Just to PROVE how safe weed is.

Weed. I call it harmless. Alot of people do. To me it IS harmless.

Well, we all know its one of the safest drugs... infact, it IS the safest drug.

Well, now it just so happens i have found out it is safer than alot of things we EAT in everyday life.


Who likes potatoes?

If you eat 10+ raw potatoes you can have a toxic reaction, but if you eat 10+ kilos of weed you wont.

Meaning, weed is safer than a potato, and probably many other things we comsume on a regular basis.

some of you may have already known about the potato thing, but i didnt and thought it proves our point beyond recognition.

Weed is a harmless plant, put here to be smoked the fuck up.

You might not have a TOXIC reaction to eating 22 pounds of pot, but it'd probably kill you nevertheless. Unless you're that Japanese competitive eating dude, and I doubt he'd survive it either. But your point is valid. ;)

i understand you're saying it's harmless, understandable, but that example isn't the best. if you drink too much water you can die, is weed safer than water because by weight you could consume more cannabis than water and live? of course not

Weed IS safer than water. Weed is safer than many things. I mean, eating it aint a great example, because you can only eat so much... then you'd just puke.

:D

What makes weed safe is the implemented safeguards

If you smoke your ass off, you eventually get tired and go to sleep, or you get paranoid and say you had enough for now, or you'll be too stoned to not care anymore.

Absolutely nothing toxic about weed.

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Originally Posted by jamstigator

You might not have a TOXIC reaction to eating 22 pounds of pot, but it'd probably kill you nevertheless. Unless you're that Japanese competitive eating dude, and I doubt he'd survive it either

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Bud is not going to kill you----Buddha ate hemp for 6 years and didn't die----he became a leading thinker with world renown

greenbeard

weed is not for everyone, i smoke ridiculous amounts of weed and it's not gonna harm me, i'd say cannabis is harmless, but because it can harm some people, not healthy individuals that is, it's not safter than water

How can it harm them though?

people with psychotic disorders that smoke cannabis can be harmed badly, or people with undiagnosed mental conditions, altering your state of consciousness...however mild it may be, it's not good for everyone

True, another thing i read about it. People with underlying mental disorders can aggrivate them by smoking weed, but at the same time the study found that people who were fine mentally had no increased risk of getting any mental disorder, proving that weed cannot be the cause of mental disorders.

exactly, weed doesn't cause any of this, but consuming cannabis can be an experience that brings out a condition they already have or are prone to, and it's not clear if avoiding cannabis would have stopped them from developing the condition, just speeding it up i guess, there's not a lot of research into it though.

all i'm saying is it seems silly to compare weed to potatoes and water because they are completely harmless, you have to be completely retarded to OD on potatoes ya know? and you're not going to OD on weed either, even if you are completely retarded. but there are risks that moderate use of cannabis pose to unhealthy individuals that just don't exist with potatoes or water. i don't like to say cannabis is completely harmless especially because a lot of prohibitionist types won't even try to understand that and brush you off as stupid, even though it's a valid point. it is one of the safest activities you could do though, i saw a government anti drug commercial that even confirmed this, their message was that you'll miss life sitting on the couch, he didn't try heroin or do this or kill somebody or whatnot, he just sat on the couch and didn't do much of anything, good reason to make crimminals out of people, ya know, damn you're missing out on living life to the edge man, get in jail!

I think people do a great disservice to others by perpetuating the myth that weed is 100% safe. I know that's what everyone wishes. It's what everyone hopes. But the truth is we don't know that for sure. There's not been enough testing. There are lots of very hopeful indicators about it--at least in lab studies on rats and in the very limited studies that have been done on people. But there are also unsafe aspects, too. Smoked weed aggravates pumonary irritation and increases the risk for bronchitis and infection. It increases people's risk of heart attacks by five times within the first hour of smoking it. It can impair memory in some people and put others at risk of psychiatric trouble. It can provoke anxiety attacks. The list goes on.

Call me a party pooper if you want to. But I think I'm simply a level-headed realist. Just as with any other natural substance, from carrots to water to coca leaves, there's both good and bad potential associated with weed. Fortunately, there seems to be more good than bad. But it's still important to be clear about both when covering the facts about weed.

Well maybe there is one or 2 retards out there who like to eat 10 raw potato's, not something a mentally stable person would do though, true.

Point is that smoking weed is safer than some things we come into contact with on a daily basis.

damn straight

Also smoking weed can lower body temps by up to 2 degree's...

I never knew that either, its on todays dailyfactoid.

Weed is safer than caffeine. Thousands of people die of caffeine overdoses every year.

and weed has never been the only cause of death, and it has not been proven that smoking weed alone can give you lung cancer:thumbsup:

"If you eat 10+ raw potatoes you can have a toxic reaction, but if you eat 10+ kilos of weed you wont."

Your argument is unrealistic
When's the last time you heard about someone eating themselves to death with potatoes?
When's the last time you heard someone eating themselves to death with cannabis?
When's the last time you ate 3lbs or 10 large potatoes???
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Eating that much cannabis would be physically impossible..and this is why your argument isn't taken serious. Even then it's Solanine that is the toxic element not the potatoe itself. It ranges from quality and grow (like cannabis haha) and is more present in the "green" potato.

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Potatoes contain glycoalkaloids, toxic compounds, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. Cooking at high temperatures (over 170 °C or 340 °F) partly destroys these. The concentration of glycoalkaloid in wild potatoes suffices to produce toxic effects in humans. Glycoalkaloids occur in the greatest concentrations just underneath the skin of the tuber, and they increase with age and exposure to light. Glycoalkaloids may cause headaches, diarrhea, cramps and in severe cases coma and death; however, poisoning from potatoes occurs very rarely. Light exposure also causes greening, thus giving a visual clue as to areas of the tuber that may have become more toxic; however, this does not provide a definitive guide, as greening and glycoalkaloid accumulation can occur independently of each other. Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid concentrations than others; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar.

Breeders try to keep solanine levels below 0.2 mg/g (200 ppmw). However, when even these commercial varieties turn green, they can approach concentrations of solanine of 1 mg/g (1000 ppmw). Some studies suggest that 200 mg of solanine can constitute a dangerous dose. This dose would require eating 1 average-sized spoiled potato or 4 to 9 good potatoes (over 3 pounds or 1.4 kg) at one time. The National Toxicology Program suggests that the average American consumes 12.5 mg/person/day of solanine from potatoes. Dr. Douglas L. Holt, the State Extension Specialist for Food Safety at the University of Missouri - Columbia, notes that no reported cases of potato-source solanine poisoning have occurred in the U.S. in the last 50 years and most cases involved eating green potatoes or drinking potato-leaf tea.

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The point is you need to make more realistic arguments if you plan to be taken seriously.

Just my opinion and constructive critisism. I don't dissagree with you, i'm just saying the basis for your argument is silly.
Bob:thumbsup:

I read it on a site, dunno which, But hey, i dont give a fuck.

The whole POINT was to show that cannabis is safer than many things we come into contact with on a daily basis.

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Originally Posted by LIP

I read it on a site, dunno which, But hey, i dont give a fuck.

The whole POINT was to show that cannabis is safer than many things we come into contact with on a daily basis.

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Not potatoes...
How much you want to bet that you would get sick eating cannabis before you would if you were eating potatoes.

Forget it, im not gunner bother with you man, your just annoying me now.

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Originally Posted by LIP

Forget it, im not gunner bother with you man, your just annoying me now.

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it shouldn't man, don't get annoyed at words...especially when they're not intended to annoy. I'm simply stating the opposite side to your argument. Don't give it out if you can't take it man..

I'll tell ya this though, weed is definitely safer than fast food...I'm sure we can all agree on that! And healthier. Who knows what the fuck is in that shit.

another thing think of how legally perscribed medicines that arent abused by people, people take them as the doctor recommends and sometimes they get things like cancer or organ problems or death from them. but they will cure ya and weed is really a killer

i could eat more weed than potatoes

I don't think it's perfectly harmless; few things are. And Birdgirl is right, that we need to do a LOT more research before we know all the pros and cons. But so far, the positives seem like they balance out the negatives pretty well, and the positives may even outweigh the negatives. If it's proven through research that cannabis does destroy some brain cells and harm memory, but at the same time it helps prevent some cancers and Alzheimer's and who knows what else...well, I am willing to give up a little memory in order to minimize the chances of losing most of my entire brain to Alzheimer's. The sad thing is that making that choice is illegal.

An irony occurred to me yesterday. Remember Nancy Reagan and her "Just Say No" campaign when her husband was president? What if HE had toked up consistently during his life? He might very well still be alive! I wonder if she thinks about that now -- that in a roundabout way she may very well have been campaigning to hasten the death of her husband.

The positives DO outwiegh the negatives at the presant time.

The negatives are mainly all to do with smoking anyway.

THC can not kill you..you can NOT overdose on it..trust me man wikipedia it.

We already know.... Your a bit late...

I think everyone on this site knows it.

theortically u can OD... but its physically impossible.... so ya...

im temped to eat 10 potatos... jsut to see

Yeah, you'd have to smoke 1500 lbs in 15 minutes to get a lethal responce, and this isnt definate lol. But its impossible, you'd simply die from oxygen deprevation before the lethal dose was anywhere near reached.

altho i wonder if u could disolve enof into alcohol and have almost 100% potentcy then inject that... but i bet ur blood would be too diluted anyway...

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Originally Posted by LIP

Yeah, you'd have to smoke 1500 lbs in 15 minutes to get a lethal responce, and this isnt definate lol. But its impossible, you'd simply die from oxygen deprevation before the lethal dose was anywhere near reached.

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Even then you'd more than likely suffocate first... that's basically what is needed to die directly from pot.

Thats what i said lol

"But its impossible, you'd simply die from oxygen deprevation before the lethal dose was anywhere near reached."

How much you been smoking Bob? rofl.

Sorry for yesterday, are we cool again

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Originally Posted by greenbeard

Bud is not going to kill you----Buddha ate hemp for 6 years and didn't die----he became a leading thinker with world renown

greenbeard

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Good point, thank you my friend for sharing knowledge that i was unaware of. Your avatar is also pleasing to the eye.

Lip, my good man, I, like you, know it is harmless. This is just another brilliant picece of text that is now in the archives of the internet. Weed is safer then a potatoe :D REJOICE

this is such the lip thread.
weed is really safe, its a plant.. the same thing as smoking tabacco.
except whoever made tabacco decided to put all those killer chemicals in it. argh.

God... And the people who use all these chems to make it grow faster/ kill us quicker lol.

Weed and hemp is the most usefull plant in this universe, and its right here on our doorstep.

:D

Did you know that one acre of hemp can produce the same amount of paper than 4 acres of trees ?

Thats a fact my fair people.

Indeed it is and it only takes 120 days from seed to harvest, unlike tree's which take many many years.

Also hemp paper is better quality.

Weed should be legal. That's all I wanna throw in.