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In reply to the discussion: Pot smokers don't puff away lung health: study [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)Tashkin et al. studied 14 asthmatic volunteers and compared smoked cannabis (2%THC), oral THC (15mg) and the drug isoprenaline (0.5%). They found that smoked cannabis and oral THC produced significant bronchodilatation of at least two hours duration. The effect of smoked cannabis was nearly equivalent to the clinical dose of isoprenaline.
Smoked cannabis was also capable of reversing experimentally induced bronchospasm in three asthmatic subjects. (
) Williams et al. compared a THC aerosol containing 0.2 mg THC with a salbutamol aerosol (0.1 mg) in 10 asthmatic subjects. Both drugs significantly improved respiratory function. The onset of effect was more rapid with salbutamol, but the effects of both drugs were equivalent at one hour. Tashkin et al. compared several doses of THC aerosol (5-20mg) with a standard dose of isoprenaline in 11 normal volunteers and five asthmatic subjects.
http://medicalcbd.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/asthma-treated-with-cannabis/
The real issue is that we employ cost/benefit analyses to determine policies or actions and, in the great big scheme of things, the hysterical prohibition of cannabis is far worse than legalization of the same.
So, no, cancer isn't the only lung disease, but it's one of the main ones that the Drug Czars and Czaristas use as a scare tactic by comparing cannabis to cigarettes and cancer-causing inhaled substances - THEY use this propaganda - which is why you see others rebut it.
If you want ppl to STFU about cannabis - you should be for legalization too. I wouldn't have one thing to say about it were it not for current stupid laws.