Posted on 03/26/2006 3:18:10 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SMOKING three cannabis joints will cause you to inhale the same amount of toxic chemicals as a whole packet of cigarettes, according to research published in France today.
Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbon monoxide, the French National Consumers' Institute concluded in research published in the April edition of its monthly magazine.
The institute tested regular Marlboro cigarettes alongside 280 specially rolled joints of cannabis leaves and resin in an artificial smoking machine.
The tests examined the content of the smoke for tar and carbon monoxide, as well as for the toxic chemicals nicotine, benzene and toluene.
"Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbon monoxide than tobacco smoke," the institute's magazine says.
Someone smoking a joint of cannabis resin rolled with tobacco will inhale twice the amount of benzene and three times as much toluene as if they were smoking a regular cigarette, the study says.
Smokers of pure cannabis leaves will also inhale more of these chemicals than from a normal cigarette, though the amount varies depending on the quantities.
"Smoking three joints every day – which is becoming frequent – makes you run the same risks of cancer or cardio-vascular diseases as smoking a packet of cigarettes," the magazine says.
Cannabis is "by far" the most popular illicit drug in France, it says. The number of cigarette smokers and people drinking alcohol fell in 2005, while the number of cannabis users has increased in France in the past five years.
"Highly unlikely when, according to your side, all the smokers are lighting up in the privacy of their own homes, after work, just to relax."
So long as they dont leave the window open while you walk by, right cluesader?
"It's not up to me. It's up to the majority of the voters, acting through their duly elected representatives, bound by both their State Constitution and the U.S. Constitution."
There are many unconstitutional rulings made by the corrupted courts of our nation.
You revel in them.
We revile them.
"Hey, this is robertpaulsen you're talking to, not some ignorant lurker. If taste, smell, and looks were important, you'd see those factors emphasized in the seed ads. What's emphasized? The high."
You didn't cut n past quotes from other varieties - those that have hints of chocolate, orange, blueberry flavor in the resin.
As usual Rob - YOU LIE. Sometimes overtly. Others by omission.
"It's not up to me. It's up to the majority of the voters, acting through their duly elected representatives, bound by both their State Constitution and the U.S. Constitution."
Medical marijuana passed by voter referendum - over 60% if I recall - twice. Here in AZ.
Guess what, the will of the voters wasn't followed.
You don't mind - because that's not really what you're after, right, Neo-Com?
"No. The majority of voters who vote pass a public referendum. In the case of medical marijuana for the State of California, that "majority of voters" represented 10% of the population."
Using that logic, you could dispute the validity of most elections. Of course, you have to show up to play. If people didn't show up, their voice isn't hear. Thats how representative systems work. It's also not what you're interested in - fulfillment of your agenda no much you have to twist and turn logic to get it.
Well said. All he really wants to do is argue and he has a misconception of the health of his ego, so he ends up looking the fool.
Yeah, RP should catalogue his inanities for his posterior.
"Let's just assume, for sake of argument, that the sampling was accurate. I'm asking if legalizing pot for adults resulted in a doubling of teen use, would you still favor legalization?"
I am not going to make a jusgement based on a hypothetical example based on a false assumption.
I pointed out why the stats are likely flawed. Do you agree with my observation that threatening to lock people up for an activity might inhibit them from telling the truth about whether they perform said activity?
Would you have included a 1930 study? I wouldn't have. But then again, I have principles.
Correct.
But that's not good enough for you. You want it legal, right there in the open, right there in everyone's face -- you want society's approval of this selfish, immoral, and hedonistic act via legalization.
Just like the homosexuals.
You, Joe Stalin, Mao and Fidel all seem to have the same principles.
Yep. Though this isn't one of them. What's your point?
Are you wishing for an activist court to overturn the will of the people? Well, that makes you no different than a lot of liberals.
I have principles.
I suspect you have a catch 22 problem with our rights to life, liberty & property.
You think it's sane to insist that government has the power to prohibit liberty, and that anyone who protests this power is crazy, - a belief that 'proves' your point.
Nah. I just listed the popular ones. You know, those seeds that coincidentally gave the biggest high.
"Nah. I just listed the popular ones. You know, those seeds that coincidentally gave the biggest high."
How do you know? You don't, you made it up as usual.
In the past I tried most of the varieties that were mentioned, though I no longer partake. I can report that the ones with nice flavor are just as if not more potent. The strongest I ever smoked was an orange strain.
As usualy, you're making stuff up.
"Yep. Though this isn't one of them. What's your point?"
"Are you wishing for an activist court to overturn the will of the people? Well, that makes you no different than a lot of liberals."
LIAR PAULSEN
Again.
Honorless. Factless. Brainless.
Recover your honor by being consistent - tell me that you oppose that ballot initialtiatives, passed by a majority of voters in Arizone TWICE according to the AZ constitutional process, which legalize marijuana for medical use, were overturned.
Science & Technology
In the year 1930
Anthropology
Margaret Mead's Growing up in New Guinea tells of her research among primitive tribes in New Guinea.
Archaeology
Clay tablets unearthed this year at Uruk and inscribed with some of the earliest form of writing known show no evidence of having been derived from pictographs, suggesting that writing may have had some different origin.
Astronomy
On February 18 Clyde William Tombaugh [b. Streator, Illinois, February 4, 1906, d. Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 17, 1997] discovers the planet Pluto.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar [b. Lahore, India, October 19, 1910, d. Chicago, Illinois, August 21, 1995] provides a theory for the existence of white dwarf stars and determines that a white dwarf can exist only if its mass is less than 1.44 times that of the Sun. This comes to be known as Chandrasekhar's limit. Arthur Eddington had earlier predicted white dwarf stars, but will disagree with Chandrasekhar on the details in a notable scientific argument of the 1930s, with Chandrasekhar generally seen as the winner.
Swiss-American astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler [b. Zurich, Switzerland, October 2, 1886, d. Oakland, California, September 10, 1956] shows the existence of diffuse interstellar dust by studying its dimming effect on star clusters. As one consequence of the dust, the size of the Milky Way Galaxy is about three-fifths as big as previous estimates, which assumed that observed dimming was caused by distance.
Bernard Ferdinand Lyot [b. Paris, February 27, 1897, d. on a train near Cairo, Egypt, April 2, 1952] builds the coronagraph, a special telescope in which a baffle stops the light from the solar disk and allows observation of the corona.
Bruno Benedetto Rossi, Italian-American physicist [b. Venice, Italy, April 13, 1905, d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 21, 1993], points out that cosmic rays should be deflected by Earth's magnetic field -- to the east if positive and to the west if negative. Studies show the deflection to the east, establishing that most cosmic rays are positive.
Russian-German optician Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt [b. Neissaar Island, Estonia, March 30, 1879, d. Hamburg, Germany, December 1, 1935] invents the corrector for a combined camera and telescope, producing a device that allows very wide-angle views with little distortion. The Schmidt telescope comes to dominate astronomy because it is free from coma, an aberration.
Chemistry
John Howard Northrup [b. Yonkers, New York, July 5, 1891, d. Wickenburg, Arizona, May 27, 1987) crystallizes the enzyme pepsin, an important step toward understanding the chemical nature of enzymes.
Arne Wilhelm Tiselius [b. Stockholm, Sweden, August 10, 1902, d. Uppsala, Sweden, October 29, 1971] introduces electrophoresis, a method for separating proteins in suspension using electric currents.
Albert Szent-Györgyi succeeds in isolating vitamin C from capsicum (peppers).
Hans Fischer of Germany wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his analysis of blood heme. .
Communication
Photoflash light bulbs are introduced for use in photography.
Computers
Vannevar Bush develops at MIT a prototype of the electromechanical analog computer, the Differential Analyzer, which can solve differential equations. He will patent the idea in 1935 and a large Differential Analyzer will be built for use during World War II.
Construction
The Chrysler Building in New York City, at 319 m (1046 ft), briefly replaces both the Eiffel Tower and the Woolworth Building as the world's tallest structure, although it will soon be overshadowed by the nearby Empire State Building. See also
Construction starts on the Empire State Building in New York; it will be finished in 1931.
Earth science
Charles William Beebe [b. Brooklyn, New York, July 29, 1877, d. Simla Research Station, near Arima, Trinidad, June 4, 1962] and Otis Barton dive to 417 m (1368 ft) in their new submersible, the bathysphere, a hollow steel ball suspended by a cable.
Energy
The first heat pump, a kind of reversed refrigerator, is installed in the home of T.G.N. Haldane. See also
Food & agriculture
The Postum Company begins marketing frozen foods for the first time. .
Sliced bread is introduced by a baker in Battle Creek, Michigan. Inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder had worked from 1912 until 1928 to develop a bread slicing machine -- his final version not only slices the bread but also wraps the loaf, countering concerns that sliced bread would grow stale too quickly.
Materials
Waldo L. Semon [b. Demopolis, Alabama, September 10, 1898, d. Hudson, Ohio, May 26, 1999] of the B.F. Goodrich Company invents polyvinyl chloride. I. G. Farbenindustrie in Germany develops polystyrene. About this time melamine resins (plastics) are also invented .
English physical biochemist William Thomas Astbury [b. Stoke-on-Trent, England, February 25, 1898, d. Leeds, England, June 4, 1961] discovers that wool has a different X-ray diffraction pattern when it is stretched. This leads him to use X-ray diffraction techniques to study the three-dimensional structure of proteins.
About this time lead begins to be added to commercially sold gasoline to prevent knocking.
Mathematics
L. G. Schnirelman proves some number k exists such that every sufficiently large number is the sum of at most k prime numbers, but the proof yields no clues as to the value of k. This is a generalization of Goldbach's conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes.
Medicine & health
Bernardo Alberto Houssay, Argentinean physiologist [b. Buenos Aires, April 10, 1887, d. Buenos Aires, September 21, 1971] demonstrates that the pituitary gland produces a hormone that has the opposite effect from insulin, demonstrating the complexity of the endocrine system.
Ernest H. Volwiler [b. Hamilton, Ohio, 1893, d. Lake Forest, Illinois, October 3, 1992] and Donalee L. Tabern [b. Bowling Green, Ohio, January 27, 1900, d. December 31, 1974] formulate Nembutal (pentobarbital sodium), a barbiturate used for inducing hypnotic sleep.
Karl Landsteiner of the United States wins the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his definition of four human blood groups.
Physics
The lambda point of helium, where liquid helium changes from one form (helium 1) to another (helium 2) is discovered.
Paul Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics formulates a general mathematical theory in which matrix mechanics and wave mechanics are special cases.
Wolfgang Pauli proposes that an unknown particle (christened the neutrino by Enrico Fermi in 1932) accounts for the apparent violation of the law of conservation of energy in beta decay.
Isidor Isaac Rabi [b. Rymanów, Austria (Poland), July 29, 1898, d. New York City, January 11, 1988] develops a precise method of using beams of molecules to study the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. He measures the rotation of atoms and molecules and determines such properties as the mechanical and magnetic moments of atomic nuclei.
Chandrasekhara Raman of India wins the Nobel Prize for physics for his laws of light diffusion.
Tools
Frits (Frederik) Zernike [b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16, 1888, d. Naarden, Netherlands, March 10, 1966] invents the phase-contrast microscope, which reveals the structures of cells and tissues without staining, using instead the subtle differences in phase of light that passes through the material.
Transportation
British engineer Frank Whittle [b. Coventry, England, June 1, 1907, d. Columbia, Maryland, August 8, 1996] patents the jet engine, 11 years before an aircraft flies using jet power. See also.
Engineer Cedric Bernard Dicksee [b. England, 1888, d. 1981] develops a diesel engine suitable for road vehicles; it is an 8.1 liter, six-cylinder engine that is installed in trucks.
"But that's not good enough for you. You want it legal, right there in the open, right there in everyone's face -- you want society's approval of this selfish, immoral, and hedonistic act via legalization.
Just like the homosexuals."
Add this to your page:
Robert Paulsen is by far the stupidest poster on Free Republic.
"Would you have included a 1930 study? I wouldn't have. But then again, I have principles."
A whole range of studies conducted over 100 years were included.
Principles? Yes, your main principle is to obfuscate and tell half truths. When you can't even do that, you invent out of whole cloth.
Just like the leftist anti-constitutional activist you are.
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