cigarette smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite the internet&#8217;s armchair doctors, cannabis usage causes epigenetic changes in it&#8217;s users &#8211; and in some of the same ways as cigarette smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cannabis damages DNA, increasing cancer risk and accelerating aging.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genotoxic effects of cannabis can be inherited by future generations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mitochondrial dysfunction links cannabis use to chromosomal damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Five significant cigarette smoking-independent CpGs were significantly associated with cannabis use. These CpG sites have also been implicated in cigarette smokers; therefore, both cannabis use and cigarette smoking may independently influence DNA methylation at these CpGs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20231108\/Cannabis-use-alters-DNA-methylation-with-implications-beyond-smoking-effects.aspx\">https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20231108\/Cannabis-use-alters-DNA-methylation-with-implications-beyond-smoking-effects.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/epigenetics-cancer-genetics-28065\/\">https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/epigenetics-cancer-genetics-28065\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the internet&#8217;s armchair doctors, cannabis usage causes epigenetic changes in it&#8217;s users &#8211; and in some of the same ways as cigarette smoking. Five significant cigarette smoking-independent CpGs were significantly associated with cannabis use. These CpG sites have also been implicated in cigarette smokers; therefore, both cannabis use and cigarette smoking may independently influence DNA methylation at these CpGs. Links:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3wW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15070,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions\/15070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}