House (the tv show): There must have been Cadmium in the soil where the marijuana was grown.

My god society is desperate to intimate people out of smoking teh weed. I always thought that marijuana didn't pull heavy metals out of the soil very well. Especially compared to tobacco.

If this were actually possible wouldn't food poisoned with cadmium be more common?

I dare someone to actually find me a case were someone was actually put in a hospital from marijuana smoke related to cadmium.

The government actually pays TV shows to add this stuff for those who weren't aware.

The government actually pays TV shows to add this stuff for those who weren't aware.

You can't be serious?

Half the shit on house has a very low probability of ever happening medically. Otherwise, it would be a good show. Bob has the flu. Give him some tea and meds and send him on his way. Pretty shitty episode, huh?

It's not a god damn gov. conspiracy. It's a show relax.

It is my understanding that heavy metals cannot dissolve in water and therefore cannot be absorbed into plants through the roots if it's in the soil. The cheap synthetic phosphate fertilizer that industries use for everything only really effects tobacco because the traces of fine heavy metal particles that contaminate the soil stick to the sticky undersides of the tobacco leaf. Since the leaf is the part consumed it becomes an issue as the heavy metals bioaccumulate, some of which are radioactive. That is why even smokeless tobacco cause cancer and marijauna doesn't.

http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/lungcancer.html

http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_tobacco.html

That was just a bullshit propaganda thing anyway. They have House say it as if that gives it some sort of credibility in hopes some will be scared away from weed...

i stopped watching house when they cured the guy by removing half of his brain.

OP is just a paranoid marijuana smoker

House (the tv show): There must have been Cadmium in the soil where the marijuana was grown.

My god society is desperate to INTIMIDATE people out of smoking teh weed. I always thought that marijuana didn't pull heavy metals out of the soil very well. Especially compared to tobacco.

If this were actually possible wouldn't food poisoned with cadmium be more common?

I dare someone to actually find me a case were someone was actually put in a hospital from marijuana smoke related to cadmium.

The government actually pays TV shows to add this stuff for those who weren't aware.
I am pretty sure this has come up and it is possible for marijuana plants to have heavy metals in them


"Cannabis is a well known "accumulator plant" that takes in heavy metals and sequesters toxins in vacuoles which are impermeable. The heavy metals remain toxic. Cannabis was planted around Chernobyl, the toxic nuclear site in Russia, to absorb toxic heavy metals.

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www.marijuanagrowing.com/article.php?sid=27

in fact most plants acumulate heavy metals and radioactive material from the soil.

"Summary With the aim to examine its potential as a renewable resource to decontaminate polluted soils, electron microscopy combined with X-ray microanalysis was used to investigate the localization of copper in Cannabis sativa grown in hydroponic copper-rich culture. Cu was found to accumulate preferentially in the upper leaf epidermal cells; it was also detected in spiculae and in abaxial trichomes too. Primary bast fibres seem to be not involved in copper accumulation."
www.springerlink.com/content/v317541g44354200/

It has actually beenthought that you could use cannabis to decontaminate soil,