Marijuana smokers show higher rates of emphysema, airway diseases than smokers: uOttawa study

[OnlinePoker]

Researchers from the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital have found marijuana smokers have a higher rate of emphysema and airway diseases compared to cigarette smokers. 

The findings, published in Radiology, examined the chest CT examinations of 56 marijuana smokers, 57 non-smokers and 33 tobacco-only smokers between 2005 and 2020. They determined higher rates of paraseptal emphysema and airway inflammatory changes, such as bronchiectasis, bronchial wall thickening, and mucoid impaction, in the marijuana smokers. 

Giselle Revah, a radiologist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, was searching for answers on the effect of marijuana on the lungs and its health implications, especially with little information available in the current literature since marijuana only became legal in Canada in 2018. 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971283

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Here's a link to the actual study. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.212611

[JenniferJuniper]

1. Pass the gummy on the left hand side...

[Effete Snob]

2. Inhaling smoke is not good for you?

Wow.

[hunter]

4. Such a surprise!

Nevertheless, that, in and of itself, is not the sort of thing anyone should be hauled off to jail for.

[Effete Snob]

9. Or eating barbecue...

Because, shockingly, eating burnt stuff isn't good for you either.

[hunter]

14. In spite of my mostly unburnt vegetarian daily lifestyle...

... I'm pretty well skillful at the barbecue whenever carnivorous friends and family are around.

Lately, within my extended family, as elderly people have passed on, I find myself one of the better cooks. But I hate cooking!

One of my brothers is a world class barbecue chef. He can turn any animal you just killed or some meat you bought at the supermarket into something spectacularly delicious.

That kind of skill scares me.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Possession of pot should not carry a harsher sentence than possession of Top Secret docs.

[FlyingPiggy]

17. Right? Smdh. Who didn't see this coming?

[2naSalit]

3. Well, as my best friend...

Said the third time she was diagnosed with cancer, "Well, 2na, something has to kill me!"

And it did.

I have been a pot smoker for a long time, I suspect it may help with my demise but I probably won't mind all that much.

[Doc Sportello]

5. You gotta live life

As I read recently from James Garner's memoirs writing about his 50-year pot and cigarette smoking habits. Self-destruction isn't good but using cannabis for the well-being and enjyoyment it provides is self-care for me. I use mostly edibles but smoke ocassionally. Cigarettes are much worse in my mind.

[Calculating]

6. If only there was a way to consume it without smoking

Hmm

[orleans]

8. +1 lol nt

[Gore1FL]

12. I haven't found one that works. nt

[RobinA]

16. I Use Tincture

I prefer to smoke it but I am trying not to smoke anything, thus tincture. The oral route is better than nothing.

[Caliman73]

7. Not that I am a Cannabis Stan but...

From the study:

Conclusion

Airway inflammation and emphysema were more common in marijuana smokers than in nonsmokers and tobacco-only smokers, although variable interobserver agreement and concomitant cigarette smoking among the marijuana-smoking cohort limits our ability to draw strong conclusions.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Ah, then, confounded variables. Needs considerably more research

If you can't afford a vaporizer for dry herb, eat it. Different experience eating vs inhaling, yes, but to hell with combustion.

[Caliman73]

13. Yep. Glad they are actually doing research.

Not so glad that very small studies that lack any declarative power are being put out as News releases. Some people will not bother to read the study then engrain the "knowledge" that Cannabis is "more dangerous" than Tobacco. I am sure that the Tobacco companies will be all over that once Cannabis becomes more mainstream.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Vape dry herb and fuck combustion (there's a website). . . nt

[canetoad]

15. I read this

A couple of decades ago, so if the research has changed or I have it all wrong, please weigh in.

In a nutshell, cannabis acts as a broncho-dilator. This exacerbates the damage done by tobacco smoke when people mix their cannabis with tobacco and inhale it.

[ismnotwasm]

18. Well of course it does.

It’s good they have a decent—even if a small sample size— study though, because historical marijuana studies were shit.

There are other ways to imbibe than fucking your lungs up. Thank goodness.

[Effete Snob]

19. It's amazing how much abuse the lungs can take, though

[JuJuChen]

21. George Burns lived how long smoking cigars?