Posted on 01/11/2012 9:29:52 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
CHICAGO—Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does.
The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users -- those who smoke two or more joints daily for several years. The data suggest that using marijuana that often might cause a decline in lung function, but there weren't enough heavy users among the 5,000 young adults in the study to draw firm conclusions.
Still, the authors recommended "caution and moderation when marijuana use is considered."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
You don't see anyone here, including me, advocating marijuana use by "young people." Your argument is a POS.
Just remember...when you don’t do anything wrong, there’s nothing to forgive!
Thanx for the personalised comment.
http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k10NSDUH/2k10Results.htm#AppA
This phoney study that proves nothing
How did you conclude that? Do you see problems with their methodology?
What were we talkin’ about ......?
Most people I knew from my younger wilder days stopped using marijuana when they became adults. 4 that I knew did not stop, of the 4 none made it to their 50th birthday, they all died of lung cancer. 3 of the 4 also smoked cigarettes.
What were we talking about????
A Wiseman once said... Man who stands on tolit is high on pot...
Hey, pal...you really are wasting your Paul-bot, legalize it, libertarian, conservatives are hypocrits on this forum.
Any fool from the 60s and 70s can tell you from personal experience that doing dope is not the healthiest thing. So why add to a plethora of things that screw you up - legal and illegal?
Only thing you’ve said that makes sense is that Phish and Grateful Dead music suck... you have to be loaded to like it.
And if you’re Hemingway’s Ghost, you have a big effing hole in your head.
This has to be one of the most tortured posts I've ever read on Free Republic. Either English is not your first language, you are mentally challenged, or you are extremely drunk right now. Which one is it?
Why do you hate the Tenth Amendment?
By that logic, why not subtract from it by criminalizing alcohol?
You have the question backwards: can a nuclear scientist be a stoner?
Hundreds, probably thousands, of peer reviewed studies come out yearly. And we’re going to cherry pick one or two that were deeply flawed and paint all the rest with that brush? I can’t get there.
You’re right, I’ll admit it...
been toking away on my bong...
I think in the vault (as it is called) one can likely find a recording of every show the Dead played. Doubtful that such a complete recording record exists for any other band.
For every sucky moment (and there were plenty) there were manyu other moments of great, rootsy rock.
I have made it a mission of mine, for those who say the Dead sucked, to have them listen to American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, and Reckoning. Largely acoustic records, with none of the silly excess often heard in live shows. None of the folks I’ve tried it on have become huge fans that I know of, but universally they were shocked at the complete lack of psychedalia.
And they mostly cannot believe that Garcia was a banjo picker in a bluegrass band, who once chickened out and skipped his audition for Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys.
Phish is a different story (at least for me). Inane lyrics and completely derivative music.
If you exchanged the word Marijuana in the study with cocaine or cigarettes, I bet that the findings would be the same. What pot smoker just keeps their habit to one joint a week? They don’t, and from reading this study, they are basing things off of the honesty of the respondent. Pointless study. The only thing I can see that they were trying to do is put a happy spin on legalizing an illegal product.
Nah, I don't believe it. You seem far too one dimensional and belligerent to be a partaker of the demon weed.
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