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Marijuana doesn't harm lung function, study found
Boston.com ^ | January 11, 2012 | Lindsey Tanner

Posted on 01/11/2012 9:29:52 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost

CHICAGO—Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does.

The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users -- those who smoke two or more joints daily for several years. The data suggest that using marijuana that often might cause a decline in lung function, but there weren't enough heavy users among the 5,000 young adults in the study to draw firm conclusions.

Still, the authors recommended "caution and moderation when marijuana use is considered."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; weed; wod; wodlist; wosd
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To: Blue Ink
Your "for the children" argument might impress progressives, but it doesn't impress me. I'm an adult. I have no desire to be ruled over by my government as if I were a child.

You don't see anyone here, including me, advocating marijuana use by "young people." Your argument is a POS.

101 posted on 01/11/2012 11:20:29 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Bikkuri

Just remember...when you don’t do anything wrong, there’s nothing to forgive!

Thanx for the personalised comment.


102 posted on 01/11/2012 11:21:25 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: twister881
Granted, it's a character from a movie, but do you really think that someone like Jeff Spicoli was well on his way to becoming a nuclear physicist had he not been introduced to the devil weed?
103 posted on 01/11/2012 11:23:09 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Can you tell me how the Feds came up with this number?

http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k10NSDUH/2k10Results.htm#AppA

This phoney study that proves nothing

How did you conclude that? Do you see problems with their methodology?

104 posted on 01/11/2012 11:27:31 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

What were we talkin’ about ......?


105 posted on 01/11/2012 11:29:36 AM PST by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Most people I knew from my younger wilder days stopped using marijuana when they became adults. 4 that I knew did not stop, of the 4 none made it to their 50th birthday, they all died of lung cancer. 3 of the 4 also smoked cigarettes.


106 posted on 01/11/2012 11:30:09 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

What were we talking about????


107 posted on 01/11/2012 11:32:57 AM PST by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

A Wiseman once said... Man who stands on tolit is high on pot...


108 posted on 01/11/2012 11:33:18 AM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Stoners don't become nuclear scientists. Mental defectives for becoming stoners anyway. Would just want them to be sober manual laborers.
109 posted on 01/11/2012 11:53:34 AM PST by twister881
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Hey, pal...you really are wasting your Paul-bot, legalize it, libertarian, conservatives are hypocrits on this forum.
Any fool from the 60s and 70s can tell you from personal experience that doing dope is not the healthiest thing. So why add to a plethora of things that screw you up - legal and illegal?
Only thing you’ve said that makes sense is that Phish and Grateful Dead music suck... you have to be loaded to like it.
And if you’re Hemingway’s Ghost, you have a big effing hole in your head.


110 posted on 01/11/2012 12:07:27 PM PST by matginzac
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To: matginzac
Hey, pal...you really are wasting your Paul-bot, legalize it, libertarian, conservatives are hypocrits on this forum. Any fool from the 60s and 70s can tell you from personal experience that doing dope is not the healthiest thing. So why add to a plethora of things that screw you up - legal and illegal? Only thing you’ve said that makes sense is that Phish and Grateful Dead music suck... you have to be loaded to like it. And if you’re Hemingway’s Ghost, you have a big effing hole in your head.

This has to be one of the most tortured posts I've ever read on Free Republic. Either English is not your first language, you are mentally challenged, or you are extremely drunk right now. Which one is it?

111 posted on 01/11/2012 12:10:59 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: matginzac

Why do you hate the Tenth Amendment?


112 posted on 01/11/2012 12:12:20 PM PST by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: matginzac
why add to a plethora of things that screw you up - legal and illegal?

By that logic, why not subtract from it by criminalizing alcohol?

113 posted on 01/11/2012 12:13:07 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: twister881
Stoners don't become nuclear scientists.

You have the question backwards: can a nuclear scientist be a stoner?

114 posted on 01/11/2012 12:13:10 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
It almost parses if you put quotation marks around "legalize it" and "conservatives are hypocrits [sic]".
115 posted on 01/11/2012 12:15:41 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: stonehouse01

Hundreds, probably thousands, of peer reviewed studies come out yearly. And we’re going to cherry pick one or two that were deeply flawed and paint all the rest with that brush? I can’t get there.


116 posted on 01/11/2012 12:27:55 PM PST by dmz
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

You’re right, I’ll admit it...
been toking away on my bong...


117 posted on 01/11/2012 12:34:46 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

I think in the vault (as it is called) one can likely find a recording of every show the Dead played. Doubtful that such a complete recording record exists for any other band.

For every sucky moment (and there were plenty) there were manyu other moments of great, rootsy rock.

I have made it a mission of mine, for those who say the Dead sucked, to have them listen to American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, and Reckoning. Largely acoustic records, with none of the silly excess often heard in live shows. None of the folks I’ve tried it on have become huge fans that I know of, but universally they were shocked at the complete lack of psychedalia.

And they mostly cannot believe that Garcia was a banjo picker in a bluegrass band, who once chickened out and skipped his audition for Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys.

Phish is a different story (at least for me). Inane lyrics and completely derivative music.


118 posted on 01/11/2012 12:40:55 PM PST by dmz
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

If you exchanged the word Marijuana in the study with cocaine or cigarettes, I bet that the findings would be the same. What pot smoker just keeps their habit to one joint a week? They don’t, and from reading this study, they are basing things off of the honesty of the respondent. Pointless study. The only thing I can see that they were trying to do is put a happy spin on legalizing an illegal product.


119 posted on 01/11/2012 12:41:29 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: matginzac
You’re right, I’ll admit it...
been toking away on my bong...

Nah, I don't believe it. You seem far too one dimensional and belligerent to be a partaker of the demon weed.

120 posted on 01/11/2012 12:46:31 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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