420 Use and Health

[Skell18]

As for the schitzo thing, yes if you have schizophrenia or certain other mental health issues, doing drugs like alcohol or marijuana will likely exacerbate your issues. That kind of should be obvious to anyone. It does not however CAUSE those disorders, rather it brings it out and exacerbates existing mental health issues.

+1 Whenever you see people who have reacted badly, there has usually been an underlying mental disorder that was either not treated or fully diagnosed.

[sgreger1]

That report is the worst kind of pseudo-science and I am sad that the telegraph has such shitty science reporting (this is a consistent issue).

The tar is more carcinogenic, but you take in less than cigarettes so it doesn't matter, which is why there have been no reported cases of cancer (in fact it retards the progress of tumor growth and other cancer related things, so it is closer to being a cure for cancer than a cause of one). Anyways, a cig smoker will smoke roughly 20 cigs a day, no one is smoking 20 grams worth of joints a day (or if you are than you're an idiot).

As for the schitzo thing, yes if you have schizophrenia or certain other mental health issues, doing drugs like alcohol or marijuana will likely exacerbate your issues. That kind of should be obvious to anyone. It does not however CAUSE those disorders, rather it brings it out and exacerbates existing mental health issues.

Anyways, this article is complete BS and has no actual science behind it whatsoever. It is amazing that in this day and age you can get away with publishing whatever you want. Tryign to spin smoke mj as worse than cigs is just beyond the realm of science and into the world of make believe.

[Skell18]

It interferes massively in people with schizophrenia as does alcohol. Please don't argue with me about this - I have had first hand experience of that - not me I might add.

I know someone who has ended up institutionalised due to smoking cannabis so I fully understand where you are coming from mate.

[Premium Parrots]

I can't say for sure if it causes cancer but it sure as hell causes obesity.




munchies my dear...munchies

[BadAxe]

There could not be any more bullshit in that article. Smoking anything is not the healthy. But there is not a shred of truth in that article. Pot is not cancer causing even after a lifetime of smoking it (although vaping is much healthier). Never been one single recorded case of cancer caused by only smoking pot. I just shake my head at drivel propoganda like the referenced article. There are SO many health benefits of pot, especially when ingested in ways other than smoking. Its likely that its actually a cure for cancer. But propoganda like the BS article above will continue to keep brainwashing the sheep that is the population, and keep it illegal, so Big Pharma can keep makiling trillions on their chemicals which have more side effects that good effects. Pot does not cause cancer. Its been proven. And in no way is it more carncenogetic than cigs. What a joke that something like that can beven be published.

[Frosted]

nooooo................ nothing schizophrenic about that last post..............

Frosted said that, not me.

[Frosted]

nooooo................ nothing schizophrenic about that last post..............

lmao. hmmmm yeah.

[Snusdog]

I have had first hand experience of that - not me I might add.

nooooo................ nothing schizophrenic about that last post..............

[Frosted]

It interferes massively in people with schizophrenia as does alcohol. Please don't argue with me about this - I have had first hand experience of that - not me I might add.

[Snuts]

The ammount of tobacco I could get in my lungs everyday or the occasional J?

Easy...

[AtreyuKun]

I'd do a J right now if I had one.

[wa3zrm]

Cannabis health dangers 'underestimated' (factually wrong)

A third of people think cannabis is harmless, despite it being 20 times more carcinogenic to smoke than tobacco, according to a report published today (Wednesday).

Young people are particularly ignorant of the health dangers posed by smoking cannabis, found the British Lung Foundation.

The British Lung Foundation, which produced the report, said there was “an alarming disconnect” between public perception of the drug as safe, and “the serious, even fatal impact it can have”.

Almost nine in 10 people think tobacco cigarettes are more damaging to health than cannabis ones, found the BLF.

The charity reviewed existing scientific evidence on the health impacts of smoking cannabis, and reported there was strong evidence it contributed to diseases including lung cancer, tuberculosis and acute bronchitis.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

[sgreger1]

Looks like I have been outshined!

[truthwolf1]

that is one great line, "looking California and feeling Minnesota"!

[Bigblue1]

sgreger + Truthwolf = outshined by Soundgarden