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So pesticides are allowed on food consumed by kids with no label or warning, and no testing required yet they’re not allowed on a product meant to be incinerated and inhaled and used as a recreational drug by adults? Okaaaaayyyy....

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By inhaling it, it's absorbed directly into your bloodstream, through the lungs.

I'd like to see a 50-year longitudinal study on the effects of different common chemcals over previously untested lengths of time.

Actually, it'd be nice to see more 50-year studies on the effect of anything on anything.

They're probably tainted by some industry lobby. Look at the sugar industry which has hidden the link between sugar and cancer for 50 years. More like a 50 year cover up, than a 50 year study.

Many of the pesticides may be destroyed during combustion. Similarly with stomach acids. But in both cases of ingestion some pesticides can enter the blood stream. They also don’t have to enter the bloodstream to be harmful.

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