🚀 go-pugleaf

In other words, smoke your supply of organically grown, hydroponically 
vetted cannabis right away, and throw away any rotting material. Makes 
sense - and even for tobacco products - a man I used to know died from a 
lung mold he caught from smoking damp cigarettes.


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>>> Microflora of marijuana
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>>> Most of these organisms infect people via the respiratory tract, or by 
>>> oral-mucosal contact with contaminated material. Inhaling a marijuana 
>>> cigarette contaminated with any of these organisms poses a risk. 
>>> Smoking shit? Well, yea....
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>>> Rotting marijuana produces a spectrum of odors, from stale to musty to 
>>> moldy. P. italicum perfumes a lavender bouquet, while A. flavus smells 
>>> like a locker room. Clostridium bacteria stink like carrion.
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>>> Infested marijuana often darkens in color and becomes crumbly. Anaerobic 
>>> bacteria turn marijuana into brown slime. Marijuana undergoing rapid 
>>> decay may feel warm to touch. (At this stage your stash is ready for the 
>>> compost heap.) Tufts of fungi are often visible in mold material. In 
>>> marijuana stored in darkness, strands look white to light grey. Exposed 
>>> to light, storage molds spawn millions of colored spores in velvet 
>>> clumps. A slight tap sends these spores into great billowing clouds. 
>>> Generally, Rhizopus and Mucor produce grey-black spores; Penicillium 
>>> species are light blue-green; and Aspergillus species are dark 
>>> green-black.
>>>
>>> To screen for insects, simply shake samples in a No. 10 steel sieve. Of 
>>> course, not all bugs found in marijuana cause damage. Some are simply 
>>> "innocent bystanders" caught during harvesting and die right away. Live 
>>> (and chewing) insects are more suspicious.
>>>
>>> Viruses and protozoans => Cates & Warren (1975) associated marijuana use 
>>> with an epidemic of hepatitis B in Germany, but did  isolate the virus 
>>> from plant material. An outbreak of Hepatitis A in Washington state was 
>>> linked to consumption of Mexican marijuana, fertilized with human 
>>> excrement (Alexander 1987). No protozoans are reported from marijuana in 
>>> the literature.
>>>
>>> Bacteria => Several bacteria species cited as present on marijuana are 
>>> human pathogens, and produce toxins: Taylor et al. (1982) isolated 
>>> Salmonella muenchen from illicit marijuana. Ungerlerder et al. (1982) 
>>> cultivated Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter cloacae, E. agglomerans, 
>>> group D Streptococcus, and Bacillus sp. from marijuana supplied by the 
>>> National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Kurup et al. (1983) isolated 
>>> several thermophilic actinomycetes from marijuana cigarettes, including 
>>> Thermoactinomyces candidus, T. vulgaris, and Micropolyspora faeni. These 
>>> organisms, while infectious, cause allergic pneumonitis in 
>>> hypersensitive individuals.
>>>
>>> Marijuana and its active ingredient THC has been shown in some studies 
>>> to suppress immune function.
>>>
>>> Smoked marijuana increases the risk of lung infections and 
>>> complications.
>>>
>>> Marijuana may be contaminated with insecticides, pesticides, fungus 
>>> and/or bacteria. Ingesting these could have mild-to-severe health 
>>> consequences. (Some claim that microwaving marijuana for ten seconds on 
>>> high may decrease risks associated with fungus contamination.)
>>>
>>> Marijuana/THC has short-term impact on mental status. Long-term effects 
>>> are less clear.
>>>
>>> Some studies suggest that marijuana/THC may decrease testosterone 
>>> levels.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fungi => In the popular press, Margolis and Clorfene (1975) and DuToit 
>>> (1980) describe molds colonizing marijuana in the United States and 
>>> South Africa, respectively. The "black weblike fungus" described by 
>>> Margolis & Clorfene (1975) suggests an Aspergillus species. Chusid et 
>>> al. (1975) cite A. fumigatus causing pneumonitis in a patient who buried 
>>> his marijuana in the ground for "aging." Llamas et al. (1978) recovered 
>>> A. fumigatus from marijuana owned by a patient suffering allergic 
>>> bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Kagen (1981) isolated several 
>>> Aspergillus species from moldy marijuana, including A. fumigatus, A. 
>>> niger and A. flavus. Babu et al. (1977) cultured A. niger, A. flavus, A. 
>>> tamarii, A. sulphureus, and A. repens from seeds in marijuana. Schwartz 
>>> (1985) isolated A. niger from the sinuses of a marijuana smoker who 
>>> suffered severe headaches. Llewellyn & O'Rear (1977) demonstrated 
>>> aflatoxin production in marijuana contaminated with A. flavus and A. 
>>> parasiticus.
>>>
>>> Penicillium species have been isolated from marijuana cigarettes by 
>>> Kagen et al. (1983) and Kurup et al. (1983). Babu et al. (1977) cultured 
>>> P. chrysogenum from Cannabis seeds. Bush Doctor (1993) reports isolating 
>>> P. italicum from marijuana stored with an orange peel at 0o C.
>>> Mucor species have been recovered from marijuana by Kagen et al. (1983) 
>>> and Kurup et al. (1983). A related zygomycete, Rhizopus stolonifer, was 
>>> isolated from damp marijuana by Bush Doctor (1993).
>>>
>>> Babu et al. (1977) cultured several other fungi from Cannabis seeds 
>>> that, according to Bossche et al. (1990), may cause opportunistic 
>>> infections in AIDS patients. These include Alternaria alternata and 
>>> Curvularia lunata. McPartland (1983, 1991, 1992) recovered these fungi 
>>> from Cannabis in the field, plus a Fusarium spp. All these fungi produce 
>>> toxins. Ram�rez (1990) reports four policeman contracting 
>>> histoplasmosis, caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, after destroying a 
>>> Cannabis field in Puerto Rico.
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