|
Home > Archive > Drugs pot > March 2006 > Re: Cannabis lifts emphysema risk - er um *cough*, *cough* *cough*,
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
Re: Cannabis lifts emphysema risk - er um *cough*, *cough* *cough*,
|
|
| Derek Potter 2006-03-31, 12:10 am |
| On 30 Mar 2006 16:14:16 -0800, "arclight" <arclight@system-x.info>
wrote:
>
>Derek Potter wrote:
>
>
>actually it isn't,
>cannabis doesn't contain nicotine a very carcinogenic substance,
>nor does it contain radium, lead 210 or polonium 210 which are found in
>most tobacco due to the fertilisers used in the growing process, the
>Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety at Michigan State
>University reckons that a pack and a half a day smoker of cigarettes is
>absorbing as much as 800 chest x-rays worth of radiation per year
>depending on the type of tobacco.
X-rays are absorbed instantly. Polonium produces an exposure dependent
on the time it stays in the lung. This is *very* uncertain since
polonium dissolves readily in body fluids.The impressive sounding
radiation doses assume it stays in situ for 25 years. It may actually
be nearer 25 seconds.
>
>no one doesn't, one just needs to realise that all the epidemiological
>studies of cannabis users have found that smokers of pure cannabis have
>no higher rates of any lung disorders other than bronchitis than
>members of the general non smoking population.
Which, if true, requires re-writing consensus science.
> Also the only medical
>condition cannabis smokers have been found to die more often with
>statistically significant increases in probability of cause of death is
>AIDS and related illnesses, which makes sense given how good a medicine
>cannabis is for AIDS and HIV patients.
|
| |
|
|