New Research Study Suggests Smoking A Joint A Day Will Keep The Doctor Away
Well, this study doesn’t say that toking up has the potential to make you healthier than you already are, but it does conclude that daily, but not chronic, pot smoking doesn’t have a detrimental impact on your health over time.
From the NY Daily News:
Smoking a joint every day for 20 years does not result in adverse lung functions or significantly threaten disease, according to research conducted at Emory University in Atlanta.
The study will be featured in an upcoming issue of the medical journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Researchers studied a cross-section of adults aged 18 to 49 and determined that daily marijuana use over 20 years did not significantly harm a person’s ability to exhale at a normal rate, which is a key determining factor in identifying lung disease.
“Lifetime marijuana use up to 20 joint-years is not associated with adverse changes in spirometric (exhalation strength) measures of lung health,” the study said.
Listen, if you’ve smoked a joint every day for the last 20 years, you’re probably an incredibly interesting person to meet, and I’m convinced you’re still following the Grateful Dead around on tour. The good news is that your lungs, according to this new information, are still quite healthy and intact. That’s a great thing.
Whether it’s because marijuana is supposedly naturally free of all the harmful additives usually associated with tobacco and cigarettes or because pot smokers have a tendency to hold in their hit, thus indirectly giving their lungs a workout, the new findings out of Emory are surely welcome news for the casual smokers.
Obviously, if you puff like a chimney day in and day out, regardless of what your medium is, you’re probably going to get sick in some form or fashion. But, it’s good to know that a casual J to take off the edge after work gets two thumbs up from some pretty esteemed folks in the medical community. I totally take solace in knowing I’m not at risk of contracting emphysema or some other similar, scary disease.
In fact, I’m going to celebrate this groundbreaking bulletin big time tonight. Cue the Styles P.
[via NY Daily News]
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h/t @CertifiedJOLO
There was a stoner kid on the lacrosse team that would run a 5 minute mile. I’d be 2-3 minutes behind, trying to not cough up a lung. Wtf
11 years ago at 10:14 amHe’s homeless now, so I guess I won in some sense.
11 years ago at 10:15 amSmoking cigars instead of Marijuana because it is illegal. RFM
11 years ago at 10:16 amNot smoking anything because it is not only dangerous for yourself, but also dangerous for others and the environment. RFM
11 years ago at 10:20 amRefer to what Roger’s P.O said.
11 years ago at 10:37 amDon’t worry about the laps, boys. Y’all are right.
11 years ago at 12:09 pmI knew the police would save the day
11 years ago at 4:48 pmBeing a total pussy. TotalLiberalMove
11 years ago at 10:29 amBeing Dorns parole officer. NF
11 years ago at 10:31 amYou guys posting entire articles and adding your little two sense in does not count as an article
11 years ago at 10:17 am*cents
11 years ago at 10:26 amDude, I added a fucking Styles P video for your listening pleasure, too.
11 years ago at 11:10 pmYou have posted many articles and have yet to show us your tits
11 years ago at 10:25 amYou’re really not getting this one, are you?
11 years ago at 10:27 amYou’re a special kind of stupid.
11 years ago at 10:28 amFrock, it’s truly amazing how I take 5 laps the instant you comment on something.
11 years ago at 10:33 amOh i get it
11 years ago at 10:39 amA joint a day, keeps the jobs at bay.
11 years ago at 10:37 amA joint whenever, a geed forever
11 years ago at 2:30 pmNot really, champ.
11 years ago at 2:35 pmIf you don’t smoke weed you aren’t getting the full Greek experience.
11 years ago at 7:30 pmI’ve smoked with more Fraternity actives than yo momma
11 years ago at 10:03 amAs I found out this summer, not when you work on Capitol Hill.
11 years ago at 10:35 pmsays the guy that inhales through the other end
11 years ago at 1:49 pmhttp://reactiongifs.com/?p=19410
11 years ago at 10:44 am“Joint-years”
Is that something like a light year?
11 years ago at 10:49 amYes. To be more specific, a Buzz light year.
11 years ago at 12:15 pmIll stick to stogies and whiskey. Im an alcoholic with a beautiful dad body, may as well treat the lungs too.
11 years ago at 10:49 amTry less
11 years ago at 10:55 amJam the dong up your ass a little more and they may promote you to sheriff kid.
11 years ago at 10:59 amPlease don’t turn into buzzfeed/countercurrentnews/whatever the hell else is clogging up my newsfeed. As a paid pulmonary freasercher (frat researcher), I feel insulted whenever these articles come out. They look at one factor that isn’t adversely related to smoking weed and extrapolate data to serve a larger purpose. Inhaling anything into your lungs other than air damages them. Undisputable fact. That being said, who gives a shit, toke up.
11 years ago at 11:00 amYou should conduct more freasercher on the proper uses of the “frat” pre-tense
11 years ago at 11:35 amIn the words of Daniel Tosh: “I think that we should legalize marijuana in this country, so potheads have nothing to talk about ever again.”
It should be fun hearing them bring up this study.
11 years ago at 11:45 am