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From: anoop@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Anoop Kumar Mangalick)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Marijuana Health Hazards
Keywords: marijuana, health hazards, who cares
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Date: 18 Jan 90 22:11:35 GMT
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In article <90017.090841MCBRIDE@AUVM.BITNET> MCBRIDE@AUVM.BITNET (John D. L. McBride) writes:
>I remember reading about a couple of studies that were published in
>the New England Journal of Medicine, mid-to-late eighties (I think).
>According to the studies, memory loss and "cerebral atrophy" did not
>occur.  Chromosomal breakage did not occur.  Lowered sperm count and
>lessened sex drive (in males) did occur *while* under the influence,
>but returned to normal shortly after.  The major dangers, of course,
>were lung cancer and other cardio-pulmonary disease.  Of course, that's
>the same as smoking tobacco, and is probably the result of inhaling
>the non-THC components of the smoke.  I will look up the cites when
>I get home and will post them later...
>
>-J

Are postings like these meant to reassure people or just to be informative?
I personally am not too concerned with hazards which are comparable to
those found in everyday life, like eating, breathing, sleeping, living, etc.
As for lowered sperm count, it's nice to know that marijuana probably does
not have such an effect, but I probably would go on smoking anyway if I knew
that it did have such an effect.
I'm interested to know how people feel about these hazards and how they rate
the undesirability of hazards versus the desirability of smoking marijuana.


anoop