Can i get lung cancer if i smoke weed?

Why don't you just not smoke it? Not only is it bad for your body...You can go to JAIL!! OMG!! WHO KNEW??

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There is no existing evidence of anyone dying of a marijuana overdose. Marijuana is psychoactive because it stimulates certain brain receptors, but it does not produce toxins that kill them (like alcohol), and it does not wear them out as other drugs may. There is no evidence that marijuana use causes brain damage.Marijuana does impair short-term memory, but only during intoxication.
Yes, Marijuana can cause you to develop lung cancer but you'd have to inhale quite a large amount of unfiltered smoke every day for quite a long time for this to happen. However, If you smoke weed out of a bong, the water will filter the marijuana. :)

Dont listen to these conservative yuppies. Smoke and be happy!

Inhaling smoke of any kind can cause lung cancer, however the different components of the smoke have differing risks so what is burning does affect the relative risk of one exposure over another.

However the risk associated with cannabis smoke is reported to be lower where cannabis is used alone (without tobacco) than it is for tobacco smoking, the theoriesed mechanism for this is related to the anti-inflammatory properties of the drugs in the cannabis plant which it is believed helps reduce the lung inflammation and the secondary damage that causes to the lungs on top of the primary damage done directly by the smoke.

Weed may not as bad as cigarette smoking.

Cannabis (marijuana) smoke contains many of the same carcinogens as tobacco smoke, including greater concentrations of certain aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzopyrene, prompting fears that chronic marijuana inhalation may be a risk factor for tobacco-use related cancers. However, marijuana smoke also contains cannabinoids such as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol), which are non-carcinogenic and demonstrate anti-cancer properties in vivo and in vitro. By contrast, nicotine promotes the development of cancer cells and their blood supply.

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Well to be honest with you, yes. Anything which you burn and then inhale into your lungs can have the same effect as cigarettes. The chemical composition of smoke in your lungs is what mutates the cells to cause the cancer. I'm not going to tell you how to live your life. I smoke cigarettes, and i had my day with pot so just be aware of the risks that you take each time that you light up.

yes and it kills brain cells just like booze does.
weed cause much more cancer and disease than people know about cause most don't own up to smoking weed only cigarettes.they are both bad.weed is worse and the harder drugs like meth,crack ,heroin and ecstasy and vicodin just to name a few are even worse.i know of at least 8 deaths in the last year and a half in family and my kids friends that were a direct cause of drug use.most of these people were in there late 20s.what a waste of life!!!!!don't smoke any thing cause none of it is good for you!!!! drugs kill always!!!!!

Please see attached from the Washington Post. Although I wouldn't suggest inhaling ANY smoke from any source...they found surprisingly, no correlations between pot smoking and lung cancer.

umm, let's list things you can do by smoking weed.

1. ruin your life
2. ruin your family's life
3. ruin other people's lives
4. hurt others
5. become extremely stupid
6. become extremely dangerous
7. AND YES, GET LUNG CANCER

you must already be on weed if you're asking this. please, clean up your act before you make someone else do it.

The main cause of lung cancer is not nicotine, it's the soot and heat, along with other nasty chemicals. A cigarette smoker smokes 20 times a day, on average. If you smoke 20 joints a day you are at equal risk.

i smoke weed and i can still run a 5:30 mile. If anything i just get paranoid or have short term memory loss but my the memory loss isnt long maybe like 10 minutes. Smoking weed isnt bad for you at all in my opinion.

Anything said to cause damage to your body will damage IT.
You may or may not get cancer, every one has different body reactions to drugs.

My advice is:
If your are afraid to get sick because of a drug just stay out of it.
Close your eyes and try this
Breathe in and say: I love myself.
Breathe out and say: I am not goig to damage my own body.

Probably not, most people who smoke cigarettes smoke several a day, when people smoke weed its usually not everyday and not as much, it is smoke and if u smoked enough im sure you could get lung cancer, but it would take a whole lotta weed lol :D

Ok. Well you asked the right person. I lizziebiz's older bro. I have experties in drugs and addictions.
Marijuana is not that harmfull of a drug. but still, i dont reccomend it. It can damage your lungs, over a long peroid of time, but i am not sure if it causes cancer specifically. It can also 'dumb you down' a bit.
so. there you have it.

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if you smoke anything you can get lung cancer obviously because of inhaling it.
shouldnt do it though dudes doesnt do any good to you.
just my advice.
also messes up your brain =/ and weakens immune system

Yeah, don't think it isn't harmless. It does more than that too. One of my friends strarted doing it, well actually most of them. I never talked to them again, they all started to get stupid and all they would talk about is drugs. It's a waste of money too. It's the stupidest sh*t on Earth.

Sure but if u keep down on like one joint a day I don't think it can hurt a lot but when peoples smoke week they usually don't put a filter in cigarettes. So it's like smoking 10 cigarettes a day. If you can control your habit, it is fun.

mabye but there is no way in the world it is worse that ciggs they have all kinds of chemicals added in them such as nicatine , tar and i belive about 500 other chemicals. if i could i would deffinatly switch for cigs to weed but the job wont let it

I would do your research - try cdc.gov and other sites, but my understanding is that smoke is generally smoke, and the effects would be similar.

i dont care wat any one says you shouldnt be smokin leaves and especially weed i cant say it will lead to cancer but it will screw you up to the point where you wish ya did have it

If you smoke anything, there is a possibility you can get lung cancer. Your body is not made to inhale tabacco of drugs. I recommend you stay away! :b

Are you seriously asking this question you can get lung cancer from breathing your everyday air.

yep, part of the problem is the smoke itself - regardless of what the smoke is made of.

I certainly hope not...lol. J/k. It's not as bad for you as cigarettes..but I'm sure smoking weed constantly can't be doing wonders for your system.

yes you can if the cigarettes you are smoking are mixed with tobacco !

breathing hot smoke into your lungs = lung cancer. sounds like fun...doesn't it?

not to mention killing those all important, non-replacable brain cells!

of course you CAN but it has not been linked to lung cancer YET. I would say weed is better than cigs though

Yeah but I smoke a pack of Marlboro reds a day for years and I'm in perfect health.

Yes, you can get cancer from taking a bath too...

IF U SMOKE ANYTHING YOU'LL GET LUNG CANCER!!!
SMOKING IS DUMB AND SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE WORLD...

It is unlikely unless you are constantly smoking. even a couple of times a day won't increase your chances.