[fuzzylogic]

I find it odd that nobody ever mentioned cigarettes. It normalizes the very notion of “smoking” something....seems like a small step from smoking plant A to plant B.

[dangus]

>> I find it odd that nobody ever mentioned cigarettes. It normalizes the very notion of “smoking” something....seems like a small step from smoking plant A to plant B. <<

I find it odd that the Swamp is so concerned with attacking tobacco (which is good to attack), but ignore marihuana so completely that they failed for months to connect the dots that nicotine vapers who died were almost all using marijuana in their vapers.

Marijuana lacks nicotine, which makes tobacco so addictive. But nicotine isn’t what kills tobacco users. There are over 700 cancer-causing substances in tobacco, and it seems absurd to suppose that more than a few of them are in tobacco but not marijuana, Importantly, nitrosamines, an important carcinogen, IS in tobacco, but not marijuana. But carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are found in marijuana in levels similar to tobacco, as are almost 60 other carcinogens.

You ARE probably considerably less likely to die of cancer if you stick to marijuana, rather than tobacco. (Most pot users I’ve known smoke both, but I have known several who did stick to marijuana.) But these hippies who act as if they’re being “all-natural” while they suck on marijuana exhaust make me roll my eyes.

[dangus]

>> I find it odd that nobody ever mentioned cigarettes. It normalizes the very notion of “smoking” something....seems like a small step from smoking plant A to plant B. <<

I find it odd that the Swamp is so concerned with attacking tobacco (which is good to attack), but ignore marihuana so completely that they failed for months to connect the dots that nicotine vapers who died were almost all using marijuana in their vapers.

Marijuana lacks nicotine, which makes tobacco so addictive. But nicotine isn’t what kills tobacco users. There are over 700 cancer-causing substances in tobacco, and it seems absurd to suppose that more than a few of them are in tobacco but not marijuana, Importantly, nitrosamines, an important carcinogen, IS in tobacco, but not marijuana. But carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are found in marijuana in levels similar to tobacco, as are almost 60 other carcinogens.

You ARE probably considerably less likely to die of cancer if you stick to marijuana, rather than tobacco. (Most pot users I’ve known smoke both, but I have known several who did stick to marijuana.) But these hippies who act as if they’re being “all-natural” while they suck on marijuana exhaust make me roll my eyes.