Sadly after reading this I had to smoke a cigarette. I started smoking cigarettes a few years ago when I was on probation for cannabis possession, to satisfy my oral fixation. Now I am a full blown addict, and they don't even taste good. Damn you cannabis possession laws, damn you weak will of mine, and damn you dirty apes, damn you all to helllll!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Ender, I checked out your suggestion on Damiana "breathing problems", several reports. Looks like small dosage has excellent benefits, but large dosage causes problems. Also, use in a tea or perhaps as you say, vaping is safer. When smoking any plant, filtering out plant debris is essential for safety, too right. Can't ignore, for safety.
Here in Oz, we are backward..no MMD's, and vaporizors way not common. Its still all more underground, with certain towns known supply points such as Nimbin, and no real finesse. Good coffee shops. There is a lot of private growing and supply, but again, nothing like the finesse you have in some US areas. You have to know what to look for here as to quality & type. Many world tourists that come here have no idea.
On topic, I still wonder what herb is the very best, at low cost, for blending with Ganja. This is important mainly for those who use tobacco, a serious killer plant, especially the "taylor made" ciggies. They need to know of the best safest plant to combine with Ganja, rather than tobacco.
This would save many lives, and is important to know. An area that needs more research as well. So many folks just don't think, and die.
Damiana may be fine in small amounts for most people, with traditional benefits, but large amounts, and for those with allergies or other problems such as diabetic, it is not good. The negatives are said to be rare, but...know thyself well first, and don't overdo it, or just don't use it, to be completely safe.
Thanks again Ender. You think. I wish more folks did as well, as do many on this site. So grateful for Steve Elliot and his hard work to reveal truth, even though ill. Amazing.
All I know is tobacco never went through a prohibition, and if anything needs a prohibition its tobacco, or tobacco made into unhealthy products, like cigarettes. Our health care and financial system is in chaos primarily due to this one product, as well as alcohol.
The herb Damiana is a much safer plant to mix at the bottom of a bowl of Cannabis, low cost and available bulk at health food stores, with a calming effect. Minimal health problems. Filter. Tobacco kills around 5 million people world wide EVERY YEAR, 450,000 in the US, 18,000 in Australia, and is extremely addictive physically, not acceptable. Unless one is ignorant or insane. Compassion to those addicted and all power to you to stop using tobacco, a proven killer.
are you serious? damiana can be seriously problematic for some people, causing breathing problems for days and weeks afterwards if you're sensitive to the crap. It was damiana sending ppl to the hospital that caused a good portion of the bad press Spice and the other blends got.
Thanks Ender Wiggin. In this planet area, many use it without a problem, and when we google it, the comments say it is safe. I was surprised to see St John's Wort is not so safe, (google) to compare. What else was combined with Damiana..is there a negative combo effect with other stuff? We have not had "Spice" or similar here at all, plenty "Bush" (outdoor grown) Cannabis here for all.
So, I wonder if it is something like peanuts..no worries at all for most...and a few others..not safe at all. It would be good to know the % balance of safety for most folks. How many, where you are, had problems? Peanuts and Damiana on shop shelves, and never a problem here. St John's Wort is too, but no problems in news or spoken of in shops, even though google info says watch out.
I have no problem with peanuts, same with most folks, good amino source, or Damiana. Do you know anything more? Also, what about Lions Tail? Do, you know of another safe herb? We have herb shops here, and no problems reported.
Tobacco is dangerous for anyone, not just some. The more we all know, the better. It would be great to identify an herb plant that is generally safe for everyone, along with Indian Hemp. Thats definitely not tobacco. What else would you choose to blend? The best choice may still be Ganja on its own. Thanks again for any info you can post Ender, the common good is important. The death rate on tobacco is incredible..we can all help save lives with info to avoid that.
try googling "damiana breathing problems"
Though, in the end, if you're burning plant matter, you're hurting your lungs with the byproducts. Vaping is the way forward.
most of these factoids are reasons to legalize public smoking and free people to smoke tobacco. high schools, restaurants and cafes, hospitals, university and government buildings, libraries, etcetera, should have smoking rooms with air filtration.
Seeing cannabis activists attack tobacco and call for it's PROHIBITION seems pretty hypocritical to me. Sure cannabis isn't toxic and tbaccy is, but ALL burning plant matter emits carcinogens, regardless of alkaloid(nicotine) or terpene(THC,CBD) content so the secondhand smoke bullshit is kind of like throwing a grenade at the enemy, forgetting to pull the pin then they can pull it and throw it back.
Apples and oranges my friend, did you read "largest cause of preventable death" next to no deaths ever, and actually increases life expectancy.
you're assuming all pot heads smoke flower. bad assumption these days, we've stepped our game up.
Tobacco has never actually killed anyone. It's just sitting there. Man, however takes the tobacco out of the ground, dries and cures it and prepares it.Man buys ridiculous "packs" and lights them.Man kills himself.
Tobacco is a gift from above and an essential part of our botanical landscape.
Tobacco has many medicinal and spiritual uses prevalent in shamanistic cultures. These cultures use tobacco in moderation and enjoy it's obvious benefits.
This appears to be an ignorant and establishment funded propaganda info graphic. Marijuana is not the only plant under attack!
Well just because raw tobacco can have spiritual uses doesn't mean that it isn't a bad plant. This is not propaganda, obviously these huge tobacco companies are raking in the money as fast as they are killing our species because nicotine is so dam addictive. Of course it's the companies fault.
I think we're giving tobacco a terrible name because of cigarettes. Yes, cigarettes are cancer sticks but don't blame the leaf.. a chemical is added to cigarettes so they burn slowly for gods sake! What if they weren't there? How about unprocessed tobacco?
Tobacco is overall a very addictive drug, and it has been compared to heroin. Even if this is so, we must not outright blame the tobacco leaf for cancer stick deaths! I hope this opinion is not discarded...
Do you want to know why we have to smoke it with tobacco? especially in places like Ireland, its because we're being made to pay 50 euros (62 dollars) for a 2.2g (you get 3.5g for 50 euros outside of Dublin I hear) bag of weed, that to us is a "50 bag" We cannot afford to smoke pure weed joints even though we'd love to, we just don't have the money to do it. Sickens me. Legalize it. (Aside from the tobbacco smokers that just plain want to have it in their joints because they're addicted)
I am a grower and I agree everyone should grow their own. However, not everyone can. You should be more compassionate.
Read the book: "Marijuana Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease." It explains how the cannabinoids in marijuana mimic chemicals we make in our bodies that work to discourage and fight disease processes such as cancer and neurodegeneration.
Eurotrash always ruin cannabis by polluting it with tobacco, it's appalling and they are ignorant and oblivious to how stupid they are for doing so. Cannabis protects the lungs from damage but tobacco is so harmful that it makes the job difficult, only weak and easily manipulated people who become slaves to tobacco corporations would ever consider inhaling toxic tobacco.
Speaking of ignorant, if you knew anything about how other countries work (should try your own country for starters), you would know why people mix their weed with tobacco.
Go spread your prejudice somewhere else, it is not welcome here.
no shit, he really had a bit of a "silly fucking wogs" complex going on there. @sciencefreak, consider hitting the joint more and the asshole powder less.
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I like seeing the facts on killer items ,keep it up,legalize the good out with the bad .Wow what money gets away with ,come on tobacco companies switch sides and save lives.
hey steve are you familiar with tokepure? i think that was the name of the group, Euro cannabis group dedicated geting people to smoke only weed, not mixed spliffs (which is apparently what EVERYONE does over there according to my euro friends. )
Thought you might be interested, since they've got a similar goal.. i'm not entirely sure if it's a group, or a campaign under a bigger euro group...i'll see if i can find a link.
