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Smoking Marijuana does not cause lung cancer
Top anti drug researcher changes his mind: says legalize marijuana
There are many reasons why marijuana is not worse
for you than smoking cigarettes. You may have heard
that “one joint is equal to ten cigarettes” but this is
exaggerated and misleading. Marijuana does contain more tar
than tobacco — but low tar cigarettes cause just as much
cancer, so what is that supposed to mean? Scientists have
shown that smoking any plant is bad for your lungs, because
it increases the number of ‘lesions’ in your small airways.
This usually does not threaten your life, but there is a
chance it will lead to infections. Marijuana users who are
worried about this can find less harmful ways of taking
marijuana like eating or vaporizing. (Be careful –
marijuana is safe to eat — but tobacco is not, you might
overdose!) Marijuana does not cause cancer the way
tobacco does, though.
Here is a list of interesting facts about marijuana smoking
and tobacco smoking:
o Marijuana smokers generally don’t chain smoke,
and so they smoke less. (Marijuana is not physically
addictive like tobacco.) The more potent marijuana
is, the less a smoker will use at a time.
o Tobacco contains nicotine, and marijuana doesn’t.
Nicotine may harden the arteries and may be
responsible for much of the heart disease caused by
tobacco. New research has found that it may also
cause a lot of the cancer in tobacco smokers and
people who live or work where tobacco is smoked.
This is because it breaks down into a cancer causing
chemical called `N Nitrosamine’ when it is burned
(and maybe even while it is inside the body as well.)
o Marijuana contains THC. THC is a bronchial dilator,
which means it works like a cough drop and opens up
your lungs, which aids clearance of smoke and dirt.
Nicotine does just the opposite; it makes your lungs
bunch up and makes it harder to cough anything up.
o There are benefits from marijuana (besides bronchial
dilation) that you don’t get from tobacco. Mainly,
marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health
and well-being.
o Scientists do not really know what it is that causes
malignant lung cancer in tobacco. Many think it may
be a substance known as Lead 210. Of course, there
are many other theories as to what does cause cancer,
but if this is true, it is easy to see why no case of lung
cancer resulting from marijuana use alone has
ever been documented, because tobacco contains
much more of this substance than marijuana.
o Marijuana laws make it harder to use marijuana
without damaging your body. Water-pipes are illegal
in many states. Filtered cigarettes, vaporizers, and
inhalers have to be mass produced, which is hard to
arrange `underground.’ People don’t eat marijuana
often because you need more to get as high that way,
and it isn’t cheap or easy to get (which is the
reason why some people will stoop to smoking leaves.)
This may sound funny to you — but the more legal
marijuana gets, the safer it is.
It is pretty obvious to users that marijuana prohibition
laws are not “for their own good.” In addition to the
above, legal marijuana would be clean and free from
adulterants. Some people add other drugs to marijuana
before they sell it. Some people spray room freshener on it
or soak in in chemicals like formaldehyde! A lot of the
marijuana is grown outdoors, where it may be sprayed with
pesticides or contaminated with dangerous fungi. If the
government really cared about our health, they would form an
agency which would make sure only quality marijuana was
sold. This would be cheaper than keeping it illegal, and it
would keep people from getting hurt and going to the
emergency room.(source)
FACT: Studies have shown that smoking marijuana does NOT increase your chance of getting cancer and may even lower it slightly! Of course, vaping or eating cannabis are still considered the safest methods of ingestion especially for daily consumers.
“Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects,” Tashkin says. “But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization.
Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.
UCLA’s Tashkin studied heavy marijuana smokers to determine whether the use led to increased risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. He hypothesized that there would be a definitive link between cancer and marijuana smoking, but the results proved otherwise.
“What we found instead was no association and even a suggestion of some protective effect,” says Tashkin, whose research was the largest case-control study ever conducted. Listen to Tashkin’s full video here
UPDATE
Source A new study, published in this month’s Journal of the American Medical Association, tested the lung function of over 5,000 young adults between 18 and 30. After 20 years of testing, researchers found some buzzworthy results: regular marijuana smokers (defined by up to a joint a day for seven years) had no discernible impairment in lung activity from non-smokers.
In fact, researchers were surprised to find marijuana smokers performed slightly better than both smokers and non-smokers on the lung performance test. Why? The most likely explanation seems to be that the act of inhaling marijuana—holding each puff in for as long as possible—is a lot like a pulmonary function test, giving marijuana smokers an edge over their cigarette smoking counterparts.
For most of human existence, cannabis has been considered a medicine. Queen Victoria used it to alleviate her menstrual cramps. Extracts were prescribed by doctors and available at every pharmacy in the U.S. According to Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, attitudes toward cannabis only shifted when Americans began to notice and object to its use by immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. More here
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i can taste all the colors of the rainbow when………… i eat skittles
I think pot should definitely be legalized. When people say “It kills your brain cells” it makes me want to punch them in the face. I’m probably one of the smartest people in my graduating class and I smoke pot whenever I can (which is not very often). I personally have a pretty wild high. I act a bit crazy, but afterwards I’m all chill and relaxed. Pot may make “some” people less serious and less motivated, but that all depends on if you were motivated in the first place. It’s just an act of laziness in my opinion. I have been smoking marijuana for almost 4 years and have never had any symptoms that have made me want to consider quitting. I have been smoking cigarettes on-and-off for about 2 years but have been excessively smoking cigarettes for about 3 months and I have had pain in my chest countless times, nausea, and headaches. I’m really considering just smoking marijuana in place of cigarettes. The taste and smell is much more appealing as well, as if that matters.
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Toodles.
It matters… Not only does second hand cigarette smoke cause cancer, but third hand as well – that’s the smell that sticks on ones clothes and hair after being around someone smoking. This is most assuredly not the case for cannabis – so help others cure rather than get cancer by switching!!
If Second hand smoke kills, i would be dead a long time ago at the rate my folks smoked Cigs. And i smoke now at 44, so your an idiot to believe that.
your a fuckin dipshit if you honestly believe that smoking cigarettes doesn’t cause cancer or kill. do some research.
Mme Jeanne Calment, who was listed as the world’s oldest human whose birth date could be certified, died at 122. She had begun smoking as a young woman. At 117 she quit smoking (by that age she was just smoking two or three cigarettes per day because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable. She also said to her doctor: “Once you’ve lived as long as me, only then can you tell me not to smoke.” Good point! [USA Today, "Way to go, champ," 10/18/95].
When Mme. Calment died at 122 in l997, the new longevity champ became 116-year-old Marie-Louise Meilleur, of Canada. Mme. Meilleur had chain-smoked all her adult life (as her grandson said, “She always had a cigarette dangling from her lips as she worked,”–AP, 8/15/97, reported in Miami Herald, p. 2A). She did give up smoking, however, when she was nearly 100.
Here is some facts to put in ur pipe and smoke it.
**here are some facts.
Wow, two anecdotal cases. Grow up and find some real scientific evidence. Actually, you may wanna look up the definition of ‘anecdotal’ while you’re at it seeing as you clearly don’t understand the difference between a study and a story.
thank you, this helped me a lot for a debate I’m doing on the legalization!
Im doin the same!
holy crap…me too!
i as well kind sir
And I.
Guiilty as charged
I’M DOING IT TOO!
ME TOO!!!
Holly crap same here!
Wow!! what a coincidence, me too!!!
HOLY SHIT! NO KIDDING! ME TOO!
Same here!!
no shizzit.. i am too..
doing it now
im doin it tooo!!!
lolz me 2
present as can be
as am I lol
mee tooooooo everyones doing it lol good info right here!!!
i am as well
same here hahaha
Yup me too
what they said
Wow…. everyone is doing reports on Marijuana….
ikr im doing mine now in french!! Nous Avons Besoin De La Graine!!
hahahahah me too!
i am also doing a debate. and this helped me a WHOLE LOT!!
i did my debate today. shit was easy
omg im doing it for a report to lol last year for
7th and for 8th
Fucking insane… I just did one lol.
lol im just debating against my friends
illlegalize tobaco make pot legal, perfect trade off
AMEN!!! lol
bull crap! pot kills brain cells they dont grow back. after 6months your lung cells do grow back!!!!!
Smoking anything kills brain cells. Plus the dysfunctional regeneration of cells (lung cells in this case) is what cancer is.
It does not kill brain cells, the study that “proved” marijuana kills brain cells was dis proven it was preformed in the 1974 with out of date technology and little understanding of the plant.the monkeys that died in the studies did not die because the marijuana killed their brain cells they died because the scientists suffocated the monkey with 63 joints via gas mask through out the course of several minutes…so they died of suffocation not weed
you r a fucking moron,your probably an avid marlboro smoker…..fagot
holding your breath kills braincells too.
hell yes!
Damn that is cool, still not going do Pot but its nice to know that my friends are not harming there body’s as much now.
im right there with you man!!!!
Thanks so much! This helped me a ton. My high school smokes a lot, some kids cigarettes and some kids weed, and I’m wondering which group to absolutely avoid (and the other group to try to limit my involvement with)
It turns out cigarettes kill not only those who smoke them, but those who are in the vicinity via second hand smoke. Last year, it was discovered that “3rd hand” smoke also causes cancer – that’s the smoke you smell on your clothes and hair if you’ve been around cigarette smoke. So avoid people while they are smoking cigarettes for your own health!
Cigarette companies have manufactured them so that they are more addictive than heroin. So when you see someone addicted to cigs, there is no reason to look down on them, they are in for a serious life-threatening battle and up against one of the toughest drugs to quit. So, compassion is really the best approach.
Bull shit! Heroin is the worst thing for your body. I’ve smoked cigarettes for a while and never developed a dependency as heroin addicts do. A friend tried it (H) and when he quit he threw up all the time and felt horrible, never has that happened on cigarettes. He had to go to rehab to properly get off heroin, anyone who even tries to go to rehab for cigs has no self control. Weed helps prevent alziemers and relaxes your body and mind, it has never been linked to cancer like cigs and alcohol. The only downside to getting baked is the risk you run of legal trouble. If you’ve never smoked pot, shut up, you don’t know what it’s like; you’re just on the pathetic anti-marijuana band-waggon. Tabacco made this country in to what is is today, who are you to say marijuana isn’t what will make our country what it will be tomorrow.
P.s. the first 5 presidents smoked marijuana as also did many of the US founding fathers (fact). God people are stupid x_x
hahaha, thats great, ur so right
Our country was founded on growing hemp and hops. During WWI there were banners around the country promoting the hemp industry. Hemp makes stronger and more durable denim than cotton and some of the strongest rope. Hemp helps put nutrients back into the soil when farmed, much like peanuts. in 1908 more cars ran off of hemp seed oil than petroleum. Racism along with the cotton and oil industries forced the government into banning cannabis. All the disinformation about marijuana came from these corporations much as they still do today. Hemp saved America before and if we legalize cannabis it will help pull us out of economic tribulations once again.
The fourth hand smoke is the most dangerous – it’s caused when you just heard that someone smoked… Guys, for God sake, if you’re gonna do what you’re gonna do (smoking – no matter what, drinking, etc,) do it moderate. As far as the article – it contradicts everything with respect to the cancer rates. Please look at these links for example:
) the USA and Netherlands should’ve been really low on the lung cancer rate. Please do some more research on those rates and post here. Those sites gather just the lung cancer rates reported from the world-wide medical facilities and don’t count the pot smoking rates – they don’t care about the pot smokers and thus they are non biased with that respect (actually they’re kind of ANTI TABACO biased). I would be really happy if what was written above was true i.e. we’ve discovered cancer cure (which is also a fun and not just a cure) but world wide cancer rates statistic don’t seem to support those claims.
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/lung-cancers/by-country/
http://www.wcrf.org/cancer_statistics/data_specific_cancers/lung_cancer_statistics.php
I’m from Bulgaria where nearly everybody smokes cigarettes (above 60%) and yet we’re on 27th place of lung cancer rate (smoking pot are like 5-7% on our side). In USA nearly everybody smokes pot and you’re at 10th place, Netherlands is in 7th place WHERE THE POT IS LEGAL (in the first link). You can find many other links with different but similar order. I cannot claim correlation because I don’t know what the other countries smoking pot/cigarettes are. I think the type and the food quality is one of the most important things as well as the air, the water quality and the physical activities but I cannot claim that neither. All I’m saying is that if the pot was so magical (beyond the magic of getting high
avoid both both are still bad for you!!
Did you not just read this article?
are you not smart?
You sir are an ignorant little person
Literally everything is bad for you…… Pot is A LOT less bad for you than ciggs, and that’s a FACT.
Shut up randal. there are still benefits for weed
You didn’t read the article did you?
In Netherlands I don’t know, but in the U.S. a lot of people may have tried bud, but don’t smoke it. You also have to take into consideration all the poisons that the U.S. puts into our food and water supplies. By what I heard, it’s mostly the tourists that smoke bud in the Netherlands, compared to the people that may have only tried it.
This just in:
Doctors have called for a ban on smoking in all vehicles after a report into the effects of passive smoking on children.
A study by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) found more than 20,000 chest infections, 120,000 bouts of middle ear disease and 200 cases of meningitis in youngsters are also thought to be linked to the effects of second-hand smoke.
Link: http://itn.co.uk/a305e9ccbce891090cbbaf5a6c41851f.html
I real need to more in depth research.
Well, i doubt you need more research for the fact that cigarettes kill via cancer, so check this out – Marijuana doesn’t!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html
The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”
Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin’s previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.
Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.
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Tashkin’s study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.
They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.
“This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use,” he said. “Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning.”
Tashkin’s group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers — exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.
While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.
The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana in their youth, when it is most often tried.
yea but brain cells dont grow back affter pot kills them off.
Neurogenesis occurs all the time in the hippocampus. That is how we are able to form memories. Glial cells also are constantly regenerating. Another new finding is that there are neural stem cells in the brain, that can take place of dead or dysfunctional neurons. Also pot doesn’t kill these brain cells, the process of smoking does. If you were to smoke a ground up piece of paper, your brain cells would be “killed off.” Alcohol kills affects the brain negatively as well, but marijuana in forms other than smoking does not adversely affect your brain.
O my God! Marijuana does NOT kill brain cells. The study that “proved” that it did was done incorrectly, and was later found inconclusive. Scientist put gas masks on RHESUS MONKEYS, and pumped it full of marijuana smoke. What happens if you pump a mask full of ANY smoke? Ding. Ding, Ding! You are not allowing oxygen in. It was like if you stand behind a car and suck on the tail pipe. Oxygen deprivation=death of brain cells. When they did the experiments a different way, they found no evidence of brain cell damage due to the actual smoking of marijuana. Research, dude, research…
thankyou for this article ! i’m always having debates with fellow students about how weed isn’t as bad for as other drugs and substances. and they always shut me down well now i have proof thankyou so much
I have been smoking weed since I was kid ( now 50) and love weed
Use it but don’t abuse it
Stats say it all!!
Well I support medical uses of Marijuana such as Marinol. However people who smoke just to get high for the heck of it is dumb. But for cancer, aids and other disease patents who are in need of Marijuana, you have my support. For the rest of the people who smoke Marijuana for fun and for no apparent reason, don’t get caught by the law enforcement.
Unfortunately, Marinol has some very nasty side effects that include death. Four people have died from Marinol to date. Zero have died from the natural form of Marijuana. Marinol has been around a few years, Marijuana thousands. In many cases when people want to relax or “party”, alcohol is what people choose instead of marijuana because it is legal. So many have died from alcohol. No one to date has died from marijuana alone, ever.
So the law is not on the side of human life, in every case. Though it does support the profits of the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.
I really don’t buy the “zero deaths from marijuana” bit. Sure if narrow the parameters to only physical side effects, maybe. But the stupidity caused by marijuana use (i.e. loss of inhibitions) are just as great (if not more so) as alcohol.
Just watch an episode of Jackass or its emulators for documentation. All of them are admitted heavy marijuana users.
I work a 40 hour week and go to night school for 4 hours 3 nights a week. i plan on being a criminal defense lawyer, i am highly educated and motivated and i love smoking a fat blunt after a nice long day. it relaxes me rather than coming home and getting drunk and rowdy. And are you going to try and make guns illegal because stupid people made stupid decisions? if some one can not handle marijuana they should stay away from it, same goes for alcohol, cigarettes, guns, ect. it is a free country and we should be able to decide for our selves what we consume in OUR OWN bodys if you dont like it dont do it. and as far as the jack ass guys that is a horrible example they make so much money it is irrelevant what they do with their lives and money and im not sure if you know this but Bam Margera is sitting on a million dollar corporation that HE owns…
You’re stupid, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I’m a student at Texas Tech, I smoke marijuana, AND I have a 3.8 GPA. I’ve never lost my ambitions and I am an avid student. I like smoking a bleezy and going to class. It relaxes me and clears my mind to take better notes. Also your jackass reference is ridiculous, no knowledge of pot or jackass whatsoever. The guys on jackass do dumb things but get paid millions, until you are sittin on mad cash your nothin but another pathetic person on the same old pathetic anti-pot bandwaggon.
The “zero deaths from marijuana ever” is not a ‘bit’ – it’s a direct quotation from Harvard’s Dr Lester Grinspoon, who studied the herb for 50 years. It is a fact no one has died from marijuana , it is a fact that marijuana is non toxic. It is safe and effective medicine .
your an ignorant conformist, your like a parrot, you repeat what you hear but you really don’t have much conscious thought. now, i on the other hand, have been smoking marijuana since i was a young’n and i know for a fact that marijuana does not cause as you so quaintly described ” a loss of inhibition”, Ive always been able to control myself when I’m high and Ive driven high also, there is a minor alteration to your body’s coordination, (meaning you have a longer reaction deficit) I do not condone driving under the influence of any drug, but some people who have never smoked weed or done any recreational drug ever are IMO worse drivers than someone who is high on pot (one fact about pot/ weed/grass/herb/kush etc. happens to be that it makes you more sensitive to your surroundings[ in other words, you become a more conscious driver]. so having proven my point i will also go on to say that i know for a fact that some if not most of the people featured in, starring or producing in “Jackass” were on multiple schedule 1 substances, so I DON’T BUY your concept of “stupidity” caused by consuming marijuana, especially the idea that its equivalent if not more so than alcohol. that is absolutely ridiculous, furthermore there is no basis for anyone to call another person a “heavy marijuana user”, especially coming from someone who probably doesn’t even smoke or use marijuana. you must have a guilty conscious about something you did while intoxicated on perhaps another drug(not marijuana) to be saying the things you did. before i go on a rant about all the discrepancies involved in the marijuana culture/ industry (w.e you wanna call it) let me finish by saying that i am one for the DECRIMINALIZATION of most forms of marijuana/ cannabis especially medical. and i think i can speak for the rest of us who support marijuana consumption that the majority of our population will one day vote to achieve full decriminalization and legalization of this natural god given plant that is not chemically altered in some laboratory before it reaches its consumer. now i cant speak the minds of everyone so Im not saying Im right Im just stating my opinion. thank you if you read this fully and thoroughly and especially if you looked up some of the terms i used to better understand the situation under discussion. K.O.P. (knowledge is power). peace!
p.s., i was 12 when i started smoking and ive been smoking pot almost every day since i was 16. just remember that when you think about the “stupidity” that marijuana causes in its users. again, Peace!
Watch Jackass again, they almost always have a beer in hand when doing their stupid stunts.
DONT JUDGE…. OK IM VERY EDUCATED AND AFTER A LONG DAY AT WORK / SCHOOL I GO HOME SHOWER SMOKE A JOINT EAT AND GO TO SLEEP.. SO NOW UR FACTS AN DONT BE DUMB…. AS U PUT IT…
john doe is a conformist. probably a hypocrite too, smokes just to get high. the truth is people use drugs to get high, doesn’t matter what kind of drug you discuss, like tobacco and alcohol; eventually the fed. gov. will have no choice but to decriminalize or legalize most if not all forms of marijuana, wether that be for medical purposes or recreational. any person who thinks it should be “legalized” for medical purposes alone is a conformist.
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No there is one documented OD from pot, a 5 year old ate a pound of high quality hash brownies her mother made. But that’s just a freak accident, one in a billion chance happening
Would you be able to provide a news article or some other proof of this?
i did hear of that myself thb
I could imagine a baby dying after eating a pound (?!) of brownies without pot… how do they know it wasn’t the sugar and butter and overload that killed the infant? That’s why i was asking for some further information. It’s very well documented, and repeated by the most well respected scientists in the field, that there has never been one death by cannabis alone. Cannabis is non-toxic, that’s why it can’t kill anyone.
Here’s a quote form an Alternet article http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/08/23/drug-czar’s-office-‘we-can’t-legalize-marijuana-because-some-people-abuse-prescription-drugs’-wait-what/ : cannabis is “relatively non-toxic and is incapable of causing human overdose”
And from Drug Science
http://www.drugscience.org/Petition/C4D.html
“Unlike alcohol and many other drugs, marijuana is non-toxic. It is impossible for someone to die from an overdose of marijuana; the drug has little effect on the heart or lungs. Excessively large doses produce long periods of sleep. Ironically, many marijuana-related visits to the emergency room involved perceived harm, such as unexpected reactions, rather than actual harm to the individual, such as life-threatening overdose.”
There has never been a documented case that I’ve heard of. Although 3 monkeys were suffocated with 63 joints. Although all that proved is that the smoke produced by weed is not oxygen…
i enjoy the herb being only 20 but my family would rather me smoke herb than drink smoke cigs or be a pill popper. i also dont try to push people to smoke either since i have heard people say we are pushy.
No effin way I hope you mean Iowa. That would blow my mind.
what about when marijuana users roll a joint?? tobacco + cannabis= addiction
either way theyre going to have an addiction problem and lets be honest, tobacco is not going to be banned anytime soon.
when you roll a joint you odnt add tobacco, idoit. marijuana does not cause addiction for it does not contain addictive substances. Suck It.
Joints are made of paper not tobacco…
only blunts contain tobacco, unless you roll a spliff, and not many people i know do that. So given the scientific testing on marijuana, its only toxic due to the fact that your inhaling smoke into your lungs, and there are other methods of getting high without inhaling smoke such as vaporizers and consumption of weed via baked goods or eating it as it is.
You’re talking about blunts which use tobacco leaves (cigars).
i agree with all of this 100%.
i actually feel offended when people talk about how “bad” weed is..when its not at all..
i think even god is ok with it, because in the bible it states that we can use every seed bearing plant.
weed is a seed bearing plant and is organic.
thanks sooo much!
i hate that even if the facts r right infront of u the governtment doesnt make it legal, probably cuz they want 2 keep it 2 themselves, or they also might think we will react like that fool from pineapple express-movie in the begining that tell the general “FUCK U!”
Does THC make any damage to our lungs???
No, quite the opposite, the science is saying that THC causes cancerous cells to kill themselves (“autophagy”) leaving healthy cells intact.
Can u tell me what is the sticky thing after i use my pipe…?
Ya. Its called resin. Its like Tar and THC and you can smoke it to get high BUT its pretty nasty tasting and not very good for you. I clean my bubbler every few days.
Does marijuana have effects like cigarettes do in regards to second hand or third hand smoke honestly? If I can smell it on my boyfriend’s clothes then so can my child. Will smelling the after affects of it be harmful like cigarettes are?
No, but your question does make sense. Cannabis smoke is actually good for you, and the smell while not being pleasing perhaps to some, is not at all harmful according to the science to date.
My husband uses medical marijuana and I am all for the positive effect it has had on him. However, I am really concerned about the potential carcinogens left behind from the smoke. The area he smokes in smells very strong of smoke and I have noticed the intensity increasing over the last few weeks. I have also noticed that I am having increased eye allergies when sitting downstairs (redness, burning, itching, watering, and contacts irritating me). But most importantly, my daughter has begun to get eczema and I have been told, in her case, it is a chemical and allergic reaction. Per her pediatrician, carcinogens are left behind from all forms of smoke and can increase allergies including flare ups in the skin. Again, I am all for the positive effects of marijuana but I am concerned for the health and well being of my children and family. I have encouraged him to smoke outside to reduce the risk of exposure but to date I have been unable to find information to support my concerns or disprove them. I would like to know what science you are referring to and where I can learn more about studies done on second and third-hand marijuana smoke.
Immediately solve this issue by getting your husband a vaporizer. There is really no reason to smoke.
I will say that the government’s top anti-drug researcher spent 30 years searching for a cancer-marijuana link, and after 30 years could find none. Which made no sense to him, as you have noted, the smoke does contain carcinogens. However, he probed this discrepancy further and found that also within marijuana smoke are chemicals which have ANTI cancerous properties, and encourage any cancerous cells to kill themselves, leaving healthy cells intact. This is the reason there is so much talk about marijuana curing cancer. It’s not just talk, in other countries, THC is being actively used to shrink tumors. This site has many articles on just that.
There have been no studies on second or third hand smoke as far as I know – these would only make sense if there was first a direct correlation. One can only assume if firs hand smoke does not cause cancer, second and third have even less of a chance (less than none).
A vaporizer is the way to go, for $50 you can solve all the issues you’ve mentioned.
Be well, and thanks for writing ~
also unless you are sitting in a enclosed area with smoke every where a contact high is VERY hard to get. i hope this helps
I worked in medical cannabis for more than 12 years in Seattle, Wa. I saw with my own eyes multiple cases of improved health in Aids, Cancer, Multiple sclerosis,
depression, and patients with a multitude of other ailments. I also saw people die after the police took their medicine away. We ( The American Public ) have been
flat out lied to by our government about the alledged dangers of cannabis. Every American needs an education with the facts about the medical uses of cannabis
and about it’s saftey as compared to many other prescription drugs.
People need to start hearing the truth. LIES are dangerous to the health of our nation, and telling a lie should be punishable by life in prison. It’s time for legislation that will ensure we only hear the truth, and inprison anyone trying to spread lies and untrue propaganda for profit. Cannabis was made illegal due to the steep competition it presents to the wood pulp paper industry, and the chemical industry, and anyone perpetuating these lies against cannabis needs to be locked up for the rest of thier natural born days for endangering our health or the health benefits we could be enjoying from legalized cannabis medicine.
Marinol is a synthetic chemically produced form of THC. It does not contain the other 59 or so cannabinoids that are also medically benificial to human life. I have used it and found it to have zero benefit for the chronic pain I have suffered for nearly 20 years. I have not heard one single positive thing from anyone who has ever been prescribed marinol, yet 3 different doctors have allowed and or recomended that I use cannabis au-natural. Im tired of the lies and the ignorance of our people due to the lies we have all been told. You should be outraged !
I am outraged that Marinol is even suggested – it has already killed 4 people. Cannabis has never killed anyone. Marinol has been around 30 years, Cannabis, 5,000.
I’m still outraged that I didn’t go to this one party where everyone got Blowjobs! Cigarettes have killed millions! Blowjobs, 3 people. probably. Maybe… not really…
You might want to check out Radiation – Polonium-210 in Tobacco. Along with Lead-210i, it makes better sense when you think of second hand smoke being harmful as well. You may also be interested to know that the Tobacco industry has been aware of the Radiation and how to remove it for some time.
Yes Marijuana has it’s benefits, but it’s still has it’s long term effects don’t be naive and say their are not….if you are cool with that then all power to you. I would love for it to get legalize because i don’t believe it’s a reason someone should go to jail.
Name one long term effect and prove it (websites, books, studies).
Besides memory related, as age affects that as well.
It seems to me that the American public is largely ignorant to any of the facts. I’m not saying that they are purposely ignoring them, it’s just that the information hasn’t been spread around enough. They might look at the Controlled Substances Act and see it’s a Schedule I drug. They don’t realize it can’t be there because it DOES have an accepted medical use, in fact it has many medical uses. Ever heard of “medicinal marijuana”?
The government used to have a medical marijuana program (“Compassionate Use Act”) , and still grows, rolls and ships a carton of joints to a couple of grandfathered-patients every month. So yes, the federal government is simutaneously saying marijuana has no medicinal value (part of the definition for schedule 1) and providing medical marijuana.. And pushing Marinol. This jumbled mess of laws is what you get when big business has the kind of pull they do in D.C.
ah man thanks… i am gonna quit smoking cigrattes
i’ll smoke weed woot
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Thank god. Some older man was ragging on me for smoking pot once in a while. Saying it’s as harmful and that is damages your lungs.
Cigs are by far way worse for you then marijuana… i smoke weed every single day it makes me feel great it giuves me a smiles on my face, a bong toke will help me get up and feel alive i dont know… but i love my weed it makes my life complete 420 SWED fuck those nasty cancer sticks
This was a very bias article. Just saying, if your actually looking for information i would’nt just look here.
i agree the only reason cannabis smokers smoke less is BECAUSE its illegal
eeehhhhh cigars make you look cool. so i’ll go with that
No, they smoke less because it’s expensive lol. Trust me, the last thing on most pot smokers mind is getting caught. Just actually imagine what you just said: “Oh man, I better not smoke too much weed because it’s still illegal…” Unlikely, there were kids doing cocaine off of a desk in one of my classes. Which was weird… because I actually live in a higher middle class area so drug use isn’t that prolific.
oh yeah and doesn’t the ett part at the end of cigar make it female, come on be a man.
marijuana is really ‘a weed’
I am too !!!!!
So if i get a vaporizer will that still kill brain cells?
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I presently live in a building where about 25% are young adults who smoke ‘cush’ marijuana. That’s what they call it.This stuff smells worse then a skunk. This smell travels through out our hallways, enters our units and elevators. It makes me dizzy, lightheaded and feeling sick. I have no allergies and yet I feel like I am in a room with 5000 lbs of ragweed. It’s very toxic to me and my family. 75%, the rest of the people who reside here, are sick of this stench as well. The management knows about this and they claim there is nothing they can do about it. Though many tenants do not object to people smoking marijuana we all find this skunk smell type to be very toxic to our health.
Many of us have no objections to legalizing marijuana and we wish the government would just do it already instead of subjecting our children to the crap that is going around such as this ‘cush’ skunk smelling stuff. It’s on they’re clothes too and no one will get into an elevator or stand any where around those who reek of this stench. Are there any laws pertaining to this toxic smell being emitting through out our building?
Thank you for your time in this matter. Oh and we don’t think we should all have to move either so don’t even suggest it as the only alternative.
If you think the illegal Market will disappear with legislation then wake up . Career criminals are simply going to sell it cheaper or something else to someone else. Drug use is only changed by decreasing the demand.
Dude… You countered yourself in your statement “Career criminals are simply going to sell it cheaper or something else to someone else” the point is the eliminate the illegal market of marijuana… if it’s legalized, then the market vanishes. The criminals don’t, but the market does. Do you see illegal crime syndicates funded on cigarette movement? What about alcohol? When it was illegal, we had mobsters making millions off of it’s illegal distribution. What happened when it was legalized? They collapsed… And the goal isn’t to decrease marijuana demand, just decriminalize it. There aren’t a whole lot of organizations out there trying to slow demand. I really haven’t seen many ad councils ads on tv about it, just cigs and alcohol.
Just one quick comment, although it may smell toxic to you, it is not toxic. Cannabis is one of the least toxic drugs known to man (per Harvard’s Lester Grinspoon). The smoke has not only failed to produce cancers, but studies show cannabis smoke actually encourages atophagy – cancerous cells kill themselves leaving healthy cells intact.
Some people find that skunk smell most pleasant, and find perfumes and drier sheets smells (which also waft everywhere – sometimes causing one to hold their breath in the elevator) to be equally as distressful. But, drier sheets, laundry smells and many perfumes actually do cause negative health effects. Personally, I wish these products were banned. I have to run an air purifier in my apartment as well as keep a towel under the door to prevent these noxious smells from wafting around my apartment and making me sick. On that note, why aren’t cigarettes illegal? Even third hand smoke causes cancer – but that smoke is everywhere and we who care about our health and who want fresh air are left to fend for ourselves.
Sorry you’re having to deal with this too. Get an air purifier! It’s well worth it.
I hear you. We don’t have the issue of these other smells entering our units. I too wish cigs were non-existent. Can’t stand at the bus stops around here. An air purifier doesn’t help, we have 4: 1 in each room. We have weather stripping around our unit door and we put towels at the bottom of every door too. Nothing helps since this stench is in the air of the building. It’s a 107 unit building and it’s on every single floor. It’s throughout the building. Even walking around the outside of the building can be toxic with the stink emitting from peoples open balcony doors and windows. Just this morning as I went to the underground the elevator reeked and I had to refuse to get on. 11 am for goodness sake. I think I will look more closely at article 47 in the Landlord and tenant act as well as look at environment hazard laws as this is akin to a gas leak.
I’ve done a lot of research on this type of drug. And spoke with many people of many factions. I’ve learned a lot. One thing I was told is that this stuff is hemp not marijuana. The so called ‘Real’ marijuana does not have this hemp stink. Albeit another stink but not a skunk smell. For example Jamaican or Columbia marijuana does not have this smell because, I was told, it is not hemp. I’m learning from the side lines as I don’t indulge. LOL Still, even after gathering the info I have to date, I’m still learning. As for legalizing it, I discovered it’s already legal and being sold in stores throughout my city and the cities around mine. I took my son to his hockey game and discovered a new business had opened where, like in the middle east, they were smoking from bongs. Yes I inquired. Here we have laws that claim people can not smoke in restaurants and here is a business designed to do just that. I am confused.
Thank you for responding though.
it could be toxic if they are making hemp oil(not seed oil), because it needs a dissolvent. hemp oil with very high amounts of THC will cure cancer (about 100 grams im 90-100 days). thc tells to your body’s cancer cell’s(we all have cancer cell’s since the day we are born to the day we die, but our immune system takes care of that exept when it doesn’t) or teachs them how to die because they “forgot”. there is just too many good things i can tell you about cannabis, but 0 negetive aspects to users and a bunch of negative aspects to big industries if it wass fully legal.
Sadly, your only option is in fact to move… or call the cops. You can’t stop them yourself, but you can get the police involved. And the smell isn’t toxic at all. A drug test won’t even pick it up. So yeah, that’s what you have to deal with in apartments. I used to live in an apartment complex where the smell of tortillas and sometimes Indian food permeated the air and it was bad…
So it becomes “more safe” when it is legalised? Doesn’t seem to be anything about the dangers of using it in the article….presumably more safe means it is not safe by definition
Wish they would show the good instead of all the bad bout marijuana
And so what does this tell us about our money grubbin’ government. They once used weed to make ropes for our ships that we so desperately needed when th’ British were whippin’ our ass. It was considered unpatriotic if you didn’t grow weed in your yard back then. Now they still use it for generating millions each year by keeping it illegal and busting people who make money on it. Sorry ass greedy, dickheads who need a job busting people who want to be peaceful in their own home. They will spend tons of money busting US weed smokers because we’re peaceful and easy but then they let them gun toting hoods stand out there shaking their dicks at ‘em, go on and sell cracks cocaints tooz all dayz little wite gullz. Now that’s good government. I’m Stewie Griffin, a sarcastic bastard and I approove this message.
Oh yeah……They also hope that you will turn to smoking cigarettes if you can’t get weed (which they work VERY hard at keeping you from getting) because they make SHITLOADS off cigarettes. So, in a nutshell, they want you to KEEP smoking weed because they make TONS off the busting of people who sell it but if you CAN’T get it, they want you to turn to cigarettes so they can make TONS there as well. It’s a win, win situation for ‘em. They don’t want AT&T to have a monopoly on phone’ige but they want the monopoly on smoking anything. “ALL our ancient peoples once used weed. Now our ASSHOLES use it for greed.” Can we get a song here?
medical marijuana sometimes is used for people who got cancer….from cigarettes
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/marijuana
http://www.justthinktwice.com/factsfiction/fiction_marijuana_is_harmless.html.
Most of the time that people say marijuana isn’t bad is because he or she is addicted and likes how it feels. How can something be bad if it feels good right? Doesn’t matter. Marijauna is worse than cigarettes. It can’t cause cancer, but it has other worse damaging effects than cigarettes. There is enough evidence to prove this. Look at all the legitimate research from licensed and professional organizations, not just articles written by pot smokers, because the argument is going to sway towards the obvious.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57356379-10391704/is-smoking-marijuana-bad-for-your-lungs/?tag=mncol;lst;3
amber, any article you choose to read is going to have some bias. Clearly, you CHOOSE to read the information published by the government to help combat this so called War on Drugs, The fact is, there is more evidence by legitimate non “pot” smokers stating that marijuana is non addictive, non toxic, and has a generous range of health benefits for patients suffering from different ailments. So amber, go read an article that wasn’t published or sponsored by the government trying to convince you that it is harmful. Use good judgement Amber, you sound silly when you say that cigarettes which are loaded with toxins are safer than marijuana, just silly… I hope you can realize your misinformed judgement and shape a new understanding of life on your own without the help from the government who wants you to conform and base it on FACTS. good luck
the article or website you reference is sponsored by the same people who allowed an innocent inventor with good intentions to be jailed for allowing a useful invention to become free and public knowledge.watch for yourself amber, are these the people you want to trust?
please stop being so misguided, if you do not like it, don’t do it. Its your body and ultimately you choose what goes in or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUgUF5M3FTI&feature=related
pls help me.i smoked marijuana for the first time b4 a week.the problem s i dint get back my consiousness stil.i m very much woried tat it has put my brain under problems..i feel that the drug has int stil left my body.and the main reason for this s i overdozed it i took nearly 10 puffs or joints on a single nit.i want to know when wil i get rectified.pls help me
The same thing happened to me the first time I smoked. Everytime you smoke, THC is stored in your body fats, maybe when it breaks down it gives you some of the effects still? You can try smoking heavily for a week or so, as this builds tolerance, it takes more to get to you. You can also try exercising and drinking a lot of water to get the THC out of your system.
I’m sorry but that is quite literally the dumbest thing i have ever heard. I am a avid marijuana smoker and 10 puffs on a joint wont effect you for a week even if you have never smoked it before the “high” effects of marijuana completely wear off in less than 12 hours, so please stop being stupid and do not lie.
Cigarettes are not illegal because too many people are addicted and the government is making too much profit from tobacco to male it illegal.
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dude marijuana is good for you idc what people say it is
I smoke marijuana 4 cigaretts a day is it good for my healthy
First some of your statements you call FaCTS are anything but: Marijuana IS addictive over prolonged period of use.. whether psychology or physiological. ALSO regarding you stating Mairjuana is NOT a cancer causing agent. That is false. A study showed that there was marked increase in testicular cancer by as much as 70% when associated with marijuana use…so I guess if you dont like your BALLS go ahead and smoke up boys.. . There is more than one type of cancer in the world than Lung cancer…people always fixate on that when it comes to smoking or inhaling anything and conviently the other forms out there. Also a very extensive Austratian study showed that Alcohol use was typically associated with marijuana use with 75% of users and increased greatly when smoking with Marijuan was involved because of the seeming effects of the two when used together. If It was found if Marijuana users did not have the weed or could not afford it or have access it to they would turn alochol at an increased rate than they did prior……just saying its not a bed of roses for smokers of pot and you shouldn’t it is…I am not for it or against and I dont care about the comparison between smokers. just dont act like the debate is over and done with when it comes to the health risks involved in using the stuff.
Do you mind linking to said studies?
I would love to see an article backed by a scholarly source about this, but unfortunately i really doubt you have one.
http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442459425
No Problem here’s one link above ….I think the study also adds credence to the debate that pot is a Gateway Drug….that’s not really pots faulty actually its more because the person in coming into contact with a substance that is currently illegal will also run afoul of other illegal drugs because they are sold in that setting…if Pot was legal and cheaper the alternative narcotics (even alochol) that people turn to would probably lessen in consumption and initial experimenation…as I said before I am not for or against pot I just want the facts known…
Much appreciated. Though the government is biased, so that first link is worthless. The government has a very strong anti-marijuana position and even concludes that cocaine is less addictive and more beneficial than cannabis. Not a source to go to for facts.
Another post to peruse regarding cancer: http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/marijuana-cures-cancer-us-government-has-known-since-1974/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209075631.htm
Here’s the other link regarding Testicular Cancer and Mariijuana tie in.
I have great news for you!
Flawed study inflates Testicular Cancer-Risk from Marijuana
by Brinna | February 9, 2009
The wire services are having a field day. Marijuana causes testicular cancer!
Well, you can relax. The results of the study published in the Journal Cancer, (and released online February 9th) is full of caveats, and say it only “appears” that a link “may” exist.
The results and methodology of any research must be looked at closely, and this one is no exception. First of all, an analysis of the research on Medpage , indicates that the study done at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research center was instituted by a scientist, Janet R. Daling, Ph.D who may very well have set out to prove a link between testicular cancer and cannabis use. While this does not necessarily indicate a bias, it is valuable to note, as studies of this nature often have flaws (and this one is no exception.)
A little about testicular cancer.
First of all, understand that testicular cancer is very rare, amounting to only 1 percent of all cancers in U.S. males. Only about 8000 men are diagnosed with this type of cancer each year, and less than 400 die. It is most common in white males of Scandinavian descent. Other risk factors include: a family history of the disease, abnormal testicular development, or undescended testes.
There are two types of testicular cancer, nonseminoma and seminoma.
It is important to note that the study did not show a direct link, it only suggested a possible one. In addition this potential correlation was only with the nonseminoma variety, which accounts for just 40% of such cancers, or about 3200 annual cases.
A very small study indeed.
The study was based on a very small sampling of 369 men with testicular cancer who filled out a questionnaire. The responses were evaluated based on lifestyle choices, and compared to the answers from a group of 979 cancer-free group with similar backgrounds.
In addition researchers were only able to interview about 250 of men from the first group, and little more than half of the cancer-free control group. Another problem is that the questionnaire relied on self-reported use of marijuana, which, because it is an illicit drug, can skew answers, and finally, there was no central review of the pathology.
So, whether young men facing a diagnosis of cancer are more likely to admit to cannabis use than those not faced with a life threatening disease, cannot be determined from this study. It is also a distinct possibility that other issues such as exercise, diet, tobacco, alcohol and other illicit or prescription drug use were not effectively factored in to the questionnaire.
All in all, the holes in this study make it highly questionable, and in an age where cannabinoid research in the United States has been limited to those studies meant to show harm rather than benefits, we should take these results with a large grain of salt.
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weed … weed … weed we can only go so far until i become a living pot head in the fleash .. which i am …. until i died ima be lifted
Iv smoked weed since I was 15 and I’m 19 now, im in peak physical condition and after a long day at the gym or at work I love coming home smoking a few joints and just chiilin, giggling at something on t.v or just having friends round for a few beers. Please explain how thats worse than going out getting completely pissed and getting thrown in a cell over night? Dave
Keep smoking buddy. Be happy on ur weed but dont ask others to smoke it. Dont mis inform people that it is good for health. And finally there is nothing like medicinal marijuana. MARIJUANA IS BAD.
Listen, Aakash. People who are for marijuana usage have SO much evidence that’s it’s not bad for your health unless of course you lace it with something. People who are against it usually come up with outrageous things like “One joint equals 10 cigarettes” or they have nothing to attempt to prove that it’s so “horrible”. If you don’t want to smoke it, plain and simple: Don’t. Have you ever seen someone die from an O.D. from marijuana, erm no. It’s just a plant, it grows that way. If you just happen to catch it on fire there are some side effects: Happy, Hungry, Sleepy, (possibly horny). But those are the things happiness is made of! The only “chemical” in marijuana are THC and “Fuck it”. If you’re worried about not having the money to pay that light bill, just take one puff off of a joint. One puff. You’ll be like “I don’t know what Ima do about this light bill. They don’t want a deposit, they don’t want half of it, I don’t know what Ima do” *puff*….”Fuck them damn lights. I’ve got 12 candles I’ll be waiting to burn them bitches.” Anyways…I’m not a Christian or believer but I do know for you believers that it simply says in the bible “All seed bearing plants are here for us to consume or use”, marijuana is a seed-bearing plant, so we shall use it if we please. If it was so harmful, why did you’re God put it on this Earth for our consumption? Indian’s smoked pot from peace-pipes. I bet you Jesus passed around a peace-pipe! So research a little more before you decide to rag on pot smokers.
Thank you.
No one is asking for others to toke up. No one. We’re not spearheading a “Weed for everyone” campaign. We’re leading a “Right to smoke weed” campaign. Big difference. If someone isn’t going to smoke, then they’re not gonna smoke, plain and simple. Peer Pressure is constant regardless of legality.
And if you are die hard fan of marijuana then you should come over here to the place where I live. Hundreds and thousands of marijuana planta have grown up of over the area including the road sides. It is marijuana heaven here.
Where the hell u live
Don’t tell him… they’re watching O.O
Aakash, how could you be so stupid to go against scientific research? AND IN THIS DAYIN AGE where all the info you need is at your disposal, in your face online! lulz you hafta be kidding or some provocateur gov spy eating crap. i demand the admin of this blog ban you and all your IPs for spreading false information. thank you in advance Admin.
“President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have maintained that the current administration will not raid medical marijuana dispensaries that cooperate with state and local laws, although the President is not in favor of full legalization on a national level.[1][2] In July 2009, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, further clarified the federal government’s position when he stated that “marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit” and that “legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary, and it’s not in mine.”[3] However, a January 2010 settlement between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) provides an example confirming the administration policy as communicated by Attorney General Holder, as WAMM successfully reached an agreement to re-open after being shut down by the federal government in 2002.[4][5]
Despite statements as a Senator, where he called for marijuana decriminalization, promises as a presidential candidate where he stated that marijuana laws needed to be reconsidered and explicit statements as president that he would respect state medical marijuana laws, Barak Obama has presided over 1.7 million marijuana arrests and a nationwide campaign of raiding medical marijuana dispensaries. Dozens of dispensaries have been closed with their owners and workers facing jail and prison sentences.”
They would of never reached a settlement if not for smart people that don’t just listen to what others say. And where do you live anyways?
I completely understand your request. For now since this/these trolls, who are new to this blog since the time of the Oaksterdam raid, have been using different IPs, it’s just whack a mole.
To me they are pretty easy to ignore.
We all have the Freedom Of Speech ~ which is what fuels this blog, that and healing, it makes sense for now to allow people to say what they choose to say.
Obvious trolls are obvious.
Watch: marijuana true history. Shows how and why the corporations/governments have attacked this extreamly valuable plant for £€$£€$/ control. Answears most questions in my opinion.
Me too in hindi . Me b karunga ab se.
Anything you put into your body is going to do some harm, Marijuana isnt going to harm barely at all and for the people who flip shit cause they say it does or will. Are the same ones brainwashed into thinking that from mommy and daddy etc. To bad it kills no one, an aspiren isnt getting bashed, yet kills what up to 500 people a year? ha!
So true…Smh.
A dozen aspirin can cause an overdose which can lead to death.
I saw them asking this on http://www.Formvote.com and I was surprised to see that most people are actually for legalizing.. Pretty awesome.
The Real reason that marijuana has not been legalized yet is just for the simple fact theres no way of regulating it if you got pulled over there would be know way of proving how much you have smoked or if you are okay to drive theres just no easy way of testing and i strongly believe it should be legalized…but until we have a solid way of regulating it were all screwed but until then puff puff pass…..!!!
how to pass the drug test if you smoke 5 months straight?
also drug dealers that dealt weed that got caught are wasting u.s. money being in prison
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wow.. as a biochemistry, i know some of this stuffs. the toxicity is the question here. everything has a never of toxicity depending on the dose. so that bring me to say at what dose will marijuana fit for perfect living?
I agree 100%. I’ve had stomach pains my whole life and doctors think its just stress related. When i started smoking weed the pains went away. I could eat anything without getting sick. I truly believe that marijuana is a medicine And SHOULD be legalized everywhere!!! It helps with every problem you have. Something needs to be done to legalize marijuana!
It should be the other way around ciggs should be illegal and weed should be legal
I’ve smoked the best of buds for 32 years and have never had a bad reaction to Nothing. Weed is sorta like my version of Mellowrille’ if it were not for this stuff I am quite sure I would be in prison for kicking someones ass. What can i say two joints a day keeps them prison bars away
i agree
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The people need such information but the governments need pressure like protesting.
Smoke is smoke. Your healthier not smoking cigarettes OR marijuana. Smh. It may temporarily relieve pains and aches and make you relax, but as I see it there are so many other ways to relax then to smoke some plant that makes you high, just like alochol, they say 1 or 2 beers a day your healthier then a person that does not drink at all. How about eat right, excercise, find time and a place every week to go relax. Self meditation, you don’t have to smoke shit, drink shit, or take shit. Your sober, and relaxed with meditation, I have bad anixety and it’s helps me, I use to smoke but it only caused my anxiety to get worse, so whats your excuse or reason for that? You can do anything on your own. Your brain is a powerful machine. You know when your driving from point a to point b and you don’t hardly recall the drive to point b cause you were probably day dreaming? Well that’s how powerful your mind and brain is, your unconscious mind was taking care of you while your conscious mind was else where. Alot of things are in your head, for example if you look at your hand and think and believe your really gonna break out into a rash and you just can’t stop thinking it’s gonna happen, it will happen, it’s all in your head but it’s real. The mind and brain are your most powerful tools, use them instead of smoking something to get away from reality temporarily, same for drinking or any drug.
Your brain is powerful, yes, but sadly, it’s rather autonomous. When discussing the benefits of marijuana, your talking about a drug that has extremely high success rates as compared to it’s pharmacutical counterparts. Also, that little driving bit isn’t because your brain is taking care of you. It’s extremely dangerous and can lead to disaster. Often times your subconscious doesn’t recognize changes in speed limits, construction, etc… and just goes with the flow, rather than being an active driver. Smoke is smoke yes, but who are you to tell another person what they can and cannot put into their body in order to alleviate a problem, regardless of what that problem may be.
if u see other ways to make ur life better instead of smoking weed , then weed isnt for you weed is for the people who dont see any other way to aid their problems i was born with the umbilical cord around my neck and now i have severe problems with my brain one of the big problems being a severe anxiety disorder. i would come home after school vomiting because of my anxiety. ive tried MANY MANY medications and all of them have just made my life worse and set me back with even more problems such as a chemical imbalance in my brain which caused severe depretion, suicidal tendancies, and much more problems. i smoked some weed for my first time sophomore year all those problems went away. if u cant see that marijuana helps some people ur really an ignorant fuck of a human being
I suffer from manic depression and tried to commit suicide as a youth. I tried “pot” when i was 16, smoking regularly after 18, and have not had suicidal tendencies since.
I’ve been reading this blog for a while now and I thought I’d just share my appreciation
I’ll probably never do it, but now i know
And I’ve always known that cigarettes are really bad to use
(My step dad smokes very often.)
My dumb friends aren’t really harming themselves much then, i guess….
The conclusion of the whole ordeal regarding Cannabis is simply that the majority of people are uneducated, unwilling to accept the facts or too stupid to know how to do their own research. The data is there for the intelligent to awe at, while some states (those with the most smartest folks) reap the benefits of Gods plant. While the others strive to get by while getting shafted by pill mills and politicians/pharmaceutical reps/etc
ha boys and girls, weed is soo much better then smoking because it makes you feel trippy and stuff while tabacco makes you cough out your lungs bit by bit.
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, marijuana worsens or causes respiratory symptoms (e.g., bronchitis, chronic cough). How does that collaborate with your statement that “…which means it works like a cough drop and opens up
your lungs…”?