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Smoke anything for 35 years and you're running the risk of serious health complications. Smoking cannabis for medical reasons is nonsensical.

dreamweapon 12y ago
Smoking cannabis for medical reasons is nonsensical. A lot of research has been done which leans heavily against this point of view. If you want to ignore that research or pretend that it doesn't exist (or can't easily be found), that's fine, of course.
- josefresco 12y ago
  Care to provide a link to this research? I'm not aware of research that indicates smoking to be a viable and healthy means of consuming medication.
  - dreamweapon 12y ago
    I wasn't stating that the research says that smoking cannabis is "viable and healthy means of consuming medication." But rather that it isn't simply, as you state, "nonsensical" as form of medicine.
narag 12y ago
Did they make the mice smoke?
codyb 12y ago
That's probably not true. If you don't have the time, expertise, or space to legitimately cook something in it with whichever components of marijuana are utilized in the cessation of nausea or pain, and you can't afford/don't have the time to go get/are not near a place where they sell a vaporizer then smoking is your best option. And recent research has suggested a litany of positive effects for those suffering from a variety of ailments. In this case, smoking would be quite sensical not only because it will make you feel better. Stress is a known killer, symptoms such as nausea (and it's side effect known as 'not being able to eat') or pain increase stress. Ergo, it can be quite easily seen that there are many instances where a person would be quite sensical in choosing to smoke marijuana instead of continuing to suffer, negative side effects of smoking marijuana included. This of course does not go into the debate of marijuana versus addictive opiates or more "traditional" forms of medication which opens up an additional set of conversation topics, many of which conclude that marijuana is more than likely to be preferred over traditional forms of Western medication.
- josefresco 12y ago
  Obviously if given no other choice, smoking cannabis might be a viable option. It's important to keep this discussion in the context of the parent comment, which was pointing our (rather anecdotally) that some guy who smoked cannabis for 35 years died of cancer (implying that the assertion made in the parent article was incorrect or flawed).

dreamweapon 12y ago

Smoking cannabis for medical reasons is nonsensical. A lot of research has been done which leans heavily against this point of view. If you want to ignore that research or pretend that it doesn't exist (or can't easily be found), that's fine, of course.

josefresco 12y ago
Care to provide a link to this research? I'm not aware of research that indicates smoking to be a viable and healthy means of consuming medication.
- dreamweapon 12y ago
  I wasn't stating that the research says that smoking cannabis is "viable and healthy means of consuming medication." But rather that it isn't simply, as you state, "nonsensical" as form of medicine.

narag 12y ago

Did they make the mice smoke?

codyb 12y ago

That's probably not true. If you don't have the time, expertise, or space to legitimately cook something in it with whichever components of marijuana are utilized in the cessation of nausea or pain, and you can't afford/don't have the time to go get/are not near a place where they sell a vaporizer then smoking is your best option. And recent research has suggested a litany of positive effects for those suffering from a variety of ailments. In this case, smoking would be quite sensical not only because it will make you feel better. Stress is a known killer, symptoms such as nausea (and it's side effect known as 'not being able to eat') or pain increase stress. Ergo, it can be quite easily seen that there are many instances where a person would be quite sensical in choosing to smoke marijuana instead of continuing to suffer, negative side effects of smoking marijuana included. This of course does not go into the debate of marijuana versus addictive opiates or more "traditional" forms of medication which opens up an additional set of conversation topics, many of which conclude that marijuana is more than likely to be preferred over traditional forms of Western medication.

josefresco 12y ago
Obviously if given no other choice, smoking cannabis might be a viable option. It's important to keep this discussion in the context of the parent comment, which was pointing our (rather anecdotally) that some guy who smoked cannabis for 35 years died of cancer (implying that the assertion made in the parent article was incorrect or flawed).