So, government did this test to see if smoking cannabis caused lung disease. Researchers did test on people who smoked one joint a day for 7 years(bet they smoked more than one). They found no decreased lung function nor any disease. Researchers even said smoking 3 joints a day had no effect on lungs. Of course chronic smoking isn’t good. Too much of ANYTHING is bad for you.
Negative effects of marijuana?
We know weed makes you happy , hungry , sleepy.
Don’t smoke so much or you will be lazy all the time.
Don’t smoke so much or you will get fat because your hungry all the time.
Well being happy isn’t so bad , but eventually you’ll run out . No more happy. Means you gotta get up off your fat, lazy ass .Leave the house and get more! Bummer Dude.
As with anything…moderation.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/marijuana-smoking-does-not-harm-lungs-study-finds/
I remember in the 80′s, when D.A.R.E. was a big deal , they would tell you that marijuana RIPPED your lungs out! Guess what…not so fast asshats!
They would tell you it KILLED brain cells.
Not so fast G man!
Could cannabis have other uses, medically speaking?
Possibly, but I wouldn’t go giving your kid weed just yet. Maybe your intake of fluoride during pregnancy might have something to do with this…being Dr.s recommend fluoride intake during pregnancy(just my theory,(and yes that’s what a local Dr. said to a young woman I know. He told here she needed to drink more water to increase her fluroide intake due to the fact she was pregnant!)).
What about cancer?
We will all be having or seeing problems with cancer rise due to the disaster in Japan. Shouldn’t we be doing everything we can to come up with weapons to kill cancer?
So government holds all the rights to cannabis…why? Why would they do that? Why would they want the rights to something that they themselves deem worthless? Why would they keep us from doing studies?
Why would they run people out of the country and put a price on their heads for trying to help people?
Seems to me they know something we don’t…that and they get lots of money to keep it illegal.
What we need is FACTS presented to the American public. NOT reefermadness , NOT government propaganda.
Who else to deliver those FACTS than people who have been fighting in the Drug War. People like this.
Best Marijuana Argument Ever: Given By Superior Court Judge James P. Gray
More of this needs to happen in congress. Mr. Cohen hands Mr.Mueller his ass and all he could do was stammer.He knew what he was saying was BULLSHIT!
Making weed illegal doesn’t keep people from using it…it just ruins the lives of those who get caught using it.
I can go out and smoke weed everyday . Being illegal is meaningless in those terms. So don’t sit there and say I just want it legal so I can smoke it.
My reasons are for the cancer cure. WE NEED TO KNOW…YES IT CAN OR NO IT CANT!
I lost my father to cancer(which is how I got on the path I am on now). I lost my grandmother two weeks later to cancer. My grandfather now has cancer. My aunt has been fighting cancer for sometime now. There are others in my family who have it or have died from it.
Amen. Gray’s testimony is one of the best presentations on this subject I have ever seen. And it comes from a knowledgeable source (from the “inside” no doubt).
I am losing many friends to cancer and have lost a few family members, as well. If this medicine is helpful in any way, it should be legalized. If it helps cure cancer, it should be used regularly (eaten, juiced, whatever safest means). There is a reason our body has an endocannabanoid (sp) system with an intention of some interaction with this essential substance. The body is made for it.
It is crazy… so crazy that there must be some other motive than “protecting” any user from himself.
Posted by BuelahMan | January 12, 2012, 11:22 amI (we) don’t need or want their protection. I will protect myself in a manner I see fit whether they like it or not.
Obeying stupid laws is stupid. I’m not a lil’ sheep they can con.
Posted by This is not my America | January 12, 2012, 11:38 amWant to see just how disconnected these clowns looking to be elected are? Check out the blog at normal.
http://blog.norml.org/2012/01/05/the-republican-candidates-on-marijuana/
Heres what Newt had to say:
“I think Jefferson or George Washington would have rather strongly discouraged you from growing marijuana and their techniques with dealing with it would have been rather more violent than our current government.”
This asshat either dosen’t know his history, being these presidents encouraged the growth of hemp. Or he knows and is looking to change history in the minds of the American people.
What a crock these people are. Most have no knowledge of the benefits of cannabis….just what they are told by their handlers.
Posted by This is not my America | January 12, 2012, 9:45 pmBy the way,NEWT, our government does kill people for having cannabis. Just have a look a DRUG WArRANTS web site. Have a look to the left at the drug war victims candle and click on it.
NEWT, don’t tell people our government isn’t violent toward cannabis consumers. It makes you a liar…oh wait…too late.
Posted by This is not my America | January 12, 2012, 9:49 pmI always heard Newt was a genius and historical scholar or something. Fox told me that, so it must be true.
Posted by BuelahMan | January 13, 2012, 5:43 am”The evidence for an association between use of marijuana and abnormalities in lung function, however, is inconsistent. In a convenience sample of young men (mean age 33 years) in Los Angeles, United States, who were habitual, heavy smokers of marijuana or tobacco and nonsmoking controls (n = 446), smoking only marijuana was not associated with abnormalities in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), ratio of FEV1 to FVC, various measures of small airway function or single-breath diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide.2 However, a modest decrease in specific airway conductance was observed in those who smoked only marijuana. This decrease was consistent with endoscopic observations of slight narrowing of the central airways and edematous changes in the tracheobronchial mucosa in this subgroup.10 An 8-year longitudinal extension of this study did not show an age-related accelerated decline in FEV1 among participants who smoked only marijuana compared with participants who did not smoke marijuana or tobacco. There was a significant accelerated decline among those who smoked tobacco.5″
Translated……….. this means that chronic marijuana smoking did not decrease lung capacity. Over an 8 year period of CONTINUAL study the people who were chronic smokers showed no evidence of COPD although they did have some bronchitis (irritation of the airways) from the high tar content. In another major study not referenced here it was shown that cessation of marijuana smoking coincided with complete resolve of all bronchitis in participants. The same could not be said of cigarette smokers, however this particular study compiling data from many studies that Tashken put together doesn’t address it although some of his others, especially his own huge study comparing and contrasting the results of more than 3,000 cigarette smokers, casual and chronic marijuana smokers and those who participated in both and at both levels over a number of years did show a significant difference between those smokers who even smoked small amounts of marijuana were somewhat protected from developing lung cancer in comparison to those who only smoked cigarettes and that those who were chronic marijuana smokers and never smoked cigarettes basically never contracted cancer.
The conclusion however of this particular study is as follows.
“Given the consistently reported absence of an association between use of marijuana and abnormal diffusing capacity or signs of macroscopic emphysema, we can be close to concluding that smoking marijuana by itself does not lead to COPD.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2665954/?tool=pubmed
Does smoking marijuana increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Posted by Kristina K. Bruce | January 13, 2012, 6:09 amKristina. Thanks for your input. I could have told them that.. Smoking cannabis can cause problems if not taking in moderation…as with anything. As much as we would like everything to be rosey where cannabis is concerned…you gotta be responsible. The few side effects are far out weight by the benefits and possiblities.
It irritates me how government uses a broad stroke of a brush for all just because a few aren’t responsible.
One size does not fit all when it concerns your life.
We need laws for people to live…not laws for government to rule.
Posted by This is not my America | January 13, 2012, 6:53 pmExcellent interview with Dr. Donald Tashin, professor emeritus U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, Dept. of Pulmonology
Posted by Kristina K. Bruce | January 13, 2012, 6:12 amI hear using a vaporizer can reduce the risks associated with the lungs.
Posted by drduhglyie | January 15, 2012, 4:57 amOr eating it
Thats what i love . Government will say all knids of things reguarding cannabis in the “smoking it” context , but doesn’t say squat about the alternative methods of consumption.
Anything to keep it illegal.
And I don’t care what is said. Even if Ron Paul is sELECTED . Weed will STILL be illegal.
Posted by This is not my America | January 15, 2012, 10:01 am