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Suggest Treatment For Brown Tongue Due To Smoking Weed

hi my tongue was a bit brown and not good,i used to smoke a lot of weed per day and i saw a doctror who told me to quit mariquana and gave me stomatovis.now im in the 3rd day and i see improvment.should i quit marijuana cause of it's bad affections to me? thank you,from greece.
Wed, 27 Aug 2014
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Smoking has a lot of brown tar. That also coats your lungs. It's surprising that we don't see as much lung disease with marijuana as we do with cigarettes. Obviously it is a trade off between the brown tongue and the effects of the marijuana and it would be your decision.
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Suggest Treatment For Brown Tongue Due To Smoking Weed

Smoking has a lot of brown tar. That also coats your lungs. It s surprising that we don t see as much lung disease with marijuana as we do with cigarettes. Obviously it is a trade off between the brown tongue and the effects of the marijuana and it would be your decision.