Pro's and Con's of our friend cannabis - Please read!

[ghosty]

pros: it seems to cure many minor medical ailments and provide pain relief for those with major medical issues, it also is known to help psychological things like anxiety and stress, and is said to enhance creativity by many artists

cons: it's not legal and there are many vague and poorly written laws related to it, and it's not free

[cannabis=freedom]

cons: non-existant

End of story.

Thank you.

[Adrenaline Rush]

I'm going to put in in simple terms.......

The GOOD: cannabis gets me high

The BAD: cannabis burns me out

The UGLY: cannabis gives me the munchies, so I pig out.

[Reefer Rogue]

Pro's never get caught, cons go to jail.

[onequestion]

Pros: 98% of the time it helps with my mental illness. I used to have bad insomia as a child, and it helps with that. I used to get night terrors up until I was 14 then I smoked cannabis for the first time, and it was like it was gone overnight. One night I'm screaming in my sleep, the next, I'm not making a sound. I don't even snore.

Those are my pros, but when it comes to helping the sick and suffering with deadly illnesses, I think that is def. a pro. Pills can have nasty side effects, I know that, but what I take is nothing compared to what people with crippling illnesses have to take, like 12-20 pills a day. I think it's great that we can reduce the number of pills by only taking 2 or 3, or even 0 pills, and replace it with a naturally growing plant, with no serious side effects. Medicinal use is a great pro over those nasty chemical drugs.

Cons: It can make me sleepy sometimes if I over-smoke. What I mean by that is continuing to smoke when I'm already high, which is pointless. It costs money, a lot of money, but I'm willing to set aside $200 every few months for a nice sack of smoke.

It slows my mind down big time, so if I'm doing something that requires a lot of brain power, or if I'm learning a new job at work, then smoking is out of the question. I don't retain anything thsat I have to learn while high. It makes learning fun, but there is fun learning and serious learning.

EDIT: www.cannabisculture.com has lots of amazing medical info and growing info. It's a magazine based out of Canada.

There is also another one out there called Cannabis Health magazine, also Canadian and is free at the headshop here. It focuses directly on medical uses of cannabis.

Yeah, I have badass insomnia and just wish that i could smoke a bowl before i go to sleep every night, i really hate not being able to fall asleep.

My negative is that i eat way too much when im high so when I wake up i have the biggest stomach aches and look like im prenant lol.

[burnable]

The central issue is not the inherent properties of weed. It might be interesting to discuss how people personally respond to it, but the issue is people themselves. It's better to know yourself and how you function than it is to worry about the exact nature of a foreign substance.

Someone curious about pot may read about adverse effects that someone had and enlist that info as universally true, perhaps alienating any benefits that could have been received from responsible use. Most of the time, unpleasant side effects of pot are merely a result of overindulgence. I don't believe nature intended us to be stoned all the time.

MJ has uniqueness, but for the sake of my point, you can pretty much lump it into the same category of all psychoactive substances. One can spend time and energy dissecting intrinsic values of each substance, or trust what their own body tells them about that substance after moderate consumption. There are way too many personal psychological variables to establish one set of expectations from any drug.

I hope that the primary effort of the cannabis enthusiast will be to advocate everyone's right to be his/her own steward of what goes into the body, rather than officially considering the default good and bad aspects of a drug, which is no better than the pharmaceutical commercials.

[Nation_1ne]

This is absolutely brilliant so far folks, thanks for the effort. Rep coming to all of you who have left decent info.

[Gazella]

it could be a desaster for the ''short laps memory'' but it helps a lot to your brain. in a research made by the Scripps Investigation Center of California, the THC retards the development of ALZHIMER. its more efective than any other alzhimer's medicine in the market.

[4twentE]

pro: it makes sitting around the house doing nothing seem OK
con: that's called amotivational syndrome and can be a problem

pro: sometimes weed can inspire people creatively
con: can't remember what they were going to write/say/draw/paint/etc

pro: can stimulate appetite in sick people
con: munchies usually consist of cravings for the most unusual or least healthy foods

pro: illegal and therefore not chemically altered and tainted by tobacco companies
con: illegal and therefore possession leads to jail time

pro: euphoria while high
con: burn out after coming down (if you come down that is)

pro: ^slows Alzheimer's development in old people, making them less senile as they age
con: speeds brain deterioration in young people smoking too much

OK I'm to the point I have to start thinking about it. I don't like thinking; gives me a headache. Maybe I'll come up with some more in due time.

[BizzleLuvin]

so its not really the kind fact you asked for but i sum my thoughts up as: have respect for yourself, have respect for cannabis and good things will come. because all things, inclusing cannabis, has its downside.