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Originally Posted by Libertine
Cannabinoids have some positive health effects, but pot can also have a number of negative effects on both physical and mental health. Especially when smoking it, since that damages the lungs as much as smoking tobacco does.
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While you are correct that inhaling ANYTHING is bad for you, there is one thing that is forgotten when people compare pot to cigarettes with regards to the negative effects on the lungs.
The typical cigarette smoker smokes 20 or more cigarettes a day where I would bet that a typical pot smoker probably doesn't smoke an entire joint in a week
I would guess that just inhaling the air of any smog-filled downtown city over a one week period is probably just as damaging to your lungs as smoking a joint a week (this last statement is NOT fact - just my own opinion
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Not that I know ANYTHING about pot...I just read about it in a book once - honest!
-- Bill