On May 16, 8:15 am, Rich T <rich_tint...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 15, 10:36 am, darkon <darkon....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > 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.
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> > Why should it produce the same problems as tobacco? It's from a
> > different plant, and has different amounts of tar and so on.
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> > 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.)
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> > 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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> 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.
I've heard a similar argument against low tar and nicotine cigarettes.
One article I read suggested that the least damaging cigarette would
have the *most* nicotine for the least possible tar, because low
nicotine cigarettes only led to smokers smoking more.
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