Pot not a major cancer risk

[MullManiac]

No matter what these studies come up with it's common sence that weed (smoking it anyway) is bad for you. I'm sure there are some medical benifits but for most of us (young healthy ect) the negitives most likly outweigh the possitives.

[UserName AlphaNiner]

No matter what these studies come up with it's common sence that weed (smoking it anyway) is bad for you. I'm sure there are some medical benifits but for most of us (young healthy ect) the negitives most likly outweigh the possitives.

Examples? I usually don't need help with word problems, but this one isn't adding up.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

No matter what these studies come up with it's common sence that weed (smoking it anyway) is bad for you. I'm sure there are some medical benifits but for most of us (young healthy ect) the negitives most likly outweigh the possitives.

i just told you something, you ignored me completely.


marijuana cleans your lungs. it heals damage caused by smoke and other things you've inhaled.

it expells this junk from your lungs (the phlegm you cough up).

and because of the increased cellular death rate, your body can produce more new cells, therefore healing faster.

MARIJUANA is not bad for you in any way of the word, except, perhaps, user stupidity...

[MullManiac]

It does not clean your lungs! thats one of the stupidist things i've heard in a while.
Your lungs have a mucus lining that protects your aviolies from all the crap/dust/smoke that you breath in, but if theres just too much crap in there then it becomes toxic and you have to get rid of it (the phlegm you cough up), when you cough this up it leaves the surface of your lungs exposed to carsonagenics and other such poisens.

And come on it's common sence that breathing in smoke is bad for you.

Ps. where on earth did you get that fact about the coughing up phlegm being a sign that your lungs are clean and healthy!?

And as for the incresed cell death, if a cell in your body is unhealthy it will be replaced, weed kills off healthy cells that will need more energy and more nutrience to be replaced.

I'm not saying it has not possitive heath benifits, i'm saying it has more negitive effects then possitive ones.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

you're forgetting about the accelerated cellular death and regrowth.

yeah, smoking pot excessively would totally damage your lungs, like tobacco, but if you're not over doing it, you wont cause more damage than your body can quickly repair.

[MullManiac]

Thats like saying cutting yourself with a razor blade is good for you cause it's killing cells so they grow back faster, but with that there is an increased chance of infectionnot to menturn all the nasty chemicals and toxins that would get into your body and the scar it would leave, smoking is a lot like cutting your lungs with a razor blade, it's not gonna kill you (right away) but it's cirtanly not good for you.

And no matter how little you smoke it's stil, bad for you, just the less you smoke the less bad it is for you and the less chance you have of gettig cancer.

I'm not saying if you smoke you will die, but it does increase your chances of dieing (later in life mind you), it's a risk every smoker (yes even me) has to live with.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

i must've found it somewhere, try NORMAL's website, but somewhere they found out that pot acts almost like a scrub for your lungs, scrubbing crap off, leaving no residue to eat at the lungs.


although, im sure you're right, that scrubbing can cut up the lungs, but with dead cells being eliminated from the body so much faster, new ones have a chance to grow back faster, and you heal faster.


healing = evolution.


if you evolve to adapt to a situation, it doesnt harm you anymore.

[MullManiac]

"healing = evolution. "
Look up your definitions , for evolution to occur you need death .

As for the other stuff inhailing smoke of any kinda will in a way 'scrub your lungs' but if you didnt smoke in the first place they wouldnt need 'scrubing'.

When you say 'scrub' you are talking about your body attempting to get rid of all the tars, dead cells and other such matirial that are in your lungs as a result of smoking.

A simple explenation on how lungs work:
You breath in, oxygen and nitrogen go into your lungs and oxygen is absorbed into little air sacks and then diffuses into your blood, your blood goes around your body and picks up carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen. Blood goes back to lungs and carbon dioxide diffuses from your blood into your lungs and is expeled.
Any change to this is going to harm your lungs! Even if the air you breath in has more then 20% oxygen in it it will harm your lungs (very very slightly, almost unnotasable) so what do you think tars and other carsonagenics will do. Sure THC may be slightly benifitial but over all it wouldnt make much differance.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

ok... when you cut yourself, cells die. when they heal, that is evolution on it's smallest scale.


therefore, if you expose yourself to diseases, and your body recovers, you have evolved a tolerance.

the same applies to your lungs.

[MullManiac]

I am praying to god you are not a doctor!!!

First of all evelution cant happen to an indervitual, it's a population of inderviduals that slowly evolves due to mutations in there genctic make up.

And as for your other point, when you get a desease you immune system kicks in and your memory cells grip onto the pathogen and copy the protine sequence on the suface of it and make antibodies to combat it, even when the desease is gone your body still has those antibodies in it so if the desease comes back they attack and destroy it right away and u dont feel a thing.
Now lungs work nothing like that at all, they dont have a memory and so cant develop a tolorance.