I think my right lung hurts..

Birdgirl73 - are you a doctor or something?!!!

I have never heard such level headed advice for a long time - you are truly a sparkle amongst the stars.
Wonderful that the world has people like you!!!

Love and light - Hall x x x

Hey, SDHall. Thanks for saying such nice things. Nope, I'm not a doctor yet. Just a mom, which teaches you a lot, and also a former paramedic. I'm in my first year of medical school. I have a husband who's a cardiologist, though, so I've seen first-hand what cigarettes do to people when they get a little further along in life.

My own mom has emphysema and heart trouble as a result of 30 years of smoking, and I have asthma and a tendency toward bronchitis as a result of her years of second-hand smoke, most likely. The most dramatic anti-smoking sight I've ever seen, however, has been uncovered just recently in our first-year human anatomy class, where we're dissecting very selfless, generous souls who donated their bodies to medical science. My lab group has just discovered that our lab specimen died of lung cancer.

So I have my reasons for feeling this way about tobacco, which causes such easily preventable diseases. Thanks again for your kind words. Love and light back atcha!

So are you saying that smoking dank is healthier than filtered cigarettes?
Or what I if I switched to a vaporizor? Is that the healthy choice? Seriously would be good to know. Thanks in advance!

Hey, United. I'll ask you about your chest pain in just a sec. First I'll tell you what I know about the information about there being no link to lung cancer.

We can start with the good news. What the two most recent studies have shown--and be aware there's still plenty of conflicting data from other studies and that these were not hugely big or in-depth studies--is that weed doesn't seem to increase the risk of head, neck or lung cancer in the same way that cigarettes do. These studies revealed that marijuana has about 50% more carcinogenic substances than tobacco (and four times as much tar) but that, apparently, the THC or other cannabinoid content has a cancer-preventative quality that helps keep cancer from coming on. They did these studies, one at UCLA (611 people) and one in Baltimore (147 people), by comparing people with head, neck and lung cancer with healthy, cancer-free people and simply asking about past marijuana use. About a third of them had been weed smokers, some of them heavy ones.

Now for the bad news. They based their results only on what they found with the answers they got, not on clinical studies involving smoked weed administration or examination of lung tissue. They haven't followed these people to their later years when those cancers tend to be more likely to strike, which means cancer may indeed come on later at higher rates in the weed smokers. They also can't quantify or guess about what damage may be done from the other substances involved: burning cigarette papers, burning pesticide residues, burning hydroponic fertilizer chemical residues, etc. They also haven't accounted for wide variances in THC content or weed quality/type.

This is why, although these are very hopeful results, the jury is still very much out on long-term increased lung cancer risk. No one's yet studied the long run--or precisely how the assumed THC protectiveness seems to work or last. As much as no one wants to hear this, we still simply don't know yet. What we need to be able to make the it-doesn't-cause-lung-cancer claim is a clinical study of 20,000 weed smokers over the span of, say, 40 years, involving administered, controlled weed that researchers know all the details of and in-depth examination of the changes that occur in the lungs over that time. If that study proved the same thing that these small studies did, then we could all light up a big spliff to celebrate. This news is great. Don’t get me wrong on that. Just understand that it’s not yet conclusive.

OK, United, answer me this about your chest pain. Is it severe? When you said mid-right chest area and spreading down your side, tell me if the side involves your arm or shoulder, if you feel the chest pain on exertion and whether it's also accompanied by shortness of breath, nausea or other symptoms. Also tell me if you happen to have any risk factors for heart disease--like middle age, cigarette history, obesity, family history of heart disease, elevated cholesterol or BP. Also tell me if the pain you're having seems to respond to analgesics like aspirin or ibuprofen--or if you feel it ease when you're in a hot bath or shower.

My husband just said this: "In men, heart attack pain is usually on the left side of the chest and sometimes radiates to the left shoulder, neck or arm. It's usually very severe and unrelenting, feeling truly like a vise-clamp around the chest or a heavy, scary pressure, and they often get shaky, light-headed, and sweaty. It's pain that kicks their ass and makes them so nervous they go to the emergency room."

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United, I had the same sensations and I thought of the worst because of heart disease in my family. My girlfriend helped to point out that I had been doing a lot of pushups, which might involve a similar stress to the upper body that you would get from moving furniture. i identified that the shortness of breath and soreness felt like it was in the muscle and not internal and was irritated when I breathed heavily or coughed (like from smoking). I'm no longer worried . I hope your story ends as simply.

CANNABIS KILLS CANCER CELLS..........THEY HATE THE WEED jut like the USA Government and prescription drug companies....ITS A CONSPIRACY to keep us from getting healty and they act like they are looking out for us...BULLSHIT its about the money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But sometimes lung pain can be from a collapsed lung..if it persist get it checked out.......

Well if you think it's the weed your crazy, it only helps your lungs.