[Dimensio]

Well, an argument could be made that tobacco is usually filtered while a joint is not. Of course, they wouldn't want to mention that because it reveals that it's the method of intake that is the problem and not the chemicals taken. Also, I've heard that a water based filter (read: bong) is the best way to smoke the stuff, as it greatly reduces the toxins in the lungs.

I don't smoke the stuff, so I can't say for certain.

[monkeyshine]

Actually, the "new way" to smoke the weed is by vaporization... using a device which heats up the weed to the point that the THC is emitted in vapor form, but not enough to cause rapid carbonization (burning) of the plant. You just breath a lot of hot THC filled air, not smoke.

[shempy]

The BEST way to smoke cannabis is using a vaporizor. This doesn't even burn the weed, it just heats it up to the point that the THC vaporizes. So technicaly, it isn't even "smoking".

Either way, I prefer to smoke my weed. Unfortunately, a bong isn't practical for my life style so I just stick with my one-hitter most often.

Weed should be legal, but I can live with its current status. It is still dirt cheap, easy to find, and I kinda like my status as an outlaw. I used to sell the stuff and I always felt like a bootlegger durring prohibition. High risk but an even higher reward (pun not intended).

[Nate505]

Well, an argument could be made that tobacco is usually filtered while a joint is not. Of course, they wouldn't want to mention that because it reveals that it's the method of intake that is the problem and not the chemicals taken. Also, I've heard that a water based filter (read: bong) is the best way to smoke the stuff, as it greatly reduces the toxins in the lungs.

The best argument is virtually no pot smokers smoke 15 grams of pot a day, while the average tobacco smoker does. So even if on a per weight basis pot is more harmful than tobacco, the amount used is so much less that the comparison is dumb. It's like saying cyanide is more poisionous than hemlock, so therefore it's more dangerous to eat a milligram of cyanide than it is to eat a couple grams of hemlock.....