Smoked Cannabis' Effect on Lungs, pt. 3, Dr. Tashkin

Does regular marijuana smoking cause COPD, Emphysema and/or Lung Cancer? In part 3, Donald Tashkin, MD examines cancer risk and overall results from his study.
Donald P. Tashkin, MD - Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

After 25 years of research, here are the study's
Summery & Conclusions:
* Habitual marijuana smoking is associated with:
- Symptoms of acute and chronic bronchitis
- Evidence of microscopic injury to bronchial lining cells.
- Inconsistant evidence of mild airway obstruction.
* but NOT with an accelerated decline in lung function.
- Thus unlikely to be associated with the development of clinically significant COPD.

* In a large, prospectively designed population-based case-control study:
- We did NOT observe a positive association of marijuana use - even after heavy long-term use, with either lung or UAT cancer, controlling for tobacco use and other possible confounders.
- In marked contrast, we confirmed the strong dose-dependent effect of tobacco use on the occurence of these cancers."

Presented to Fifth Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics held in Pacific Grove, CA, April, 2008. Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time.
http://MedicalCannabis.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Chronic
• Obstructive
• Pulmonary
• Disease
• health
• marijuana
• lung
• cancer
• alternative
• medicine

[markx9000]

so if you smoke weed don't stop

[MrDMTHEAD]

how MANY people have died of alcohol or tabacco? How many people HAVE died of cannabis? NONE, if it really those give lung cancer, all ingest it

[shokerURhead]

thats why they dont want it legal, for some will use it together with other substance that can cause more trouble. if people does only smoke weed and would not take other substances like alcoholic beverages or worst injectibles and other drugs, perhaps there's no reason for the government to illegal the use of marijuana...but my advice, SMOKE WEED SECRETLY!!!!

[FXFilmer]

no, im going to have to say, that your wrong..... your own decision to drive is not influenced by any drug. it might effect your driving ability but it doesn't want you to get into an accident and kill anyone. THC cant kill you. just your dumb decision to drive does... but not the actual drug.

[noah741]

@FXFilmer I have to disagree with you on this point. The persons "OWN" driving is negatively influenced by the consumption of alcohol and marijuana so it is because of the effects of these substances that the person wrecked. Although the negative consequences of weed on driving are significantly less than that of alcohol, I have seen firsthand the way it effects my driving.

[FXFilmer]

but the thing is, the weed or thc didnt kill that victim that was driving, that persons own driving did, not the the chemical its self., the same goes with alcohol

[IIOverkill]

the incredible amount of benefits this wonderful plant gives definitely cancels out the miniscule amount of lung damage

[noah741]

@Tgwood73 I 100% agree. since i posted the reply to MrDMTHEAD, I got caught smoking weed by the cops. As a punishment I had to write a paper on the affects of weed on the brain and body. It actually made me even more pro-legalization of weed because of all the medical benefits that it has. i found out that it does have some negative side affects that i didnt know about, but most of them were caused from sever chronic abuse of smoking.

[noah741]

@twig200086 your an idiot.



[Tgwood73]

@noah741 -so, people have died from what they might do when high, but not from the direct health affects of pot

[BlazinModz2]

how many people do you know that died from smoking Marijuana - 0

how many people do you know that died from smoking tobacoo - 443000 a year

[noah741]

@MrDMTHEAD People have died from smoking weed. I am not against weed and smoke occasionally, but I am not ignorant of the fact that it does impair your judgement. I am guilty of driving under the influence of weed and fortunately did not have an accident. There have been cases of people wrecking while being high and to say that smoking has never killed anybody is false. I definitely agree with you that drinking and tobacco are much worse for you. I think that weed should be legalized though.