thc 420, Nat Geo is running it again tomorrow at 10 a.m. est
I hear what you're saying.
I just have that one line stuck in my head.
"Marijuana smoke is four times more toxic then tobacco"
It's almost like Phillip morris paid them to slip that one in there special.
You're right it will get people talking, but it unfortunately gives them talking points now that are completely false, and the fact that they heard them on a Natgeo show will lend them credibility, and that is bad IMO.
they have still showed sick people with cancer talking about how cannabis has helped them. i didn't see anything like that on TV years ago. do they show various opinions within the documentary some not always true? yes -- but they've also had sick people dying of cancer talking about how cannabis benefits them. they've had local Humboldt growers on there talking about how they make a living from this and support there families and live other wise "normal' lives, and how cannabis is tightly wound into the local economies. these type of things were not being aired on TV prior to nat. geo. at at least not as often.
no one is denying that there is misinformation within the documentary, but as a whole its getting better.
Yes they did.Did they say that later in the program? At the beginning they actually say... (and I'm paraphrasing here) Holding in the smoke jacks up the amount of "tar" inhaled to 4X the amount of a unfiltered cigarette... Possible. Of course they don't mention that if they used a bong it would be less & and if they vaped it there would be no tar.
Did they make that leap later in the documentary (saying it was 4X as Toxic) I can't remember and they don't have the whole video posted on the site. Did they use the word toxic later in the show?
You may have been outraged, but just how do you know your information is correct?Funny then that this FAR LESS toxic tobacco smoke kills 400,000 people are year, but the deadly toxic MJ smoke hasn't killed anyone ever, not this year, not last year, not ever.
Which part Hoos?You may have been outraged, but just how do you know your information is correct?
You nailed it.David Sazuki showed effects of marijuana on MS patients like 10 years ago, and the Union doc shows it too... big woop. i dont want 1 or 2 facts clouded by fear and fiction.
the natgeo doc makes me upset because its JUST smart enough to make people on this forum talk about it. If it was pure crap we would all laugh it off... but this doc is full of misinformation and does not belong ANYWHERE.
And anyone without a clue will trust in natgeo cause of their brand.
I still think it boils down to pharmaceuticals and the US war on drugs IMHO. call me a conspiracy theorist or nutball but at least I got my eyes wide open.
this thread proves the complacency of our society.
No, I liked that one, "Marijuana, a chronic history" I think that is the history channel one.Are you talking about the one on the History channel?
You may have been outraged, but just how do you know your information is correct?
...just how do you know your information is correct?
Let's see... if tobacco kills 400,000 per year... and if weed is 4 times as bad as tobacco... that means we should expect ~1.6 million pot smoker deaths... every year.
Pot is non-carcinogenic. Comparing to tobacco is silly. Cigarettes in their current form are very carcinogenic and deadly.May 23, 2006 -- People who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancerlung cancer, new research suggests.
While a clear increase in cancercancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users.
Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers.
And of course you fail to see the point I was trying to make.
Just how do we arrive at the 400k figure? Research and studies. These studies are funded...nobody works for free.
There is no need to fund a study to show the ills of pot, it is already illegal. So, without credible and comprehensive information, it is hard to make a blanket statement that pot smoke has never killed anyone.
I think anyone with a brain can realize that there is issues with the intake of tar. I don't care what the vehicle is.
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