Posted on 01/27/2008 5:32:48 AM PST by saganite
A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.
A condition often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke, bullous lung disease (also known as bullae) is a condition where air trapped in the lungs causes obstruction to breathing and eventual destruction of the lungs.
At present, about 10% of young adults and 1% of the adult population smoke marijuana regularly. Researchers find that the mean age of marijuana-smoking patients with lung problems was 41, as opposed to the average age of 65 years for tobacco-smoking patients.
The study "Bullous Lung Disease due to Marijuana" also finds that the bullous lung disease can easily go undetected as patients suffering from the disease may show normal chest X-rays and lung functions. High-resolution CT scans revealed severe asymmetrical, variably sized bullae in the patients studied. However, chest X-rays and lung functions were normal in half of them.
Lead author Dr. Matthew Naughton says, "What is outstanding about this study is the relatively young ages of the lung disease patients, as well as the lack of abnormality on chest X-rays and lung functions in nearly half of the patients we tested."
He added, "Marijuana is inhaled as extremely hot fumes to the peak inspiration and held for as long as possible before slow exhalation. This predisposes to greater damage to the lungs and makes marijuana smokers are more prone to bullous disease as compared to cigarette smokers."
Patients who smoke marijuana inhale more and hold their breath four times longer than cigarette smokers. It is the breathing manoeuvres of marijuana smokers that serve to increase the concentration and pulmonary deposition of inhaled particulate matter – resulting in greater and more rapid lung destruction.
This paper is published in the January 2008 issue of Respirology.
Well, this study is wrong. Cuz cops steal from evidence rooms and molest kids. So there.
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The search string brings more than 40,000 hits.
Seek help.
True inhaling smoke of any kind is not good for a person's lungs. But nobody ever smokes 20-30 joints a day. Even when you consider the hotter smoke and deeper inhalation, the most enthusiastic and long standing pothead simply will never match the exposure of your average smoker over a lifetime. Add in the fact that the vast majority of dopers grow up and lose their weed procuring contacts around age 40, at the very latest, and you see why hospitals and graveyards aren't filled with marijuana victims like they are with cigarette victims.
Plus, the states can get some high-powered lawyers to file a class action law suit against all the countries shipping pot to the US. That should be good for 900 billion or so to educate all the pot smokers out their with an automated hot line to warn of the dangers.
Then the states can create more government programs for all the illegals and goobermint dependent and 'sophisticated' state pension fund managers loosing billions in junk mortgage bonds?
Still more than 25,000 hits if you add “federal” to the search string.
Yeah. Good point. I mean, they are terminal -- they're going to die anyways.
Gosh. Do you think, maybe, we can go ahead and harvest their organs and skin and bones now instead of waiting? I mean, come on. Why wait? They're going to die anyways and we have people today that can use their corneas and livers and kidneys.
OK. Maybe I went too far.
Can we experiment on them? There are a lot of new (potentially dangerous) drugs that need human subjects. Since these people are going to die anyways ....
Then it should be easy for you to find a case where the DEA made a paramilitary assault on a California medical marijuana patient for simple possession.
You never have before; you won't now.
Still no stats. Still no case.
No, I suppose they can claim “with intent to distribute” or other such enhancement. The risk exists.
What other snake oil nostrums do you want to sell to the elderly?
Legalize it and it becomes inexpensive enough to brew as a tea. No need to huff and hold. So, even if the study is true (and I find it worth considering the possibility that the science may be politicized), people could alter their means of ingestion.
he won’t, some of the busy-bodies like to tell others how to live, and what to do. You know, like liberals.
Yeah, I know.
Suppose = make it up
So far you haven't demonstrated that any significant risk exist. In fact, you haven't shown that any risk exists period.
Find even one case. I'm calling your bluff.
You actually want to keep people from dying happy, even if it is just an illusion? That’s really sick.
RSmithOpt, it might be more useful for you to actually post your opinion straight, rather than try to curve it with sarcasm.
I actually have no idea what it is you just posted, what you mean, what you think, or what it is you’re actually trying to say.
I hope your wife is doing well. Tell her all of us here say “get well soon”.
I certainly hope by this statement that you do not lump me into that category.
I merely pointed out that there are conflicting study results. I neither condone, nor condemn pot use.
I can tell you this, though. If I or some of my people were having to go through radiation or chemo and pot helped get through the nausea, I would have no problem with thee or me using it to ease those symptoms. Government and laws be damned.
The fact is that it is against the law, and law enforcement retains the prerogative to arrest lawbreakers. Do you deny this?
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