Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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CFH
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thecontender13
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CFH
No ones promoting drug use, I don't even smoke weed anymore. All I'm saying is a have a lot more faith in Harvard researchers with no obvious agenda than I do in what the government tells me.
I don't think the point of the study was to encourage people to smoke pot, the point was to examine if there are medical benefits in the components of marijuana; benefits that have not been available to people suffering from serious, often fatal, illnesses because of some stupid government agenda. The things that the government "allows" us to have, like cigs are booze, are infinitely more harmful that marijuana.
How is someone a lemming for putting stock in documented research?
I won't deny that marijuana is less harmful then other substances. If I have to have a choice between who is coming down the highway at me, a guy who just smoked 4 joints, and a dude who just polished off a 40 of Jack Daniels, well, the choice should be obvious.
Also, I do believe that in certain circumstances, that it has medicinal purposes...and I have even tried to get an older person I know with an acute case of MS to consider it. For it's pain relief and ability to increase appetite.
What I am suggesting is that we don't believe all studies, because they are from Harvard, or MIT, or Oxford etc.. Many studies are in fact agenda driven.
To suggest it may be used as preventative for cancer is worrisome to me. There are enough snake oil salesmen making money off of the fears of cancer and it's victims in this world as it is.
I plan on being a doctor one day. If I have any brains left from being smacked around in boxing, that is
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But if several reputable studies indicate that certain compounds found in marijuana may be helpful in cancer treatment/prevention, it certainly deserves to be looked into and further studied.
I think you're both right. Scientific studies will not neccessarily be wrong. However, even if i have faith in the majority of researchers you do have to look at the people who take their results and choose to interpret them in a particular way. People will cling onto the medicinal properties reported as a reason to use it which could be bad.
As with most things the dose which is best probably would need to be specified to suit the individual based on things like body weight and condition and I wouldn't be suprised if they're not still working that out.
I don't like the idea of smoking at all - pity the world was too addicted to cigarettes to ban them by the time the health problems were well known to the general public.
I don't know that alcohol is worse than marijuana since particular types of alcohol like red wine are also good for you in moderation thanks to it's antioxidants. A couple of glasses of the right type of alcohol occasionally could be considered healthy. It's still a case of dose and the form you choose to take it in as with everything.
I do think each to their own. The energy drink I'm guzzling at the moment to stay awake to get through my uni work is probably pretty bad for me so even though I guess i try to be fairly pedantic about my health few of us are perfect!
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
They is fuck all wrong with most drugs anymore, they made them very user friendly now.
Weed, E's, Coke, Powder - these days they are so dumbbed down you can use them as you like and they wont affect you.
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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Preme
They is fuck all wrong with most drugs anymore, they made them very user friendly now.
Weed, E's, Coke, Powder - these days they are so dumbbed down you can use them as you like and they wont affect you.
Spoken like a true addict!
Yeah all those deaths by OD are complete myths! Really I'm sure all those reported actually died of something else :rolleyes:
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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Preme
They is fuck all wrong with most drugs anymore, they made them very user friendly now.
Weed, E's, Coke, Powder - these days they are so dumbbed down you can use them as you like and they wont affect you.
Spoken like a true addict!
Yeah all those deaths by OD are complete myths! Really I'm sure all those reported actually died of something else :rolleyes:
Glad you stepped up Sharla. I wasn't even going to touch that one.
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leftylee
I have never smoked a joint or a biff or snorted coke etc. That shit ain't good for you :-X as Julius says "I like to keep my mind clean and my body lean" :D
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I have never smoked a joint or a biff or snorted coke etc. That shit ain't good for you :-X as Julius says "I like to keep my mind clean and my body lean" :D
It's no worse then drinking if you do that in fact not nearly as bad physically anyways.
I don't drink.
Fukking loser.
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
Starting in Jr High, all the way up until I got pregnant with my son, I was a major pothead! I would smoke pot every chance I got, before school (morning buzzes are the best!) in the bathroom between classes, lunch time, afterschool, then all night until I went to bed. Then once I was out of Sr High, if I wasn't at work, I was smoking pot. I played softball high, I bowled high, hell in between frames, I would run into the bathroom and do one hitters. :p
Basically, in my case at least, the more I smoked it, the more of an immunity I got from the effects. I would have to smoke a lot pot to get any kind of a buzz going.
So, even though that is an extreme amount, after awhile, it probably didn't have much of an effect, buzz wise, for the patients.
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I'm eating special cake once a week now and that's just about right. More than once a week is probably too much.
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I dont think the drugs are less potent now, if anyhthing they are way more potent. You every smoke a doob with a guy that was smoking in the 60s and 70s? they will take 2 blasts and then they cant handle any more its just too strong for them nowadays.
those government studies are whack also because they use garbage gov weed that has a super low THC percentage compared to the good stuff like kush, HP that has a THC percentage of like 20-25%.
i just woke up and i feel kinda stoned already and thats without smoking anything.
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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Sharla
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Preme
They is fuck all wrong with most drugs anymore, they made them very user friendly now.
Weed, E's, Coke, Powder - these days they are so dumbbed down you can use them as you like and they wont affect you.
Spoken like a true addict!
Yeah all those deaths by OD are complete myths! Really I'm sure all those reported actually died of something else :rolleyes:
addict? Can an addict go two, three four even five weeks withing taking anything, wanting anyhting or craving it? if not then you got the wrong person...
end of the day you drink to much water and you can die, maybe we should ban that too?
lil bit of sense and as long as what your taking is the real thing, you will be fine;)
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Kirkland Laing
I'm eating special cake once a week now and that's just about right. More than once a week is probably too much.
you are special;)
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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I dont think the drugs are less potent now, if anyhthing they are way more potent. You every smoke a doob with a guy that was smoking in the 60s and 70s? they will take 2 blasts and then they cant handle any more its just too strong for them nowadays.
those government studies are whack also because they use garbage gov weed that has a super low THC percentage compared to the good stuff like kush, HP that has a THC percentage of like 20-25%.
i just woke up and i feel kinda stoned already and thats without smoking anything.
2 blasts? fuck off will you they aint smoked shit in their life if they get wrecked off 2 blasts. Skunk you could argue is stronger now, but i think that is very unproven.
Drugs in whole are piss to what they are. Shit you can take 5, 10, 15 20 E's in a night now and wake up the next day. 10 years ago one could kill you.
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im just talking about pot not ecstasy or anything like that, that shit is just a shitmix of cocaine speed and meth and other garbage.
but look it up you will see that the THC % back in the day on average was way lower than todays crops.
Re: Smoking 350 joints a week can cause health problems!!!
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Doot
im just talking about pot not ecstasy or anything like that, that shit is just a shitmix of cocaine speed and meth and other garbage.
but look it up you will see that the THC % back in the day on average was way lower than todays crops.
Well say pot then, not "I don't think DRUGS are less.... bla bla bla"
