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Smoking marijuana info?
I've never smoked pot before but I'm just curious about it. Everyone that doesn't smoke pot always says it's really really bad, but everyone that does says it's not bad at all. How harmful is it really? What are people's thoughts on this?
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It's not really as harmful as the government would like you to believe. The Shafer commission, an independent commission of scientists set up in the Nixon era to review marijuana had even concluded that there were no potential health risks or at least none great it enough to keep it illegal, yet it is.



You can't overdose from pot. You would need to consume 40,000x the amount it takes you to get high, compared with 4 to 10 times the amount needed to get drunk for alcohol.



It doesn't kill brain cells. This myth was heavily based off of a biased and skewed research project with rheeus monkeys back in the 1960s i believe. It does make some of them "dormant" or working at only half capacity for a period of about 7 months. Even if it does kill brain cells, it mainly affects the hippocampus section of the brain, which is ironically the only part of the brain that can regenerate brain cells.



It is not a gateway drug. Amsterdam hasn't seen an increase in hard drug usage, despite marijuana's heavy presence there. Also, to quote the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base:

"There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs … There is no evidence that marijuana serves as a stepping stone on the basis of its particular physiological effect … Instead, the legal status of marijuana makes it a gateway drug."



Also, marijuana has not been linked to an increase in lung cancer. Coming from the MPP.org's FAQ page: "Unlike tobacco, research has never shown that marijuana increases rates of lung cancer or other cancers usually associated with cigarette smoking. In a 10-year, 65,000-patient study conducted at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO and published in 1997, cigarette smokers had much higher rates of cancer of the lung, mouth, and throat than non-smokers, but marijuana smokers who didn't smoke tobacco had no such increase."



This conserative is right in one aspect. Today's weed isn't your grandparents. While the potency has remained relatively the same despite common belief, many will tell you marijuana is SAFER today than it once was. The war on drugs have caused a shift from the moldy, dusty, pesticide ridden weed from foreign countries for more domestic producers that are kept safe from these conditions.



Marijuana is not addictive, or has not proven to be...only that it MIGHT be psychologically addictive, but the majority of those who tend to become "addicted" are those that have addictive personalities. Do not listen to the scare tactics. There is not crack in your marijuana, or heroin in it, or ecstacy, or coke. Those drugs tend to be exponentially more expensive than marijuana, and would be a waste to drug dealers adding stuff to it to get you hooked. The only thing it may be laced with is PCP, but it's extremely rare. If you hear anyone say dust, or sherm, stay the hell away from that weed. And even if this was true, wouldn't this be more of a reason to legalize it? To help ensure that people are consuming cannabis and only cannabis?



Marijuana doesn't affect intelligence. Some of the world's most brilliant people have used/use marijuana. I'm maintained a 3.9GPA throughout college and high school, and I used to smoke like a chimney. The only way it could affect performance in school is if you go to class high, because marijuana does affect the short-term memory. This does not mean it kills your memory like some people twist it to believe. It means that while you are under the influence of marijuana, your brain may have trouble forming new memories, a side-effect that wears off with the high.



Bottom line, I'm not going to tell you to try it. Research up on it, and make an informed decision. Check www.erowid.org. It's a non-biased, independently funded organization that provides both the negative and positives about not only marijuana but every other drug/pharmaceutical known to man.



Above all else, don't go to class or drive high. Be responsible.



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