Pot

In 1964 the Surgeon General explained the dangers in smoking and since that time smoking as decreased from 40% to 12%. Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the US, killing over 480,000 people per year. While promoting the health benefits of non smoking the US at the same time is legalizing marijuana. Many studies are underway to determine the negative effects of smoking both tobacco and marijuana but common sense dictates that inhaling the various chemicals found in both cannot be healthy. Researchers analyzed data from over 6,100 adult cannabis consumers in twelve states. Ninety-one percent of respondents acknowledging having smoked herbal cannabis, with 59 percent reporting that inhalation "was their only mode of marijuana use." By contrast, only 25 percent of respondents reported having ever used cannabis-infused edible products, and only 20 percent reported ever having vaporized cannabis. Five percent of subjects reported exclusively consuming marijuana edibles, and two percent said that they only vaped cannabis. As the years pass and more information becomes available will the country come to the same conclusions about marijuana that it came to regarding tobacco. Typical marijuana plants contain more than 400 chemicals, including about 60 that can interact with the body's nervous system. Marijuana also can be contaminated with mold, insecticides or other chemicals. The health effects of many of these chemicals are still being studied.