I hear all this shit about people saying weed is so bad for your lungs, but yet I still see people who smoke weed for so many years everyday and they still have normal lungs.

Nah it's been proven to not be so bad. That isn't to say that there is NO damage, though.

On average, no. According to the most reliable information, theres not too much damage. People who smoke heavily for most of their life seem to be fine.

But if you smoke an ounce every day or two? If you sit around, doing nothing but smoking weed constantly all day long, eating shit food and watching TV? It can't be good for you.

If you are worried, make a homemade bong or get a vape.

Things I have recently realized...

I thought I was depressed... then I tried taking multi-vitamins and eating a bit better... I feel much better lately... though I still smoke around 21 grams a week.

You are what you eat! What you don't put it you go without!

Eating less junk/processed foods, and adding some hemp hearts to your breakfast could do a lot for you. Pot seeds are Gods gift to the starving and malnourished! I buy mine at the local headshop.

Well I don't think theres too much wrong with that, although I personally don't smoke that much. If it bothers you, you could try switching to exclusively smoking hash, or vaporizing, right?

But the important questions are ... how does it make you feel? Do your lungs suck now? Do you feel like shit all the time? Do you need to smoke a lot more then you would like to?

It makes me feel happy and safe, my lungs suck, yes, but I smoke cigarettes too. I feel like shit most of the time (but even before I started being a huge stoner, my insides are just rotten or something) Well... and as for how much I have to smoke to get high? well... I don't really even get high anymore unless I cut it out for a few days or smoke a gram to my dome... if I smoke a whole gram, I will be stoned... but nothing like back in the day.

I have sort of wanted to stop for a long time, not stop, but cut down a lot. I want to do this so I can start feeling high again, and hopefully I will start feeling more normal. But to be completely honest... I am an angry, frustrated person without weed, it is a sad thing that someone could be so helplessly addicted to something that really can't be physically addictive... but without weed, I feel uncomfortable cold flashes go through my body, and I just, can't think of anything but weed... goddamn... it feels good to say, but it looks so pathetic and miserable once written.

I assume everyone has seen the scene in 'Half Baked' when Dave chappelle goes to an NA meeting and says he is addicted to marijuana... and then is booed off the stage by real addicts... that is what I see happening from this post haha.

Well there are not benefits for your lungs, but it can be done for years, just like you said.

You're gonna die anyway.




...lulz

YA WELL... THATS WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME!

*trys not to laugh*

Well then, what are you waiting for?

To cut your tolerance quickly, why don't you stop for a week or so? I little while ago I stopped completely, cold turkey, for one week. I consumed no drugs at all, ate no crap foods, only well prepared meals, good steaks and fruit, and all I drank was good clean water.

It feels great and my tolerance went down quite a lot. But I don't have much of one anyways, I'm lucky like that I guess.

See if you can go the whole week. If not, if you really have no willpower whatsoever, smoke a very small amount of weed. Try rolling a pinner or packing a smaller bowl, and then only smoke half of it. Sit back and see what that does for you. Then when you want to get back into smoking everyday, multiple times a day, do it ... but just smoke a lot less every time you smoke. Maybe that'll help.

No its not.Actually its effects are neutral according to this study.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...501729_pf.html
Well except for maybe tar buildup.

yeah well smoking anything i sbad for you, but you can make an easy vape out of a lightbulb. just hold the lighter far enough away from the bulb so it doesnt turn black otherwise the bud is burning and not vaporizing. it takes a little while to fill with vapor(not more than a moniute or two) but is hella healthier then smoking. or eat it. be safe

It is bad for your lungs.

However it's not as bad for your lungs as it is for your brain, as it immediately causes psychosis, just like all other drugs!

Just say no, man.

lol, okay... sources plz..

I would have thought the worst part about smoking weed is smoking unfiltered tobacco, if you put baccy in your joints as everyone here does.

It really clears your lungs . I don't smoke pot a lot but I smoke cigs till my lungs are shot.

smoking clears my lungs a good bit when im sick... smoke a cigarette and hack up all of that shit in the lungs... but weed is much better for this, drys the sinuses out, lets you hack up all of that shit from being sick, helps me sleep, makes me less achy... and don't forget the munchies...

weed just makes the flu so much more pleasant..

its not that bad for you, less than ciggarettes as far as cancer goes... but all of that tar and harsh smoke cant be good... you can always vaporize it which avoids pretty much every health concern in smoking...

you are the proof

My lungs are just as good as ever.

Yeah, weed always makes me feel so much better when Im sick. Especially when I have a runny nose. I hate blowing my nose all the time. Get baked and all my problems go away. Lol. Except sometimes I find it makes my aches worse, like sore muscles. Smoke a bowl and dont feel my muscle pain for 20 minutes and then it comes back. But thats okay, I dont mind.

I belive weed is not bad for your lungs.

It puts more tar in your lungs that cigarettes, but there has never EVER been even one case where someone had cancer from marijuana use.

You can't know what it's doing to your lungs just by how you feel. You have to get checked up medically. I know people who have been smoking regular cigs everyday for years and still appear to have healthy lungs. Dosen't mean that they do though.

I don't think weed is as bad as nicotine but smoking anything is bad for your lungs. Instead invest in a vap so it'll help and protect your lungs instead.

I think the guys over at MAPS actually proved that bongs are the worst ways to get the waccytobaccy from the weed into your brain.

Generally speaking, yes. Marijuana is just as bad for your lungs as tobacco smoke, or any other kind of smoke. The only justification to this, is that most chronic marijuana consumers smoke a whole lot less product on scale than a tobacco user or any other smoker. Yes it's bad for you, but on the amount of smoke you inhale versus others over a lifetime, your lungs will be healthier, but still very unhealthy.

It has no PLUS so i think you already know the answer to that question.

Smoking weed isn't as harsh on your lungs as tobacco or any other drugs, but harmful nonetheless.

I've been smoking for about 4 years now and I have to say the smoking does get to you eventually, I'm not sure if it's due to the fact that I've also been smoking cigarettes at times, but smoke is smoke.

I'd say the best way to enjoy weed is to cook and eat it. I always get the best highs like that. It's a much more soothing, calm high rather than coughing and spacing out high.

its definately not good for your lungs.

an interesting experiment would be to extract the cannabinoids from the weed (but leaving the rest of the flaverful turpenes.) and then add nicotine to them and sell them as cigarettes.

then record the people that smoke these heavily for a pack a day, and compare the damages over a lifetime of smoking them.

not that it would be any healthier than tobacco without additives, but it would be interesting to see.

not to mention they would taste/smell much better than tobacco (in my opinion)

fuck that would be awesome to just go into a store and buy them.

also I feel the best and healthiest way to consume is eating also, imo it feels much cleaner.

the only downside is it takes more weed than smoking does.

Been smoking minorly heavily for the last year...and working out...never felt better in my life and im still smoking...and got the lung capacity to kick ur fucking ass

As far as lung effects go, if you exclusively smoke weed, you probably won't get cancer. This doesn't mean that you won't be coughing/wheezing though.

It can be a big help when you're sick, but I think it depends on the strain. Smoking a strain with depressant effects is great for laying around and recuperating. It provides some mild analgesia as well. However, a strain with predominating stimulant effects is the last thing you want when you're sick. I smoked one of these "speedy" strains when I had a cold once, and I was immediately motivated to do a shitload of physical activity. Needless to say, this wasn't too beneficial for my cold.

The 2000 MAPS-NORML study didn't evaluate traditional unfiltered smoking methods. So even if bongs do filter out more more THC than tars, I'd be willing to bet joints would filter out less tars, even if they did deliver more THC. So while a joint might theoretically get you higher, it would be worse for your lungs. Also, I honestly think bongs get you higher, and I'm basing that on a lot of experience, not just because they look so cool the first time you use them. However, even if they do get you less high, they conserve more weed so you're getting less high with less weed instead of wasting more of it in a joint. Seems like it balances out to me.

Also, don't forget that water-filtered tobacco smoke puts you at a lower risk for carcinoma, and here's another source stating that water actually does help filter out toxins. http://www.ukcia.org/research/Effect...uanaSmoke.html

I absolutely agree that vaping or eating would be safer for you overall. However, if you're going to actually smoke weed, a bong is the healthiest option (although that doesn't necessarily mean they're healthy.)

FOX News says it doesn't cause lung cancer.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html

So I'm positive that marijuana causes lung cancer.

Becasue marijuana has a lot of tar in the smoke, it is worse for your lungs than cigarettes as far as diminished lung capacity and respiratory trouble (i.e. emphysema) are concerned.

It does not, however, seem to cause lung cancer. Thsi is though to be becasue THC kills off cells as they become weak berfore that have a chance to become cancerous.

But, yeah, if you want to be a marathon runner then smoking will hamper your pursuits.

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