Kirby Posted August 15, 2007 Apparently Great Britain might use this to classify cannabis as a more serious drug Seems like bullshit to me 0 Share this post Link to post
YMB Posted August 15, 2007 That's just because the British hate Rastafarians. That's a fact, dammit. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted August 15, 2007 I smoke cigarettes and weed and I'm fine. Sometimes I have a pain in my chest, but hey, whatever. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted August 15, 2007 Naked Snake said:I smoke cigarettes and weed and I'm fine. You are most definitely NOT fine. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dr. Zin Posted August 15, 2007 Naked Snake said:I smoke cigarettes and weed and I'm fine. Sometimes I have a pain in my chest, but hey, whatever. Give it another 20-30 years. 0 Share this post Link to post
Johnatone Posted August 15, 2007 I couldn't give a shit less one way or the other. It's not like I'm doing these things and thinking it's healthy, unlike those ass-hats that drink light beer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Butts Posted August 15, 2007 Cigarretes are fucking gross. Weed is not a problem as long as you don't too often or become some lazy ass. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bank Posted August 15, 2007 Well kids, Salvia is still legal unless you live in Australia. I've tried some, it was fun. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 15, 2007 The article appears biased (sponsored by Marlboro?), since what it's saying is that pot smoking can apparently cause more of certain type of damage, not that it's necessarily more damaging overall, since tobacco helps further the serious emphysema, and is associated with cancer (not mentioned). Then it brings up the schizophrenia pot's supposed to help induce, to add dramatism to the report on the evil drug. It mentions a figure of 339 patients but says mothing in regard to testing conditions, nor if the tobacco smokers somked filtered cigs while the pot smokers made their own joints. 0 Share this post Link to post
Inferno Posted August 15, 2007 Well if you consistantly smoke a heap-load of it I'm sure you'll fry some brain cells, becomming forgetful and lethargic. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted August 15, 2007 Probably it is worse than cigs. When was the last time you heard of a hemp cultivation having ISO-standard quality controls? 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted August 15, 2007 Common sense says that forcing smoke into your lungs is A Bad Thing no matter what it's made of. Don't they make vaporizers for this very reason? 0 Share this post Link to post
GGG Posted August 15, 2007 If you live in an urban area, what difference does it make? Pollution is likely to become just as harmful as the population steadily increases. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted August 15, 2007 david_a said:Common sense says that forcing smoke into your lungs is A Bad Thing no matter what it's made of. Don't they make vaporizers for this very reason? Exactly. It always boggles my mind when people claim that smoking Marijuana doesn't cause cancer like cigarettes do. Nicotine by itself isn't carcinogenic. It's smoke that causes cancer. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted August 15, 2007 So eat special brownies. Smoking it is far from the only way to get it into your system. EDIT: No, nicotine is a quite lethal poison however. Fom Wikipedia:The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[6] [7] This makes it an extremely deadly poison. It is more toxic than many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted August 15, 2007 Each one (weed and cigs) have their share of problems! Nuff said... 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted August 15, 2007 Cigarettes have tar. I like my lungs red, green, yellow, but not black. 0 Share this post Link to post
GGG Posted August 15, 2007 Cannabis has several times more tar than cigarettes. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted August 15, 2007 smoke what the fuck you want, just don't come running to me when you turn retared. 0 Share this post Link to post
Alboroto Posted August 15, 2007 Weed can be a real problem sometimes, specially when it starts going out of control and messes my beautiful garden... Ahhh... THAT type of weed... I've quitted both for almost 1 and a half years, never felt better. I always felt that weed burned my chest... 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted August 15, 2007 That's an ooold study. Like a decade old. Timeline on them. Even if it is true, the average smoker smokes 20 cigs a day or so. The average weed smoker smokes like maybe 2 joints a week unless they're one of those guys who tries to be completely fried all the time. Add it up and see what's worse. Also, bongs and vaporizors lessen the carcinogens, and eating it in cannabis pot pie or brownies will eliminate them all together. 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrick Posted August 15, 2007 no weed for me kids. cigs, yes. probly not a good idea, but the whole legality factor is what keeps me away from weed. 0 Share this post Link to post
CODOR Posted August 16, 2007 Beer: cheaper, legal in many more places, and I can always get a new liver. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted August 16, 2007 GGG said:Cannabis has several times more tar than cigarettes. 150% last I checked. Don't recall if that was more than or a complete percentage though. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted August 16, 2007 Beer isn't cheaper than cannabis. By volume ratio perhaps. But the ammount you spend to get drunk is generally larger than the money you need to spend to get stoned. I rarely use alcohol as a drug anymore. When I drink, I generally do it cause nothing can quite beat a good Stout or Ale or whatever. Inntoxication from THC is really much more gentle and rewarding. EDIT: Oops, I actually managed to double post. Shouldn't post right after work. :/ 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 16, 2007 fraggle said: It always boggles my mind when people claim that smoking Marijuana doesn't cause cancer like cigarettes do. Nicotine by itself isn't carcinogenic. It's smoke that causes cancer. There are scientific reports dealing with how nicotine may facilitate the development of cancer. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted August 16, 2007 myk said:There are scientific reports dealing with how nicotine may facilitate the development of cancer. From what I understand it can play an indirect role, but it's the smoke that is the real issue. I just find it amazing when people say that smoking cannabis is TOTALLY 100% SAFE unlike cigarettes. 0 Share this post Link to post
the iron hitman Posted August 16, 2007 either way, your still putting the health of others and yourself at risk of emphysema, lung cancer, bronchitis etc all those smoking related diseases. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted August 17, 2007 fraggle said:From what I understand it can play an indirect role, but it's the smoke that is the real issue. I just find it amazing when people say that smoking cannabis is TOTALLY 100% SAFE unlike cigarettes. It would take a first class moron to believe that M is as safe as cheerios, but if the overall amount of smoke inhaled is truly the deciding factor then I would say that it has the advantage over cigarettes. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nightmare Doom Posted August 17, 2007 Smells like propaganda being used to justify the so called "War on Drugs" (War on Poverty in reality). Anything that comes out from a Mainstream news source is not meant to be trusted since the ones who crafted the article have an agenda for making society even more oppressive as usual.... 0 Share this post Link to post