Vaporing vs smoking and the effect it has on you

[Ringodoggie]

From what I understand, cannabis smoke contains the carcinogenic constituents in their precursor form but it does not have the enzymes required to activate them.

And, further, the carcinogenic constituents in cannabis are encapsulated to preclude the activation by foreign enzymes.

At least that's the way I understand the research I have read.

So, even though cannabis smoke does contain carcinogenic constituents, it does not contribute to cancer.

YMMV bit that's the way I understood it.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

No lung cancer but your nuts get chopped off,

Huang et al. (2015) found an association between the incidence of testicular cancer (without further specification) and cannabis use that was frequent or of long duration.

 

[armedoldhippy]

At least that's the way I understand the research I have read.

we must have read the same research papers. one said that out of three groups of people that smoked cannabis, tobacco, or both, that the group that smoked both cigarettes AND cannabis had virtually the same rate of cancer cases as those only smoking cannabis, suggesting strongly that cannbis use protected the lungs.