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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 05/01/2013 06:42 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Walter Bushell  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Caffeine produces physical withdrawal symptoms such a headaches and   
   >> desire to sleep all day as well as all night or merely falling asleep   
   >> at ones desk. I think sugar does also, but no one notices because   
   >> everybody around us is maintaining.   
   >   
   > Marijuana is not very addictive, but denying the small number of users do get   
   > addicted is denying reality. Smoking marijuana damages lungs and can cause   
   > cancer. Claiming marijuana has no risks is as silly as claiming it is a   
   killer   
   > drug.   
   >   
   > Realistically marijuana is the safest recreational drug, and far less   
   damaging   
   > than the penalties against it. But it is not without any risk.   
   >   
   > Humans require sugar: your brain doesn't metabolise amino acids. Even if you   
   eat   
   > only protein, your liver will convert amino acids into sugar to maintain   
   blood   
   > glucose. Your body doesn't need marijuana, caffeine, alcohol, etc to   
   survive. It   
   > does need sugar, water, oxygen, protein, and traces of a few other things.   
   >   
      
   	Actually some brains may need supplemental opiates to get along and the   
   way that cannabis works may deal with this adequately. Some may   
   need caffeine to function at normal levels. Because you know not all   
   brains are created equal.   
      
   	You may deny this but have you talked to many schizophrenics or   
   seen a person with extreme bipolar syndrome through their cycles?   
      
   	No damage to lungs has been found with the exclusive smoking   
   of cannabis, on the other hand the very hot smoke from the cannabis   
   can irritate the bronchi. Bronchitis has been the only respiratory side   
   effect of smoking cannabis unless of course the subject is   
   allergic/sensitive to the material.   
        Dr.Tashkin(sic) has been unable to connect the use   
        of cannabis with more than bronchial irritation.   
   	   
      
   	Dr.Tashkin really did not expect that result.  He   
   believed it was the smoke when it is the effect of nicotine   
   on the bronchial villi.   
      
   	I by the way am sensitive to caffeine and must avoid coffee,   
   sensitive to salicyclates and so must avoid aspirin and many other   
   over the counter tartar-removing toothpastes and mouth washes as   
   well as some liniments.  Cow or goat milk produce reactions that   
   are worse than bronchitis but are treated by avoidance.   
      
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