Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I just saw one of those fun facts that says there are 430,000
> deaths each year due to nicotine, none "attributable" to
> marijuana. But wouldn't smoking pot have the same
> conraindications as tobacco? Or is it smoked in sufficiently
> smaller quantities that emphysema and other complications are
> unlikely to result? If so, would this change if marijuana were
> legalized.
Why should it produce the same problems as tobacco? It's from a
different plant, and has different amounts of tar and so on.
It is generally smoked in smaller quantities. One marijuana
cigarette is usually smaller than a tobacco cigarette, and usually
one is far more than enough for one person to get high. (Given good
pot, that is. Lower-quality obviously takes more to get you high.)
Tobacco smokers sometimes chain-smoke, lighting one cigarette after
another, but that's much less common with marijuana. Once you're
high, there's little need to smoke more, because the high lasts for
hours. And I know from experience that you eventually reach a
plateau where you don't really feel any higher. Past that, you're
wasting pot, and since it's more expensive than tobacco, that's
something you don't want to do.
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