Cannabis and Lung Health: Does the Bad Outweigh the Good?

Cannabis use is growing, with multiple medical ‘indications’ and approval for recreational use in many countries. This article will review some of the respiratory complications to cannabis use, which include lung function changes, lung destruction, increased risk of lung and head and neck cancer, an...

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Autor principal: Kaplan, Alan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8589923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34697771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41030-021-00171-8
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description Cannabis use is growing, with multiple medical ‘indications’ and approval for recreational use in many countries. This article will review some of the respiratory complications to cannabis use, which include lung function changes, lung destruction, increased risk of lung and head and neck cancer, and others. These are mostly related to smoking, and the co-administration of nicotine makes the risks a bit difficult to measure. However, with many reports of EVALI, electronic vaping-associated lung injury, being related to cannabis coadministration, it appears that the safest administration of cannabis, as far as lung health, is orally. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41030-021-00171-8.
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spelling pubmed-85899232021-11-23 Cannabis and Lung Health: Does the Bad Outweigh the Good? Kaplan, Alan G. Pulm Ther Review Cannabis use is growing, with multiple medical ‘indications’ and approval for recreational use in many countries. This article will review some of the respiratory complications to cannabis use, which include lung function changes, lung destruction, increased risk of lung and head and neck cancer, and others. These are mostly related to smoking, and the co-administration of nicotine makes the risks a bit difficult to measure. However, with many reports of EVALI, electronic vaping-associated lung injury, being related to cannabis coadministration, it appears that the safest administration of cannabis, as far as lung health, is orally. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41030-021-00171-8. Springer Healthcare 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8589923/ /pubmed/34697771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41030-021-00171-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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