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Im about to do that pontificating thing again, heads up.
well. Smoking anything is bad for you, it doesn't matter what it is, this isn't debatable either lol. Inhaling the combustion product of a burning plant does more harm then good physiologically. As far as how well your lungs take it, that has more to do with genetics then the act of smoking. My dads 45 years into 2+ packs a day and his lungs are largely fine. My moms 25 years into half a pack a day and has precancerous polyps in her lungs. My mom smokes pot my dad doesnt... You cant actually extrapolate ANY accurate information at all from those observations either. None.
Tommy chong was doing 1:1 thc/cbd enemas IIRC. And imho the medically debatable side is the vaping, edible, and topical side (or i guess enemas lol).
Even with CBD, treating cancer is a lot more complex then just using a substance to alter the growth of cancer cells in a petri dish. It does directly treat the late stage wasting syndromes through apatite stimulation though. But to even have any action in the body thats not near completely inert, CBD has to be in the presence of THC, at the synapses, at the same time.
Hate to be that guy, but although cannabis is incredibly medically useful. Most of the last 20 years of claims have been largely exaggerated. Turkey tail mushrooms and their extracts are actually far more effective cancer treatments reliably then thc or CBD is (not that thc and cbd doesn't help in several ways). So are the antioxidants in naturally brewed green tea.
Cannabis, imho, is best served medically as an adjunct therapy to improve one's own perception of the quality of their own life. And medically, that's one of the most useful substances that could possibly exist. When someone's fighting cancer, simply improving their mood through the day and giving them an apatite is incredibly powerful therapeutically.
There are some things like Epilepsy (the main reason i actually consume cannabis lol)glaucoma, and Chrohn's disease that it does indeed treat directly and very competently though. When it comes to most other ailments, cancer included, it's more of quality of life enhancer, then anything that will directly treat a source of problems or symptoms.
You cant really just put it in your body and expect it to treat the location of the tumors. It isn't a gamma knife. Chong was lucky enough to have his tumors in a location he could literally drown them in everything from turky tail, to green tea, to cannabis enemas, and then some. He's just the most famous stoner of all time, so the cannabis largely gets the credit to him and his fans lol. He also underwent surgery, radiation, and heavy chemo therapy along side this, and no one ever really mentions that either lol. Tommy Chong would have died if all he had used was cannabis enemas. Almost guaranteed.
Hell, cannabis doctors prescribe cannabis for migraine's all the time. It's kinda absurd how unwise that is lol. Cannabis actually exacerbates the main cause of migraines and cluster headaches lol (excessive blood vessell dilation in the brain). The chemical mechanism behind that is very well understood now too. Def a Useful way to get your get out of jail free card though lmao.
Even with pain, there are indeed things that mask pain better then a heavy indica pain relief strain. Things that will mask it FAR more effectively. What cannabis seems to do for me, and my mom where heavy pain is involved, is it *changes the relationship you have to the pain you are experiencing* rather then make it go away, and without being physically addictive. And imho that's a better way to treat pain entirely. You dont end up doing things to hurt yourself more later, like with opiates and nerve blockers, nor do you end up in any sever withdrawal syndromes.
Im not cynical at all toward cannabis' medical usages. But i do like to keep myself realistic, and as firmly planted on the ground as i can. I cross-reference and source check literally everything i can because that's how you accumulate the most accurate information possible.
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