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Nope, wrong sorry that's completely wrong. Think about every single time you've smoked, Imagine if every one of those times you were drinking instead of smoking. I know for a fact I would be much more fucked up, my liver would be so fucked up and i would be a pretty fucking bad alcoholic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seag420
HOW POWERFUL DOESN'T MATTER! If you have some strong skunk, smoke one bowl of it, maybe two, and get either high as fuck or obliterated, respectively. Whereas with weaker weed, it doesn't take a fucking scientist to derive that you'd need to smoke more of the shittier weed to achieve the same high as you would with the skunk. EXAMPLE : 1 Bowl of High Quality Skunk = 1 Bowl of Mids+ 1 Bowl of Mids+ 1 Bowl of Mids.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seag420
Broken down, it means that the higher the potency, the less *smoking* is actually required. Very similar to alcohol, but without the dangers.
here's the link to my essay. click this right here
1. alchohol still destroys a shitload of brain cells.
2. alchohol has destroyed more families than ANY other drug, even the hard illegal ones.
3. alchohol actually gets you "high" (though we call it "drunk") by poisoning your brain and destroying the brain cells, wheras weed gets you high by stimulating certain receptors.
4. alchohol is very bad for your liver, kidneys, and digestive system in general. marijuana has been shown to be very beneficial on these.
5. I've gotten drunk and felt sick like I've been poisoned for 2 days afterwards. the worst I've ever gotten from a day of marathon all-day weed smoking is a groggy feeling from burning out.
6. THC has recently been shown to very effective in preventing heart disease. alchohol (obviously) is not doing your heart any favours.
7. alchohol can make you sick to your stomach and give you a good puke, weed can stimulate your appetite and significantly releives nausea and stomach pain. just last week I took a bunch of painkillers on an empty stomach (oops) and nearly threw up. so I took only 2 tokes and my stomach felt 100% better.
8. weed has numerous medicinal qualities wheras alchohol has only detrimental effects.
9. most people are still able to function decently when stoned. I and all my friends go out in public totally stoned and can hide it relatively well. we may talk kind of funny and forgetfully while high, but unlike a drunk we're not swaying from side-to-side and you can't tell just by looking at us. and don't even try telling me weed impairs driving more than alchohol.
10. when driving, weed enhances vision (In life in general) wheras alchohol makes vision blurry and overall shitty.
11. the depressed/happy ratio with stoned people compared to drunk people is way more frequently happy.
12. vaporization takes care of the lung issues, and it's till not nearly as cancer causing as tobacco.
13. THC can actually prevent some types of cancer.
well shit, I could go on forever really...
mighty 420, while you and i may only toke one or 2 hits of some powerful skunk, other people will take hit after hit, no matter how powerful the skunk. dazenfmiester, yer right, we would definatly be worse off if we'd been drinkin for years instead of tokin, but remember, its all relative, its still bad for yer.
dude just admit that you were wrong and should have thought before you spoke about how they're equally bad for you. Although marijuana can be a -tiny- bit bad for you, alcohol is certainly a lot worse+Quote:
Originally Posted by Seag420
At times, people might splurge. But how many people out there do you know that smoke, say, an ounce of some dank ass weed everyday? For the most part, people can't AFFORD to do it. The average smoker just doesn't have that kind of income or that reliable and steady a source. I've known some ridiculous stoners in my time, and I myself am not a lightweight (more of an everyday smoker), but anyway you splice it, weed is better for you than alcohol. Granted it's probably not COMPLETELY safe if smoked, but remember, water bongs are a cheap and effective way to filter the smoke, and vaporizers get the job done quite nicely without the smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seag420
like i said, its all relative, alcohol may be worse but many people on this website are gona regret that they ever started tokin oneday. and mrdevious, most of what you said is all theroy, like point 6, thc helping the heart. it may, but like i said, check yer heart rate when yer wrecked, the speed at which yer heart is beating can only be a bad thing if yer keep getting stonned for years. i know this for a fact. my mum, as well as years ago (over 12) being an alcoholic, which no doubt did her heart damage, took up smoking weed about 8 years ago. she also smoked tabbaco. she smoked the herb everyday, and up until december 2003 i thought she was fine. the one day i came home from college and she was seriously ill in bed. i wont go into to many details but basically she sufferd a major heart attack in front of my eyes, if i hadnt of skived from the last lesson to ring for an ambulence she would have died. we never told the doctors that she smoked weed, but when they ran tests afew days later they found that her viens and artierys were amazingly clear for a ciggy smoker. that means that the heart itself was damaged. the doctors said that they didnt know why her heart was damaged, but it wasnt the tabbaco. while the alcohol abuse did its damage, the weed certainly contributed.
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Originally Posted by Seag420
A saddening experience, so I won't touch upon it too much. I just think it's a weak claim to relate her heart attack with marijuana at all. It could be a variety of things, such as, well, the alcohol and cigarettes, genetics, fatty foods, etc. Besides, I doubt the doctors would be able to so accurately pinpoint what didn't cause it, ie tobacco or alcohol, especially because I'm sure the alcohol and tobacco surely did have something to do with it, as it's been proven that prolonged use of both of these substances can raise the risk of heart problems.
while those other things probely contributed, the weed did its damage too. all you have to do is check yer pulse like ive said to know that if you got stonned enough times over a long enough period of time, its gona do yer heart damage. yer heart is a muscle, what happens when you do enough push ups, yer bi ceps and tri ceps grow. its the same with the heart muscle