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originally posted by: IgnorantGod
a reply to: rickymouse
I would argue that cannabis smoke is way harder for the throat than cigarette, my analysis based upon my everlasting cough if I dare to smoke a joint without tobacco, while I don't even cough if I mix the two.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
I know someone who smokes weed. When he had his lungs checked for capacity, they were found to have 151% capacity of normal size. He could stay under water almost twice as long as everyone else, going back and forth lengthwise under water in the pool. Sounds like it made his lungs bigger and better to me
originally posted by: visitedbythem
I know someone who smokes weed. When he had his lungs checked for capacity, they were found to have 151% capacity of normal size. He could stay under water almost twice as long as everyone else, going back and forth lengthwise under water in the pool. Sounds like it made his lungs bigger and better to me
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: AgarthaSeed
The most significant and dangerous side effect of marijuana: questioning what you're taught and using discernment.
Dangerous to whom???
A media that relies on you doing the exact opposite of that.
Is this all wrong, or total hype?
However, the harmful effects of smoking cannabis are widely known and have recently been highlighted.3,4 Although the active ingredients of the cannabis plant differ from those of the tobacco plant, each produces about 4000 chemicals when smoked and these are largely identical. Although cannabis cigarettes are smoked less frequently than nicotine cigarettes, their mode of inhalation is very different. Compared with smoking tobacco, smoking cannabis entails a two thirds larger puff volume, a one third larger inhaled volume, a fourfold longer time holding the breath, and a fivefold increase in concentrations of carboxyhaemoglobin.5 The products of combustion from cannabis are thus retained to a much higher degree. How is this likely to translate into adverse effects on health?
We already know that regular use of cannabis is associated with an increased incidence of mental illnesses, most notably schizophrenia and depression,4 but it is also worth examining its potential to cause other illnesses, especially those of the heart and respiratory system.
At present, there is an understandable dearth of epidemiological evidence of cardiopulmonary harm from cannabis, because its use is a relatively new phenomenon and its potency is changing. The amount of the main active constituent, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), in cannabis has increased from about 0.5% 20 years ago to nearer 5% at present in Britain, whereas “Nederweed” (the variety smoked in the Netherlands) has an average of 10-11% tetrahydrocannabinol. At the same time little study has been undertaken of any concomitant change in the content of tar. Case-control studies are difficult to perform since cannabis cigarettes do not come in standard sizes, which makes dose-response relations difficult to establish. Furthermore, most users of cannabis also smoke tobacco, which makes it difficult to dissect out individual risks. As with tobacco, there will be a latent period between the onset of smoking and the development of lung damage, cardiovascular disease, or malignant change.
US National Library of Meds
originally posted by: game over man
a reply to: rickymouse
Maybe you have respiratory problems to begin with? Or were smoking dirt weed? Many professional athletes smoke tons of weed and their leagues now allow it. Tobacco is much more harmful to all parts of your body! Not just the lungs.
originally posted by: IgnorantGod
a reply to: visitedbythem
It is probably unrelated to smoking, it could be all about genes, or simply because he trained his lung capacity.
originally posted by: game over man
a reply to: rickymouse
Maybe you have respiratory problems to begin with? Or were smoking dirt weed? Many professional athletes smoke tons of weed and their leagues now allow it. Tobacco is much more harmful to all parts of your body! Not just the lungs.
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: game over man
a reply to: rickymouse
Maybe you have respiratory problems to begin with? Or were smoking dirt weed? Many professional athletes smoke tons of weed and their leagues now allow it. Tobacco is much more harmful to all parts of your body! Not just the lungs.
Smoking anything, is going to have "some" effect, been smoking the best there is for 35 years.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
originally posted by: IgnorantGod
a reply to: visitedbythem
It is probably unrelated to smoking, it could be all about genes, or simply because he trained his lung capacity.
I hear marijuana smoke expands a lot. Maybe it expanded his lung capacity