Quote Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
I heard the opposite. That cannabis smoke only affects the large part of your lungs, where it easily passes through to the bloodstream, and doesn't affect the small bronchial passages, where you get bronchitis and other respiratory diseases.

This was done in 1981, but I've seen recent documentation where I got those exact words (cannabis smoke only affects the large part of your lungs, where it easily passes through to the bloodstream, and doesn't affect the small bronchial passages, where you get bronchitis and other respiratory diseases.)

There are many studies at http://www.ukcia.org , this one http://www.ukcia.org/research/medline/1.htm contains studies from 1981 to 1997.
MMMM i read information that was written by Doctor Tashkins, of UCLA, America's foremost expert on Marijuana Smoke.
He did find Marijuana to be more of an irritant(by 15 times)than tobacco, however since tobacco has almost no effect on this area, 15 x's nothing is still nothing.
What most people dont realise i, nor are the media told, that any tissue abnormality (abrasion, eruption,, or even redness) is called a pre cancerous lesion. Unlike legions cause by tobacco, THC legions contain no radioactivity.
Many herbs, including cannabis, have been smoked for centuries to help the lungs. It isnt Tar that causes the ill health effects from the tobacco itself, it is the farming practices. Tobacco, unlike cannabis, is grown in Radioactive soil and is largely fed through the foliage with growth hormones.
Cannabis is not grown in radioactive soil, nor is it generally fed through the leaves with growth hormones, which is why we dont see 430,000 deaths from cannabis every year, like we do tobacco....according the USA Former US Surgeon General C.Everette Koop(Reagan Era)

-Dr. Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies 1969-97
What does "ukcia", mean?

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