Is a joint worse than a cigarrete?

[brokenstrings]

Hi there
Im tired of people saying that a single joint equals 20 cigarretes and such.
From my own research the tar in a joint can be higher but the real damage of a cigarrete is nicotine which constricts blood vessles , arteries and causes all sorts of damage
and the radioactive pestecides like lead 210 , polonium-210 that they use to grow tobbaco , and the other chemicals they use to freebase nicotine.
Cigarretes are actually diferrent from raw tobbaco , they freebase the nicotine and improve the taste adding chemicals.
Thc is quite benign compared with nicotine.
So the damage of one joint couldn't equal 20 cigarrettes since of mayn factors involved , many people spout out all kinds of bs studies to my face when i told them i smoke weed and it annoys me.
This is my opinion on the subject , what do you guys think?
Greets


EDIT: Besides marijuana comsumption is lower because the high last longer and after that the user is burned out , cigarretes are comsumed at much higher rates because of fast
metabolization and physical addiction.

 

[Stonerman Enoch]

This question is ridiculous if you ask me....

 

[brokenstrings]

Say that to fox news who published that one joint equals 20 cigarretes
I know that their study is bs but i wnat to know that there are sane people that agree with me for
a change.
Everyone treats me like an heroin addict because i smoke weed.

 

[nanookofeclectic]

I think it's bs, considering there has never been a single recorded case of anyone getting some sort of disease from marijuana. Zero lung cancer cases, Zero emphasema, Zero COPD. Nothing.

 

[Stonerman Enoch]

Ok ok well I believe a cigarette contains a few thousand chemicals and a joint contains burnt plant matter wrapped with a piece of paper.................maybe a blunt is 20 times worse but I don't smoke blunts

 

[Refusedpanda]

do you know what they treat tobacco with...the only common bad thing is just the smoke inhalation. thats why i vape

 

[redivider]

I think it's bs, considering there has never been a single recorded case of anyone getting some sort of disease from marijuana. Zero lung cancer cases, Zero emphasema, Zero COPD. Nothing.

calm down there buddy.

there has never been a study confirming whether or not marijuana causes lung damage.

the single long term study correlated marijuana use with a handful of mental disorders but was not able to correlate it with lung damage.

in order for your assertion to be true there must be a documented experiment with a control group.

since marijuana is illegal there has never been such a study.... and therefore your assertion cannot be confirmed....

 

[Total Head]

considering that cigarette tar and cannabis tar are comprised of COMPLETELY different chemicals and compounds, i don't see how comparing tar quantities has any place in the debate.

i'd be willing to wager the use of my genitals that my homegrown stuff would NEVER produce tar that contained formaldehyde.

 

[cannabineer]

Marijuana smoke contains formaldehyde. It stands to reason then that the tar (= condensed smoke) would contain it as well. cn
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CGsQFjAJ&url=http://www.ukcia.org/research/ComparisonOfSmoke.pdf&ei=IC1AT4_BOIuPigLDtLzOAQ&usg=AFQjCNGfNSd1BIfOriRxureCqYvngFlkEg&sig2=dIjo9HW4_ND9yBdECiAo9g

<edit> Won't let me capitalize the first word. Damn Gov't websites.

 

[BAYWAY510]

bs mother been smoking weed for 69 years nothin wrong with her

 

[gogsyc]

i heard that before too and just assumed they meant a joint with tobacco in it, weed smoked by itself is nowhere near as bad as cigarettes thats just crazy to even think that although smoking anything is bad for your lungs, obviously

 

[BA142]

I always hated when they said shit like "omg 400 chemicals in marijuana it's bad"

Look at any other plant...cannabis is actually pretty simplistic in terms of it's chemical make up. I'm sure most plants have 400 different chemicals in them.

I feel like people just associate the word chemical with bad things....water is a chemical.

 

[resinousflowers]

that goverment weed in canada is terrible quality.remo made a video of the weed he got sent to him from the goverment,that shit was nasty.

[video=youtube;E4W_7VzQv0w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4W_7VzQv0w[/video]

[video=youtube;YsAL6gC-M24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsAL6gC-M24[/video]

 

[Pat the stoner]

it is ridiculous I smoke 30 cigarettes a day and 1 joint when I was smoking would last 4 or 5 days or more . Seems like any studies I saw were biased , If you took a whole joint and smoked half of that joint and put it out the tar and smoke would be way less harmful than the second half especially the roach . The smaller it gets the closer the head being to your lips and lungs , and the hotter it is .

 

[Pat the stoner]

I always hated when they said shit like "omg 400 chemicals in marijuana it's bad"

Look at any other plant...cannabis is actually pretty simplistic in terms of it's chemical make up. I'm sure most plants have 400 different chemicals in them.

I feel like people just associate the word chemical with bad things....water is a chemical.

Just like oxygen and hydrogen are chemical elements , combined they can be severely dangerous - H2O . Then people like my uncle who is against weed , just drinks beer all the time bashing the mj -calling it drugs . So his brother asked him if alcohol was a drug ? He then replied -"Some poeple would say it is ." Never would he say it was cause to him all drugs are bad . What about aspirin - he loves it cause why ? To him it's not a drug . You gotta laugh at these guys , c'mon are they serious ?

 

[cannabineer]

bla mother blabla smoking blabla 69 bla wrong blabla bla

You filthy pervert you. cn

 

[xKuroiTaimax]

I smoke 5-6 joints a day and feel alot healthier than when I smoked 15 cigarettes a day. But I have no quantitative data or scientific evidence to flesh out or back that up.

 

[Wednesday]

Cigarettes are the ONLY thing that we legalize that we know with absolute certainty that, if used as the manufacturer would like you to, will kill you. Weed doesn't. So there you have it.

 

[racerboy71]

i think it's the cigarette paper that is what really does the damage ... not the tobacco is the healthiest thing for you either, but they put all kinds of shit in papers... stuff to make them burn evenly, stuff to bleach the papers.. now in my state they have what are called fire safe cigarettes.. look by the bar code and it was say fsc.. if you notice that they go out tons now when you're smoking them, these are the fire safe cigs.. mine usually go out about half way down, then again at maybe 1/4 smoke left.. i don't even want to think of what they put in the papers to make them go out like that, but you can bet your left nut it's not healthy for anyone..

 

[sso]

i dont think marijuana smoke is harmful, at all.

smoked for too long and talked to too many stoners.


cigarette smoke?

well, so far it seems that Too Much of cigarette smoke is harmful, (dosage depending on the person)


but im Not Sure, if its because of the way tobacco is treated chemically or because of the way they fertilize their plants.

then again

tobacco is nicotine, closely related to heroin (And when concentrated is actually more powerful though harsher)

and heroin is not something you´d want to do too much of.

which applies to many things, Even WATER, drink too much of that and die.


cannabis? for some funny reason, you can do as much of that as you fucking like and can.


ive sometimes wondered if cannabis was genetically enhanced by some aliens or made specially for us at some point.

heck maybe humans were smarter back then and created it themselves.

it grows Everywhere.

makes clothes and even stuff stronger than steel.

medicine,

fun.

relaxation.

fucking great for music.

Smoke as much as you like. only danger about cannabis are these fucking insane people out there. (probably mostly motivated by greed (the ones that arent motivated by hatred and stupidity and fear)