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To: mugs99
"Your "cite" tells me nothing."

Try this link: http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/432

Here's another one. This one lived.

"A 48 year old successful kidney transplant patient who heavily used marijuana immediately following his transplant developed invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), a fungus transmitted in the smoke of marijuana. Marks et al reported on their use of an experimental antifungal drug to effectively treat this life threatening condition (Transplantation, Vol. 61, 1771-1773, No. 12, June 27, 1996), and noted that IPA "is a devastating complication in the immuno-compromised patient" such as patients with AIDS, chronic granulomatous disease, bone marrow transplants and those receiving chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer. Aspergillosis has up to a 90% fatality rate if contracted by transplant patients."

48 posted on 06/26/2006 12:24:40 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

LOL!
Nice try but this reference is blowing smoke. It assumes marijuana smoke caused the problem but presents no lab report confirming that assumption. In any case it is irrelevant. More people die from infections contacted during their stay in the hospital than from marijuana. Smoking marijuana is less likely to cause an infection than visiting a hospital.

See post #47 by donh if you're worried about the fungus among us.
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59 posted on 06/26/2006 3:02:05 PM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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