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Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints
#6565990 - 02/14/07 08:58 AM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070212184119.htm
Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints
Science Daily — Long-term exposure to marijuana smoke is linked to many of the same health problems as tobacco smoke, such as increased respiratory symptoms like cough, phlegm and wheeze, according to a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States, and abuse of the drug is on the rise. The study is published in today's Archives of Internal Medicine. First author Jeanette M. Tetrault, M.D., and colleagues sought to find the relationship between marijuana smoking and pulmonary function or respiratory complications.
"While there is convincing data on the effects of tobacco smoke on pulmonary clinical outcomes, the effect of marijuana smoke has been poorly understood," said Tetrault, ambulatory care fellow at Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System.
Tetrault and colleagues systematically reviewed articles from 1966 through 2005 identified from the MEDLINE, PsychINFO and EMBASE databases that evaluated the effect of marijuana smoking on pulmonary function and respiratory complications. Of the 34 articles that met selection criteria, 12 were classified as challenge studies because they examined the link between short-term marijuana use and airway response. Eleven of the 12 studies found an association between short-term marijuana use and relaxation and opening of the air passages.
The study's physiologic data failed to show an association between long-term marijuana smoking and airflow obstruction (emphysema). However, all 14 studies that assessed long-term marijuana smoking and respiratory complications noted an association with increased respiratory symptoms, suggesting obstructive lung disease.
The authors noted several common limitations among the studies, including inadequate control of the complicating effect of tobacco smoking; lack of standardized measures for the amount or duration of marijuana use; and lack of standardized measures of the outcomes that were evaluated.
"Despite these limitations, clinicians should advise their patients of the potential negative impact of marijuana smoking on overall lung health," said Tetrault.
Other authors on the study included Kristina Crothers, M.D., Brent A. Moore, Reena Mehra, M.D., John Concato, M.D., and David Fiellin, M.D.
Citation: Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 167, (February 12, 2007)
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Wronguy]
#6566243 - 02/14/07 10:39 AM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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Any smoking is bad, but there's a solution: vaporize your substance.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Tech]
#6566341 - 02/14/07 11:08 AM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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or eat it
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: kungpow]
#6566678 - 02/14/07 12:22 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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I do like to make me some expensive stuffing now and then.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Riboflavin]
#6566703 - 02/14/07 12:27 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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Damn, it took a study involving all those doctors to figure this one out huh?
Imagine, smoking something long term and it having ill effects on the body...whoda thunk it?
The only purpose of this article is to further demonize MJ because its become a very very hot topic of late. Its on ballots in cities and states across the country...and those in power are scared. The people are standing up and using ballot initiatives...better hope it doesnt catch on, people may realize how worthless our representatives are.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Riboflavin]
#6566721 - 02/14/07 12:32 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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Nothing is "healthy" to smoke, this article is saying nothing new that people haven't already said about the dangers of smoking tobacco. There are plenty of other ways to get your fix and eating or vaporising are just as good if not better. But people have smoked for thousands of years and people will be smoking for another thousand yet to come, it just helps to be aware of the dangers. Smoking is fun.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: j3ckyl]
#6566910 - 02/14/07 01:27 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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My favourite "news report" ran something like this - "study links marijuana with crime". Yup.
I give this bit of "science" the same credit, I'm afraid. Maybe we should test inhaling carpet smoke just to be sure that this inhaling hot particular matter business really is as bad for you as common-fuckin'-sense dictates, ya know?
Edited by Hashishi (02/14/07 01:29 PM)
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: dedjam]
#6567046 - 02/14/07 02:08 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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This "study" is laughable at best, I cant believe they spent money to "study" this, it common sense I breath in smoke I cough duh lol. The air today is soo polluted especially in big cities like denver and la that I bet just breathing the air there can give you respiratory problems, but how many studies do you see on that.....
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gopenguins said: Damn, it took a study involving all those doctors to figure this one out huh?
Imagine, smoking something long term and it having ill effects on the body...whoda thunk it?
The only purpose of this article is to further demonize MJ because its become a very very hot topic of late. Its on ballots in cities and states across the country...and those in power are scared. The people are standing up and using ballot initiatives...better hope it doesnt catch on, people may realize how worthless our representatives are.
Thats just it man there trying to demonize it they've shown that thc destroys cancer cells soo there goes the theory that mj causes cancer now there just reaching and grabbing for anything in effort to turn the tide against legalization pretty pathetic.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: oppression]
#6567259 - 02/14/07 02:46 PM (17 years, 6 days ago) |
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oppression said: Thats just it man there trying to demonize it they've shown that thc destroys cancer cells soo there goes the theory that mj causes cancer now there just reaching and grabbing for anything in effort to turn the tide against legalization pretty pathetic.
Marijuana CURES CANCER? omg, the CURE was there all along, right under our noses!!! NO WONDER THE GOV WANTS IT ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!
end joke... cancer is a mass of dna that somehow didnt follow its growth agenda.. instead the cancer made its own set of growth rules.
I highly soubt thc in anyway "kills" or reverses this growth and then suddenly causes the dna agenda to be kept...
hypothetically, you're saying if THC was a manager in a workplace then THC would intimidate the workers to stop fuckin around and do what they're told!
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Edited by I2ancid (02/14/07 02:55 PM)
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: I2ancid]
#6568797 - 02/14/07 09:14 PM (17 years, 5 days ago) |
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Doesn't marijuana attach to dopamine receptors throughout the body? If so this would mean their chemical structure is at very least temporarily modified or added to. I'm not sure how to cure cancer (as no one is), but I don't find it preposterous that it could have some positive effect.
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Flop Johnson]
#6568869 - 02/14/07 09:30 PM (17 years, 5 days ago) |
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I'm intrigued how they term it as an "abuse of the drug." Isn't it a voluntary choice to use? Hmm, maybe it just brainwashes us?
Also, I thought it was common knowledge that smoke in general is just bad for the lungs. Go figure . . .
Edited by klassasin (02/14/07 09:31 PM)
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Re: Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints [Re: Wronguy]
#6569852 - 02/15/07 05:01 AM (17 years, 5 days ago) |
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"While there is convincing data on the effects of tobacco smoke on pulmonary clinical outcomes, the effect of marijuana smoke has been poorly understood," said Tetrault, ambulatory care fellow at Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System.
Wait a minute! For the last thirty years they have been telling me that smoke from a marijuana cigarette is much worse than smoke from a tobacco cigarette. Now they are telling me that "the effect of marijuana smoke has been poorly understood". How can this be? (sarcasm)
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