U.S. Senate Unanimously Approves Marijuana Reform Bill

[Yakuda]

Yep, and marijuana is smoked unfiltered and down to closer to the butt of the joint than a cigarette. At least one British study I've seen says marijuana weight for weight is about three times more carcinogenous than tobacco.

Correct.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM198802113180603

 

[danielpalos]

I can only offer anecdotal evidence since when I took a lung test it seemed like my lung performance had improved due to more physical exercise even though my marijuana usage was quite high at the time; especially, compared to tobacco smokers who seemed to have much more degraded lung capacity with their regular tobacco usage.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I can only offer anecdotal evidence since when I took a lung test it seemed like my lung performance had improved due to more physical exercise even though my marijuana usage was quite high at the time; especially, compared to tobacco smokers who seemed to have much more degraded lung capacity with their regular tobacco usage.

Not everyone who smokes cigarettes ends up with cancer or COPD, or whatever either...

 

[danielpalos]

Not everyone who smokes cigarettes ends up with cancer or COPD, or whatever either...

Not sure what the exact composition of the chemical that actually does the damage. Nicotine could be worse for "the pulmonary order flow".

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Not sure what the exact composition of the chemical that actually does the damage. Nicotine could be worse for "the pulmonary order flow".

THC is worse for certain brain functions. For example, you increase risk of getting or aggravating bipolar disorders significantly.

https://adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mjbipolar.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811144/

 

[danielpalos]

THC is worse for certain brain functions. For example, you increase risk of getting or aggravating bipolar disorders significantly.

https://adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mjbipolar.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811144/

Perhaps a Napoleon Hill book could be recommended so they can have the tools to turn a bipolar disorder into a dual core processor?