On May 15, 10:36=A0am, darkon <darkon....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@[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? =A0It's from a
> different plant, and has different amounts of tar and so on. =A0
>
> It is generally smoked in smaller quantities. =A0One marijuana
> cigarette is usually smaller than a tobacco cigarette, and usually
> one is far more than enough for one person to get high. =A0(Given good
> pot, that is. =A0Lower-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. =A0Once you're
> high, there's little need to smoke more, because the high lasts for
> hours. =A0And I know from experience that you eventually reach a
> plateau where you don't really feel any higher. =A0 Past that, you're
> wasting pot, and since it's more expensive than tobacco, that's
> something you don't want to do.
Now and then an anti-pot person will bring up the fact that today's
weed is x% more powerful than yesterweed, like that's a bad thing.
Just means less is needed to achieve the desired result, which for
many is an agreeable buzz which is maintained by the occasional hit.
Or so I've heard.
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