'More tar' in cannabis than cigarettes

Herald Sun ^ | 27 March 2006

[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.

[Dinsdale]

It is if you grow your own. And it's still smoked down to the last nanometer.

You've never heard:

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Ditch the roach and avoid a bust.

BTW I have seen broke cigarette smokers roll one up out of butts. Scrounges.

[tpaine]

robertpaulsen on 'flying':

I say if you're flying intrastate you take off and land when you damn well please. What's a few thousand lives each year compared to the freedom guaranteed to us by the U.S. Constitution?

Paulsen, at most of the airports in this country, pilots do indeed "take off and land" when they "damn well please". ['most' airports are uncontrolled, except for the rules of common courtesy]

You really don't have a clue on how dim witted some of your comments make you look, do you?

[robertpaulsen]

I think everyone but you understood the point I was making.

[Lady Jag]

cannabis clubs don't need the 12 joints per day paulsen quoted for the patient on government pot.

First question that comes to mind seems of high importance - where do the buds go?

[tpaine]

paulsen wrote:

I think everyone but you understood the point I was making.

Could be.. -- You've been trying to make that same anti-constitutional 'point' ever since you arrived at FR. -- Namely that any level of government in the USA can use any reason to 'regulate' our lives, liberty & property.

Plainly put, you're a socialist dupe, and you make that point with most every post.

[mugs99]

First question that comes to mind seems of high importance - where do the buds go?

The buds don't look like the buds you picture. They are light and airy and the plants are heavy with leaf. The plants are stripped and chopped, bud and leaf, then machine rolled. The government stuff could not be sold on the market...It is called bunk weed.
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[mugs99]

You'll find this interesting.

WASHINGTON — Put this in your pipe and smoke it: A University of Massachusetts professor says the medical marijuana grown by the federal government isn't very good. He wants a permit to cultivate his own pot, saying it will be better for research.

Lyle Craker, a horticulturist who heads the school's medicinal plant program, is challenging the government's 36-year-old monopoly on research marijuana. Craker's suit claims government-grown marijuana lacks the potency medical researchers need to make important breakthroughs.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178500,00.html
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[Lady Jag]

OIC. I suppose they don't want too much human contact lest the inventory shrinkage skyrockets.

[mugs99]

OIC. I suppose they don't want too much human contact lest the inventory shrinkage skyrockets

To support the War On Drugs, our government intentionally supplies substandard medicine to sick people. This is a national disgrace...IMHO.
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[Lady Jag]

There is a benefit to sub-standard medical pot.   The patient gets more exercise by smoking more joints.

At least they don't have to roll them...

[mugs99]

LOL!
At least poor Alf got some help!
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[winston2]

I don't have a problem with marijuana and would legalize it in a heartbeat. But it is funny to me that some people who are health nazis are pro marijuana and anti tobacco. Seems pretty hypocritial to me.

Smokers, both tobacco and marijuana, should stick together and fight these intrusive, nanny state, health-nazi laws and sin taxes that punish smokers for making an individual choice to smoke.

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Let cannabis users, tobacco users and non smokers have EQUAL rights. That would be that smokers could light up anywhere that didn't pollute the air that other have to breathe. I am allergic to tobacco - yet I enjoy cannabis.

[winston2]

That is correct. A person with glaucoma would smoke approximately 8-10 joints per day.(robertpaulsen)

ROFL! .

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Have you - ever - heard of ANYONE smoking 8-10 joints in a day? Hell that would be either a new world record - or - dope bad enough to kick the dealer's @$$ over. Class A bunk.

[Mojave]

Any request.

[Lady Jag]

She's his therapist.

[mugs99]

LOL!
Only official US government BUNK!
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[mugs99]

Any request.

Sophie Milman!
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[mugs99]

Yikes! She looks just like Mojave!
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[Nate505]

Yeah, I love how that fact seems to escape them. If cigarette tobacco was $350 an ounce they would save every little tiny piece and roll them up into another smoke.

Nah, wait, tobacco isn't addictive like the 'evil' weed is, they'd never do that.

[Nate505]

It is if you grow your own. And it's still smoked down to the last nanometer. You guess wrong.

Growing your own is not cheap, and it is a very risky venture in a country where it is legal to grow castor beans yet a felony in most states to grow a plant that is not deadly. Plus, growing your own at a small scale to avoid detection does not typically give a user enough pounds or anything.

Plus, how do you know that people who do grown their own and have copious amounts smoke it down 'to the last nanometer'? I doubt that, especially because the taste is substandard to that last 'nanometer'.