Cannabis

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Well perhaps you just don&#39;t understand things on the same level.
Your friend&#39;s are still doing things. In fact; there smoking pot, and that&#39;s better than playing an organized game of running around on a field for no point at all. At least in my honest opinion.[/b]

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That is a horrible opinion. How can something that damages your body be greater than physical activity, which gives you energy and keeps you fit? I can&#39;t keep fit from smoking weed all day, I&#39;d have to eat all the food in my house.

So smoking grass has a point and playing sports doesn&#39;t? Riiiight. I know kids that don&#39;t have to pay to go to college because they play sports. Do you happen to know anyone that can get a scholarship for being stoned?

Do you happen to realize going to school is not the most important thing in life. Yes, strange as it is, i vaule Love, Happiness and relaxation over the central idea of greed and making money.

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People will get bored of weed and move on.

I have done it, just not with weed lol or drugs, but drink.
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I will never get bored of smoking pot. and why did you drink when its so harmful for you? specially if you drank at a young age. Smoking pot isnt very harmful to you in the least bit. Well apart for the SMOKE damaging your lungs.. Getting cancer from smoking pot, is really very hard to do, since the thc helps the body in many way&#39;s. That&#39;s why you bake somthing, like cake or brownies. No smoke, no real problem.

I know its not very harmful but here are a few facts that proove it can be harmful.



Stronger doses prompt more intense and often disturbing reactions including paranoia and hallucinations.

Most of marijuana’s short-term effects wear off within two or three hours. The drug itself, however, tends to linger on. THC is a fat-soluble substance and will accumulate in fatty tissues in the liver, lungs, testes, and other organs.

The Impact on the Mind

Marijuana use reduces learning ability. Research has been piling up of late demonstrating clearly that marijuana limits the capacity to absorb and retain information. A 1995 study of college students discovered that the inability of heavy marijuana users to focus, sustain attention, and organize data persists for as long as 24 hours after their last use of the drug. Earlier research, comparing cognitive abilities of adult marijuana users with non-using adults, found that users fall short on memory as well as math and verbal skills. Although it has yet to be proven conclusively that heavy marijuana use can cause irreversible loss of intellectual capacity, animal studies have shown marijuana-induced structural damage to portions of the brain essential to memory and learning.

Chronic marijuana smokers are prey to chest colds, bronchitis, emphysema, and bronchial asthma. Persistent use will damage lungs and airways and raise the risk of cancer. There is just as much exposure to cancer-causing chemicals from smoking one marijuana joint as smoking five tobacco cigarettes. And there is evidence that marijuana may limit the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease.

Marijuana also affects hormones. Regular use can delay the onset of puberty in young men and reduce sperm production. For women, regular use may disrupt normal monthly menstrual cycles and inhibit ovulation. When pregnant women use marijuana, they run the risk of having smaller babies with lower birth weights, who are more likely than other babies to develop health problems. Some studies have also found indications of developmental delays in children exposed to marijuana before birth.


Marijuana as Medicine

Although U.S. law classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance (which means it has no acceptable medical use), a number of patients claim that smoking pot has helped them deal with pain or relieved the symptoms of glaucoma, the loss of appetite that accompanies AIDS, or nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy. There is, however, no solid evidence that smoking marijuana creates any greater benefits than approved medications (including oral THC) now used to treat these patients, relieve their suffering, or mitigate the side effects of their treatment. Anecdotal assertions of beneficial effects have yet to be confirmed by controlled scientific research.




IN SHORT


Marijuana Dangers

* Impaired perception
* Diminished short-term memory
* Loss of concentration and coordination
* Impaired judgement
* Increased risk of accidents
* Loss of motivation
* Diminished inhibitions
* Increased heart rate
* Anxiety, panic attacks, and paranoia
* Hallucinations
* Damage to the respiratory, reproductive, and immune systems
* Increased risk of cancer
* Psychological dependency


Sure it seems good, and ill probably start it soon, but there are dangers before you think its gods gift.

Drugs are not "spiritual and mind expanding" they are tricking the brain into thinking of things that dont exist. And in my opinion the further away from reality you get the more dangerous it gets.

There are obviously dangers to everything.
Most studies in marijuana are pretty much junk science. Governments and educators are reluctant to actually put proper research into it because its own bias towards it.
Get this: Study shows that violent video games makes men smoke marijuana: http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/10-04-2006-2557.html

Do you agree with that? Same analogy, there is extraordinary bias towards things that the government does not fit in their idealogy.

The website that Ben copied off of:

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Anecdotal assertions of beneficial effects have yet to be confirmed by controlled scientific research.
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Researchers claim that in applying for grants for studying marijuana, unless their experiment was written up as searching for harm from pot, they were not approved or funded by the federal government.[/b]

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From http://www.coastalpost.com/01/6/04.htm


You can smoke Bay Leaves and get a similar high. Buy them at your local grocery store. :P

Its all about balance. MaDD for example approves pot and says its better than sports, but through his &#39;writings&#39; he also takes high drugs like LSD, and Shrooms. Which will fuck you up hardcore, son. However, the Blackmarket doesn&#39;t knock on your door and say &#39;Want drugs?&#39;. You buy weed off of a dealer, Dealer has something else. You smoke weed at a party, get stoned, and a few lines are going around. In your fucked state of mind, you try it. That&#39;s how my friend Kane (reminds of me MaDD) got into coke. Every two weeks he&#39;d do a few lines and just play his guitar, stoned ALL weekend. He&#39;s lost 4 inches in height and suffers from a few other physical problems from the coke. Now he does E every month, and he&#39;s lost 2 inches from the E. He used to be 6&#39;4. he&#39;s 5&#39;10 now. He&#39;s always either on weed or shrooms, and while he&#39;s a good guy to talk to, and he does have fun, he&#39;s fucking himself up. What I do respect is that he doesn&#39;t push it on anyone else. He tells everyone that doesn&#39;t do drugs to stay away if they doubt it, and just let the druggies kill &#39;emselves.

A guy I know is on student council, 85% average, very nice to talk to. He smokes up once every few weeks and he&#39;s fine. He does maybe a few grams in a day and that&#39;s it for a month. Then I know a guy by the name of Jay. He smokes 3 joints every day, before, during, and right after school. And then in the evening he smokes a big one. He is fucking PERMAFRIED. He laughs at EVERYTHING, throws auto tools and parts in the garbage and he spends all class breaking screws in the vise and giggling. He also thinks calling me a &#39;master mechanic&#39; is a pretty good insult.

Guys that do it often are fucked. Its just a fact- everyone that does it more than twice is oddly failing school, are poor, and are just general dicks. Kane is a very nice exception. But 95% of the people that smoke up even just pot, are total fucking pricks. I don&#39;t even talk to them or try and debate the pot- they&#39;re just assholes in general.

Every asshole i&#39;ve met has been addicted to drugs, or addicted to something illegal/frowned upon.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kaleidoscope &#064; Apr 28 2006, 10&#58;10 AM) [snapback]167038[/snapback]</div>

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Smoking pot isnt very harmful to you in the least bit. Well apart for the SMOKE damaging your lungs...[/b]

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Oh, yes, because lung cancer is such a tiny problem. I mean, who cares if you can&#39;t breathe, right? :P

And as much as you enjoy "Love, happiness, and relaxation", they don&#39;t pay bills as well as money does. And who ever said I was greedy? My point was that if you put "I smoke weed" on a college resume, chances are they (the college) will want to find somebody else. You can&#39;t survive in today&#39;s world without money. You can have money without being greedy. That&#39;s why there is a large middle-class population in this country.

Kaliedoscope, how do you know those sites you come up with aren&#39;t pro cannabis? Why don&#39;t you actually learn HOW to analyze chemicals, HOW to monitor brain activity, and THEN try and make your points. Otherwise, you&#39;re not better than any of us, contrary to what your tone is. All you&#39;re doing is finding information on the internet. And all we&#39;re doing? Finding information on the internet.


Join a medical team, do tests. Until then, i&#39;m not believing anything anyone posts.

nice, all i can say is nice.. haha. some of the comments are so close minded.

Xtremerunnerars had one of the only good logical points.
Shurai uses common sense too.

How can you say my argument is not logical, it is based solely on what ive experienced in real life.