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Mixing tobacco and marijuana may seem like a good idea, but here's the dangerous truth about blunts

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 03/04/2015 - 08:03

People who smoke a combination of tobacco and marijuana, a common practice overseas for years, and increasingly popular here in the form of "blunts," may be reacting to some unidentified mechanism that links the two drugs.

Researchers believe such smokers would be well advised to consider giving up both drugs at once, rather than one at a time, according to an upcoming study in the journal Addiction.

Clinical trials of adults with cannabis use disorders suggest that "approximately 50% are current tobacco smokers," according to the report, which was published in the journal Addiction, and authored by Arpana Agrawal and Michael T. Lynskey of Washington University School of Medicine, with Alan J. Budney of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

"As many cannabis users smoke a mixture of cannabis and tobacco or chase cannabis use with tobacco, and as conditioned cues associated with smoking both substances may trigger use of...

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