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Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained
Bruce66423 writes: New research suggests that a portion of the population suffers few problems from smoking because their genes enable the smoke's effects to be overcome. The Medical Research Council reports: "The new findings, which used the first analyses of genetic data from participants in UK Biobank, may one day help scientists develop better treatments for diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a collection of life-threatening lung disorders affecting almost one million people in the UK. The findings could also help improve interventions aimed at helping smokers to give up."
Marijuana is not at all harmful like cigarettes. Inhaling any smoke is not good for you, however, the main difference is that marijuana is just a dried out plant which is basically harmless.
Commercial tobacco, by comparison, is not just a plant but it is loaded with a plethora of toxic chemicals - including ammonia, DDT, arsenic, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide - just to name a few. More here.
Marijuana can also have health benefits. I have never heard of medicinal tobacco.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
They contain,
food grade vegetable glycerin
food grade propylene glycol
nicotine
food grade Flavoring agents
Some people will use lab grade which just designates the purity of the substance.
Many point to the flavoring agents as the unknown in the mix. Most are simple essential oils extracted from the plant to provide flavoring. For example, a cool mint e-cig juice will contain a spearmint essential oil.
In most cases, finding out what is in the juice is as simple as reading the list of ingredients on the bottle or the makers website.
All of the ones I have seen stick to stuff that is consumed by people regularly. They dont want the risks of using something that is not food safe.
Spare me. "Medical marijuana" is in almost all cases nothing more than a fig leaf to cover people who want to get high
Tell that to the families with children with epilepsy being successfully treated for seizures and other symptoms using cannabis oil. Your information is extremely prejudiced, and out of date. There are many people with debilitating diseases and conditions that cannabis can provide treatment or relief from.
"Perl is my favorite... It's like wiping your ass with unix." - Lord Ender
Marijuana has been illegal in all states until recently, and is still illegal at the Federal level. Under those circumstances, it's going to be hard to run double-blind studies. The stuff appears to provide some benefits for some people.
The medicinal uses are for muscle spasms, chronic pain, to suppress nausea in people undergoing chemotherapy, as an appetite enhancer for people with HIV, and (from what I've heard) glaucoma and epilepsy. None of these are necessarily going to be apparent in people on the sidewalk near your office.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it can be mildly addictive. Their claims are modest, and credible.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publi...
It's difficult to estimate the frequency of contamination of marijuana with other substances. But fairly frequent contamination is documented in "Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential", By Ethan B Russo
https://books.google.com/books...
Ethan cites Johnson's old study of 8000 samples, with a wide array of contaminants, including tobacco and PCP. Johnson's study was from 30 years ago: an article in the Smithsonian magazine from March, 2015 cites the increasing levels of heavy metals and mold in modern marijuana:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
So I'm afraid that the idea that pot is automatically uncontaminated and therefore safer than tobacco is ill-founded. It may be _less_ harmful, and have a _lower_ level of contamination. But it's apparently quite frequent to find things in actual testing that should not be in pot for human use.