Smoking weed better then cigarettes?
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People DO actually die from smoking marijuana, just not at the rate that people die from smoking cigarettes. It IS safer on the body; however, that's not a valid defense in court if you get caught with it!
Facts from the cited source:
1) Most marijuana smokers smoke the bud, not the leaf, of the plant. The bud contains only 33% as much tar as tobacco.
2) Marijuana smokers do not smoke anywhere near as much as tobacco smokers, due to the psychoactive effects of cannabis.
3) Not one case of lung cancer has ever been successfully linked to marijuana use.
4) Cannabis, unlike tobacco, does not cause any narrowing of the small air passageways in the lungs.
So, you thought it was the tar that caused cancer... Think again. Cigarette companies will have you believing anything just as long as you continue to buy their products. The fact is, although insoluble tars are a contributing factor to the lung cancer danger present in today's cigarettes, the real danger is radioactivity. According to U.S. Surgeon General C. Everette Koop (on national television, 1990) radioactivity, not tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking related lung cancer.
Tobacco crops grown in the United States are fertilized by law with phosphates rich in radium 226. In addition, many soils have a natural radium 226 content. Radium 226 breaks down into two long lived 'daughter' elements -- lead 210 and polonium 210. These radioactive particles become airborne, and attach themselves to the fine hairs on tobacco leaves.
Many people think smoking marijuana is just as harmful as smoking tobacco, but this is not true. Those who hold that marijuana is equivalent to tobacco are misinformed. For example the Berkeley carcinogenic tar studies of the late 1970's concluded that "marijuana is one-and-a-half times as carcinogenic as tobacco." This finding was based solely on the tar content of cannabis leaves compared to that of tobacco, and did not take radioactivity into consideration. (Cannabis tars do not contain radioactive materials.)... "
well one is legal and the other is not and i would say it sounds right but i would be willing it is closer than they say
Both are harmful drugs, man.
So you are thinking that an unfiltered unregulated weed is safer than tobacco?
Sorry, the lungs are not supposed to have any type of smoke in them. There are no good statistics on weed because it is illegal and the accuracy of the data would be questionable.
Yep.weed is better. No one dies from using it.perhaps this is why they are trying to make it pharmaceutical...this way the drug companies get kickback from the profits instead of the drug dealers.also why it is taking so long to legalize it...it's all about who gets the money!
weed just causes other health issues, like brain cell deterioration, you are still putting smoke in your lungs- people who never smoked anything in their life get lung cancer, why would you think smoking pot would not cause lung cancer?
The only difference really is that one has addictive nicotine, still both are drugs and can do damage if used over time.
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