XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: winstonblakely3rd@usa.com   
      
   You are exactly right! It wasn't until I had been smoking weed for 30 years   
   that the signs started showing up with coughing, wheezing and shortness of   
   breath. I was always very active and in excellent physical condition, now I   
   have difficulty doing the smallest tasks because of decreased lung   
   function-due to over 30 years of pot smoking.   
   "JAD"  wrote in message   
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   > first off let me answer the 12 quote and posts in one post........ I can   
   show you angiograms of a before and after inhalation of pot   
   > smoke, mine own I might add, and there is no better proof of the   
   CONstriction. I have NO family history of any kind of vascular   
   > problems(as far back as 1890), Cancer of the Guts are the causes of the   
   demise of my family, those that passed young. My parents did   
   > not smoke, they are alive at 83/78. I held some local track records and   
   played baseball for the highschool I went to, with off   
   > season AM legion ball. I lived in Chicago's suburb1957-1983. Moved to   
   La.Ca. to be near UCLA. I never smoked tobacco, didn't hang   
   > around many places that there was much of it going on (IOW no Bars,I never   
   really drank). The only thing I 'abused' was weed. Loved   
   > it, had many great times while ripped....It fucked me up.   
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   >  I would like to know if any of you are doctors and can read medical   
   reports. I would be willing to show a qualified person all the   
   > documents for 30 some odd surgeries I've had and all the testing. I am in   
   remission since the quitting of smoking pot in 1999. I   
   > quit momentarily in 1987, as there was no other reason for the affliction.   
   I was told that , if it were weed we (doctors) would see   
   > much more of people like you. Which they did,  when they bothered to look.   
   St Joseph's Hospital/UCLA discovered that   
   > Obliterins,(Buergers Disease) are released in SOME peoples blood, when   
   smoking weed. I'm one of a few hundred that have been   
   > diagnosed with this. The biggest excuse for not having info out of the MA   
   is that the 25-30 year average pot smokers are now just   
   > coming of age. Weed does NOT dilate my vessels NOR the vessels of the   
   hundred or so checked in the USA.5 of those with first stage   
   > CPOD. I can not get any more doctors to further the investigation. That's   
   why  I came to this NG in the first place, not to argue   
   > with petty people, who of all things, starts in with the 'spelling' thing.   
   I don't think that there are many people/docs UTD on the   
   > effects of pot after 25+ years......   
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