What we need to realize is that we don't prevent people from doing what's clearly harmful to them. Roughly 60 years ago my father told me about a friend in Texas who he'd visit with a few times a year, he was a lung surgeon. He'd chosen lung surgery because he knew that cigarettes would give him a lot of business. He described how blackened the lungs of cigarette smokers were to my dad, clearly tobacco's harm was know then, and probably many years prior to then, yet the most we've done is putting a warning on the pack.
I was of the belief that some who've died from vaping were using tobacco based products, not cannabis, so I'd suspect that some similar type of oil may be associated with tobacco as well. I really wonder if practically any type of smoke may be hazardous to your lungs, whether it comes from tobacco, cannabis, or a burning forest or building, it all causes harm. We cannot stop fires by laws, but the law can be used to stop what's currently legal, but harmful. Don't get me wrong, I believe there are many benefits that may be derived from cannabis, and possibly even from tobacco, but there are other ways of administering it, some of which should be totally safe to use.
The problem is tobacco has been legal practically forever, even though it may be more harmful than cannabis, which is only legal in some stated. Perhaps the answer isn't making it illegal, but rather developing or determining ways to use it that are safe and effective, and removing the harmful ways of using it by making that illegal. I doubt that Congress will act, if they would, tobacco, or at least cigarettes would have been illegal half a century or more ago. Cannabis probably has greater benefits, and less health problems, but there too, Congress won't do what's needed to make it completely legal, but they've gone along with permitting states to do so.
Perhaps smoking marijuana isn't actually as dangerous as vaping it, in that no real clinical testing has been done, who can say. If Congress acted to permit clinical trials, perhaps more would be done to determine how to, and not to use it, not just CBD and THC, but all the compounds that can be extracted from cannabis.
I know nothing about the oil found in Druggies son's lungs, but suspect that it's highly concentrated in vaping, but perhaps hardly found in smoking. Perhaps a similar oil is used to vape tobacco, as some deaths have been attributed to it as well. The oil might actually be safe to use in many ways, as long as it wasn't converted to a smoke that could coat the lungs. I've been told that the lungs of cigarette smokers who quit do improve over time, hopefully that will be the case for Druggie's son as well provided he can beat the habit.
Gary
