chickenwings

i dunno why youre sayin that cuz ive already said i support legalizing marijuana and taxing it. i said i like the idea of how holland deals with it. only big point i was making is that smoking it is damaging with every use. i felt like bringing that up cuz theres too many people who think its some kind wonder drug that doesnt have any bad effects or theyre so small that it doesnt even matter which is simply not true. it might not be as harmful as alcohol or tobacco but its still very harmful.

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any drug can be harmful when abused, the question is where do you draw the line with drug policy. whether or not it is a "wonder drug", it has been proven to be very helpful to many people who are sick. there is no good reason to deny them that medicine and push less effective synthetic substitutes on them and there is no good reason for the FDA to continue to block progress on medical marijuana.

the proven hazards of smoking marijuana are no greater than any of the drugs you hear commercials for every day.

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chickenwings

thats not even remotely true. smoking whether it be marijuana or something else comes into contact with several different tissues in the body then taking a drug in pill form or ********* for example. the affects vary depending on the type of tissue or other surfaces (like tooth enamel). thats why a lot of people that smoke cigarettes wind up with rotted teeth. holes in their esophagus. lower oxygen levels in their blood cuz of damage caused to the lung tissues.

you will never have to deal with that taking aspirin for a headache. or getting a flu shot. or taking vitamins. etc etc etc etc.

also like i pointed out earlier synthetic drugs are designed to be _more_ efficient, have better delivery systems, be more cost effective, cause less side effects. which 9 times out of 10 they do.

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my fault i didn't remember that cuz i been readin this shit since yall started so i forgot the earlier posts

but honestly i don't think you smoke weed and if so i don't feel you can see it from the point of smokers. obviously you can understand the idea that marijuana is less harmful than legal substances such as tobacco and alcohol but no matter how much research someone does on the subject nothin beatz tryin it yaself.

I speak for myself personally because i can't feel what others feel but marijuana has had no negative affect on me and in fact has had positive affecrs.

I have had asthma since i was 6 from doin home renovation with my dad and inhaling about 15 walls worth of broken down plaster without a mask. I was told i'd never ba able to be involved in athletics.

I started smokin weed on August 14 2000 on my first day of sixth grade and after 2 months of smokin weed my lungs had actually started gettin better after continuously deteriorationg over the 5 years that i had asthma. I stopped usin an inhaler and after 2 years i stopped all asthma meds altogether.

I started sports in 10th grade and was varsity football and track.
and when i played after smokin a joint or blunt before a game i was a playmaker and when i didn't smoke my playing lacked and was very noticeable.
I was a free safety and when high i could get my mind off all the distractions and just know my assignment and know what to do. i finished senior year with 19 interceptions in 10 games.

A bunch of other things got better for me but i think you get the deal.

Weed helped me deal with my bipolar disorder and now that i'm not smokin cuz of probation i struggle greatly with patience and now have to take a few meds when i've been med free for years.

Like i said it's just me but marijuana has great medical affects in my book

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people die all the time from taking prescription medications, there has never been a recorded case of someone dying from smoking marijuana exclusively. it is impossible to overdose on marijuana, while the overdose dangers with prescription medications (even many OTC meds) are huge.

the dangers from the smoke are small compared to the benefits seen from the drug. look at the side effects for many prescription medications, look at the number of drugs that have been approved by the FDA that have killed thousands of people and given complications to millions, and then tell me that smoking marijuana is more dangerous than taking vioxx.

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chickenwings

i used to smoke heavy but i wanted to stop before i did any permanent damage. i still do here and there but nothing like before. i agree you do gotta try it for yourself to see how your body reacts. btw most of marijuanas negative affects happen inside your body in the tissue fibers, vein walls, neural receptors, etc. its typically not something you would know until major damage has already happened and youre seeing serious symptoms.

not exactly. smoking marijuana can cause problems which in turn can cause death. for example if a person is an alcoholic and dies of liver cancer, his death certificate says he died of liver cancer...not of alcohol/drug abuse.

you _can_ die by overdose on marijuana but you would have to digest an enormous amount because of how it metabolizes. if someone wanted to do it they technically could but smoking all day every day wouldnt make you od. but no its not impossible.

the dangers from smoking weed are the same as smoking tobacco. both have the same amount of carcinogens. carcinogens directly cause cancer. theres no question the dangers outweigh the benefits. thats already been proven. the actual medical benefits dont just happen across the board. most of the only occur under certain conditions.

no matter what you want to believe the truth is smoking weed is simply not good for you for 99% of us. smoking anything period is bad because your lungs dont have a good system for dealing with it. yes there are drugs that are far worse. yes there are drugs that are far better. bottom line youre kidding yourself if you think you can smoke and nothing bad happens. damage is caused with every use. it just might take a long time for the symptoms to start to show on the outside.

TheMadWriter

No no no, perscription medications are meant to serve a purpose. All marijuana does is 'make you feel good' like most drugs, crimes, and other shit you're not supposed to do does. The long term effects of marijuana have been proven to equate to those of cocaine and methamphetimines so it's pretty harmful. This debate really rests on should self-depecation legalized the same way cigs and alcohols are. Just because they're legal doesn't mean we should bring 20 other drugs into the mix and profit off of death, two wrongs don't make a right.

I believe measures need to be taken against alcohol and cigerettes as well, making me an overall lulz killer.

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Research done by the Scripps Research Institute in California shows that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, prevents the formation of deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease. THC was found to prevent an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase from accelerating the formation of "Alzheimer plaques" in the brain more effectively than commercially marketed drugs.

THC has been found to reduce tumor growth in common lung cancer by 50 percent and to significantly reduce the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University, who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies. The researchers suggest that THC might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung cancer.

In 2006, Donald Tashkin, of the University of California in Los Angeles, presented the results of his study, Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer: Results of a Case-Control Study. Tashkin found that smoking marijuana does not appear to increase the risk of lung cancer or head-and-neck malignancies, even among heavy users. The more tobacco a person smoked, the greater their risk of developing lung cancer and other cancers of the head and neck. But people who smoked more marijuana were not at increased risk compared with people who smoked less and people who didn’t smoke at all. Marijuana use was associated with cancer risk ratios below 1.0, indicating that a history of pot smoking had no effect on the risk for respiratory cancers. In contrast, tobacco smoking had a 21-fold risk for cancer. Tashkin concluded, "It's possible that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana smoke may encourage apoptosis, or programmed cell death, causing cells to die off before they have a chance to undergo malignant transformation"

According to a 2007 study by scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, a compound found in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD), may stop breast cancer from spreading throughout the body. The scientists believe their discovery may provide a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy while achieving the same results minus the painful and unpleasant side effects. The research team says that CBD works by blocking the activity of a gene called Id-1, which is believed to be responsible for a process called metastasis, which is the aggressive spread of cancer cells away from the original tumor site.

Investigators at Columbia University published clinical trial data in 2007 showing that HIV/AIDS patients who inhaled cannabis four times daily experienced substantial increases in food intake with little evidence of discomfort and no impairment of cognitive performance. They concluded that smoked marijuana has a clear medical benefit in HIV-positive patients. In another study in 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that marijuana significantly reduces HIV-related neuropathic pain when added to a patient's already-prescribed pain management regimen and may be an "effective option for pain relief" in those whose pain is not controlled with current medications. Mood disturbance, physical disability, and quality of life all improved significantly during study treatment.

A study by Complutense University of Madrid found the active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves in a process called autophagy. The research team discovered that cannabinoids such as THC had anticancer effects in mice with human brain cancer cells and in people with brain tumors.

Injections of THC eliminate dependence on opiates in stressed rats, according to a research team at the Laboratory for Physiopathology of Diseases of the Central Nervous System (France) in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.


still stand by your statement that "all marijuana does is make you feel good?" i still have yet to hear one good reason for the federal government to block progress on medical marijuana.

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you completely ignore that fact that heavy tobacco users on average smoke about 10-20x more daily than marijuana users. therefore marijuana users inhale a very small amount of carcinogens compared to cigarette smokers. there are over 800 carcinogens in roasted coffee.. but you don't hear the FDA talking about banning it's use. no one is saying that smoking doesn't have dangers.. the point is that the benefits far outweigh the dangers.

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ShawnDaDon

you know whats really funny is that the nigga that first posted this shit has been fucking banned

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Mr Dillinger

lmao pretty ironic...it makes you lose your memory short term and helps you keep your memory in the long term...

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well, yes and no.. it does cause short term memory loss when you're under the effects of the drug.. but it is only a temporary side effect, any impairment of memory goes away as soon as you come down off the "high."

wild-eyed prohibitionists want you to believe that smoking marijuana makes you stupid, lazy, etc.. but there is just no good scientific evidence to back these claims up. however, there are mounds of scientific evidence showing the medical benefits of cannabis.

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Word my nigga

Weed don't make people lazy. People do that to themselves.

It's true dudes would probably rather lay back and parlay wit niggaz when they smokin but let's not forget about all the people who smoke before work, when they wake up and before and after doin shit like exercise and shit.

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Ryder Bompton

real talk homie

weed should be legal........but legal or not u know we gon still smoke

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