Ignorant fools in our government - a multi-generation study of pregnant women who used cannabis on a regular daily basis before, during and after pregnancy showed no (that's right ZERO) negative health effects whatsoever for their children as compared to a control population. Dumbasses.
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(Site Moderator)
Is your description a troll or what?
(Old Spike)
No I'm referring to an actual study that was conducted in Jamaica when I get off the can I'll see if I can find the link. So this study was done over many years, and at specific intervals they would check in and examine the children of mothers who use cannabis and compare against a control group to see if there was any difference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8121737
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1957518
http://www.bestdoulas.com/marijuana.pdf
This here is a 1985 critique of an earlier study - the more modern study linked above was designed to overcome the methodologial (sic?) problems with the earlier 1970s study: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1985-01-01_4_page004.html
(Site Moderator)
I don't know. I have a hard time believing it.
If you regularly breath in smoke, it's going to have a negative effect on you and a developing fetus. I can believe the psychoactive components don't have an effect, but It's the tar, carbon monoxide and hundreds of other chemicals that will get you.
(Old Spike)
They've done extensive studies on the effects of smoking cannabis on the lungs as compared to smoking cigarettes. I've listed the health risks for cannabis that I am aware of in a response below. As I understand it, tar and other damaging chemicals are associated with tobacco cigarettes, not crushed cannabis smoked without any other additives. Although various cancer societies continue to state otherwise, there is no evidence that smoking marijuana regularly over an extended period of time causes lung cancer. None.
(Site Moderator)
I agree that cannabis smoke is safer when it comes to cancer, but whenever there is combustion there will be carcinogens. Tar content is also higher in cannabis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3340105
(Old Spike)
Is tar then just a byproduct of inhaling burning plant matter? I thought the tar was one of the many additives to crushed tobacco. Thanks I learned something new today.
(Site Moderator)
Not an expert but I think thats the shit you see in all those smoker lung PSA's.
Cannabis has more of a cleansing effect as it opens up the airways, so it somewhat counteracts all the tar you get. I guess you cough up that shit more easily than with cigarettes.
(Long Spike)
Actually cannabis has been proven to cause an array of health problems.
(Old Spike)
Can you list the array of health problems that cannabis use has been "proven" to cause? I'm aware of risk of bronchitis and emphysema, and those who vape a juice based in vegetable glycerin risk a bacterial infection of the lungs. Some children who smoke heavily and continuously in their teens sometimes show a delayed physical development into adulthood. People who will become schizophrenic in their early adulthood can trigger the disease early from smoking marijuana in their teens. As far as I know there are no known health issues for those who eat cannabis and cannabis products.
(Long Spike)
It causes penis's to fall off.
(Old Spike)
LOL That wasn't weed they sold you.