Some Health-Related Facts About Marijuana

Muser said:
Most enlightened cannabis users don't smoke. They vaporize or use edibles. Much safer for the lungs!
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I agree Muser, and I understand that the medical marijuana or legal recreational sold now is much higher grade without stems and seeds, more friendly to use with a vaporizer than the street weed.
 

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Ina said:
I guess I'm just stupid, what does a vaporizer have to do with cannabis? I get that it can be powdered and put into capsules, but I'm not following how a vaporizer is supposed to work. :doh:
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Ina, vaporizers are the "new thing" in cannabis use, for several reasons. They increase the amount of active ingredient (THC) and they all but eliminate most of the side-products that are so dangerous to our health from smoking. They work by heating the cannabis, but not actually burning or combusting it.

There are table-top models and portable hand-held models, ranging in price from $30 - $3,000 and up.

Once the cannabis has been vaporized it can then be used to make edibles, or ground up and put into capsule form.

The research is still in the early stages, but different medical marijuana strains or varieties are used for different afflictions. One way that a vaporizer can help in this regard is that you can set it to extract only the most useful "cuts" from the weed, thus increasing the dosage and eliminating other "cuts" that either do nothing or cause undesirable side-effects.
 
Ina said:
Thank you Phil, All I could think of was the vaporizer I Put Vicks vaper rub in, for a cold. I also was wondering if that was like the old bongs I use to see in "head shops".
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Oh, how I wish my mom had put weed in the vaporizer when I was a kid - maybe I wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble! ;)

I suppose you could call it a "mini-bong", but of course you don't put water in it. They even have miniature vaporizers called "vape pens", because they're about the size of a ballpoint pen and you charge them with your computer (USB port charging)-

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Thanks for the visual Phil, I guess I have turn into an antique. I will find a head shop, and look around. See what else has been updated. I use to by some great buffalo leather sandals there. :goodone:
 
Ina said:
Thanks for the visual Phil, I guess I have turn into an antique. I will find a head shop, and look around. See what else has been updated. I use to by some great buffalo leather sandals there. :goodone:
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LOL - never saw those for sale in Wacky Willy's Weed World, but I DID receive a pair of Native American-style moccasins when I was 16 that lasted for over 12 years. Comfortable as anything yet super tough.

As for paraphernalia - I'm still an old-timer at heart. I would prefer my old plastic bong to one of these new vaporizers, just for the memories it brought back, but I think the vaporizers really are a lot healthier to use and, with the prices of cannabis being what they are nowadays, much more economical as well, because you only have to use a very small amount of cannabis (or wax, which is another new form of weed).

What I can't stand is when they roll their weed in those cigar wrappers - "blunts", they call them, big with the rapper crowd. It takes the sweet taste of weed and reduces it to something akin to licking a collection of ashtrays in an Italian nightclub. :(
 
Vaporizers are good for people to use also, if they have people in the household who complain about 'second hand smoke'. Healthier for the users and those around them.
 
They sell small water pipes, they are healthier for the lungs, as they cool the smoke too.
 
In '67, my dear buddy Cap'n Billy (RIP Brother!) and I used to share a regular old pipe and I've continued preferring that method ever since.

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Of course, after a couple of puffs, it's more like . . .

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saw some friends in my youth start out on bong. they always moved on to hard drugs. i helped bury 3 of them.

 
kcvet said:
saw some friends in my youth start out on bong. they always moved on to hard drugs. i helped bury 3 of them.
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Yeah, and every alcoholic started off drinking milk, every cigarette smoker started off with bubblegum and every mass killer began with a BB gun.

C'mon - please stop carrying on these old-wives tales. It's the personality framework that determines whether you go to excesses, not the thing itself.

I don't see Obama, Oprah, John Kerry, Bill Gates, George Bush or dozens of other big names doing crack or heroin ...
 
certainly, and also if you take too much pot, and on top of a couple of drinks, you would also be stoned off your ass, spelled the same, but two different meaning Mrs. R;)
 
I never liked pot, and if I were in pain, I probably wouldn't try it to help me get rid of it, because pot makes me paranoid. So smoking pot, on top of pain, would make me think the pain was worse then it was, it's my theory. On the other hand, I smoked some hash and it was not the same effect. Hash was very different in my opinion. It didn't make me paranoid, and I don't remember feeling any pain;) That's all I have to say, for now:)
 
I agree that it has to do with the person/personality, not the substance. I think sometimes humans look for anything they can to blame things on rather than just accept if it hadn't been one thing, it would have been another.
 
I used to drink alcohol when I'd smoked pot, because alcohol I could handle, didn't feel weird. Although I did think I was super-woman, weird side-effect.superchic.jpg
 
I guess we all have our drug of choice. I don't think one substance leads to stronger substances. I think week people use that theory as an excuse for their own weaknesses. I've been using marijuana foe 44 years, less now than in my youth. It has helped me medically for all of those years, and I've never had any desires to even try harder drugs. I drank for a short time, but found it bad for my health.:hatoff:
 

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