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morierblackleaf
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For Anyone Who Thinks Smoking Mushrooms is Gross...

#11306464 - 10/23/09 02:07 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

Personally, I've never done it so I don't really have an opinion. But, while investigating its effects -- both ill and desirable -- I ran across many arguments in the forums here that stated that smoking fungus was reprehensible.

So, just some food for thought, especially if you smoke cigarettes, weed, or use blunt papers:

>>> Vol. 284 No. 22, December 13, 2000 JAMA. 2000;284
>>> (22):2875-
>>>
>>> Fungal Contamination of Tobacco and Marijuana
>>>
>>> To the Editor: Invasive aspergillosis remains a significant
>>> cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised
>>> patients, including transplant recipients and those treated
>>> for hematological malignancy. Exposure to airborne
>>> Aspergillus spores is considered a major risk factor for
>>> acquiring infection. The guideline of the US Centers for
>>> Disease Control and Prevention recommends that potential
>>> sources of fungal spores should be eliminated to reduce the
>>> exposure of patients at high risk.1 However, the risk of
>>> invasive aspergillosis associated with tobacco or marijuana
>>> smoking is unclear. We investigated whether Aspergillus
>>> spores are present in tobacco of commercially available
>>> cigarettes and marijuana (marijuana is sold semilegally in
>>> the Netherlands), and whether burning contaminated tobacco
>>> causes release of spores. Methods. Tobacco from 98
>>> cigarettes from 14 different commercial brands and 7
>>> samples of marijuana were cultured for molds. The tobacco
>>> or marijuana was placed in 25 mL of distilled water and 1
>>> mL of distilled water with 50 ï¿½gL of Tween 20 and shaken
>>> for 5 hours. The supernatant was recentrifuged, and the
>>> residue was plated on Sabouraud dextrose agar. The plates
>>> were incubated at 29ï¿½C for 3 weeks. Sabouraud broth was
>>> added to the original tobacco and incubated at 29ï¿½C for 2
>>> weeks. A vacuum-driven water pipe was used to investigate
>>> the level of fungal contamination of tobacco smoke. Tobacco
>>> was contaminated with 106 CFU/mL Aspergillus fumigatus
>>> spores and then rolled into cigarettes. Each cigarette was
>>> attached to a mouthpiece, lighted, and the smoke was pulled
>>> through a 0.22-ï¿½gm micropore filter for approximately 5
>>> minutes. The smoke of 40 contaminated cigarettes was
>>> cultured, including 20 cigarettes with a filter attached
>>> and 20 without the filters. Results. All cigarette brands
>>> tested had some degree of fungal contamination, although
>>> not every cigarette was found to have a positive culture
>>> (TABLE). Between 1 and 5 different fungal species were
>>> cultured from each cigarette, but A fumigatus was the most
>>> frequently isolated organism. Other opportunistic molds
>>> recovered from tobacco included Fusarium, Acremonium,
>>> Rhizopus, and Scedosporium species. Marijuana was also
>>> heavily contaminated with molds, with Penicillium species
>>> predominating. The smoke from the 20 cigarettes with a
>>> filter as well as that from 20 cigarettes without was
>>> negative for growth of molds. Comment.
>>>
>>> We found tobacco and marijuana are heavily contaminated
>>> with fungal spores. The finding of molds in tobacco is not
>>> surprising because many opportunistic molds are also
>>> common
>>> plant pathogens. Because a cigarette contains between 500
>>> and 900 mg of tobacco, as many as 270 viable fungal spores
>>> may be present in a single cigarette. The absence of fungal
>>> spores in tobacco smoke could be due to exposure to
>>> heating, nicotine, or other factors. Previous studies have
>>> found that exposure to marijuana or cigarette tobacco is
>>> correlated with exposure to Aspergillus.2-4 Although our
>>> results indicate that smoking appears to present a limited
>>> risk of inhaling fungal spores, the leaves themselves are a
>>> source of fungal spores. Given the common policy of
>>> reducing the exposure of patients at high risk to fungal
>>> spores, we believe that tobacco and marijuana should be
>>> eliminated from these patientsï¿½ environments.
>>>
>>> Paul E. Verweij, MD, PhD Jos J. Kerremans, MD
>>

Sorry about the fucked up formatting. Of course, these fungal spores aren't p.cubes, but imagine all the spores floating through the air right now. I used to work tobacco, and believe me, they don't "wash" the leaves clean before it gets to you lighting your cigarette. Mold and all manner a' shit in those fuckers!

If someone has some scientific evidence about the dangers of smoking mushrooms, I'd like to see it. I haven't found any of that on the forums yet; mostly I've just found people who thinks it's gross! :smile:

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Warning: I am a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur, so anything I am likely to type is merely a formation of my mental instability and cannot be taken as fact.

That being said, :jointsmile:

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