Marijuana Addiction Solution

On January 10, 2012, the Journal of American Medical Association is reporting the results of a study that occasionally lighting up marijuana does not include long-term loss of lung function.  As marijuana is one of the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S. They did a survey.   It showed that 16.7 million Americans ages 12 and older reported using marijuana at least once a month prior to being surveyed.  It is also interesting that since 1996 16 states and Washington D.C. have legalized the medical use of marijuana so that people with many diseases like cancer, AIDS and glaucoma can manage their pain.

Stefan Kertesz, M.D. is an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and he stated, “with marijuana use increasing and large numbers of people who have been and continue to be exposed, knowing whether it causes lasting damage to lung function is important for public-health messaging and medical use of marijuana.”  Marijuana rehabs in Alabama have long held that marijuana abuse can have negative side effects.

He also noted that it has long been known that marijuana smoke has many irritant chemicals like that is found in tobacco smoke and can cause lung irritation but the research on long-term effects on lung function have inconsistencies.  After looking at a large database the research team compared the lung function of marijuana and tobacco smokers during a 20 year period, they found that tobacco smoke had exactly the effect shown in all prior studies “increasing a person’s cumulative exposure to cigarettes results in loss of air flow and lung volumes; the opposite was true for marijuana smoke.”  What this study showed was that occasional use of marijuana was associated with increases in lung air flow rates and increases in lung capacity.  Kertesz says, “Those increases were not large, but they were statistically significant.  And the data showed that even up to moderate high use levels (one joint a day for seven years) there is no evidence of decreased air-flow rates or lung volumes.”

Kertesz then cautions all the public that smoking marijuana is not a way to better lung health.  This increase that happens does not hold over time.  If you use marijuana at high levels these numbers change drastically.

There you go research that shows marijuana smoke not as dangerous as cigarette smoke.  In this report it is not discussed how the use of marijuana can affect you in other ways.  Get educated on marijuana.

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