Posted on 04/10/2020 9:51:51 AM PDT by kaehurowing
If you're smoking weed to ease your stress during the coronavirus pandemic, experts say it's time to think twice.
Smoking marijuana, even occasionally, can increase your risk for more severe complications from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
"What happens to your airways when you smoke cannabis is that it causes some degree of inflammation, very similar to bronchitis, very similar to the type of inflammation that cigarette smoking can cause," said pulmonologist Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. "Now you have some airway inflammation and you get an infection on top of it. So, yes, your chance of getting more complications is there."
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Drugs are bad for you.
I’ll have to be a better hermit then. I think I’m already going feral.
This can’t be true. Weed cures everything.
What about vaping?
I’ve seen close to half a hundred posts about not letting ‘the cure be worse than the disease’ :-)
I’ve gotten nearly a dozen songs written and learned the melodies of a nice chunk of my Real Book.
So will all of the states that legalized weed sue the dispensaries they issued business licenses to in another 20 years when stoners get lung diseases like emphysema and cancer from smoking it ?
There is no federal oversight, so growers can do anything they want.
But an addict really doesn't care. As long as the drug does the job.
They are going to regret this party.
IT’S NO WORSE THAN DRINKING THIS IS BULLSH*T WE TRIED PROHIBITION AND IT DIDN’T WORK YOU PEOPLE THAT WANT TO TAKE MY LEGAL POT AWAY ARE ALL INFERIOR LEAVE MY POT ALONE IT IS MEDICINAL AND . . .
oh, wait. what?
Calling BS on this one. If you SMOKE anything, you’re putting harmful foreign crap in your lungs. I’d be willing to bet the THC in MJ may be LESS harmful that good old nicotine. Sounds like drug warrior hysteria.
The correct answer is to NOT SMOKE ANYTHING. The only thing that belongs in the human lung is clean air. If you must have your intoxicating substances, you’re better off using edibles or some other way that doesn’t tar up your lungs.
oh, wait. what?
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Your bonghit is calling you.
That post looks like it was written by someone who’s both stoned and drunk.
Life is full of risks. Some I’ll take.
wow. I guess I have to explain; that was the standard reply of the libertarian stoner pot heads that invade and destroy every pot thread that has ever been posted on FR.
I was mocking them disdainfully.
LOT of evidence out there marijuana causes psychosis and schizophrenia. As well as permanently impairing cognitive brain ability. As well as causing COPD, emphysema and lung cancer. Much worse than tobacco.
But Big Tobacco is now Big Marijuana, and has convinced everyone that smoking dope is healthy and good for you.
You can take it in chocolate form.
No I got it. I guess I should have used the /sarc designation. Let us all play along.
BTW, I got the post the minutes I read it as it ends with "oh, wait. what?"
Well, it can make you cough.
Some states are selling pot. Will the governors and legislators be thrown in prison for this?
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