JeremyW Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 That is one guys experience. Hardly medical fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyW Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 And even if it does (which I don't believe is the case) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Marijuana barely qualifies as a "drug" to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Probably because you just learned about it. I don't blame you, but it is worth looking in to as someone who supports the drug you don't want to be ignorant. I didn't say otherwise, and thats a crappy argument to support the drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester@wraiths.ca Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Marijuana barely qualifies as a "drug" to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Watching people who are so chronic it's done from the time they wake up till they go to bed, and do very little else says different to me. People wouldn't bother using it if it didn't have the effects it does, same as any other drug that is used for recreation. People often say it's not a drug but when you watch people who's lives get encompassed by it, it's hard to agree with that sentiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 When compared to stuff like opium, heroin, crystal meth, cocaine, crack, oxycontin, hydrocodones, marijuana is a bush league recreational stimulant, not a drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tystick Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 The drug has been proven to cause anxiety disorders IF it is consumed very frequently in critical development stages of the brain (ie, before the age of about 20.) There after, it may still have an affect. Read here: http://www.steadyhea...y__t210329.html (or google around...) You're forgetting who pays the health-care bills. A socialist health care system doesn't work when people are working to intentionally hurt the systems (injur themselves.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Relevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester@wraiths.ca Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 When compared to stuff like opium, heroin, crystal meth, cocaine, crack, oxycontin, hydrocodones, marijuana is a bush league recreational stimulant, not a drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajusta Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Marijuana barely qualifies as a "drug" to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc44 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 no thanks, marijuana smells awful and despite what people say it does have negative effects on health especially at a young age & i really dont want to smell that everytime i go outside. Cigarettes should be illegal only substance that is legal that is known to kill you and everyone else around you. such a joke its legal. call me an old fuddy duddy but ill be the old man with all my brain cells and functioning lungs thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaBestPlaceOnEarth Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 The illegality of marijuana is the best thing that ever happened to the stoner community. Do y'all seriously want to turn marijuana into a mirror image of the alcohol or tobacco industry? Are you all so high you can't think straight? Surely we, of all people, know and see the danger of government control? Surely we more than anyone understand the insidious nature of the combine? Do you not understand the meaning of the word, "legalize"? You keep using that word; it does not mean what you think it means. I hate to go against someone as wise as Pete Tosh, but there it is: marijuana is a gift from the Most High, and Jesus says: "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God, what is God's." Marijuana is most assuredly NOT Caesar's. Under the present system, it is not Caesar's, it is all humankind's, and it is also one of the last great sources of money and power which is not under the control of the combine. Church and religion? Controlled by the combine. (What is the combine? you ask...read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Medical and health profession? Controlled by the combine. Only enthoegens remain outside government control - as it should be. That the combine pushes these things away and shuns them is a blessing! It is the difference between Soma and Moksha. There is a price to pay, some people get incarcerated, some access is limited, costs are high because of the risks one takes. It's a small price compared to the price of legalization. Take some time and read the laws surrounding the alcohol industry, it is a veritable thicket, a dense undergrowth of law and regulation. Marijuana, there is really only one law: don't. Every individual who grows it, smokes it, ingests or possesses it is a recruit battling the combine; there could be no bigger defeat for freedom than legalization of marijuana. Think with your heads, people! Why on earth would we, who know so much better, support government takeover of this thing we love? Certainly, there are all kinds of policy reasons to do so from the perspective of the state, from the perspective of the non-user, it's a simple, easy argument to make and many are making it: I've seen the commercials coming out of Washington State. I've made the argument myself, for the sake of it, I could make the most convincing version of it y'all have ever seen, but it is wrong and I pray fervently that it never happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tystick Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Alcohol does not kill ? Pot is the least of the worlds worries , I would be much more concerned with the prescription pills doctors can prescribe containing cocaine and heroine and all the people on the roads who are drinking driving then people who are relaxed and happy and giggly after smoking a blunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooker Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 no thanks, marijuana smells awful and despite what people say it does have negative effects on health especially at a young age & i really dont want to smell that everytime i go outside. Cigarettes should be illegal only substance that is legal that is known to kill you and everyone else around you. such a joke its legal. call me an old fuddy duddy but ill be the old man with all my brain cells and functioning lungs thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 If you want marijuana /want it legalized, then just move to a country that has that already.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 If you want marijuana /want it legalized, then just move to a country that has that already.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tystick Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 If you want marijuana /want it legalized, then just move to a country that has that already.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrawfull Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Teen pot use linked to later declines in IQ The Associated Press Published Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 9:03AM EDT NEW YORK -- Teens who routinely smoke marijuana risk a long-term drop in their IQ, a new study suggests. The researchers didn't find the same IQ dip for people who became frequent users of pot after 18. Although experts said the new findings are not definitive, they do fit in with earlier signs that the drug is especially harmful to the developing brain. "Parents should understand that their adolescents are particularly vulnerable,'" said lead researcher Madeline Meier of Duke University. Study participants from New Zealand were tested for IQ at age 13, likely before any significant marijuana use, and again at age 38. The mental decline between those two ages was seen only in those who started regularly smoking pot before age 18. Richie Poulton, a study co-author and professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said the message of the research is to stay away from marijuana until adulthood if possible. "For some it's a legal issue," he said, "but for me it's a health issue." Pot is the most popular illegal drug in the world, with somewhere between 119 million and 224 million users between the ages of 15 and 64 as of 2010, the United Nations reported. Within the United States, 23 percent of high school students said they'd recently smoked marijuana, making it more popular than cigarettes, the federal government reported in June. Young people "don't think it's risky," said Staci Gruber, a researcher at the Harvard-affiliated MacLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Gruber, who didn't participate in the new work, said the idea that marijuana harms the adolescent brain is "something we believe is very likely," and the new finding of IQ declines warrants further investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 http://www.ctvnews.c...-in-iq-1.932903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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