How long before all of America realizes cigarettes cause cancer and marijuana does not?

I imbibe in a little marijuana on occasion and have for decades but, make no mistake about it, chronic use of anything is bad for your health and marijuana smoke is still smoke going into your lungs along with dumbing you down if used on a chronic, daily, basis for years and years. Marijuana has also been shown to lower ones immune system function and the tars and oils in weed cling to your lungs every bit as much as the tars in cigarettes. All things in moderation, but don’t delude yourself, chronic use of marijuana is not a good thing.
Edibles are the best choice to keep your lungs healthy.

@Coloma Truth. I’m a little tired of this whole fucking thing about weed being so innocent and harmless.

If people smoked 20, 40, 60 joints a day they might well get cancer.

Very long.

THIS JUST IN: inhaling smoke is BAD for you!

@rem1981 Seriously? Weed actually has more carcinogens.

100s of people will die today because of cigarettes. But people still demonize weed. What a joke.

If I only smoked one or two cigarettes a day, my risk for cancer would be about 0. If I smoked 2 packs of joints a day, my cancer risk would be much higher.

It’s like in western movies where the cowboys smoked cigarettes or cigars while the injuns banged on a pipe packed with spliff, not really answering your question, but hey, it’s me so…

@rem1981 I’m by no means anti weed but your stance on this just does not have anything behind it.

Agreed. I too wish it would become legal, but it’s ridiculous to say it can’t harm you if it’s abused.

It is now in CA. as of Jan.1.

I can’t buy your logic. Mary Jane smokers may not inhale as much but neither do they allow the smoke to cool a mite before inhaling.

People don’t die from smoking weed. Buy that logic.

Keep in mind @rem1981, nobody here is defending cigarettes or denying that they kill.

Well if they smoked packs and packs of weed a day I imagine it would kill them eventually.

In case you aren’t keeping score—hundreds of people died today from smoking cigarettes and nobody died from smoking weed. It’s a f’n blowout!!!!!!

America knows this. The cigarette lobby, although weakened from what it was, is still strong. They will protect their interests.

Marijuana has taken this long to become sort of legal because the police/law enforcement/prison industry has a vested interest in the ongoing prosecution of weed users. It keeps the funding coming from Washington.

This has little to do with the health effects of either tobacco or marihuana. It has much more to do with $$$.

According to The Surgeon General’s Warning on Marijuana, lung cancer is among the serious side effects of inhaling marijuana smoke.

“Impaired lung function similar to that found in cigarette smokers. Indications are that more serious effects, such as cancer and other lung disease, follow extended use.”

Not to mention how many stoned drivers are involved in accidents. I am all for personal choice of use but if you’re going to get high, just like alcohol you better stay off the road.
Marijuana is an intoxicant like every other drug and those that use should treat it accordingly. get high at home and sit in your hot tub star gazing and pondering the mysteries of the universe while eating chips and salsa great, have fun, getting high and deciding to fire up the chainsaw and cut down the tree hanging over your house, not your “highest” choice. lol

@rem1981 How would you know who has or hasn’t died today in marijuana related accidents or illness from chronic use/abuse?
Ridiculous statement. Just the facts, fatal accidents involving marijuana use have doubled in WA. state since weed was legalized. Driving stoned should be treated just as driving drunk is.

Serious fines and penalties for doing so.
When I get high I call it my “mini-vacation.” I stock up on groceries, plan home projects or just relaxing and do not leave my home/property while under the influence. Weed is not harmless, it is a substance to be used responsibly just like booze.

I smoke joints while driving everyday. It has no effect on my driving.

@rem1981 Right. You are an idiot. yes, that is a personal attack and I take full responsibility for it.

“It has no effect on my driving”

Bullshit.

Bullshit! Echo echo echo.

People driving after drinking think it has no effect on their driving, either. It’s called “delusion.”

Well clearly @rem1981 is a selfish little prick that doesn’t care if driving high might cause the loss of life or limb to others.
I also do not think that anyone needs to be getting high in public short of sitting around a campfire on a camping trip. If you can’t leave home without your weed your issues are pretty big indeed.

Yep. I agree. I’ve driven high when I was young. It definitely affected my driving. I was driving too slowly for the safety of those around me, and I knew I wasn’t capable of making any split-second decisions. That’s why after the first couple of times I made sure I was in one place and didn’t have to go anywhere before I got high.

I even quite driving when I was drinking, although when I was younger it seemed like it didn’t affect my driving that much. Until one night I found myself high centered on a car stopper thingy in an apartment complex parking lot that I’d made a wrong turn into. I was scared shitless! How was I going to get out of this mess without someone calling the cops on me?! But I managed to get the car off and drove home, and never drove drunk again.

@Dutchess_III I’m pretty sure most of us took a few chances in our younger years, and we got lucky. A lot of kids/young people do not get the opportunity to correct their stupid mistakes/choices. Russian Roulette. Now days, add cell phones and texting into the mix and it becomes even more of a loaded gun.

It is a mess. On Wis.dm someone made the comment that texting doesn’t affect their driving at all.
Some wise person said, “If it doesn’t affect your driving, maybe you haven’t been paying enough attention to your driving to begin with.”
That was spot on. If you don’t pay attention under normal circumstances, then you won’t notice a difference in your driving while texting, or drinking, or being high.
I, for one, notice a HUGE difference.

Ha ha! I guess that could apply to @rem1981, too. She says driving high doesn’t affect her driving. Maybe she doesn’t pay enough attention to her driving to begin with.

@rem1981 Aaaaand there are people who drive drunk and make it home safe. Every day. Without incident. And then there are drunk drivers who don’t make it, get hurt or killed, or hurt or kill someone else. Just like stoned drivers. So just because you make it safe every time you smoke up, evetybody else who does the same gets home safe, every time? You think nothing will EVER happen that wouldn’t have, had they not been stoned? Buy that logic.

In 1995 I was coming from Wichita to the town I had just moved to. I was on a 2 lane highway. Speed limit 60. I noticed this guy in front of me was all OVER the road, so I backed way off. Way off. Suddenly he veered to the left, cut across the oncoming lane, went down in a ditch and through a fence.
I stopped at the first house I saw to use their phone to call the police.
When I went back to the spot where he’d crashed, the car was gone.
He probably made it home, and the next morning probably wondered what happened to his car,

Aaaand then there’s Tracy Mcgrady who got high before he played professional basketball and made multiple all star teams.

^ Well it doesn’t take a lot of brain power to jump around and toss a ball through a basket, especially when you are already 6’8 and if his coordination is off the worst that could happen is a falls on his ass, he isn’t driving up on a sidewalk wiping out a grandma and babies in strollers after taking 7 bong hits before getting behind the wheel.
There are plenty of functional alcoholics too, what’s your point?
He probably wouldn’t do as well on a Physics exam if he was stoned. Short term memory loss and studying isn’t a mix.

Would you want your neurosurgeon to be stoned when he saws your cranium open? lol

So, we can play games when we’re high, and that means we can drive? Your critical thinking skills need some honing.

I played hella foosball when I was high. You do feel like you’re in a zone.

Good question @Coloma!

You got some bad info there. Educating America is not my job.