<p>I agree with some people, are you trying to get cancer? Seriously, all of it is just stupid, I have never understood why it is so fun to lose years off your life for the sake of “feeling good” for an hour.</p>
<p>i eat delicious-greasy-heart-attack-inducing fast food all the time.</p>
<p>the thing is that ppl will always smoke. no one is going to make it impossible to smoke. i think that people should just ignore it.</p>
<p>Idk you are a female or a male…</p>
<p>If you are a female and are doing it for the looks, don’t. The girls who workout and so forth are FAR better looking than the yellow teethed ones who got addicted?</p>
<p>You don’t think you are gonna get addicted? Then you are gonna want one more. and one more. Don’t get into it. </p>
<p>Marijuana is much better (not that I’ve tried it) because it is healthier and gives you an actual sense of relaxation.</p>
<p>IMO, gross.</p>
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<p>You never understood because you have never tried it. What I don’t understand is how people can justify talking trash about something they have never tried.</p>
<p>^Well…I do know people who have tried it before. Did they like it? No. Would they agree with my above statement? Yes. Have tests been done to support my statement? Yes. (hence, it is justified)Do you agree with those tests and how smoking and doing drugs in general is a bad thing? Who knows.</p>
<p>It doesn’t make your statement justified, but the people you know who have tried it can talk trash all they want. That’s all I’m saying. On a side note: what tests are you talking about? Cigarettes do not give you an hour buzz, so I assumed you were talking about marijuana (which lasts on average about 3 to 4 hours, for me lasts about 2). All tests about marijuana have results that indicate it is healthy, and there is no proof that it cuts years of your life. But hey, 40 year anniversary, the guys from Woodstock should be about 60 or 70 now, right?</p>
<p>^I’m not going to argue with you. I’ll let the facts speak for themselves(I got this information off the internet:)):</p>
<p>“Marijuana and hashish can cause rapid heart rate and memory impairment soon after use.” “Long-term effects include cognitive problems,… weakened immune system, and possible lung damage.”
“Marijuana is addictive.” “Many people who have been regular users and try to quit have trouble sleeping, irritability and emotional problems.”
“Even a little marijuana reduces your critical thinking skills.” “So, you won’t be able to “figure it out” for yourself.”
“As far as your lungs are concerned, smoking marijuana is more dangerous than smoking cigarettes.”
“More youth are in rehab for marijuana than for all other drugs combined.”
“If you are using marijuana, you are more likely to have trouble with the law.”
“People who use marijuana are four times more likely to be involved in violent behavior”
.It also increases your risk for a heart attack.
Sources(med.unc.edu, hatchyouth.org)(all information should be in quotes)
Haha, I guess I went a little overboard:> I’m just suggesting you don’t do it, that’s all:)</p>
<p>I don’t really care about marijuana. I don’t think smoking cigarettes and cigars is good at all, or rarely done. Also, just because two events are shown to somehow correlate, doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cause and effect. </p>
<p>For example: 100% of people who eat bread die. Does that mean bread causes death? No. I’m just saying, choose your sources carefully.</p>
<p>**“Marijuana and hashish can cause rapid heart rate and memory impairment soon after use.” **
-This is true. I don’t deny this. </p>
<p>**“Long-term effects include cognitive problems,… weakened immune system, and possible lung damage.” **
-There have been no clinical or epidemiological studies showing an increase in bacterial, viral, or parasitic infection among human marijuana users. In three large field studies conducted in the 1970s, in Jamaica, Costa Rica and Greece, researchers found no differences in disease susceptibility between marijuana users and matched controls. - *Carter, W.E. (ed), Cannabis in Costa Rica: A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use, Philadelphia: Institute for Study of Human Issues (1980); Rubin, V. and Comitas, L., Ganja in Jamaica, The Hague: Mouton (1975); Stefanis, C. et al, Hashish: Studies of Long Term Use, New York: Raven Press (1977). *</p>
<p>-Marijuana use does not increase the risk of HIV infection; nor does it increase the onset or intensity of symptoms among AIDS patients. - *Coates, R.A. et al, “Cofactors of Progression to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in a Cohort of Male Sexual Contacts of Men with Immunodeficiency Virus Disease,” American Journal of Epidemiology 132: 717-22 (1990). *</p>
<p>**“Marijuana is addictive.” “Many people who have been regular users and try to quit have trouble sleeping, irritability and emotional problems.” **
-National epidemiological surveys show that the large majority of people who have had experience with marijuana do not become regular users. In 1993, among Americans age 12 and over, about 34% had used marijuana sometime in their life, but only 9% had used it in the past year, 4.3% in the past month, and 2.8% in the past week. - *Preliminary Estimates from the 1993 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1994). *</p>
<p>-The increasing use of drug-detection technologies in the workplace, schools and elsewhere has also produced a group of marijuana users who identify themselves as “addicts” in order to receive treatment instead of punishment. - *Martin, B.R., “Marijuana: What It Is and What It Does,” Presentation at NIDA’s National Conference on Marijuana Use Prevention, Treatment and Research," Arlington, VA (July 1995). *</p>
<p>-Recently, at a NIDA-sponsored conference, a researcher described unpublished observations involving rats pretreated with THC and then dosed with a cannabinoid receptor-blocker. 64 Not surprisingly, this provoked sudden withdrawal, by stripping receptors of the drug. This finding has no relevance to human users who, upon ceasing use, experience a very gradual removal of THC from receptors. - *Martin, B.R., “Marijuana: What It Is and What It Does,” Presentation at NIDA’s National Conference on Marijuana Use Prevention, Treatment and Research," Arlington, VA (July 1995). *</p>
<p>**“Even a little marijuana reduces your critical thinking skills.” “So, you wont be able to figure it out for yourself.” **
-A number of driving simulator studies have shown that marijuana does not produce the kind of psycho-motor impairment evident with modest doses of alcohol. 80 In fact, in a recent NHTSA study, the only statistically significant outcome associated with marijuana was that drivers drove more slowly. - *Stein, A.C. et al, A Simulator Study of the Combined Effects of Alcohol and Marijuana on Driving Behavior-Phase II, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation (1983). *
Kv’alseth, T.O., “Effects of Marijuana on Human Reaction Time and Motor Control,” Perceptual and Motor Skills 45:935-39 (1977); Hansteen, R.W. et al, “Effects of Cannabis and Alcohol on Automobile Driving and Psychomotor Tracking,” Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 282:240-56 (1976); Moskowitz, H. et al, “Marijuana: Effects on Simulated Driving Performance,” Accident Analysis and Prevention 8:45-50 (1976); Moskowitz, H. et al, “Visual Search Behavior While Viewing Driving Scenes Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana,” Human Factors 18:417-31 (1976).</p>
<p>**“As far as your lungs are concerned, smoking marijuana is more dangerous than smoking cigarettes.” **
-“Is marijuana safer? The short answer is ‘yes,’” said Dr. Mitch Earleywine, a University of Southern California psychologist who is the author of “Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence” and the just published “Mind-Altering Drugs: The Science of Subjective Experience.” The evidence is clear, he told DRCNet. “Cannabis has no lethal dose, so you can’t die from it. The impact on the brain structure for cannabis is nil, but there can be very serious brain function changes with alcohol abuse. Also, more dramatic liver functions are impaired with alcohol. Malnutrition, B-vitamin deficiency, and Korsakoff’s Disorder are all linked to alcohol, but not cannabis.” source - Progress.org</p>
<p>-Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. … It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat … than alcohol or tobacco."source - NORML, The Lancet</p>
<p>-Since 1982, UCLA researchers have evaluated pulmonary function and bronchial cell characteristics in marijuana-only smokers, tobacco-only smokers, smokers of both, and non-smokers. Although they have found changes in marijuana-only smokers, the changes are much less pronounced than those found in tobacco smokers. The nature of the marijuana-induced changes were also different, occurring primarily in the lung’s large airways - not the small peripheral airways affected by tobacco smoke. Since it is small-airway inflammation that causes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, marijuana smokers may not develop these diseases. - *Tashkin, D.P. et al, “Longitudinal Changes in Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function in Non-smokers, Tobacco Smokers, and Heavy, Habitual Smokers of Marijuana With or Without Tobacco,” pp 25-36 in G. Chesher et al (eds), Marijuana: an International Research Report, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service (1988). *</p>
<p>**“There is conducted evidence that More youth are in rehab for marijuana than for all other drugs combined.” **
-“Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 738,915 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 90,710 individuals were charged with “sale/manufacture,” a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger.” source - * NORML *</p>
<p>**“If you are using marijuana, you are more likely to have trouble with the law.” **
No shi.t, Sherlock.</p>
<p>**“People who use marijuana are four times more likely to be involved in violent behavior” **
-In one study lasting 94 days, marijuana had no significant impact on learning, performance or motivation. - *Cohen, S., “The 94-Day Cannabis Study,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 282:211-20 (1976). * </p>
<p>-Large-scale studies of high school students have generally found no difference in grade-point averages between marijuana users and non-users - *Brill, N.O. and Christie, R.L., “Marijuana Use and Psychosocial Adaptation,” Archives of General Psychiatry 31:713-19 (1974); Kupfer, D.J. et al, “A Comment on the Amotivational Syndrome in Marijuana Smokers,” American Journal of Psychiatry 130:1319-22 (1973). *</p>
<p>^ay caramba, I didn’t mean to insult you, I’m just giving you my opinion haha, sorry you took it so personally:/ If you want to do drugs, I obviously can’t stop you, but realize the consequences.</p>
<p>Please read it. You did not read everything in 3 minutes, and I would like someone so opinionated to be enlightened. Again, there is no proof to the consequences you speak of. See, unlike you, Wartsandall, my sources are nonpartisan and specific. Most of them are from medical and psychiatric journals. Your sources, on the other hand, are from hatchyouth.org, a crisis support website designed to support at risk GLBT in lower income neighborhoods. As for your source from UNC, provide a link, I would like to view the tests they did to provide the information.</p>
<p>^I’m sorry I spent those 20 seconds it took me to find those statistics. Believe me, if I really wanted to, I could “enlighten” you with further details. However, I am lazy, this is the summer, and I had to finish reading the Lemon Tree! Lo siento!</p>
<p>But smoking makes you cool. :]]</p>
<p>You can’t. Why can’t you understand? Those aren’t statistics, those are generalizations. What I posted were statistics. You cannot, will not, find anything from a medical or psychiatric journal to refute my statements. All you will find in the con-marijuana department are generalizations from the United States government and its subsidiaries, Above the Influence, the Ad Council, and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. </p>
<p>I respect your doggedness to your opinion that marijuana is bad. But DO NOT insist that it is majorly detrimental to physical and mental health when all evidence insists the opposite. If you have evidence that refutes mine, by all means, show me it. I will quit smoking marijuana when there is medical evidence that says it is more dangerous than common things I do, such as drink coffee, get wasted, or eat fast food once a week.</p>
<p>It’s not that I can’t comprehend, it’s just that I’m too lazy at this point in time to formulate an argument in opposition to your statement. I see it from more of a common sense position. If I see something like, “could increase your risk of a heart attack” or “could make you suicidal,” something in my mind goes off to tell me that I probably shouldn’t do that. If you would like to continue to refute common sense, by all means continue. However, I stand by my claims, and I ultimately would not like to argue over this topic any longer:)</p>
<p>wow. this thread makes me LOL</p>
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like totally and all the popular kids are doing weed so like yahhhh. hahahha :)</p>
<p>Your claims are baseless. So if your common sense tells you your piercing headache is due to your lack of sleep the past week, but a doctor tells you its due to a brain hemorrhage, you go with what you think? If an anti-drug government sponsored ad campaign (you already lack any credibility for trusting government sponsored campaigns) tells you marijuana could make you suicidal, you are trusting your happiness to what they lie. This isn’t about your common sense, this is about your trust in authority. If I was in your position, my common sense would be telling me “Hmm, that seems far fetched. But I should be checking reputable medical sources to be sure”. All you’re proving is that you are a sheep, a slave to generalizations. I won’t laugh if you decide to stop posting. All you are doing is making a fool out of yourself. You can privately think all the hate you want about marijuana, but when you decide to claim that it is as detrimental as you say, then you should have seen this coming.</p>