MikeK
Gold Member
First, you should know that smoking is neither the only way nor the best way to enjoy marijuana. If you doubt that, try a pot brownie. (Just take a couple of bites if it's your first time -- and wait.)If you are going to villify smoking tobacco then why is marijuana any different? it uses the same paper and produces the same gases and even has some nicotine in it - though less than tobacco.
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Also, if you will closely examine any commercially available cigarette you will see a series of faint grey circles imprinted on the paper. That is dried potassium nitrate. It is there to keep the cigarette burning. It also is carcinegenic when burned.
The tobacco in all commercially available cigarettes is adulterated with all sorts of chemicals which are added to enhance the effect of nicotine. Some of these chemicals are carcinogenic when burned. And they are responsible for the intolerable stink of cigarette smoke.
The typical papers used to roll "joints" (Bambu, etc.), contain no potassium nitrate. But the problem with a lot of bootleg marijuana is it does contain a lot of toxic chemicals, typically insecticides and growth-inducing chemicals. This is one more good reason to legalize marijuana -- so the FDA can control its purity.
Last, burning marijuana does not stink like cigarettes. It smells a bit like leaves burning on a fall day. Not at all unpleasant.