what do you guys think of this article (30,000 deaths from Marijuana)

Trousers

Trousers

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Smoking marijuana protects your lungs from cigarettes.
Smoking marijuana is not bad for your lungs.
I have smoked weed daily for 30 years and plan on doing so for another 60+ years.
 
Red1966

Red1966

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2rollingstoned said:
I smoked cigs around 2 packs a day sometimes more for 32 years. 4.5 years ago I quit cold turkey. I hate them now. Tobacco smoke makes me feel sick and ill now and I despise it. The whole time I smoked I always had bronchial/lung ailments, especially in winter. Every year I had to go to the dr, get a shot in the ass and 5 day antibiotic along with kick ass cough medicine that knocked me out at nite. I was always having colds, felt bad, couldn't breathe. Sounded wheezy when I laughed and one day I just decided I was tired of the smell, the sickness, the expense and just stopped. I have smoked weed steadily since I was around 12 and now I am 49 and it never makes me feel like the cigs did, I don't have all those health problems, I don't feel short of breath and I feel completely fine. I am sure adding fire and smoking something combustible may up the chances but one thing I have found is smoking joints does not make me feel bad like smoking cigs!! I'd like to see some real statistics and not just scare tactics to make people stop inhaling the "evil weed".
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I think if you smoked 40 joints a day, you would have the same problems.
 
Moldy

Moldy

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TripleMindedGee5150 said:
Lmao you serious? He said Molly was safer than riding a horse?
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Yeah, a few years ago Dr. Nutt said that. He was then sacked. Here's the stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt

There's more at the Wiki site. As I said it was an old news, circa 2009 this all went down.

As ACMD chairman Nutt repeatedly clashed with government ministers over issues of drug harm and classification. In January 2009 he published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology an editorial ('Equasy – An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms') in which the risks associated with horse riding (1 serious adverse event every ~350 exposures) were compared to those of taking ecstasy (1 serious adverse event every ~10,000 exposures).[SUP][1][/SUP] In February 2009 he was criticised by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for stating in the paper that the drug ecstasy was statistically no more dangerous than an addiction to horse-riding.[SUP][19][/SUP] Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Nutt said that the point was "to get people to understand that drug harm can be equal to harms in other parts of life". Jacqui Smith claimed to be "surprised and profoundly disappointed" by the remarks, and added: "I'm sure most people would simply not accept the link that he makes up in his article between horse riding and illegal drug taking". She also insisted that he apologise for his comments, and asked him to apologise also to 'the families of the victims of ecstasy'.[SUP][20][/SUP]
 
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