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- From: andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.052842.15345@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <panissec.727573939@bag_end> <1993Jan22.183151.3377@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <amywoman.727853221@camelot>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:28:42 GMT
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- In article <amywoman.727853221@camelot> amywoman@camelot.bradley.edu (Amy Harris) writes:
- >In <1993Jan22.183151.3377@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >But isn't it the fact that you smoke it and inhale it into your lungs the
- >reason why *smoking* marijuana helps asthma?
- >Doesn't seem like it would have the same effect if you just ate it, even
- >though the THC would enter your bloodstream.
-
- I don't have my references handy, but I do believe that it's the THC in the
- bloodstream that works against asthma attacks. Smoking is just a quicker
- route of administration, while eating could take ~30 minutes.
-
- -marc
- andersom@spot.colorado.edu
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