Marijuana Kills

[Lestat]

Medical Fact


Marijuana Helps Asthma

The Claim:
Its impossible to help someone who is having a asthma attack with marijuana smoke, not to mention helping them breathe easier

The Facts:
More than 15 million Americans are affected by asthma. Smoking cannabis (The "raw drug" as the AMA called it) would be beneficial for 80% of them and add 30-60 million person-years in the aggregate of extended life to current asthmatics over presently legal toxic medicines such as the Theophylline prescribed to children.

"Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." Personal communication with Dr. Donald Tashkin, December 12, 1989 and December 1, 1997. The use of cannabis for asthmatics goes back thousands of years in literature. American doctors of the last century wrote glowing reports in medical papers that asthma sufferers of the world would "bless" Indian hemp (cannabis) all their lives.

The inhalation of cannabis smoke causes bronchial dilation lasting up to one hour. The bronchodilator effect of orally injested THC lasts up to six hours, but is not so powerful as smoking cannabis. THC aerosols are not as effective as smoking cannabis because aerosolized THC has an irritating effect on the air passages.

THC in a micoaerosol has proved to be up to 60 percent effective as a bronchodilator, with minimal mental effects and no parasympathetic effects. Other research demonstrates that THC defends against the encroachment of emphysema and suppresses coughing. Cannabis has been used sucessfully in the treatment of whooping cough.

Today, of the 16 million American asthma sufferers, only those living in California, Arizona and Nevada, with a doctor's recommendation can legally grow and use cannabis medicines, even though it is generally the most effective treatment for asthma.

 

[Lestat]

Effects of Smoked Marijuana in
Experimentally Induced Asthma1, 2



DONALD P. TASHKIN, BERTRAND J. SHAPIRO, Y. ENOCH LEE,
and CHARLES E. HARPER



SUMMARY

After experimental induction of acute bronchospasm in 8 subjects with clinically stable bronchial asthma, effects of 500 mg of smoked marijuana (2.0 per cent Delta 9-tetrahydrodrocannabinol) on specific airway conductance and thoracic gas volume were compared with those of 500 mg of smoked placebo marijuana (0.0 per cent Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol), 0.25 ml of aerosolized saline, and 0.25 ml of aerosolized isoproterenol (1,250 ug). Bronchospasm was induced on 4 separate occasions, by inhalation of methacholine and, on four other occasions, by exercise on a bicycle ergometer or treadmill. Methacholine and exercise caused average decreases in specific airway conductance of 40 to 55 per cent and 30 to 39 per cent, respectively, and average increases in thoracic gas volume of 35 to 43 per cent and 25 to 35 per cent, respectively. After methacholine-induced bronchospasm, placebo marijuana and saline inhalation produced minimal changes in speci! fic airway conductance and thoracic gas volume, whereas 2.0 per cent marijuana and isoproterenol each caused a prompt correction of the bronchospasm and associated hyperinflation. After exercise-induced bronchospasm, placebo marijuana and saline were followed by gradual recovery during 30 to 60 min, whereas 2.0 per cent marijuana and isoproterenol caused an immediate reversal of exercise-induced asthma and hyperinflation.

 

[jnevin]

That's strange. I had to use my inhaler all the time when I smoked weed.

 

[Lestat]

Smoking Marijuana...and Asthma?
I have never been a marijuana smoker till the last few weeks.During that time i have noticed that my asthma just dissappears and doesnt bother me at all...before the last few weeks my asthma would bug me several times a day and have to use and asthma inhaler...but since i smoked mary jane my asthma has dissappeared...has anyone else ever experienced this or read any possible pages on the net about it....thanks

 

[jerseyrugger76]

That's strange. I had to use my inhaler all the time when I smoked weed.

I always have mine handy and will continue to do so. Dying of an asthma attack induced by a bong hit seems like a really lame ass way to go. Especially if they find a copy of one of Lestat's posts lying next to your lifeless corpse.

 

[Lestat]

Back in the mid-1970s US professor Donald P Taskin found that "recent studies demonstrated significant, acute bronchodilation in healthy young men after they smoked marijuana".

 

[Lestat]

I always have mine handy and will continue to do so. Dying of an asthma attack induced by a bong hit seems like a really lame ass way to go. Especially if they find a copy of one of Lestat's posts lying next to your lifeless corpse.

hahahahahhaahahhaahahh

 

[jnevin]

I always have mine handy and will continue to do so. Dying of an asthma attack induced by a bong hit seems like a really lame ass way to go. Especially if they find a copy of one of Lestat's posts lying next to your lifeless corpse.

I use advair now and have only had to use my albuterol a handful of times since getting on it. Being around smoke of any kind makes my chest feel tight.

 

[Lestat]

That's strange. I had to use my inhaler all the time when I smoked weed.

same here. I think it was because i smoked infrequently, my lungs reacted more strongly to the particulates and what not. now I don't even cough after a huge rip (not saying that is a good thing, lungs probably coated in tar, but at least I don't wheeze!)

 

[Lestat]

this was funny, loved his "sources"
http://www.whfhhc.com/Asthma/16979.htm