Study links marijuana smoking to gum disease

[Praxius]

You probably mean a filter with "thick paper" (carton in french, not sure how to translate this)

Well yeah, a rolled up peice of thin cardboard, or a chunk cut off a pack of smokes, that cardboard works good and easy to roll up without going fuzzy. Basically all it does is keep the chunks inside the joint and keeps the opening open. It's not really a filter, although it does get gungy with resin at the end, it's pretty much useless for cleaning the smoke you inhale, therefore there is less filtered smoke going into your lungs in a joint compared to a cig. Esspecially if the join contains tobacco mixed in with it. That tobacco you normally would have inhaled with a normal filter, is now going directly into your mouth and lungs, which would conclude joints would be more harmful to you then a cig.

But once again, I have yet to see a study on weed alone, ie: a bong/pipe hit compared to a cigg. You usually smoke a lot less in a bong/pipe then you normally would in a joint, as you can put in as little or as much as you want.

Perhaps that is also why they compared to joints rather then weed via bong/pipe, as it's easier to measure in comparison. But then I'm stuck on the "Did the average joint in each comparison contain weed only or with tobacco?"

 

[karrie]

Just as clarification, he didn't smoke tobacco of any kind?

When he was younger yes, but he'd quit long ago. None of the pot smokers I know currently use tobacco of any sort actually.

 

[Unforgiven]

If you smoke Marijuana it will make you grow breasts!!!!!!!

 

[hermite]

Let me be the first to say, mmmmfffd, brnnng mmmy teef.

 

[darkbeaver]

If you smoke Marijuana it will make you grow breasts!!!!!!!

Very nice side effects, I am reminded that my stash gets augmented this evening with what I sampled a few days ago, I should be completely impervious to the mundane realitys of earth later on hopefully. After thirty-five years of smoking pot I have been unable to grow breasts like that. Guess I'll have to find some the old fashioned way, drinking.

 

[lone wolf]

If mine had toothpicks like that I'd still have teeth!

Woof!

 

[Unforgiven]

 

[Unforgiven]

 

[Unforgiven]

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."

Henry Anslinger
Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962

 

[I think not]

Really? Where's a joint?

 

[karrie]

I note you can't actually dispute the assertions of the article itself Unf.

Smoking contributes to gum disease.

It's pretty basic.

 

[karrie]

Really? Where's a joint?

psh... like Pang said.. eat it, it's easier on your teeth and lungs. :smile:

 

[lone wolf]

I note you can't actually dispute the assertions of the article itself Unf.

Smoking contributes to gum disease.

It's pretty basic.

No argument there - so does eating and drinking and acid reflux and breathing in dirty environments. What it boils down to is poor dental hygiene contributes to gum disease.

Eat it! Mmmm body stone.... Weed cookies are the best for pain relief....

Woof!

 

[I think not]

I don't know why some people find it so hard to believe pot has negatives effects on the body. Granted it has medicinal values, but that doesn't mean your lungs can take the abuse.

 

[karrie]

I don't know why some people find it so hard to believe pot has negatives effects on the body. Granted it has medicinal values, but that doesn't mean your lungs can take the abuse.

Exactly. I have a plethora of meds at my disposal if I feel the need. I just have to pick the negative effects I want to live with. None are side effect free. So I go with red wine for now, while my pain levels make it possible to use levels which won't overly damage my liver. I've used pot before, but found the side effects too drastic for me personally.

 

[Locutus]

I don't know why some people find it so hard to believe pot has negatives effects on the body. Granted it has medicinal values, but that doesn't mean your lungs can take the abuse.

It's human nature sometimes to become overly defensive against criticism, either perceived or real, regardless of whether or not it's accurate. Most people can take a little of that with a grain or two of salt while others run to the battlements. Kinda like politics or sports teams. When the Leafs used to play professional hockey, :lol: I might have felt the same upon hearing the 'Leafs Suck!' chant. Over zealous maybe. Who knows. It's not really very important in the big picture now is it. ;-)

To each their bloody own. Smoke it or don't, what do I care. The article simply reported on one (of many varying results I imagine) survey. Not the end of the world is it. :lol:

 

[Tonington]

It is kinda funny. It's not like there is some threshold value, where you're safe from deleterious effects up to point X. I believe the tobacco folks tried that, they lost. I bet my lungs look like hell, hopefully not as bad as say the Sydney Tar Ponds :-?

 

[Unforgiven]

I note you can't actually dispute the assertions of the article itself Unf.

Smoking contributes to gum disease.

It's pretty basic.

Yeah I can totally smoke the livin' shyt out of the article and have for years. But there will always be someone to come along and make a big noise about how evil and seriously dangerous pot really is. It's a bunch of horse crap. Gum disease, is supposed to be some serious problem? Ban pop, corrupt dentists, tv and cars all in some way contribute to gum disease . Hell ban everything that might is for sure proven beyond a shadow of a doubt more dangerous than pot and we can all crawl into a nice bubble.

Won't someone think of the children?

Does eating pot cause gum disease Kerrie? How about using a vaporizer? Both are becoming more and more popular as a way to ingest pot. Only because of people who live in areas where these fear and corruption based laws against pot have found even better ways to ingest it not to mention many of the beneficial aspects of pot.

For years and year someone comes along and makes mention of some study somewhere, and with that, there starts a whole new campaign to go after people who use pot. From the time that Anslinger started using this method to get himself into a position of power and wealth to present day where people make billions off of protecting the gullible public from those heathen pot smokers just waiting to corrupt youth and destroy life as we know it, the song has changed but the plays the same.

No pot doesn't make shiny golden turds pop out of yer bum but neither does it kill people or any of the bullshyte some dick looking for a research grant suggests it might.

So here is a little quest for you, go out and find some hard evidence that shows exactly how pot is a danger to the average person no matter how it's ingested and post it here so we can have a real discussion on the topic.

That basic enough for you Kerrie?

 

[Unforgiven]

It's human nature sometimes to become overly defensive against criticism, either perceived or real, regardless of whether or not it's accurate. Most people can take a little of that with a grain or two of salt while others run to the battlements. Kinda like politics or sports teams. When the Leafs used to play professional hockey, :lol: I might have felt the same upon hearing the 'Leafs Suck!' chant. Over zealous maybe. Who knows. It's not really very important in the big picture now is it. ;-)

To each their bloody own. Smoke it or don't, what do I care. The article simply reported on one (of many varying results I imagine) survey. Not the end of the world is it. :lol:

Nothing wrong with re-enforcing negative stereotypes either is there?

Why some people get all upitty over just a few words. Why you can't even make some jokes about ethnicity anymore because some people will get all up in your grill over it.
I agree it must be something wrong with them. :roll:

 

[Locutus]

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.