Cannabis – THC and Effects on Breathing, Asthma, and COPD
Well, it's interesting about what the other things that drive breathing is the ratio between carbon dioxide and oxygen in the system. Then most of the time we think about the oxygen as a nutrient and carbon dioxide is the waste gas. And actually the truth of that is carbon dioxide regulates the distribution of oxygen in our bodies. So when I talked about hyperventilating, the reason we faint is because the carbon levels get so low because we're blowing it out all the time that the oxygen distribution to the brain slows down...