On May 15, 10:19 am, Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin
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> 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.
>
Hard judgment to make. I know folks who smoke a *lot* of weed -- bowl
after bowl -- despite it being illegal and expensive (and them not
being particularly well-to-do.) I also know people who have a fairly
steady habit of one to three hits or so per evening, pretty much on a
par with having a beer after work. Don't see the few-puffs-a-day
folks really wanting to smoke a lot more, even if it were legal, any
more than the two-to-three beer guy has escalated to a case per
evening.
As for the contraindications, probably depends on what's in the tar.
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