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Health and Marajuana
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For a long time now I have been asking the question "Does smoking marajuana have the same effect on the lungs as regular cigarette smoke?" I have not been given a firm answer nor can I find literature on any reports done on the subject. Will the marajuana smoke cause COPD?
With talk of putting marajuana legalization on the voting block and with the fight against smoking and second- hand smoke , I feel the public should be made aware of the pitfalls of long term use and what those pitfalls are.
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Permalink Reply by Vanessa on -
Pot does not have carcinogens (or as many) as cigarettes...the tar residue left from the smoke is still a risk, but getting cancer is not. There really hasn't been enough studies.
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Permalink Reply by Erick on -
Marijuana use is not great for the lungs but it is not nearly as harmful as cigarettes. For one people don't smoke marijuana as much as they smoke cigarettes and it does not contain the harmful ingredients that cigarette companies add to their products to make them more addictive.
I think a lot of crime would be reduced and a lot of money would be saved if grass was made legal.
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Permalink Reply by Dorothy on -
I ,still, am not getting an answer to my question! Will marijuana smokers be subjected to COPD? Are there any lab tests and reports on the long term effects?
Firemen often suffer from lung disease and they don't often fight marijuana fires, so all smoke has some potential for carcinogens. Vanessa, what laboratory tests prove that you can not get cancer from marijuana smoke? Inquiring minds what to know? :) I'd hate to see this issue on the ballots without some knowledge of the long term effects. Look what we are going through with legalized tobacco use, our children are paying for our indulgence! Leagalizing marijuana use has it's pro s but it also has it's cons. I'd just like to see some thought put into this issue.
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Permalink Reply by CK on -
Erick was close as most people who smoke only marijuana smoke much less than people who smoke cigarettes. People who smoke both cigarettes and marijuana face a much higher percentage of associated lung problems than people who don't smoke or people who smoke just one or the other.
Smoke of any kind isn't a good thing to be in the lungs.
Here are several links which may be of some help:
Does Marijuana Worsen COPD Symptoms in Cigarette Smokers?
http://www.pulmonaryreviews.com/07jul/marijuana.html
Side Effects of Marijuana on the Lungs
http://www.ehow.com/about_5056887_side-effects-marijuana-lungs.html
Effects of marijuana on the lung and its immune defenses
http://www.ukcia.org/research/EffectsOfMarijuanaOnLungAndImmuneDefe...
http://effects-of-marijuana.com/
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2...
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Permalink Reply by Dorothy on
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Thanks CK that's what I was looking for. I'm going to check out those sites right now.
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Permalink Reply by CK on
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Hi Dorothy. There are hundreds of such sites. When reading them pay attention to who wrote it and what is their involvement. The pro marijuana sites down play the adverse side effects while the anti marijuana sites try to make it as bad as possible. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
I've never tried marijuana or any drugs for that matter but I think that they should all be decriminalized.
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Permalink Reply by Dorothy on
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I agree, CK, it should be decriminalized. Making marijuana legal and taxing it could be a saving feature for our State. It would add more money to the coffer, reduce the cost of housing criminals, reduce the fight on drugs, all-in-all, a no lose move! But the public should be aware of the hazards of their actions. Had the knowledge of cigarette smoke inhalation been known when I began I might not be tied to an oxygen tank now. Being young I probably would have said, "It won't happen to me!" I have never smoked marijuana or indulged in drug use other than that prescribed by a Doctor but I do have multiple members of family that do. Oh, if I could only get through to them but of course, I'm that sweet little old Grandma that doesn't know anything about life! LOL.
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Permalink Reply by Stimulus Bill on -
I think this is one of those issues which serves much the same function as a lightning rod, or the magician's pretty assistant. It is emotionally charged, and provides a harmless outlet for debate among those who imagine themselves to be politically active.
But marijuana is a "tempest in a teapot" compared to real issues that our government would rather we not focus on -- like the corruption of Democracy in favor of an unsustainable economic climate that keeps the many working to enrich the few -- even as the natural resources that those few have monopolized to enslave us deplete to exhaustion. The inevitable outcome of these policies will be a return to Feudalism, whereupon we will likely undergo a socialist revolution and repeat the mistakes of the U.S.S.R.
We must not let this happen, but I fear that we already have.
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