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onewheelwizzard:
Further comments.
First of all, I think it would be pretty ridiculous to uphold the inhalation of hot carbonized vegetable particulates as a healthy activity. It's not healthy to smoke anything. The possibility that THC might actually have a preventative effect on lung cancer definitely warrants further study but hasn't been confirmed, although the results of the most recent research are a pretty telling exoneration of marijuana from a carcinogenic standpoint.
Oh, and marijuana does not need to be smoked. Vaporization is a substantial improvement from the point of view of the lungs, and choosing to cook with it and bypass the respiratory system altogether can effectively reduce negative health effects to nil (although eating pot has been known to fuck people who are not careful completely out of their heads for hours on end ... it's not hard to moderate dosage but if you somehow utterly fail and eat way more pot food than you should, you're not going to come down for the better part of a full day.)
I honestly don't believe that long-term psychological effects of marijuana are generalizable to any extent. Some people will become losers and slobs. Some people will just tend to be more artsy. There's no way to tell whether any given person will react well to the prospect of regular usage ... and even those who opt for heavy and regular use are sometimes also extremely productive and mentally active people (at least in my experience). I don't think it could reasonably be said that someone who smoked a joint a day every day for 5 years would be the same afterwards, but I also don't think it could be reasonably said that there is any way in which they would be reliably and measurably worse off for it. Some people probably would. Others wouldn't.
Simply put, weed's really not something to worry about. You are not going to suffer any serious health problems, short-term or long-term, if you use it in any kind of moderation (and especially not if you vaporize or eat it). You shouldn't get worried about your friends if they use it, unless you have a deep and persisting mistrust of their ability to take any kind of reasonable care of their life. It's not a big deal and there are so many more damaging habits out there that anyone whose worst vice is that they are always smoking weed is probably better off than anyone who went that deep into just about any other drug.
Barmymoo:
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--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 15 Mar 2008, 03:04 ---Simply put, weed's really not something to worry about. You are not going to suffer any serious health problems, short-term or long-term, if you use it in any kind of moderation (and especially not if you vaporize or eat it). You shouldn't get worried about your friends if they use it, unless you have a deep and persisting mistrust of their ability to take any kind of reasonable care of their life. It's not a big deal and there are so many more damaging habits out there that anyone whose worst vice is that they are always smoking weed is probably better off than anyone who went that deep into just about any other drug.
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Well said. I think you just made the same point about weed as I was trying to make about alcohol, actually.
Still, if one of them is legal and one of them is not, I know which one i'm going to stick to. For me, it's not worth the risk of being caught and given a criminal record just for the sake of trying something different, when I can enjoy a perfectly legal beer instead.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Hat on 14 Mar 2008, 23:53 ---DRUGS
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--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 14 Mar 2008, 23:54 ---PERSONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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THE JEWS
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--- Quote from: Hat on 14 Mar 2008, 23:53 ---DRUGS
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--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 14 Mar 2008, 23:54 ---PERSONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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--- Quote from: Patrick on 15 Mar 2008, 07:13 ---THE JEWS
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