Weed, in general, is more densely packed with carcinogens than cigarettes. But that’s just not being fair to leave it at that. Most people who develop lung issues from smoking cigarettes become severely addicted and smoke in entire packs. To match the amount of carcinogens consumed daily by a cigarette smoker at legitimate risk of developing cancer you have to take so many hits your eyes will practically bleed, every day.</p>
<p>Kind of related to the whole tobacco/marijuana discussion - What are people’s opinions on dip and other forms of smokeless tobacco? Seems to not be a mainstream issue (and, perhaps as a result of the neglect, it really thrives in certain demographics like baseball players for instance). Kind of concerning to see some of my teammates use it in the dugout.</p>
<p>^Even if it was legal, which I think it should be, I would never try it. There are many things in America that I wish were legal, but it doesn’t mean I’d participate with them. Like the discussion earlier, I think that prostitution should be legal. Think about the cash, mannn… Or else Big Brother will be watching YOU (just kidding).</p>
I cannot, by code of conduct, encourage you to dabble with drugs or alcohol lol. But experimentation is a very human way of figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Trying something once will not cause addiction. There are more often than not social pressures (not just the peer pressure you hear about in health class but rather a constant pressure to maintain a certain style/culture) that lead someone on the path of addiction - and even then it’s a very long path.</p>
<p>In theory (and 99% of the time in reality) I don’t care. If I run into a high acquaintance, that’s cool. I’ll be mildly amused. Yet I had a minor freak out, that surprised me most of all, upon finding out that my friend occasionally smoked. It was odd.</p>
<p>I might honestly say that I probably would never date a guy who smokes weed 24/7. Although I may agree that I find it odd how many guys who smoke weed are somehow very intelligent, I do think they do not have many goals in life. I like a man in a suit, haha.</p>
<p>even though smoking doesn’t necessarily make you stupid, i think there is definitely a negative correlation between frequency of smoking and intelligence</p>
It depends on the environment really. I remember 8th grade was the time people started freaking out because other people began drinking, then by the end of 9th grade most people had tried it at my HS. Pot the same thing except probably a year later (though obviously not as many people have tried it). The work hard party hard mentality you see at most top colleges develops at these high-pressure high schools.</p>
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Well as with any drug you have different demographics using that drug for similar but altogether different means. I think you can generalize two groups of guys in my school who frequently use pot: the completely demotivated, hopeless cases whose brains are so fried from pot use that they merely seem to exist for the purpose of taking up space, (I have a couple of acquaintances who are like this, and I’m describing it in such a way not because I want to be harsh but because I want to be truthful) and the more intelligent type to which you’ve alluded that smoke not because they completely lack motivation but because they want to sort of keep a wider perspective on the different life paths they can choose (and I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I have quite a few closer friends who are like this). I know a lot of these guys have already had existential freak-outs in which they’ve questioned essentially all they’ve done in life (believe me, this makes for very interesting AIM conversations) and weed is just sort of the escape without truly compromising one’s intellectual perspective (they do not completely abuse weed like the former group I’ve described). In some ways I’m surprised at myself for not becoming one of them - although I certainly haven’t quite reached that point of self-questioning yet, at least not in terms of indulgence.</p>
<p>Last year first semester, I hung out with so many “druggies”. I was the only person at my lunch “area” (we didn’t sit at a table, we sat in a little area that was isolated from the outside tables) who did not smoke weed or took some type of drugs.</p>
<p>I think there should be an age limit to using marijuana (excluding for medicinal purposes.)</p>
<p>My mother’s boyfriend is a pothead and you’ve never seen a more peculiar sight than a high as a kite fiddgity 60 year-old man, who, until recently, wore Depends.</p>
<p>My grandma smokes several bowls a day, but she apparently has glaucoma. </p>
<p>Ironically, I’m about to spark it up myself. I quit smoking dro back in Jan (I have to get tested for my job), and now blaze with legal alternatives. If you go to any smoke shop, and you’re 18+, you can buy k2 or spice. It’s basically incense that’s sprayed with chemically altered THC that doesn’t appear on drug tests. You still get the same high as regular pot, but it’s legal to buy (not to consume). I wish TX was as progressive as CA or other western states that have “legalized” marijuana. I DO believe pot is safer than drinking. You don’t typically see high people as belligerent as drunks.</p>
<p>The only positive effect of legalizing marijuana, in my opinion, is that the money used to enforce marijuana laws can be put to better uses, especially in this economy.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I see no benefit of legalizing it. Not only is smoking pot shows sheer stupidity, we don’t need another legal pollutant (excuse my lack of understanding of the environment, but I do believe all types of smoking negatively affects it). Also, legalizing it provides easier access to it.</p>
<p>My position against the legalization of marijuana stands unless someone can give me a compelling argument for it.</p>
<p>We do not need more spreading of stupidity in this world. </p>
<p>I maintain the same position on tobacco and alcohol. But these 2 are already too widespread to be stopped. Marijuana is probably less dangerous than those 2, but is extremely harmful regardless.</p>