shagster01
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for now, it's back to exposing the LGBTQueer-child molesting movement.
Anyone else think this sounds a little creepy? ACW won't stop until gays are exposed?
for now, it's back to exposing the LGBTQueer-child molesting movement.
Uh oh, more bad news for you dopers out there:
Little-known illness tied to smoking weed on the rise
12-29-16
NEW YORK -- For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea.
*“The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.
The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.
“They’ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,” said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician in Aurora, Colorado. He co-authored a study showing that since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, emergency room visits diagnoses for CHS in two Colorado hospitals nearly doubled. In 2012, the state legalized recreational marijuana.
“It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.”
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...he-rise/ar-BBxF7iw?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
The good news for the dopers is that the condition is completely reversible, with no long term health repercussions.
LOL...they just love their dope and will tell any amount of lies to promote it.
Lung Health and Marijuana Smoke
Smoking marijuana clearly damages the human lung. Research shows that smoking marijuana causes chronic bronchitis and marijuana smoke has been shown to injure the cell linings of the large airways, which could explain why smoking marijuana leads to symptoms such as chronic cough, phlegm production, wheeze and acute bronchitis.4,9
Smoking marijuana has also been linked to cases of air pockets in between both lungs and between the lungs and the chest wall, as well as large air bubbles in the lungs among young to middle-aged adults, mostly heavy smokers of marijuana. However, it's not possible to establish whether these occur more frequently among marijuana smokers than the general population.4
Smoking marijuana can harm more than just the lungs and respiratory system - it can also affect the immune system and the body's ability to fight disease, especially for those whose immune systems are already weakened from immunosuppressive drugs or diseases, such as HIV infection.4,9
http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/marijuana-and-lung-health.html
What do they know ey gc, they're only the American Lung Association (pssst, pay close attention to that last sentence ).
And yet the symptom you raved about is far more minor than you implied. Go figure.
"They’ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,” said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician in Aurora, Colorado."
5 visits to the ER, sounds pretty serious to me.
You're no medical man.
Of course people sometimes go to ER with tummy cramps. But when they are told to take a hot shower to relieve the symptoms and perhaps cut back on the weed, that doesn't take it to the levels of a broken hip or a cardiac arrest, does it?
Did you say "cut back on the weed"? And here I thought marijuana was harmless (how do I know? TOL dopers told me so).
Yes, like a doctor might say "You've got heart palpitations, so cut down on the coffee" or "You got to much weight around the middle so cut down on the burgers" or "You've got knee pains so cut down on the running" or "You've got verbal diarrhoea so cut down on posting nonsense on web forums".
So "You've got tummy problems so cut down on the weed".
:carry-on:
Bryan Fischer: "Pot: It's a lot worse than you think"
February 14, 2019
We've seen an absolute stamped in the last several years to legalize pot, whether for medicinal purposes or recreational use.
We were told that there are legitimate medicinal uses for marijuana. The evidence for this is entirely anecdotal as medical science has yet to identify any verified and confirmed health benefit to using the drug. While some users celebrate it's value in producing pain relief, Alex Berenson writes in Imprimis that "Almost everything you think you know about the health effects of cannabis...is wrong." For instance, a four-year study of patients with chronic pain in Australia showed that cannabis use was actually associated with greater, not lesser, pain over time.
Another flat-out myth is that pot can curb opioid use. The truth, sadly, is quite the other way round. Marijuana is in fact a gateway drug, which leads to experimentation with other drugs. The American Journal of Psychiatry wrote in January 2018 that people who used cannabis in 2001 were three times as likely to use opiates just three years later.
But most disturbing of all is a clearly demonstrated link between cannabis use and mental illness. Rather than serving as a cure for psychiatric problems it's actually a cause. In particular, marijuana can cause or worsen severe forms of mental illness, particularly psychosis, which in layman's terms means a total break with reality. Teens who smoke pot regularly are three times as likely to develop schizophrenia, the most devastating psychotic disorder.
With about 12 million Americans using cannabis 300 times a year, this is not a theoretical concern. What makes the situation worse is that what teens are smoking today is not your father's Mary Jane. In the 70's, most marijuana contained less than two percent THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot. Today, the figure routinely is 20-25%. It produces a stronger high and a quicker high. Marijuana users comprise about 1.5% of all Americans, but account for 11 percent of all emergency room cases of psychosis.
The most disturbing thing about all this is the link between marijuana and violence. Dr. Seena Fazel, an Oxford University psychiatrist and epidemiologist, found that people with schizophrenia are an alarming five times as likely to commit violent crimes, and almost 20 times as likely to commit murder.
A study of 265 psychotic patient in Switzerland found that young men with psychosis who were also cannabis users had a 50% chance of becoming violent. Yikes. This seems to be due largely to the link between cannabis-fueled paranoia in psychotic patients. Most defendants who committed homicide during a psychotic episode believed they were in danger from the victim.
As Berenson reports,
The first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use were Colorado and Washington in 2014 and Alaska and Oregon in 2015. Combined, those four states had about 450 murders and 30,300 aggravated assaults in 2013. Last year, they had almost 620 murders and 38,000 aggravated assaults – an increase of 37 percent for murders and 25 percent for aggravated assaults, far greater than the national increase, even after accounting for differences in population growth.
According to reports from Texas, cannabis is also associated with an alarming number of child deaths due to abuse and neglect, far more than from alcohol and more than cocaine, meth, and opioids combined.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/190214
What do Bryan Fischer or Alex Berenson really know and where are the links to these cited studies?
Yeah, lies, nothing but lies ey Aaron?
Not saying that I would legitimately like to take a look at the studies. I wonder why they didn't link to them...:think:
I've read studies that have very different conclusions, especially when it comes to marijuana as an alternative to the much more dangerous and more addictive opioids currently being prescribed like it's candy.