Study: Smoking marijuana has no ill effects on your lung

[DetlefK]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/01/22/3614459/new-pot-research/

Excerpt:
"“Lifetime marijuana use up to 20 joint-years is not associated with adverse changes in spirometric (exhalation strength) measures of lung health,” the study, featured in the medical journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society, concluded.

In an effort to measure marijuana’s impact on lung function, researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to conduct a cross-sectional analysis measuring participants’ forced expiratory volume — defined as the amount of air one can forcibly exhale in one second. They found that adults between the ages of 18 and 59 who smoke one marijuana cigarette, also known as a joint, per day had the same expiratory volume as someone who didn’t partake in the plant.

The data collected suggests that it’s unlikely that prolonged marijuana use would cause respiratory diseases in a way that smoking tobacco would. While researchers at Emory University found that marijuana users who smoked joints reported coughing and having a sore throat — symptoms of bronchitis — they attributed that to the use of rolling papers, especially since those who used vaporizers reported similar problems less often."






The takeaway: No more than one joint a day and use good papers.

[hobbit709]

1. I like my Vapir.

[madokie]

2. I started puffing on cigarettes before the first grade

and smoked them for 29 years. Smoked pot for 46 years and today I do two inhalers to make it through the day, Spiriva and foradil. Even with that I don't breath worth a shit. I still have life though

[Hari Seldon]

3. 36 years of daily smoking experience here

pretty much non-stop from age 14 to 49 (holy shit am I really 49?)

I am in far better health than any of my contemporaries, and I have no problems with cardio workouts.

LEGALIZE IT!

[markbeilskyte]

4. Hey

LOL Seriously???

[SamKnause]

5. The researchers at Emory University are apparently

unaware that cannabis is an expectorant.

Not surprising in the least.