Cannabis Smoker Says, "My lungs are damaged beyond repair."

Smoke in the lungs will cause damage.
It doesnt matter if its Tobacco, Weed, Wood or paper.
Smoke is toxic to soft, sensitive living tissue.

Any idiot who believes smoking 1000 joints wont harm your is... an idiot. and probably high.

Ciggies are worse because they are chemically enhanced.

Marijuana has a greater affect on the mind, and ones mental abilities.

Well, there are persons who can barely breathe and they never smoked anything. Poor genes, many factors contribute. I can see no reason for the coincidence of bad lungs and cannabis use to even be noteworthy. I bet there are tons of people with emphysema who never lived near a city, nor smoked. I am guessing at this, but I'll bet I am right.

The source of the cannabis should be looked in to. Was it clean, or laced with spice, or synthetic junk? Maybe there were a lot of chemicals (ferilizer) left in the flowers? Did she smoke from her own supply? Sounds like a play for some lobby group, an old trick, they use it to shut down the net and anything they can think of. My lungs are good, and I have used tobacco for a long time. They lied to us about tobacco as well...showing coal miner lungs and saying they were from tobacco users. Also, many lung cancer cases were caused from plutonium because of decades of fervent nuclear tests. Smoking actually prevented the plutonium from embedding in the tissues in the lungs, saving lives. Nonetheless, smoking is always blamed in a blanket fashion.

She could have eaten it, vaporized it, cut back on use, taken better care of herself, rather than line up with some lobby to demonize the whole genus. Better strains mean less is needed. I hate to say it, but there's a lot of garbage because people are unscrupulous. Also, there's really not a lot of smoke going on with cannabis. It isn't like a cigarette where you use 30 per day, you know?



Will I read her sob story? Perhaps, and if so, it will only be in order to scrutinize the motives of the lobby at the center of this. I know that the government has got to slander things in order to gain traction. They are up against a huge resistance. We are sick of being poisoned, especially in thought.

Well... if you have a handy dandy vaporizer...

reply to post by truthseeka

Snoop still sounds the same in his songs, and he smokes like a chimney.

Well Snoop admits that he takes "pill" form now.

Courtesy of Cali Medical Marijuana program.

However, I am a hardcore fan of reggae. I could provide example after example of reggae greats, IMO, that have died from smoking the stuff. The latest being Dennis Brown -- who died of lung cancer.

But the Jamaica "collie weed" is stronger, I'm told, then that what your average user tokes.....

Or, because these reggae greats, are often considered pirates of the airways...always challenging TPTB....perhaps there is a larger force at hand in their deaths?

No one has yet commented on the Hookah/She-sha/Argilee....that I have noticed.....this is a good alternative, and the flavors are awesome....

Thoughts?

A lot of the Mexican Shwag in the US is contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.

The Mexican drug cartels don't care .

Medical Cannabis is not Mexican Shwag and no dispensary would ever sell Mexican Shwag.
The THC content for Mexican marijuana ranges between 4 and 6 percent, while domestic marijuana's THC content reaches levels as high as 26 percent.

Mexican Shwag=brick weed, dirt weed, Mexiweed

Anyone buying Shwag at more then $20 a ounce is getting ripped off and causing the mexicans to grow more of the junk.

if everyone started telling the dealers they did not want the shwag the price would drop till it was not worth bringing in.

reply to post by Agit8dChop


Really? And what sources do you have that say, marijuana affects your mental abilities?

Most people I meet are idiots and none of them smoke cannabis. The people I know who smoke cannabis are in high level college courses acing their exams.

I'm getting really sick of all these myths about weed getting spouted off as fact.

Try something and learn how to control yourself, before making generalizations, that degrade your mental abilities.

I would think that any kind of smoke would damage your lungs as others have already said. The plant itself might have more benefit than anything else that is smoked, but thats not really worth it in my opinion unless you are really suffering.

That being said...mm hookahs. I once hung out in a hookah bar in Athens for days..some of the nicest people I've ever met, and the flavoours....oo the flavours!

reply to post by Xavialune


See, once again, how is it not worth it?

Cannabis has ZERO side affects! Nothing happens to a person when they smoke cannabis, other then feeling good, and having an open mind for an hour. Please explain how that is bad.

Use a vaporizer!

Why can't people get past the propaganda films from the 50's?

reply to post by theendisnear69


A close friend who smoked weed like a chimney and ended up in a padded room diagnosed schitz for 2yrs.

How about myself?

I know if I smoke solid for a few weeks i can turn into a paranoid mess until the drugs out of my system.

anything in small amounts spread out is harmless,
if you smoked joints as much as some people smoke ciggies you get mental affects.

maybe you have so much mental damage that you cant tell anymore.

.. .why such a harsh tone? this is a civil convo, try keeping ego's in check so it remains that way.

Originally posted by theendisnear69
Cannabis has ZERO side affects!

Ahh, dude, you sound like a rep for Camel, or Winnie Blue..

Really, you think smoking THC days and days on end has no affects on the human body/brain/metabolism what so ever?

How long have you been smoking for? 2yrs?
Very niave to believe such a powerful mind altering drug has no affect.
sorry, but you need to grow up and experience more before you make massive judgement calls like that.
I only hope that when you grow up you dont experience the worst of the side affects, because trust me there are some.

Well obviously any time you are inhaling SMOKE of ANY kind, it's going to damage your lungs.

That does not under any circumstances mean that Marijuana is any more or less dangerous than tobacco. It's less so considering how much less toxins are in a "wacky tobacki" plant than a tobacco plant.

Then again we will be arguing this poing for another decade or so before people wisen up to how much of a cash crop Hemp is and what could be accomplished with it's nation wide production and trade.

People will come to their sense eventually and realize the green economy starts and ends with hemp and so does fixing the economy at the same time.

But I'm just a dirty hippie according to those in power who has no idea what how to really solve the problem.

~Keeper

reply to post by Agit8dChop


Ahh sources please.

What side affects does cannabis have that are not evident until after smoking for more than 2 years???

A rep for camel? Now your comparing toxic, chemical-laden cigarettes produced by evil corporations, to the cannabis plant.

It's just a plant. Not a drug.

So your telling me, you don't know a single stoner over the age of 50, who isn't a paranoid schizophrenic?

Oh yeah, I suggest you watch the documentary, Super High Me. You'd be surprised at the results...

reply to post by apc


Smoking anything can be detrimental to one's health..

But, the cancer the girl got in the OP's article, could've been caused by anything.. She might have weak lungs or some other conditions the doctors don't know about..



Cigs are far worse, and my Grandma was a pack a day smoker for 40 years.. Perfectly healthy lungs for an 80 year old woman... I know this normally doesn't happen, my Grams just has amazing lungs..

My point is, people develop diseases all the time.. She might have just gotten lung cancer, and blamed it on the pot..

reply to post by apc

When Samantha, of Maida Vale, London, was diagnosed with emphysema at the age of 34 she had been smoking cannabis for 20 years. She had begun by smoking two joints a day, but was eventually smoking up to 10 a day.

that's not "Normal" cannibis use either... Thats going overboard

hell, when i left germany I looked like a B-17 that had taken so much flack that it was a wonder i could still fly, as much hash as we all smoked. good thing xray techs keep their mouths shut or the whole division would have all been court marshaled

as i grew older it didn't affect me...afect me....afect me...afect me....

reply to post by theendisnear69


Im sure I do know a stoner over 50 who's not paranoid.
Just like a I know a cigerette smoker at 70' who has no cancer.

But I know people who are schizophrenic and paranoid and mentally unstable at 40 who smoke joints,
just like I know people who have or have died from cancer from cigerettes they smoke.

Im not saying Canabis is an evil poison that murders everyone, but your pretty dumb to suggest smoking marijuana all your life is 100% harmless.

just because you may not feel affected now or ever, doesnt mean other people wont be affected.

I quit "tokin'"around 1981.

It ain't no more important than beer.

I still drink,but I know what I'm gettin'.

reply to post by Agit8dChop
My Grandpappy smoked pipe tobacco till he was 91,I have pic of him riding his tractor,steering with one hand,rolling a smoke with the other.

Funny how so many marginalize....

I'm not against cannabis use one bit but to deny it has any affects on your lungs doesn't make any sense to me.... I've known people who smoke it and they never picked up a cig in their life, they've had one helluva smokers cough though (this was daily use btw).... Have you ever seen the resin after you smoked out of a glass pipe a few times? I guess when it goes into your lungs it disappears???

I think there is a grand "UnbALAncEIng"gwin on h'yar......

Be open minded,research the term "marginalization",look backwards,look at how it works the other way......

Look at yourself.