01-24-2017, 12:55 PM
<div> Marijuana Users Have Good Lungs (for Transplanting)
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By <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://hightimes.com/author/chrisroberts/" title="Posts by Chris Roberts">Chris Roberts</a>
January 23, 2017
<p class="">It was a very big deal <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html"><span>when results of a major, long-term study into marijuana use and lung health</a> <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201212-127FR">revealed no link</a> between cannabis use and respiratory ailments like lung cancer orCOPD. </span>
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<p class="">Lifelong marijuana users had no significant increased risk for breathing problems; indeed, cannabis use might even be beneficial and carry some protective effect, a team lead by UCLA researcher Donald Tashkin found.
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<p class="">And now, it appears weed smokers lungs, no worse off for the smoker, are also good for other people.
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<p class=""><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://thejointblog.com/marijuana-lung-transplants/">The Joint Blog took note</a> of <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/1/142"><span>a study published in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery</a> that examined the results of 302 lung transplants over a six-year period. Medical researchers at the UKs largest lung-health institutionpart of the countrys publicly funded National Health Service, cough-cough single-payer healthcare, cough-coughfound that there was no appreciable difference in short and medium-term outcomes between the 19 donors who had smoked weed and the 283 that hadnt.</span>
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<p class="">Intraoperative and post-[transplant] variables including 1- and 3-year survivals were comparable in both groups, the researchers wrote.
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<p class="">In other words, if you needed a lung and received one that had been used to smoke marijuana, you had just as good a shot of survival over a 1-to-3-year period than if youd received a fresh lung (<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog"><span>of which there is really no such thing</a>). This led researchers to declare lungs that had smokedcannabis should be considered for donation.....</span>
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<p class=""><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://hightimes.com/news/marijuana-users-have-good-lungs-for-transplanting/">http://hightimes.com/news/marijuana-users-have-good-lungs-for-transplanting/</a>
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By <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://hightimes.com/author/chrisroberts/" title="Posts by Chris Roberts">Chris Roberts</a>
January 23, 2017
<p class="">It was a very big deal <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html"><span>when results of a major, long-term study into marijuana use and lung health</a> <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201212-127FR">revealed no link</a> between cannabis use and respiratory ailments like lung cancer orCOPD. </span>
<p class="">
<p class="">Lifelong marijuana users had no significant increased risk for breathing problems; indeed, cannabis use might even be beneficial and carry some protective effect, a team lead by UCLA researcher Donald Tashkin found.
<p class="">
<p class="">And now, it appears weed smokers lungs, no worse off for the smoker, are also good for other people.
<p class="">
<p class=""><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://thejointblog.com/marijuana-lung-transplants/">The Joint Blog took note</a> of <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/1/142"><span>a study published in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery</a> that examined the results of 302 lung transplants over a six-year period. Medical researchers at the UKs largest lung-health institutionpart of the countrys publicly funded National Health Service, cough-cough single-payer healthcare, cough-coughfound that there was no appreciable difference in short and medium-term outcomes between the 19 donors who had smoked weed and the 283 that hadnt.</span>
<p class="">
<p class="">Intraoperative and post-[transplant] variables including 1- and 3-year survivals were comparable in both groups, the researchers wrote.
<p class="">
<p class="">In other words, if you needed a lung and received one that had been used to smoke marijuana, you had just as good a shot of survival over a 1-to-3-year period than if youd received a fresh lung (<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog"><span>of which there is really no such thing</a>). This led researchers to declare lungs that had smokedcannabis should be considered for donation.....</span>
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<p class=""><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://hightimes.com/news/marijuana-users-have-good-lungs-for-transplanting/">http://hightimes.com/news/marijuana-users-have-good-lungs-for-transplanting/</a>