Lung Cancer: Marijuana a risk factor or treatment option

[marijaymade]

We've known for a long time that smoking tobacco cigarettes is the No. 1 risk factor for developing lung cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that "in the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80 percent to 90 percent of lung cancers. Using other tobacco products such as cigars or pipes also increases the risk for lung cancer." But what about that other smoke-able substance, marijuana? Can smoking cannabis – another term for the weed that's garnered a lot of attention in recent years as a potential medicine – put you at higher risk of developing lung cancer down the road?

Any health expert in her to shed more light on this?

 

[RegularOrMenthol?]

Depends on what dumbass grew it.. Just came from 2 dispensaries where every strain smelled like different nute lines, resin boosters, soaps, you name it. Not a single weed aroma from 50 strains I checked. That shit is causing lung cancer. You can feel it fucking your shit up.

 

[Joint Monster]

I'm not expert, but you said *smoking*.... I don't think I need to explain why smoking anything is not necessarily good for you.

That does not mean there aren't other means of using cannabis as effective medicine, that are not accompanied by the negative effects of smoking it.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

i don't think smoking weed is as bad for you as smoking tobacco, but i wouldn't recommend a cancer patient to smoke anything. however, as joint monster just said, there are edibles, tinctures, oils, salves....all kinds of options to smoking. i'm not going to tell you any of that will cure cancer, but i'm pretty damn sure it can replace part of chemotherapy, and make the rest a lot easier to deal with, at the very least.

 

[CannaBruh]

Some experiment to have;

Take a nice clean white towel, cigarette, and a joint.

Light the cigarette, take a puff, exhale through towel... note the brown mouth inlay
Do same with joint, note the brown mouth inlay..

inconclusive but is eye opening

 

[Bio Stimz]

Can smoking cannabis put you at higher risk of developing lung cancer down the road?

While there's many interindividual variables with that question, yes - inhaling respirable particulates & carcinogens unequivocally puts you in a higher risk-category for developing lung disease.

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[Jimdamick]

There have been hundreds of studies looking for a link between pot smoke and damage to your lungs, and they have found none.
That's why they can't label it a carcinogenic, unlike tobacco.

 

[Bio Stimz]

There have been hundreds of studies looking for a link between pot smoke and damage to your lungs, and they have found none.
That's why they can't label it a carcinogenic, unlike tobacco.

That would be unequivocally false.

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[Jimdamick]

That would be unequivocally false.

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Yea, prove it.
You think it would be legalized if it was carcinogenic?
Nope

 

[Bio Stimz]

You think it would be legalized if it was carcinogenic?

It's never been legalized.

You need to check your facts.

 

[Bio Stimz]

You think it would be legalized if it was carcinogenic?

 

[Bio Stimz]

Yea, prove it.

I don't have to.

Tashkin et al.1999 already did.

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[Roger A. Shrubber]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/upshot/its-time-for-a-new-discussion-of-marijuanas-risks.html

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/marijuana-and-lung-health.html

 

[Bio Stimz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/upshot/its-time-for-a-new-discussion-of-marijuanas-risks.html

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

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my study is newer than your study, and my study wasn't funded by big tobacco

 

[Bio Stimz]

my study is newer than your study, and my study wasn't funded by big tobacco

Oh please. What do ya think is in the smoke.... vitamin C?

All smoke is damaging to the lungs.

You're obviously not familiar with chemistry, physiology or pharmacodynamics.

A systematic review does absolutely nothing to refute the [fact] that cannabis smoke contains carcinogenic hydrocarbons --> which are deleterious to the lungs.

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[whitebb2727]

We've known for a long time that smoking tobacco cigarettes is the No. 1 risk factor for developing lung cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that "in the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80 percent to 90 percent of lung cancers. Using other tobacco products such as cigars or pipes also increases the risk for lung cancer." But what about that other smoke-able substance, marijuana? Can smoking cannabis – another term for the weed that's garnered a lot of attention in recent years as a potential medicine – put you at higher risk of developing lung cancer down the road?

Any health expert in her to shed more light on this?

No. It actually reduces risk. Not by much but it does reduce it.

 

[Bio Stimz]

No. It actually reduces risk. Not by much but it does reduce it.

lol.... Just stop.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

so your 20 year old study is right, and my much newer study is wrong? how did you make that determination? because your study supports your idea, and mine doesn't?
it's generally accepted that cannabis is much less harmful than tobacco. i've never said that it has no harmful effects, but compared to tobacco, its like spring water.
i've smoked weed on as close to a daily basis as i could manage, since 1978. i get a yearly physical. they always tell me my lungs are in perfect shape. i'm pretty sure they wouldn't be telling me that if i had smoked tobacco for the same amount of time.
so maybe there is a risk, but i deem it an acceptable risk, and i'm not going to worry about getting lung cancer from it. ever.