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[QUOTE="mtl mile end, post: 4467437, member: 280527"]
I don't know about brain damage, but I have a friend who has told me for years that smoking tobacco has been clinically shown to have a (much) greater effect on lung capacity than smoking marijuana - which he said the studies showed to have no effect.

I just accepted this without argument because he is the kind of interwebz researcher that reads the first four words of an article and thinks "OK, I know everything on the subject now". The subject came up again recently, so I searched. I was expecting the studies to have been commissioned by High Times or something like that, but they were legit, published studies. I read some of the abstracts and realized that they were comparing effects on lung capacity by "X" number of "smoking years". A "smoking year" was defined as 365 "smoking days". A cigarette "smoking day" was consumption of ten or twenty cigarettes, and a pot "smoking day" was one joint. This is an amazingly idiotic expenditure of research funds. I think I could have told them that smoking one joint has less effect on lung capacity than smoking twenty cigarettes without any research at all!

All that to say, lack of research into long term effects of marijuana vs tobacco on brain function means that one should look carefully at the research that is available. In the meantime I will happily partake in both (at the same time!) and let the chips fall where they may. :thrasher::canabis: :rock:
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