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Re:Scientists Who Pee Plutonium by ams6110 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:24AM (#10419308)
I assume these are naturally occuring in the tobacco, as I can't see any reason that polonium or lead would be added to cigarettes. Does marijuana smoke contain similar radioactive components?
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Re:Scientists Who Pee Plutonium by madaxe_again on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:25AM (#10419754)
Both from the soil and from phosphate fertilisers - see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5914751 .

So yeah, weed probably does have similar components, but if there's one thing in its favour, weed is an expectorant - far less crap sticks around in your lungs than with tobacco.

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Re:Scientists Who Pee Plutonium by anonbanker on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:00PM (#10422716)
And more importantly, what about marijuana vapor?
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