One cannabis joint as bad as five cigarettes?

In the news this morning is this about cannabis, I seem to remember reading that cannabis was not so bad and it actually opened up the airways in the lungs??

It has lots more tar and is far worse for your lungs, the upside is you are unlikely to smoke 100 joints a day

Well, i'll just have this next one, and then try Cigarettes.

It can be pretty harsh on your lungs. Pretty crude leaves, no filter and people suck the smoke down deep into their lungs and hold it so it can be a lot worse than a cigarette. Although people often share a joint so you'd be smoking half of fit at most. And I don't know anyone who smokes a pack of 20 joints a day, so relative to cigarettes, its total effect is much less.

canabis is some thing ancestral ;must be banned at this civilisation.For reasons -think for yourself the Q&A way!

so is walking through london so it depends what you want to do on the day i guess

No, it isn't as bad as five cigarettes...the cigarettes are much worse and will give you cancer. The pot wont do anything except relax you and give you the munchies.

It may make you cough more etc, but I wouldnt trust that report. The truth is that smoking cannabis reduces the chance of getting cancer by 30 percent, and helps most types of cancer, as THC only kills weak cells. A report on 30000 people in California (not like this government study, which used about 300 people, and many govt studies are in fact a pick and mix from other studies), showed that people who smoked only cannabis, even heavily over a long period of time had no bad physical effects because of it.

This report may be downright lies, like the claim that cannabis is 20 - 30 times stronger (the strongest strain has been the same for years, and even the weakest strain from 30 years ago contained 7 percent THC, and times that by 20 and you break a few rules of maths), or it might be spin and exageration on a finding that cannabis makes you cough more than tobacco. But cannabis does no long term physical damage, and the real illnesses for the lungs, such as cancer and emphacime (I know that is spelt wrong), can not be caused by cannabis, and the chances of cancer are reduced.

Well i would like to know if they based that research on smoking pure joints , or joints with tobacco in.
Also surely rolling them differently can reduce the damage, IE papers used and the amount of times they are rapped.
I personally feel when a joint is smoked it suppresses the need for nicotine intake.
Plus smoking with no filters doesn't help much.
I wonder if smoking fiterless cigarettes is the equivalent of five?

One cannabis joint is as bad as thirty wine coolers which is as bad as fifteen cheese burgers which is as bad as 7 cigarettes so One cannabis joint is as bad as eating a live dog.

It's basically a bunch of bull. It may have more "tar" because it's pure plant material, but it is definitely not worse for your lungs then ciggarettes. The news will never say anything good about cannabis because it is illegal and the government intends to keep it that way.

I heard that thing this morning, too, but I thought it said 3 cigarettes.. They are all bad for you, the pot will just kill brain cells faster..

No thats all misleading

The problem with Cannabis Research is its all done by anti-cannabis organisations aimed to make cannabis look as bad as possible, the people doing the research are doing it to discourage people from trying it.

Unless you hear it from a real medical or chemical NON BIAS organisation then the results are probly miss-leading at best or just fake all together.

The Tar levels maybe higher in Weed but it contains no Nicotine which is the "activator" molecule that makes tar so bad in cigarette smoke

weed is used to reduce cancer growth....

yes weed dilates lungs allowing more of the tar inhaled to be cleared on exhaling the hit

I am afraid that is rubbish. It is like saying which is better to jump off a cliff or to jump off a bridge. Smoking cannabis has most of the risks of smoking cigarettes. In addition in increases the risk of psychotic mental illness by 40% and causes brain atrophy.