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.
Or my pothead opponent is running on empty.
Yep. They actually prevent cancer. And people smoking pot drive better, too. And George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew pot and sat around and smoked it (with the slaves they owned).
These lies make Reefer Madness look like a Discovery Channel documentary.
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).
After the Supreme Court finds that the FAA is unconstitutional, maybe California should require commercial airline pilots to get loaded before taking off.
Or save roaches to build a new joint out of.
I didn't see 8-10 joints underlined there, sport.
If legalizing pot for adults resulted in a doubling of teen use, would you still favor legalization?
This study proves further that marijuana should be decriminalized, taxed and regulated.
How is a standard prerolled Marlboro Red cigarette a fair comparison to a unfiltered handrolled marijuana cigarette?
Take 20 full strength Drum hand rolled cigarettes without a filters and then compare it to 20 full strength hand rolled marijuana cigarettes without filters.
If marijuana was regulated and taxed:
1. major tobacco would immediately put their decades of growing experience to use to create commercially viable low thc low tar variants of cannabis.
2. major tobacco companies would create new filters specifically for marijuana cigarettes.
3. Tar levels would substantially decrease as a result, and tobacco/marijuana blends would become more popular in the States, similar to street usage in Europe/Japan.
(this post was made out of nostalgia for the old FR WOD threads)
Dopers would use filters?
If your justification for legalization is that people will do drugs at home, but you concede (correctly) that they won't .... well, you lost me there.
Do you buy your strawmen by the pallet?
Pot does wonders for the brain...just look at Charlie Sheen!
Charlie Sheen only abuses pot?
Not alchohol, cocaine, barbituates, heroin, etc?
Just pot?
RP gets his strawmen by the barn-load. That way he has an unlimited amount of strawmen to use, which he does all the time.
2. Not alchohol
Potheads who live in glass houses...
Now don't get me started with the FAA.
The pro-drug posters on this forum almost have me convinced that the FAA has no constitutional power under the Commerce Clause to regulate purely intrastate flights. Nosy jackbooted busybodies.
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?
Just do the math. The answer is hidden.
I REPEAT my question - what is the problem for those adults who drink/get high/whatever else - responsibly - & don't pose a danger to other people? You say if pot is legalized you know for a fact that twice as many teenagers will smoke it? Could you show me facts on that?
Strawmen? Those are actual arguments used by your side.
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