If you look back on my posts on the subject of marijuana over the years I have been in FR, you will see that I am no pro-drug libertarian. I am no pro-drug anything.
However, I am highly (no pun) skeptical of this “study”.
Marijuana smokers have been around a long time. I don’t see pieces of coughed-up lung on the subway, and I ride the NYC subway every day, and I’m sure there’s more than a few potheads riding with me.
This sounds like Reefer Madness to me.
I don’t see coughed up lung myself but what’s that supposed to prove. Good grief, come up with something more substantive than that as an excuse to dismiss the study!
Gotta keep that WOD going, man. The govt relies on the forfeiture incomes now. Cops have excellent second incomes by stealing form the homes they raid and selling the stuff later after stealing it from the evidence room. No way it can ever be stopped, even though it is a complete and total failure on all levels.
The Pharisees of the Public Temple gotta have these issues to prove how superior they are to everyone else.
Heavy drug use, drinkin, smoking.....whatever you abuse and put into your body WILL show in the body. Forty year olds who have lived this lifestyle look sixty. It all adds up, especially when you do all of the above.
It is.
Every so often the War-On-Drugs types have to re-justify their own existence.... and it doesn't matter to them what crap study they use to get folks worried again.
Next we'll hear that smoking pot makes your left arm fall off. The fact that nobody actually knows any real person whose left arm fell off due to pot smoking will be ignored....
However, I am highly (no pun) skeptical of this “study”.
This sounds like Reefer Madness to me.
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I find the study to be plausible but likely exaggerated to a degree... there is no doubt that inhaling any burned substance is bad for you ,,, however just as a cigarette smoker/nicotine addict can get a fix with an absorbable patch , I think that if marijuana was decriminalized we would see safer usage as the cost would make safer usage cost effective,,, vaporizers that don’t release nearly the amount of toxins , more cooking of marijuana (brownies etc.) to release the active ingredient...
As to the property crimes problem referenced in this thread I seriously doubt that marijuana smokers are a large part of the problem ,, that would be druggies hooked on things with physical cravings and withdrawal symptoms.. METH , crack , crank , morphine , heroin etc.
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?
Common sense tells me that inhaling hot smoke and holding it in your lungs for a relatively long time can’t be terribly healthy. People become attached to their vices and defend them regardless of the evidence. To change the subject just a bit (but not much), alcoholics can be in a state of denial about their addiction, as can be drug addicts. People don’t want their vices taken away.
I'm sure there are. OTOH, I doubt any but the most dedicated doper smoke the equvalent of a pack or two a day!
If you attended college in the 70’s, you would be aware of a malady called “Bong Throat” or “Bong Cough”. It was pretty nasty.
I don't do drugs but I have to agree.
What's missing from the article is any reference to how common this disease is. Yes, marijuana smokers may get it 20 years sooner but if there are only 4 cases in the U.S. annually then who cares. The fact that they left this "vital statistic" out speaks volumes for me.
it is BS.........unlike tobacco, marijuana is degradeable
I smoked pot in the idiocy of my youth. Pot smokers inhale more deeply, and hold it in longer, so this study makes sense to me.
The people I know that continued to smoke pot are in much poorer health and have passed on at earlier ages.
I gave up weed long ago because it reminded me of the Sixties. Otherwise, I have good, productive friends who smoke it daily, occasionally, or once a year. I don’t want the State to bother them. One the health side of the issue, I would never smoke dope if I were to resume the drug. I would fry it up in some scrambled eggs. It’s best to leave the lungs alone...and the kidneys...and the heart...and the liver...