Moderate Marijuana Smoking Doesn’t Hurt Lungs

By majestic on January 11, 2012 in News 56

Marijuana joint Good news for those who partake via AP/Fox News:

Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn’t harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn’t do the kind of damage tobacco does.

The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users – those who smoke two or more joints daily for several years. The data suggest that using marijuana that often might cause a decline in lung function, but there weren’t enough heavy users among the 5,000 young adults in the study to draw firm conclusions.

Marijuana is an illegal drug under federal law although some states allow its use for medical purposes.

The study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham was released Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings echo results in some smaller studies that showed while marijuana contains some of the same toxic chemicals as tobacco, it does not carry the same risks for lung disease…

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DeepCough

Studies like this are basically old news now: that Cannabis cause no significant or permanent harm to your body should today be common sense.
jigglyboobs

duh. most things won’t hurt you if only used moderately.
jigglyboobs

duh. most things won’t hurt you if only used moderately.
jigglyboobs

duh. most things won’t hurt you if only used moderately.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

beat me to it
juan

even cigarettes don’t cause cancer in moderate use, it’s the people smoking packs daily that get cancer.
Hadrian999

can we just legalize the stuff already, enforcing the prohibition is a waste of money
Heath

Once I ate to much cheese, and the milk wasn’t pasteurized first :O
Anarchy Pony

You’re doomed.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000621856449 Rodney Sells

this study that says that marijuana contains some of the same toxic chemicals as tobacco is bull. unless the they put these chemicals in the marijuana.
Josh Steves

This is too funny. I just had a doctors check up yesterday. My doctor always asks me if I’m a smoker and I always say no. Thing is, I poke smot every day. I’ve even asked my doctor on numerous occasions how my lungs look, because I’ve had asthma since I was a child. She told me my lungs look fine and I’ve been doing good keeping my asthma under control. One thing she doesn’t know is how I’ve been keeping my asthma under control. I stopped taking my asthma medication (singular) 3 years ago and started smoking organically grown marijuana. Since then I can now out run my friends who are cigarette smokers. I use a vaporizer BTW. Only occasionally will I take a puff off of a joint. It also helps with anxiety related to stress.
Mikey

They roll the marijuana with tobacco in same joint. I know, it’s retarded and no one does that. But that’s how these things get so skewed…
80_year_old_midget

First world problems…..
Mikey

Yet, second hand smoke causes cancer……….. How does that work?
Voidthought

When your body is not getting its daily intake of vitamins from living foods then you always will inevitably be more prone to any disease. You are what you (eat)do and don’t do. The strong will survive and the weak shall perish–that is the lot of man.
Anonymous

Why MariJuana does not Smoking Hurt Lungs?
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Mr Willow

Or. . . you can just make brownies (or any other baked good really) and completely bypass any potential (though largely non-existent) damage to your lungs.

Can we please just legalize it, already—and not just for medical purposes? With all of the accumulated information concerning its health effects, it’s prohibition is beyond laughable.
Jin (仁)

i remember on occasion in highschool when people (ahem) would add ganja to their cigarette. it’s not that uncommon, especially for noob smokers.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

Maybe there are detrimental effects other than physical health effects
Mr Willow

Example?
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sirius fnord

Language people, language. It matters what magic words we use to describe and create our reality. So if we all could refrain from saying things like “for all MANKIND or things like the lot of man” I say this as their are two sides to our species and mostly our language caters for men alone. We should all strat saying HUMANKIND instead as it is much more apt.

You may think i am being a pain here, but words are magic and help forge the reality we see, and according to the language we appear to be unbalanced in favour of the male.

Anyway big love to mary jane and all her followers.
chubby

the only one I have found after a lifetime of abuse (of various drugs, not just mj) is short term memory loss
Marc Michel

Maybe nobody in the US… but in Europe it’s pretty much standard to mix tobacco and ganja within a joint… you guys are just too hardcore only smokin pure stuff…
DontPanic

“It also helps with anxiety related to stress” Unfortunately, it can also cause a great deal of anxiety for some. But individuals should still have the right to choose if they want to partake without the fear of negative legal repercussions…
Rick

WTF?
http://twitter.com/bigstupidsmile adam

I AM SO TIRED OF SEEING POORLY ROLLED JOINTS IN THE MEDIA!
ChildMan

Munchies…

I think if more people smoked marijuana, Hostess wouldn’t have gone bankrupt.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

Of course, playing devils advocate here, but psychological effects, social effects, etc. But really, I said maybe for a reason, I don’t have any specific reasons other than gut feelings gotten over the years of use (because of course, any effects are already there and I’d be a fish looking for water).

(also brownies are so much better)
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

I’m glad you got your priorities straightened out
Rick

So if it’s not a fag and it’s not a joint then what is it? A faggy joint? You Brits are so silly.
EyeoftheAxis

Them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong, way to skinny and to damn long. Well I ain’t no holy roller so I just use a bong, cause them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

Well I thought it made sense
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

I think its just something that is relatively new. They commonly do it to make sure they smoke every crumb of weed preventing the problem of a roach(cus who cares if its all tobacco at that point…)
WeedGuru

OK, so this is not necessarily recommended, but I actually tried to OD on marijuana. Took an entire pound (16 ounces) of headies, piff, medical grade — whatever you want to call the good shit — and dissolved it into a solvent and rendered it down into pure THC oil. Then I ate and smoked all of it. Yes, I know it sounds stupid, irresponsible and unnecessary, but it was for science!

The affects, at first, were like smoking a lot of pot. Then after a few hours had gone by I became very tired and my energy level dropped to that of a 80 year old man (I’m 28, 6 ft 1″ and weigh 220lbs BTW). So I ended up sleeping for a few hours then waking up and instantly feeling like I smoked 10 joints in a row. This cycle went on for almost 3 days, until the forth day when I started to get my energy and clarity back. I also lost 4 lbs during this little charade. Maybe because of the lack of energy, I felt no need to eat very much. So with the experiment concluded I can now say marijuana cannot harm you. And if it can, you need to consume way way way more than I did and I don’t see how that’s possible.

As for it’s effects on your lungs. I have a friend who is 57 and he’s been smoking marijuana habitually since he was 14 years old. Never once in his 57 years of existence has he ever had shortness of breath or any lung problem for that matter. He’s healthy as an ox and does landscaping for a living. So I would have to say from knowing him, marijuana cannot harm your lungs.

Keep up the fight disinfo! Let’s change the haters minds!
Yeyoah

Woah THAT’s a fat joint
Yesyou

What you have been doing right is the Vaporizer. That is not harmful. The harm in smoking marihuana is not in the marihuana department, but in the “smoking”. Any time you inhale hot smoke into your lungs you are hurting them as well as your throat, tongue etc. Vaporizing is the answer to a 100% healthy use of cannabis. Or food.
Rick

It makes sense, but how do we go from cigarettes causing cancer to saying it better to use humankind instead of mankind or “lot of man”. lol

Gotta love the interwebs.

@ccccca7f30d22bc99b16dc95aed9a83c:disqus Also, healthy people who take care of themselves get cancer too. It’s not just how you eat.
Ron

Stress can cause cancer. Yet apparently everybody’s high on that shit these days.
Sammy Tate

You should see the ones I roll on Sundays. It’s bigger than that and its a cross. Because Jesus fucking loved weed!
Ñ!

Come on “mankind” is just a synonym for “humanity”. In THIS particular case I gotta disagree with ya.
Mr Willow

Had a feeling you were playing devil’s advocate.

Still, I personally can’t think of any psychological effects beyond mild euphoria and the potential to look around you and really see what’s happening, and no social effects other than those who partake being shunned by those around them because of the stigma of ‘associating with potheads’.

I always preferred baked-goods over smoking. You can also make tea with it. Very versatile.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

Well I believe in moderation, and just like anything (alcoholism?) too much can be bad in my opinion. If you’ve seen any pot junkies you’d understand (they are a weird sight, but definitely not a pretty one). But of course just like alcoholism there’s probably another underlying cause separate from the weed.
SickOfSycophants

> The harm in smoking marihuana is not in the marihuana department, but in
the “smoking”. Any time you inhale hot smoke into your lungs you are
hurting them as well as your throat, tongue etc

Sounds like common sense, but the science does not back up your claims.
Science!

Correct! Scientific studies show that marijuana heals mutated cells. Which means the damage done to your lungs by the smoke is actually countered by the healing effects of THC.

God I love this plant.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
Monkey See Monkey Do

pot junkies, you mean like Sadhu’s? Time, one of mans most valued materials that only exists in the material.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

I’d hardly call anyone who spends all his time smoking and watching Family guy or some nonsense, and rushes over to some guy named Bone around the corner for more weed when he runs out, a Sadhu; however I see your point
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

I’d hardly call anyone who spends all his time smoking and watching Family guy or some nonsense, and rushes over to some guy named Bone around the corner for more weed when he runs out, a Sadhu; however I see your point
http://twitter.com/bigstupidsmile adam

No room for quips?
Alex Cull

Governments don’t seem to understand that it is completely within everyone’s rights to do whatever the hell they want to themselves. Hell,even if marijuana was bad for you, it wouldn’t matter, cause it’s my body, not the damn government’s.