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Posted by FoM on June 11, 2001 at 11:38:32 PT CNN Health Source: CNN 
Regular marijuana smokers consume up to 40 percent more calories than non-users -- mostly through alcohol, salty snacks and cheese -- and are more likely to smoke tobacco cigarettes, researchers said Monday. But they are also no more likely to be overweight than non-users, researchers found. The study examined the dietary and nutritional habits of about 11,000 marijuana users and non-users between the ages of 20 and 59, and appears in the journal Public Health Nutrition. The data came from a survey done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 1988 and 1994. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #9 posted by Robbie on June 11, 2001 at 17:11:40 PT |
| I think fivepounder (speaking of five pounds :) hit it dead on...these are purposely corrolated statistics to show something in a certain light. Plus, do you notice that stories about marijuana can never be positive? There are always negative connotations paired together with any bit of info that puts marijuana in a good light. "Well, it doesn't increase weight, and body fat is about normal... That just means that people will pay the price for their risky behavior" Whaaaaa??? And another thing, LONG ago I decided that inebriation through THC was FAR superior to alcohol. If I have a good and steady supply of weed, and if I dont have to clean my system of THC because I'm looking for a job, I drink NO alcohol whatsoever. I think that the methodology in this "study" is entirely too loose to claim certainty in its conclusions. Back to fivepounder, notice Dr. Kleber, and old friend to the drug-reform community...NOT. He is truly pathetic. The findings contradict other controlled laboratory studies that have shown smoking marijuana increases body weight, along with appetite and food intake, said Dr. Herbert Kleber, professor of psychiatry and director of the Division on Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York. "It increases appetite in patients with AIDS," Kleber said. "If it does that, but it doesn't increase weight, then it doesn't help those patients very much." How brilliant. This new research contradicts what he's done before, so instead of capitulating to that fact, and instead of questioning his own certainty on that and other studies, he takes hold of the new research findings and uses them to reconstitute a new theory If it does that, but it doesn't increase weight, then it doesn't help those patients very much. So he thought MJ made people gain weight, but now that it doesn't he has a reason to take it away from people with AIDS. Wonderful compassion for a doctor. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #8 posted by MikeEEEEE on June 11, 2001 at 16:02:01 PT |
| And beer makes you fat, this is more useless information. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #7 posted by J.R. Bob Dobbs on June 11, 2001 at 15:13:09 PT |
| The alcohol and tobacco industries are major contributors to places like the Parents for a Drug Free America. Anyone who is serious about their freedom should stop giving the liquor and nicotine industry their hard earned dollars, and save that money instead and get yourself a NORML membership. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #6 posted by jeff snyder on June 11, 2001 at 13:56:00 PT:
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| If you name your child Tim it will be more likely that he will blow something up. Please. OK, give me one of what Tim is having and then lets go blow something up. Love, Tim [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #5 posted by jeff snyder on June 11, 2001 at 13:37:26 PT:
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| I love to drink some beer and smoke a joint and eat some chips. I am bad, please fell free to lock me up and take my property. What a sad thought. I am very happy when i have many fruits in the house. I love strawberries and grapes, a good apple, I love all fruit even if it tastes like shit, I want a bite. Just lock me up and throw the key away, I am no good. Yes please just send me to buttfuck school. I try to live right, i try to be fair, i try not to break the law but love to get high in my house sometimes. I am bad so please kick my door down and make me stop and tear up my house for me and put a gun to my head just because i am normal, oh i mean, i am bad so just lock me up. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by fivepounder on June 11, 2001 at 13:32:57 PT |
| My experience is that pot smokers use a lot less tobacco then the general public. Many people start using pot and stop forever using tobacco. It is deadly to your health unlike marijuana which never gets mentioned. This whole story seem strange. Its a bunch of so called statistics that we are suppossed to mindlessly believe. This story is as if someone was trying t come up with a way to make pot look bad and somehow commisioned this so called test. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by aocp on June 11, 2001 at 13:21:41 PT |
| Regular marijuana smokers consume up to 40 percent more calories than non-users -- mostly through alcohol, salty snacks and cheese -- and are more likely to smoke tobacco cigarettes, researchers said Monday. What's that? MJ is now the gateway drug to legal intoxicants? What planet are these guys from, anyway? But they are also no more likely to be overweight than non-users, researchers found. I always knew that MJ made my stomach kind of like the Bag of Devouring, from back in my D&D days as a kid. You know, you put a bunch of stuff in and only get some back? Almost as if your digestive tract becomes more streamlined when you're high. Granted, i've gained much more sensible eating habits, coupled with exercise, since i started, but i always wondered about that. :) [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by Doug on June 11, 2001 at 12:08:28 PT |
| Here is yet another example of a study presented in the mass media without much (any) information as to how the research was done. What kind of control group were they using, for example. Were ther any age-related differences. The figures given in this report certainly differ from my personal experience. But if the mj smokers are concentrated amoung younger people, where the use of tobacco is higher than average, it whould skew these figures. Nothing like this is even commented upon. Most people, and unfortuantely most reporters, are not familar with statistics, their use and misuse, and so reports like this are pretty worthless without a lot of commentary, which of course is not provided. Useless, that is, except to inflame and alarm people. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on June 11, 2001 at 11:53:12 PT:
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| Once more, without defining terms, all this produces a lot of heat without much light. The people that I know that are most into cannabis, whether "recreationally" or therapeutically are extremely health conscious, and keep only good things to eat in their abodes. This kind of stereotyping is dangerous, both as propaganda, and in its tendency to create false impressions that carry over into public attitudes and legislative imperatives. Seen any nutritional data on Amerika's regular alcohol tipplers lately? [ Post Comment ] |
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