Does marijuana affect your immune system?

Answer 1

It's not really an immunity, rather a tolerance to marijuana. Like alot of other drugs the more you take it, the more your body gets used to it. People who consume marijuana on a regular basis find that after a few months they don't get as affected or as stoned as they did whey they started and so they have to take more. It's alot to do with your body's immune system. If you get a virus or a cold, you're immune system fights it and gets over it, if you acquire that same virus or cold again you will get less sick or not sick at all because your immune system knows how to fight it. However, if you get the same virus or cold a year later you will definitely have no immunity or tolerance to it at all. So that's why people who consume marijuana try to go without marijuana for a month or two so that they can lower their tolerance to the drug.

Answer 2

"Marijuana is an immunosuppressant whose degenerative influence extends beyond the respiratory system. Regular smoking affects the overall ability of the smoker's body to defend itself against infection by weakening various natural immune mechanisms, including macrophages and T-cells, which impairs the ability to fight off infections. Harvard University researchers report that the risk of a heart attack is five times higher than usual in the hour after smoking marijuana. A Columbia University study found that a control group smoking a single marijuana cigarette every other day for a year had a white-blood-cell count that was 39 percent lower than normal, thus damaging the immune system and making the user far more susceptible to infection and sickness."

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html

Yes, marijuana is known for suppressing the immune system. Dr Nagarkatti is on an international team of immunologist that are studying the effects of marijuana. He explained that marijuana has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to the immune system. "Marijuana cannabinoids present us with a double edged sword. On one hand, due to their immunosuppressive nature, they can cause increased susceptibility to cancer and infections. However, further research of these compounds could provide opportunities to treat a large number of clinical disorders where suppressing the immune response is actually beneficial."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101124214728.htm

Answer 3

That has not been proven, and this subject may have had little, if any, true scientific research done.

Additional information:

It is a natural plant, and many of our prescription medications are derived from natural plants, so it would not be impossible. But, it has not been studied scientifically for all other properties and effects, either, which could offset any benefit.

How it affects the immune system may also be dependent on how you use it, i.e., ingested, smoked, or vaporized. Each of these methods has its own separate effects on the different parts of your body, some of which are quite negative (such as the impact to the lungs from smoke inhalation). The net effect of frequent use could be negative, even if studies do uncover some effects that are positive.

Since the majority of marijuana producers in the US are operating illegally, and since marijuana is being illegally imported from other countries, there are no controls, inspections, or protections for users. There are concerns that it could be purposefully or accidentally laced with other drugs, or that it could be contaminated by unknown chemicals or even pathogens which also could be worse than any positive effects on other body systems.
Marijuana will never do good to the immune system. It damage the cells in the bronchial passages and weakens the immune system. So the immune cells ability will decrease in the lungs to fight against bacteria, fungi and tumor cell. It will increase the risk of pulmonary diseases such as Pneumonia.

Answer 4

NO

some drugs can damage it over longterm use but most drugs will only reduce it temporarily while you are influenced.

Answer 5

Um i pretty sure your not supposed to eat marijuana, there are better things to use it for dummy

Answer 6

Lol, smoking Cigarettes weakens your immune system not weed.

Answer 7

No. It helps it. If it damaged your immune system, they wouldn't prescribe it to people with cancer and aids because it would kill them.

Answer 8

Yes it does.

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

Eating the edibles does not lower your immune system. It may either stay the same or help you with other health issues. I have a weak immune system with severe epilepsy, trimmers, Asthma (why I don't smoke) and a crapload of other issues. Since taking the edible gummy's, I've seen less symptoms in the past few days than I have when on my meds.

Good luck!