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- From: panissec@nms.otca.oz.au (Colin Panisset)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
- Message-ID: <panissec.727573939@bag_end>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:52:19 GMT
- References: <DFNcXB1w165w@floor.uucp.risc.net>
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- hp@floor.uucp.risc.net (High Priest) writes:
-
- }I have heard and read in this newsgroup that marijuana can cause some
- }relief to asthma sufferers. I mentioned this to someone else, and he flat
- }out called it false, and pretty much said I don't know what I'm talking
- }about.
- }I realize there are many other better drugs to deal with asthma, but my
- }question is not about them, so I would appreciate not being told about
- }them.
- }Can smoking marijuana help asthma sufferers, and if so, how?
-
- Marijuana is a bronchial dilator. This means that the tubes in the lungs are
- enlarged when the smoke comes into contact with them.
-
- Asthma is a bronchial contractor (as most people know). It would therefore
- seem evident that marijuana would have a benficial counteractive effect on
- asthma sufferers. However, you've got to take into account the factor that
- smoke of most kinds can trigger asthma attacks in sufferers, and that if
- the attack is severe, nothing short of specific medication can overcome it.
-
- As a result, I'd say that *possibly*, for sufferers of *mild* asthma, with a
- history of only *mild* or almost non-existent attacks, then marijuana smoke
- may help. Filtering and cooling the smoke through a bong (water pipe)
- would help, of course, but as always: Caveat Smoker.
-
- --
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