Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
It's the THC and CBD, the active cannabinoid ingredients, that are beneficial for lung health and airway dilation, not whole cannabis smoke. Whole cannabis smoke contains a whole lot more particulate and carcinogenic crap than even cigarette smoke. So unless you vaporize to simply get more of the active ingredients and less of the dirty stuff, your asthma isn't likely to get better. There are people here who'll swear weed improves their asthma and bronchitis, but in tests that's not what's been found. In the few tests that have been done, whole weed smoke makes pulmonary irritation worse. If you could take just the isolated THC/CBD, that'd be great for you. But you're getting that and all the other ancillary stuff, too, in your lungs when you smoke it.

This is one of the great paradoxes of cannabis. And it's one that's the hardest for people who want to think of it as all good to understand. Yes, cannabis smoke is dirtier than cigarette smoke, but it's far less of a cancer risk. That's because the cannabinoid compounds themselves have very strong cancer-suppressing properties. And also, too, because very few people smoke as much weed as they do cigarettes. Anyway, that's why the statistic anti-drug types sometimes cite about a joint being equal in damaging content to a much larger quantity of cigarettes is actually true. A joint does indeed contain many more carcinogenic compounds in comparison to a cigarette. What the anti-drug propagandists don't ever mention is that, even though that's true, the joint contains active ingredients that seem to keep that more dangerous carcinogenic ratio from being a problem.
Agreed.....

This I realized the hard way. I use to think that smoking a joint would be great for the asthma but in reality it's not.