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Believe It Or Not, You Can Smoke Marijuana If You Have Asthma - Purple Power - 01-16-2018
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Believe It Or Not, You Can Smoke Marijuana If You Have Asthma
Research shows it actually helps.
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<a class="author url fn" href="https://thefreshtoast.com/author/breamosley/" title="Posts by Brea Mosley">Brea Mosley</a>
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<time class="entry__date" datetime="2018-01-16T12:00:15+00:00">Jan 16, 2018</time>
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In 1975, Dr. Donald Tashkin, a lung expert and medicine professor at UCLA, and his team put the highly contested notion, you shouldnt smoke cannabis if you have asthma debate to rest; they studied the effects of smoked cannabis on eight subjects with clinically stable bronchial asthma, specifically monitoring the behavior of the specific airways. As a control, they administered placebo cannabis as well.
Bronchospasm, is the abrupt narrowing of the airway and the primary characteristic of asthma and bronchitis. Researchers induced bronchospasm on four different occasions: first, by the inhalation of methacholine, a synthetic choline that causes wheezing and shortness of breath; second, by exercise on an electric stationary bicycle or treadmill.
Naturally, methacholine and exercise caused decreases in airways. A 40-55 percent decrease was noted for the methacholine and a 30 to 39 percent decrease was noted for the heavy exercise.
Heres where the experiment takes off: After the methacholine-induced bronchospasm, patients were given the placebo cannabis, which produced little to no changes in the behavior of the airway. However, the cannabis with 2 percent THC (the chemical that results in some type of high) immediately corrected the bronchospasm and resulting hyperinflation.....
https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/smoke-marijuana-if-you-have-asthma/
Believe It Or Not, You Can Smoke Marijuana If You Have Asthma - Pam - 08-01-2018
Good to know, hubby has asthma and we were wondering if it would help him. Now to get him to try it, he unlike me doesn't like the high.