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- From: andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.183151.3377@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <DFNcXB1w165w@floor.uucp.risc.net> <panissec.727573939@bag_end>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:31:51 GMT
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- In article <panissec.727573939@bag_end> panissec@nms.otca.oz.au (Colin Panisset) writes:
- >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.
-
- to avoid the nasties of smoke, you can always also eat it (brownies or
- something). of course, eating takes quite a bit longer for the THC to get
- into your bloodstream.
-
- -marc
- andersom@spot.colorado.edu
-