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Cannabis smoking (known colloquially as smoking weed or smoking pot) is the inhalation of smoke or vapor released by heating the flowers, leaves, or extracts of cannabis and releasing the main psychoactive chemical, Δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is absorbed into the bloodstream via the lungs.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. Number referring to cannabis 420 originally "4:20 Louis" Statue of Louis Pasteur at San Rafael High School, by Benny Bufano (1940), site of the earliest 4:20 gatherings in 1971 Observed by Cannabis counterculture, legal reformers, entheogenic spiritualists, and general users of cannabis ...
Long-term effects of smoking cannabis include lung inflammation. [90] Smoking cannabis has been linked to adverse respiratory effects including: chronic coughing, wheezing, sputum production, and acute bronchitis. [87] It has been suggested that the common practice of inhaling cannabis smoke deeply and holding breath could lead to pneumothorax.
Of all the fashion trends to make a comeback, cigarettes were an unlikely contender. After all, it’s 2024. A year when you can’t go 10 minutes on a night out without smelling the saccharine ...
Super High Me is a 2007 documentary film about the effects of smoking cannabis for 30 days. Directed by Michael Blieden, the documentary stars comedian Doug Benson . The documentary's name and its poster are plays on the 2004 documentary Super Size Me .
A dried cannabis flower. The short-term effects of cannabis are caused by many chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, including 113 [clarification needed] different cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol, and 120 terpenes, [1] which allow its drug to have various psychological and physiological effects on the human body.
A "viper" was known as someone who consumes marijuana. [7] In 1943, Time published its first article on the 'weed'. The article describes the 'roach' as the remains of a smoked down joint, suggesting that it was a desirable meant to be reused. [8] The article recalls that a "the viper [drug user] may then quietly "blast the weed" (smoke).
Cannabis and LGBT culture is the intersection of cannabis culture and LGBT culture.A common characteristic of advocacy for both LGBT rights and access to cannabis is that before about 2012 both were outside legal approval, social approval, and were on the fringe of society everywhere, [1] and still are in much of the world.