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From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Marijuana Health Hazards
Message-ID: <25B438C3.14950@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 09:20:02 GMT
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In article <10296@microsoft.UUCP> davidle@microsoft.UUCP (David LEVINE) writes:
>Does anybody know what studies have been done in the last five years or
>so on the health risks of chronic marijuana smoking?

There have been serious studies of chronic mj smoking populations in
Jamaica and Costa Rica (likely elsewhere to, but I can only recall
these places).  They found no difference with control popuulations in
terms of health, family life, productivity, mental acuity, apathy, etc.

You might want to look up Andrew Weil's studies (among the first)
which found *no* reliable symptom, psychic or somatic, of cannibis
intoxication except for red eyes and slight bp changes.  This is
outlined in either "The marriage of sun and moon" or "the natural
mind" --I think the latter.

There is an obvious hazard in smoking anything and there may be a
tendancy towards bronchitis and other respitory problems.  Water pipes
and more potent combustables help.
--
David A. Honig		
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin."  ---John Von Neumann