is weed conected with lung cancer?

Answer 1

Nope. Puff away my good man, puff away.

There is more tar in one marijuana dub than 4 cigarettes, but it's a rare rare person who smokes 4 or 6 dubs a day, but there are plenty who smoke a pack a day.

Even given this, studies have come back in the news saying that pot doesn't elevate your risk. The key to avoiding an elevated risk if you're a high level pot user? use a vaporizer or ingest it.

Answer 2

The facts are there are 400 chemicals in a spleef and 4800 chemicals in a cigarette smoke. The cigarette smoke has been designed to go to the brain within 7 seconds as the nicotine interacts with the 7 other chemicals put into a cigarette. All these chemicals are broken down into tar by the lungs. The THC that causes the high in cannabis would be safer taken via a vapourisers, baked or cooked. I am not advocating smoking cannabis is safer or better than cigarettes BUT when you smoke your risk ALL your body organs to damage and eventually cancer; not only your lungs.

Answer 3

It must be, but I've also read (can't cite where) that weed can slow the growth of cancer.

Here is one opinion:
One joint deposits four times as much cancer-causing tars in the smoker's airways as does tobacco smoke. Smoking three to five joints a week is equal in harmful effects to smoking 16 cigarettes daily. Smoking one joint a day is equal to a pack of cigarettes daily. Three joints smoked per week for three to six months carries the same probability of developing lung cancer as smoking a pack of cigarettes daily for 20 to 30 years. This is from a university website.

Here is another:

New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells
By Steve Kubby

A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.
In order to save space the whole article is here:

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm

So I guess it depends who you ask and what you political agenda is. I say do what makes you happy. Breathing gives you cancer.

Answer 4

(Yes, and apparently it is connected as well to intellect, as noted by your inability to spell a word learned in the third grade.) Anything that is foreign, and taken into the lungs repeatedly will damage them if done so for a long enough period of time. But since usually marijuana is not used as often as tobacco, the studies are less precise. However, the tars and particles that occur with the inhalation of burning substances are all about the same.... do it enough, and your risk for lung cancer increases, be it tobacco, corn silk or marijuana.....

Answer 5

No research has concluded that marijuana is not connected with lung cancer.
Regular cigarettes are processed with chemicals, and you breath in through a "syrofoam" type filter which does begin to breakdown as the heat from a regular cigarette comes into contact with it.
Where as with a joint there are no additives only thin rolling paper and or not even if you smoke through a pipe or bong.
Funny enough marijuana is prescribed to cancer patients for the pain associated with Chemotherapy.

Answer 6

Weed can cause lung cancer. But a little weed is better that a whole lot of cigarettes.

Answer 7

yes. any form of smoking will deposit tar into your lungs and can potentially cause lung cancer and many other problems. In fact, I heard that weed actually is 3 times as bad for your lungs...

Answer 8

There is a hot debate about the subject. The answer depends on whom you ask. Anti-drug crusaders will claim that it does of course.
Scientists, on the other hand, have shown that there is no link between cannabis and cancer after correcting for tobacco use.

Answer 9

If you smoke bongs you inhale the smoke very deep which has a more damaging effect than smoking itself although both tabacco and pot can cause lung cancer.

Answer 10

No. Studies have shown it isn'tlikely to cause lung cancer.