MARIJUANA MORE POTENT THAN EVER

MARIJUANA MORE POTENT THAN EVER

In the U.S. marijuana,  unlike tobacco, does not have any controls. It is legal by a doctor’s order in 33 states and recreationally in 11 states plus the District of Columbia.

People don’t use the same amount of Marijuana in one dose. Likewise,  those who use medical marijuana for non-specific conditions such as pain treatment, may vary in the amount of drug they need to provide relief. As a result, it is difficult make it hard for researchers to set standards to measure the drug’s effects.

It is said that more potent forms of marijuana, sometimes called skunk marijuana, may be one reason people don't develop lung cancer, despite ingesting the same cancer-causing agents as combustible cigarettes.

“Now in Colorado people get a product that routinely has 30 percent THC. That means people are smoking a more potent product and may be smoking fewer times per day to receive the same effect,” said Browler. “Some cigarette smokers smoke 1-3 packs a day, that’s up to 60 cigarettes. You wouldn’t be alive if you were smoking 60 joints a day at 30 times the amount of THC.”

Smoking may still be the most popular form of using marijuana, but expert say using edibles doesn’t affect the lungs, though experts agree that more research is needed.

According to a source,  in the early 50s, some prominent scientists, questioned the idea that smoking could cause lung cancer, but it wasn’t until there were more than 30 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. that the danger to the lungs started to become clear.