is cannabis more carcinogenic than tobacco?

[Blowmonkey]

http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v06n3/06359mj1.html

 

[awatkins]

man, who would have known that unfilitered joints are are healthier than a bong? thats quite a finding.

 

[Salviamind]

know a lot of stoners smoke weed in the quantity of cig smokaz - smokin anit good full stop end of

 

[Salviamind]

hay what about the end o a J - dont u just soak up all the filtered shit ther?

 

[Akoto]

that was my understanding. if you open it up and look at the weed its alot darker.

 

[StagnantReaction]

know a lot of stoners smoke weed in the quantity of cig smokaz - smokin anit good full stop end of

You're telling me you know 'a lot of stoners' who smoke between 10-40 joints a day? Are you shitting me?

 

[Salviamind]

I know a lot that toke 10-20 Js a day - I woz at about 20 a day for yrs till I finally got some help - u hav a heavy weed habit & start 1st thing in the mornin it aint that difficult 2do - but personally I dont recommend gettin in that deep if u can help it - it did me no favours

 

[HellOnEarth]

omfg 1 j = 5 cigs LMAO. dude no fucking way. Cigs are soo much harder on lungs than weed you guys dont notice that? the only thing that i can see causing cancer in buds is the heat from the smoke or a random mutation that may or may not be related..after smoking bud i can run and shit but once i started smoking cigs i noticed the difference was HUGE, and i quit smoking weed and kept smoking cigs and vice versa..same results cigs just hurt more. BTW how did htey come up with 1=6 bullshit anyways? some people roll nickle sized Js and some roll 2 Gs up in a J like wtf? plus quality of weed / type of cigarette its allbullshit man. Just like acid causes chromosome damage...(btw if you dont know, it does cause chromosome damage, but its better for your chromosomes to do acid than eat an apple or drink a cup of coffe)

 

[Akoto]

its a fact that weed has something like 4-5 times more tar then tobaco. i think thats how there making that comparison

 

[BilZ0r]

^ What exactly is your definition of fact?
Cannabis vs. Tobacco smoke compositions

Tobacco and cannabis cigarettes of the same weight have very similar levels of tar, and pretty much everything else apart from cannabinoids and nicotein products.

 

[Akoto]

there was a quiz that i found on this site to test how much you knew about cannabis. i got the question wrong where i said weed has less tar then tobaco, then it said it was 4 times more.

also one of thoes bias commercials told me so after then

 

[DigitalRidah]

supz

I didn't think buddah was carcinogenic like a cigarette. It doesn't contain any chemicals. It does have alot of tar in it though, I could definatly be wrong. Everyone sees it the other way around but i didn't think it was even half as carcinogenic it just contains more tar

digital

 

[drug related]

this is one of those things you just have to roll the dice on and hope you don't die b4 60 or so due to cancer lungs. don't think about it to much

 

[Akoto]

or we could have a thread much like this one to help us determine risk vs benifit and how to be more safe

 

[dykesmacker]

Don't blame the weed! Cancer is rarely "caused" by a substance. In fact, a study all through out the 1950's till now, showed that substances are merely the catalist for the growth of cancer. The actual body is to blame. An imbalance in the body itself, which can have an enormous amout of factors, is the primary cause for cancer.
If you take your vitamins, eat healthy and exercise, then you face a substantial chance of never even developing cancer.