just did weed for the first time.

[General]

according to scientists

http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effects/marijuana-lung-health.html
http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/study-says-smoking-marijuana-worse-for-lungs-than-cigarettes/

guess we have 2 different studies suggesting different things... what can we assume

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[espio100]

http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/study-says-smoking-marijuana-worse-for-lungs-than-cigarettes/

Smoking a single marijuana joint is equivalent to smoking 2.5 to 5 cigarettes

what kind of cigs are that? chocolate cigerettes?

see how cannabis is at 20 and tabacco at 80?

[General]

Dude obviously studies are conflicting themselves so it's probably not good to assume anything other than they're both just bad.

[General]

wait shrooms cause less harm than cannabis and crystal meth is as bad as alcohol? lol something fishy is going on there.. I thought shrooms were notorious for causing comas.

[espio100]

wait shrooms cause less harm than cannabis and crystal meth is as bad as alcohol? lol something fishy is going on there.. I thought shrooms were notorious for causing comas.

If you overdose

[Harm94]

What I could never figure out is why the pro medical people prefer that it be smoked. We can isolate the compounds and make them into a pill form. For example if you chew willow bark it has pain killer like properties, however it produces a nauseas side effect. The company that makes aspirin for example isolated the compounds for pain killing and just made pills and tablets.

Also legalization isn't going to get rid of all the street dealers, there are still people growing the stuff in their backyards and selling it at a price that is much cheaper on the streets that a legal dispensary. The medical system needs to be reformed as well. I can walk in with no paper work and say that my hand hurts and bam I got my prescription.

[Goth77]

What I could never figure out is why the pro medical people prefer that it be smoked. We can isolate the compounds and make them into a pill form. For example if you chew willow bark it has pain killer like properties, however it produces a nauseas side effect. The company that makes aspirin for example isolated the compounds for pain killing and just made pills and tablets.

They actually recommend THC/CBD oils and foods for consumption over smoking, to avoid lung irritation.

Also legalization isn't going to get rid of all the street dealers, there are still people growing the stuff in their backyards

Wow tho. Way to make people growing a common plant sound like criminals. It's like if I were to go and buy my green beans from some person who grows them, instead of from the grocery store. That doesn't make him a "street dealer". I believe the correct term your looking for is "farmer" because they are obviously growing a plant, not cutting up coke or boiling crack or any of that stupid actual drug making stuff

[hillkill]

i think this is going to be my last post in this thread, and now that i'm more calm i'll try to explain some things to you guys in a normal manner.

Mm yes, stop taking your regulated medicines prescribed by a trained health care professional for a disease that can cause extreme behaviour, and instead start self medicating yourself with cannabis on the advice of a 15 year old who uses cannabis for depression for which he's not even had psychiatric results back or taken anti-depressents for.
Bonus points if you score your cannabis from dodgy dealers and have absolutely no idea whatsoever what is in the stuff you're smoking, because there's no regulatory body to confirm that what you're using is what you're told it is.

i have a really hard time believing in medication 100% because it's what forgeted my dad up in the long run. the doctors just prescribed him stuff and let him on his merry way. he then got addicted to these medications, because they recommended taking them in large amounts instead of giving him actual psychiatric/physical therapy.

also, the marijuana i got comes straight from the plant, there is nothing laced in it. i don't do all of those different strains.

[·::Kishgal::·]

Wow tho. Way to make people growing a common plant sound like criminals.

Hey, uh, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but they are criminals.

[Alternat¡ve]

The first quote was a question and the other quote was a guy throwing his two cents into the matter. As Maxwell said, get a grip.

[Doughboy]

Wow tho. Way to make people growing a common plant sound like criminals. It's like if I were to go and buy my green beans from some person who grows them, instead of from the grocery store. That doesn't make him a "street dealer". I believe the correct term your looking for is "farmer" because they are obviously growing a plant, not cutting up coke or boiling crack or any of that stupid actual drug making stuff

marijuana is not a common plant and it is nothing like growing green beans

[Maxwell.]

wait if I smoke enough will I become a Saturn V rocket

[XR-7]

marijuana is not a common plant and it is nothing like growing green beans

Let's welcome Gothboy to another weed/medical discussion.

[TomTheGeek²]

wait if I smoke enough will I become a Saturn V rocket

yes.

[Nomel]

according to scientists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
also keep in mind that most street marijuana is almost synthetic due to the incredibly unnatural amount of THC it contains

what kind of cigs are that? chocolate cigerettes?
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see how cannabis is at 20 and tabacco at 80?

unless there's proof to back it up, that's just as useful as asking a random person how harmful weed is