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- From: tailspin@cyberden.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
- Message-ID: <aX12XB1w165w@cyberden.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:15:57 PST
- References: <1993Jan25.052842.15345@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Reply-To: tailspin@cyberden.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:
-
- > In article <amywoman.727853221@camelot> amywoman@camelot.bradley.edu (Amy Har
- > >In <1993Jan22.183151.3377@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Mar
- > >
- > >>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
- >
- >
-
- Not true that Marijuana helps cure asthma. I had a classmate that died
- from an induced asthma attack from a bong hit. How can it possibly help
- cure asthma?
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