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In reply to the discussion: Pot smokers don't puff away lung health: study [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)which, if you'd bothered to read the rest of this thread, not simply what was later posted, you'd know.
It's BULLSHIT on your part because, if you read the fucking statement, you'd see it entirely talks about context.
READ the sentence : In the nineteenth century, one of the medicinal uses of marijuana was in the therapy of bronchial asthma (1); however, no definite evidence of its effectiveness as a bronchodilator was adduced until recent studies demonstrated significant airway dilatation in healthy young men after both the smoking of marijuana...Whether similar effects could be elicited in subjects with bronchospastic disease was of interest because the irritant effect of marijuana smoke, which is probably responsible for the symptoms of bronchitis attributed to heavy or chronic marijuana smoking (4,5), might outweigh the bronchodilator properties of delta-9-THC...
And, again, if you BOTHERED to find out something beyond the one post to which you are responding, you would see, upthread, that Tashkin has been engaged in studies with much larger numbers, is aware of studies by others and is the FUCKING Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles TO THIS DAY. And, yes, he's aware of the issue of small subject size for studies or the issue of random vs. chosen... so am I and have mentioned this in other contexts here.
But you just want to try to make a point rather than get information, so you aren't trying to find out about someone's work or qualifications. Maybe your brain is lying to you because you are selectively looking at this - cognitive bias.
There are many plants that are the basis for modern synthetics - digitalis is from foxglove, aspirin is from salix, morphine and codeine are from poppies, menthol is from mint, L-dopa is from velvetbean, camphor is from the camphor tree, atropine is from belladonna, pseudoephredrine is from ma huang, etc... ipecac, taxol, quinine...
so, again, since another study from Tashkin was mentioned upthread and you didn't bother to read it - go find out about the subject you're trying to discount, first. That's what other doctors did, such as Lester Grinspoon and Dr. Tashkin, and both came away convinced of either the value of cannabis for medical uses or in the relative harmless nature of cannabis for the general population as something other than medicine.