tar.
there is no tar in cannabis. there’s probably tar in the resin from cannabis, but there is not tar in it itself. when you smoke it, you make it reach a temperature that creates resin (tar), but this, in the picture? =/= tar. the decomposition of it through fire creates resin, but isn’t as harmful as with tobacco. smoke inhalation, as i said, is an irritant of the lungs. but the inhalation of tobacco smoke and cannabis smoke are different. you can get tar from smoking wood. it’s the same process of material destruction only the plant consists of different chemicals that combust differently under the heat involved with smoking.
then again, i’ve never heard of a chainsmoker of just weed dying of cancer in any form. just tobacco.
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