Posted on 03/26/2006 3:18:10 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SMOKING three cannabis joints will cause you to inhale the same amount of toxic chemicals as a whole packet of cigarettes, according to research published in France today.
Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbon monoxide, the French National Consumers' Institute concluded in research published in the April edition of its monthly magazine.
The institute tested regular Marlboro cigarettes alongside 280 specially rolled joints of cannabis leaves and resin in an artificial smoking machine.
The tests examined the content of the smoke for tar and carbon monoxide, as well as for the toxic chemicals nicotine, benzene and toluene.
"Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbon monoxide than tobacco smoke," the institute's magazine says.
Someone smoking a joint of cannabis resin rolled with tobacco will inhale twice the amount of benzene and three times as much toluene as if they were smoking a regular cigarette, the study says.
Smokers of pure cannabis leaves will also inhale more of these chemicals than from a normal cigarette, though the amount varies depending on the quantities.
"Smoking three joints every day – which is becoming frequent – makes you run the same risks of cancer or cardio-vascular diseases as smoking a packet of cigarettes," the magazine says.
Cannabis is "by far" the most popular illicit drug in France, it says. The number of cigarette smokers and people drinking alcohol fell in 2005, while the number of cannabis users has increased in France in the past five years.
Key words...if they are willing!
Willingness is a conscious act. UNwillingness can be a conscious act or a less-than-conscious act. Less-than-conscious has a couple of intellectual and psychological connotations that resemble the problem with Democrats, catatonic rigidity. That's where the person becomes rigid and holds that position against all efforts to move him.
You're irresistible, too?
You can tell?
Sure I can, but you said it, too: SN: "They are the immovable object, we are the irresistible force..."
I'm glad you noticed that I said "we".
You are a tough cookie too. I'm glad we are on the same side.
You didn't have to say "we" because I know I am irresistible . . . and, as you say, tough.
And confident too.
Ditto for the drug alcohol. Is banning that drug good policy?
Age and cunning. Done a lot, learn a lot.
Or save roaches to build a new joint out of.
If pot was as cheap as tobacco (and why wouldn't it be if it was legal like tobacco) I expect you wouldn't see those behaviors.
Experience and cunning will beat youth and enthusiasm all the time.
"And I've never seen a cigarette smoker use a pair of tweezers to smoke a cigarette down to the last molecule (where all the good pot toxins are, of course, concentrated)."
Wait till cigarettes get as expensive as pot and you will see that.
"...a quarter bag, 28 grams."
You do mean seven grams, don't you? And do you think the average pothead smokes seven grams by himself every four or five days? Some smoke more than that in a day, but my guess is that most smoke a good bit less than that in four or five days. From our national drug use surveys our government estimates that the average person who will admit smoking pot in the past thirty days smokes about seven grams per month. Holland did a study on how much current pot smokers were smoking and they came up with an average of about ten grams per month.
Draw a line from the Western shores of Ireland to the Eastern shores of Japan. Almost every marijuana using population uses paper filters (like cheap russian cigs), and also throw in resin in their cones(cheaper and easier to transport for the drugrunners).
Duhhh, yeah, that's an ounce.
1/4 of 28 is right. Sorry.
////And do you think the average pothead smokes seven grams by himself every four or five days? Some smoke more than that in a day, but my guess is that most smoke a good bit less than that in four or five days.////
I was being generous to a fault and my numbers were still way short of RP's. And I was talking about staying high constantly (at least during waking hours.)
It's actually hard for me to discern how much an individual smokes by my past knowledge as I've never known a pothead who didn't share. :-)
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