Can smoking marijuana affect your respitory system? I’ve been having tight breathing.
Also, it hurts from about my throat to my sternum ALOT. I mean it feels like its all contracting and tightening up and it really hurts, could marijuana have caused it?

I don’t need any comments about how smoke is obviously bad for your lungs and body, im aware of that and thats is why I do NOT smoke cigarettes.

Several cigarettes filters contain carbon in their filters to filter out impurities, without filtering out nicotine due to carbon’s chemical properties. My idea would be to place pieces of charcoal at the bottom of a smoking bong to filter out cancer causing agents. However, I have heard that inhaling charcoal granulates can be harmful to the lungs.

A room full of ppl would like to know if smoking weed from a ice bong is better for your lungs then a pipe or joint,some of us think the water plus ice would filter out some of the resin,hence the nasty bong water.And some of us think its worse for you because you are inhaling more smoke at once.

only answer if its weed cause honestly i dont care about tobacco. i know what a vaporizer does and i know its easier on your lungs, but i wanna know does it get you more high or high faster or can you unhale more? stuff like that. and if your against drugs and have a lecture than im not even gonna pay any attention to it so why post it?

I want to know what could happen if someone continued to smoke marijuana from a blunt once a month or so. What are the risks and damage to your lungs?

First off, say what you want about how "bad" it is, or "omg dont do that you’re gonna die!". The true hippies are the ones who freak out about weed and get angry because people do it and whatnot. Sorry for the vulgar remark but its true, and honestly I myself was like that. I’ve been taught since I was in kindergarten about how bad marijuana is. All of those "weed kills" videos and stuff. I’ve been 100% against weed until this past year. It all started from being exposed to it, and being the only one at the party who was freaking out about it. I pretty much spent the whole party going "OMFG THERES WEED!! I think im gonna leave so i dont get in trouble or get any second hand smoke in my system". Then after enoguh parties I realized its not that bad. Then one day I even said fuck it, and asked my friend if i can try some of his. It was great! I looked online and researched into it and was very surprised by what I found.

First off I will point out the negatives, and yes there are negatives. Obviously it being illegal is a negative. Other than that though the negative health wise is that it does more harm on your lungs than cigarettes. This is true because the longer you hold the smoke in, the more THC gets absorbed, hence the higher you get. Practically everyone who smokes weed knows this already because its how you get high.

DID YOU KNOW
There was never a reported case of death that was caused by Marijuana? This means no one has ever died from smoking/eating/vaporizing too much marijuana in one sitting.
Think I’m full of crap? Check these out.

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_deaths_due_to_marijuana

Even though people cant die or overdose on Marijuana, the altered mind can cause the person to do something that risks their life. Someone could get high to the point where they are so determined to do something that is impossible, like flying when you jump off the roof. They don’t think "what if i can get hurt or killed", they just think of what they are going to do after. So in turn they kill themselves from falling off a roof. I know it sounds a bit extreme, but it can happen. Actually, even though it may never happen im just exaggerating the death risks of weed just for those of you reading who still think marijuana is the "Anti-Christ", I’ll have you craving your first toke by the end of this little story. Anyway, in all seriousness, the true major death risk of Marijuana is driving high. You can easily lose consciousness of what you are doing and end up hitting something, or even worse, someone. This risk if you haven’t noticed, is actually the same risk as drinking. Driving drunk is actually more dangerous than driving high. A drunk driver drives as fast, and wherever they want. If they get pulled over they don’t care if its a cop, they’ll say what they want, and get pissed when they want. A person driving high, even high as HELL, usually thinks every single car around them is a cop. They think that you can get pulled over for driving even a mile over the speed limit. They drive with a wave of going from left to right but exactly in the lane. And they practically shit themselves if they find themselves in the view of a cop. The only cop lights people who are high while driving usually see are the ones from the officer who doesn’t care how you are driving, they just got the call from headquarters to report to a crime scene, and they just happened to be behind your car when it happens, so it appears at first you are getting pulled over. Someone may even pull over thinking they are getting pulled over, and remain there all night thinking that the cop is trying to trick them so he can charge them for evading arrest as well. In fact, people who are crazy drivers actually calm down a bit and pay attention when high, so they actually drive better under the influence of weed.

Now a question I once asked myself was
"Why would marijuana be used medically if it is bad for you?"

The answer i found was that medical marijuana is delivered using vaporizers. This machine heats the weed to the exact degree that the THC turns into air vapor, so all you get when you breathe it in is THC. Then I came across various sites explaining how THC actually reduces the size of cancer tumors, and actually prevents new ones from forming. Did I mention these vaporizers are available to the public, being listed as "Herbal Vaporizers". Also if THC and Cancer dont mix, i would think when one smokes from a joint or bong, the THC and toxins even out to the same rate or less than cigarette smoking. So smoking Cigarettes is legal and prevents cancer, yet Marijuana is illegal, does less harm to your lungs, and even prevents and removes cancerous material. Here are some sites regarding that.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
http://www.nowpublic.com/thc_marijuana_helps_cure_cancer_says_harvard_study
http://www.dr
Actually the mental disorder theory has been disproven. MRI’s of the brain and studies show absolutely nod ifference between a smoker and non smoker. The reason smokers may seem to be slow, theyre actually just always high. The high effects of weed can last a few days, then the depression comes on so they smoke again and are high for another few days. After a few weeks they’ll be as mentally healthy as they were before they ever tried it.
There are products in stores, like cleaners or paint, anything really, that if consumed can cause you to die, or get brain damage. Weed is so much safer than half of the products on the market. Why arent they illegal if they are more deadly than weed?
You can overdose on alcohol if you drink too much. Its called aclohol poisoning. Once you’re drunk you have no control over how much more you drink. Weed is another story. And as for peer pressure, i said i made the choice because first off, i was curious. Second, i was accepting the risks. Third, no one asked me to try it. Maybe it is you who is peer pressured. You’re telling me that weed is worse than drinking because it is a drug. Because you were told weed kills, when in fact there is not one death caused from too much use of weed in one sitting or over a long period of time. And that is zero deaths. Compare that to the hundreds of alcohol related deaths, such as over drinking of liver/kidney damage.
2 more interesting sites

http://laurafreberg.com/blog/?p=58

http://marijuanavaporizer.com/benefits.html

So Marijuana actually treats and prevents alzheimers? wow!
To assure you I am not bullshitting here is FOX News.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html

I know vaporizer will get you the highest, but I was just wondering what would be best for my first time smoking pot? Cause i don’t want to get like crazy high not know how ill act and like go crazy.
Also would emptying out a menthol cigarette, filling it with pot and then smoking it get you any higher. (because the menthol opens up your lungs and all that).

This is a response to an answer somebody gave me. In my response to their question, there’s a limited amount space. So, here goes. You said, "it’s illegal, addictive and bad for your physical and mental health." I chose this answer because it has a couple of quick, simple, to the point answers that are common arguments against weed use. 1) Just because marijuana is illegal, it’s not necessarily bad. The fact is that it is a stupid law that infringes on our right as human beings to do anything to our bodies, so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. 2) Marijuana is not in any sense, physically addictive. There is only room for psychological addiction, which only comes from irresponsible use, such as using it to escape from reality or deal with emotional pain, and as I said in my addition to the question, I’m not here to defend irresponsible use. I actually haven’t gotten high in about a month and I had no trouble leaving it. 3) I’m not quite what you mean by physically harmful. If you mean harmful to the lungs, there are non lung-harming ways to smoke weed, such as using a bong, bubbler, or vaporizer. Any physical side effects that are apparent come from too frequent of use, which is irresponsible, and like I said, I’m not here to defend irresponsible use. 4) Through my use of weed, I’ve received no mental harm whatsoever. In fact, my grades have improved due to being more relaxed and happy overall. Again, any serious mental effects comes from too much use, which blah blah blah, you get the point.
*boned*

Let me suggest a bong, or a vaporizer. Your lungs will thank you.

Ok so Im 15 and want to start smoking weed because more people do it and love it hen I thought. And I learned that its not as bad as I thought. You only have short term memory loss when your high, however when you smoke it that smoke damages your lungs. I am a very good athlete and I do not want to mess up my bes asset. So Im thinking about vaporizers. They arent bad for you becaus ethey take awa the bad part of marijuana… smoke. So how much better then bongs,joints, blunts, … etc is a vaporizer? Is it completely healthy other then the short term memory loss when your high? And will one of these ubie vaporizers be just as healthy as its bigger more expensive counterparts? Heres the link to the ubie… http://americansmokeless.com/about.htm

Thanks guys