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Does weed chain smoking affect children?

Growing up both parents used to smoke cigarettes and weed. Up until about 9 when I started moaning about headaches my parents smoked around me. It took a lot of coaxing. My parents claim they were kind enough to not smoke around me as a young baby. But we lived in a one bedroom flat. Mum would shut the living room door once I went to bed but it wafted around the place especially as they left to go to the bathroom or the fridge (don't ask) that was in the hallway...

Oh and when they drove to places they'd smoke with me in the car... so no escaping it.

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

There have been no serious studies done on the subject aside from some tests with rats that are [i]highly[/i] suspect. Seems unlikely that weed would be more to blame than cigarettes simply because of the chemistry of tobacco smoke, nicotine is a chemical binding agent. It binds things together, like the chemicals in smoke to your lungs. Hence the reason nicotine products are cancer-causing regardless of what form they're in. Cannabis has no such effects, there are tar levels to be concerned about as with any smoke exposure but nothing that would be causing mass cellular damage.

Peppa · 31-35, F

@UndeadPrivateer my parents mixed tobacco with weed. So...?

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Peppa So then you're dealing with tobacco smoke, which is pretty well established to be not great for you. Nicotine is used as a cheap insecticide for a reason, it's good at killing things.

Peppa · 31-35, F

@UndeadPrivateer and psychosis from weed and skunk?

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Peppa That's a tenuous link at best, completely unfounded at worst. I know a fair few people involved in medical research here in California which have been delving into cannabis studies now that it's legalized and much of that stuff is nonsense based on correlation, not causation, according to them.

There are demographic overlaps between mentally unhealthy populations and habitual drug users which can lead to all kinds of highly erroneous claims such as that. I have yet to see a single study, nor have they according to what they told me, which actually lays out a lab-measurable physiological method by which cannabinoid consumption increases rates of psychosis. It's basically entirely speculative.

Lonesomewolf2018 · 26-30, M

@UndeadPrivateer "it's good at killing things." geez what I am in for in life.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Lonesomewolf2018 Wooo, brutal realities. For real though, soak a cup of tobacco in a half gallon of water and it makes a cheap and pretty damn effective insecticide. Just don't get it on your skin unless you like skin cancer.

Lonesomewolf2018 · 26-30, M

I do not want to smoke anymore

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Lonesomewolf2018 Smart decision. 👍