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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
(4,515 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Wow.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Nevertheless, that, in and of itself, is not the sort of thing anyone should be hauled off to jail for.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Because, shockingly, eating burnt stuff isn't good for you either.
hunter
(38,326 posts)... 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
(33,414 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)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
(7,529 posts)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
(2,957 posts)Hmm
orleans
(34,073 posts)Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)I prefer to smoke it but I am trying not to smoke anything, thus tincture. The oral route is better than nothing.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)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
(49,036 posts)If you can't afford a vaporizer for dry herb, eat it. Different experience eating vs inhaling, yes, but to hell with combustion.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)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
(49,036 posts)canetoad
(17,184 posts)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
(42,008 posts)Its good they have a decenteven 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.