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[Kratos]

SAN FRANCISCO — Smoking a joint from time to time won't damage the lungs, even after years of drug use, according to a study led by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers that disproves one of the major concerns about marijuana — that smoking it must be just as risky as lighting up a cigarette.
The study, results of which were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found the lung capacity of people who smoked pot was not diminished by regular toking, even in those who smoked once or twice a week.
Only heavy marijuana users — those who smoked 20 or more joints a month — saw a negative impact on the pulmonary system, but that level of marijuana use is unusual, researchers said.
In fact, they said, it may be that marijuana smoke doesn't affect lung function the way tobacco does simply because people don't smoke as many joints as they do cigarettes.
The results should reassure doctors and patients who are considering using marijuana for medical care, primarily to ease pain and nausea, said Dr. Mark Pletcher, a UCSF epidemiologist and lead author of the study.
 

Who wants to smoke some joint with me?

source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017206149_potlung11.html

[major]

Wait is this new? They taught us this in health in High school. There will always be BREAKING news on drugs and sex, just cause everyone does/want to do them.

[terps4life90]

Sorry If this comes off rude osaeed2k9, but that is the dumbest shit i have ever heard. Your putting smoke in your lungs, Period. Therefore, fucking your lungs up. Taking 1 hit of weed is like smoking 1 full pack of cigarettes. Whoever submitted that information out to be smacked with a shovel. Im pretty sure the guy who did got his PHD from a cereal box.

[V!NCENT]

Hahahaha! I can see what you did there xD



Same goes for:
-LSD (no damage, unless you OD ofcourse);
-MDMA (no damage if usage is 1-2mg/kg_body_weight per 2-3months).


All other drugs like heroin, crack, ghb and meth I wouldn't take. Coke is as far as I can tell not realy damaging if you don't take it every month, unless for your nose, but then again I know few about cocain.


I stopped smoking weed when I couldn't sleep anymore without it. Otherwise also perfectly legal to buy and smoke here. We can even grow our own, but dealing it and growing more than 5 plants per household is illegal.

[V!NCENT]

Your putting smoke in your lungs, Period.

You mean fine dust. Yeah... same when you walk past a driven car...

[namajnaG]

Taking 1 hit of weed is like smoking 1 full pack of cigarettes.

I believe this is a myth, Because if it was actually true, I would have lung cancer by now. I've been an asthmatic since the age of 18 months and I've been smoking herb for almost four years on a daily basis or almost, And my lungs are doing very well. Although if I stay in a room with a person smoking a cigarette, I need to take my medication, Else I'm having a hard time breathing. I've been in a cigarette smoke free home for eight months and I haven't took my medication a single time, But I've been smoking pot indoors ever since I got here, And I'm doing great.

Besides, If it would be legal, I think the U.S. economy would be in a better state, As hemp and cannabis is a massive pile of money and a very important resource, But I guess the government is too blind to see that if pot was regulated and used as paper/oil/fuel or was sold in convenience stores for smokers, They not only would make a ton of money, But that would also stop a pointless drug war that costs millions every year and that only send people to jail or death over a kilo of marijuana or a few plants in someone's backyard or closet. Now don't get me wrong, Fighting against heroin/cocaine/methamphetamine dealers are a good thing, But pot dealers/growers?

I know that there are some irresponsible pot smokers out there, But I am not one, I am not a criminal, Nor a bad person. I'm simply someone that consumes an harmless substance just like any of us drinks a beer after work or have a cigarette after lunch.

[Kratos]

Sorry If this comes off rude osaeed2k9, but that is the dumbest shit i have ever heard. Your putting smoke in your lungs, Period. Therefore, fucking your lungs up. Taking 1 hit of weed is like smoking 1 full pack of cigarettes. Whoever submitted that information out to be smacked with a shovel. Im pretty sure the guy who did got his PHD from a cereal box.

No need to apologize. I also believe this is bullshit. It just creates an addiction and too much of it isnt good.

Heck too much of anything isnt good.

[Mangley]

Taking 1 hit of weed is like smoking 1 full pack of cigarettes.

This is what's full of shit.

Smoke isn't all the same. Yes, smoke is smoke and all smoke is essentially harmful for the lungs. Just how harmful depends entirely what's burning. Generally all smoke is bad, but certain chemicals can be much more harmful to the body if smoked (or just consumed in general). In many ways weed is actually safer to smoke than tobacco because it's illegal to grow it in so many places and as a result it's often grown indoors in people's cupboards or greenhouses it's not going to be treated with pesticides and is therefore exponentially safer to smoke than tobacco that's grown on plantations and hosed with pesticides every week. That's not even counting the number of additives and carcinogens that they shove into cigarettes.

Marijuana does have health benefits, much like other plants like aloe vera. Tobacco is overall much more harmful for you, with or without additives.

Legality is a completely arbitrary issue. As far as history is concerned tobacco was an industry before science could prove how dangerous it was. That's why it's legal today, the only reason.

[terps4life90]

Check this out fellas.

http://www.justthinktwice.com/factsfiction/fiction_marijuana_is_harmless.html

[mbsurfer]

Check this out fellas.

http://www.justthinktwice.com/factsfiction/fiction_marijuana_is_harmless.html

QFT +1

[killermonkey]

Here's a fact no one can dispute: You can live a perfectly normal and happy life without drugs.

[namajnaG]

Here's a fact no one can dispute: You can live a perfectly normal and happy life without drugs.

Can't disagree on this one.

[V!NCENT]

Here's a fact no one can dispute: You can live a perfectly normal and happy life without drugs.

That seriously depends. People with cluster headaches cannot function without LSD. Same goes for people with post traumatic stress dissorder can completely heal their trauma with MDMA. some people with social anxiety cannot function in society without MDMA. People who are so depressed that they think about suicide can heal their depression with only 3 times of MDMA usage and completely return to 'normal' with lasting effects for the rest of their lives.

As far as nicotine? Not needed. Weed? Dunno. All the rest; not needed either.

[mbsurfer]

That seriously depends. People with cluster headaches cannot function without LSD. Same goes for people with post traumatic stress dissorder can completely heal their trauma with MDMA. some people with social anxiety cannot function in society without MDMA. People who are so depressed that they think about suicide can heal their depression with only 3 times of MDMA usage and completely return to 'normal' with lasting effects for the rest of their lives.

As far as nicotine? Not needed. Weed? Dunno. All the rest; not needed either.

I think KM is referring to people that use and/or abuse drugs for pleasure rather than for medicine.

[V!NCENT]

There's nothing wrong with taking certain drugs recreationaly. For example LSD can realy make you understand your personality. Most people that took it say the've realy changed, but for the better. An example is Steve Jobs.

Then you have MDMA, which can show you problems you're having in your life, without you ever even knewing you had them.

Weed doesn't have any real benefit as far as I can tell, but it doesn't harm (except if you use it while you're studying; it's a little hard to remember the first two days after usage).

But ofcourse drugs like ghb, heroin, meth and cocaine doesn't improve your life at all. Those are the drugs that make peoples life go toward a downward spiral. And in that regard I totally agree with KM on that.