Coughing up brown/black stuff when smoking and eating cannabis...

I've been smoking ONLY cannabis for about 2-3 years and started coughing up stuff several months ago. I've tried using vaporizers and only eating edibles but I will still end up coughing it up. I've also tried switching dispensaries and would buy the highest quality bud available and it would still happen. I am going to quit for a few months and try again just a little to see if it happens then. I've never been a big smoker and have been smoking less than a gram a day for the last couple of months. I have even been taking 2-3 day breaks for the last 2 weeks but now I just have to completely kick the habit because it's just not stopping. I never find good answers when trying to research and I'm starting to get really pissed at the lack of information there is on this subject and am hoping to get some concrete answers. Please post if you have had a similar issue or know what may be the cause.

Thanks.

Have you tried eating mangoes while sitting?

yes. your point being?

Maybe you should see a doctor. There could be something going on with your lungs or it could be an allergy if it happens with ingestion too. Who knows, I am not a medical professional but I have been smoking for many years (cigs and weed) and don't cough anything up unless I am sick. I will cough on a real good toke once in a while but from what you are talking about it sounds like there is something more to it. Hope all is well.

Thanks for the post Chiceh. I also thought it might be an allergy because I would sneeze and feel congested every once in awhile. If that's the case I really don't see what a doctor can do about it other than tell me to quit. If I'm still having issues after a whole week of quitting with constant exercise I will go see a doctor. It's a real shame... I sure did love this plant, it was very helpful for me until I started coughing it up.

If you live in a major metropolitan area it could just be air pollution.

I get that as well sometimes, sometimes when i go to hock a luggy ill spit out and there will be black particles. I always just assumed that it was resin coating my insides as a side effect of ingesting smoke daily.

U coughing up flem of how ever u spell it?
Its mucas bro. Did u ever bronchitis and pneumonia??

I'm assuming it's resin too... I have been on a smoke break for 5 weeks now. I was smoking everyday several times a day and I was always spitting up black lung butter... since I've been on my break... NO lung butter at all... 2-3 days isn't long enough take a few weeks off and you should be good. after that I would just eat vs. smoke and then if you're still spitting up the black shit there is something else going on, have no idea what it could be... stay high

Ive never had bronchitis or pneumonia but I was getting the symptoms of them. Mainly excessive burping, sometimes indigestion, and occasional chest pain. However, I have no difficulty breathing or have any wheezing. It does seem that it could be bronchitis though. But it bothers me that I still cough it up even when I just have edibles. Although when I initially switched to edibles I didn't give myself a break and it could have been leftovers from when I was smoking but I could tell on certain days when I had more edibles I would cough up more. In any case I'll take a couple weeks off, and try edibles first to see what happens.

**phlegm.

Phlegm is more related to disease than is mucus. Phlegm is a secretion in the airway during disease and inflammation. Phlegm usually contains mucus with bacteria, debris, and sloughed-off inflammatory cells. Once phlegm has been expectorated by a cough it becomes sputum.[1]

I read somewhere that MJ smoke can cause heartburn... stay high

shrxhky420 said:

I read somewhere that MJ smoke can cause heartburn... stay high

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I can believe that. I can't stay high though
But I'll have Irish cream with Kahlua instead! Cheers! *clangs mug with bong*

How long did you go without smoking when you were eating? maybe you didn't go long enough with out smoking... I just can't see how eating MJ would cause any form of black lung... stay high or drunk.

I honestly can't remember, but I think it was a week. I do know that I have coughed up less these last few days since I've stopped everything, but when I was only having edibles it didn't seem to be any less. By next weekend if I haven't coughed anything up for a couple days I'll have an edible before bed and post about how it goes.

shrxhky420 said:

I read somewhere that MJ smoke can cause heartburn... stay high

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You're not supposed to swallow it.
Even so, I've noticed that while I'm holding a mighty lungful (and valiantly fighting the urge to blast lung tissue all over my feet) I'll burp and it'll be smoky. cn

I would see a doctor. Getting medical advice here isn't a good idea.

^some good medical advice right there. cn

DoctorGanoobies said:

Ive never had bronchitis or pneumonia but I was getting the symptoms of them. Mainly excessive burping, sometimes indigestion, and occasional chest pain. However, I have no difficulty breathing or have any wheezing. It does seem that it could be bronchitis though. But it bothers me that I still cough it up even when I just have edibles. Although when I initially switched to edibles I didn't give myself a break and it could have been leftovers from when I was smoking but I could tell on certain days when I had more edibles I would cough up more. In any case I'll take a couple weeks off, and try edibles first to see what happens.

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you could have some intestinal problems. black stuff can be dried blood. do your stools have blood in them?