A Critical Standpoint on Smoking Marijuana

[HIEROPHANT]

Smoke of any kind is probably harmful to the lungs,So what! Modern life with all its globe spanning pollution is daily filling your lungs with who knows what,cannabis can be consumed in other ways,but pollution will KILL you no matter how it enters your system, So whats your point GG ? Thoroughly check out my website in my signature for the FACTS on the real culprit,the REAL and DANGEROUS DRUG ALCOHOL( try not being lazy and look past the homepage),which truly is the scurge of humankind
Cannabis =GOOD ( and GOOD PEOPLE)
ALCOHOL=BAD (it is the drug of the evil and repressive ruling class)
[align=center]WATER CAN KILL[/align] and I don't mean by drowning ...NO I mean by CONSUMING

......[align=center]Too much drinking puts runners in hot water
By Jacqueline Maley
April 15, 2005[/align]

[align=center]Marathon runners are in danger of drinking themselves to death.[/align]

Many runners wrongly believe dehydration is the greatest threat to their health, but according to US researchers, too much water can be as dangerous as too little in long-distance events.
Doctors from the Harvard School of Medicine took blood samples from 488 runners in the 2002 Boston marathon, before and after the race, and found 13 per cent had diluted the salt levels in their blood to dangerous levels. This condition, called hyponatremia, can lead to coma and even death.
One 28-year-old runner who collapsed during the 2002 race and later died was found to have severely low levels of salt in her blood. Three other Boston runners had salt levels so low they risked death.
Slower runners were at the greatest risk of the problem, because they stopped more often for drink breaks. Many gained weight during the the race because they drank so much.
The problem of over-drinking has long been recognised by sports doctors, but this study, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, is believed to be the first documentation of its seriousness.
Dr Carolyn Broderick, the director of the sports medicine program at the University of NSW, said next to heat exhaustion, hyponatremia was the biggest cause of runners collapsing. "Most people are mindful of it if they are used to looking after marathon events," she said. "But average people are probably not aware of it. We are always encouraging people to drink more."
Dr Dick Telford, an exercise physiologist at the Commonwealth Institute at Cambridge University, said hyponatremia was common among less experienced runners, especially during marathons in cool weather, when dehydration was not a threat.
Runners already secreted water into the bloodstream through aerobic exercise and through the breaking down of glucose in the blood, he said.
"If you are running along, you are getting unexpected sources of water anyway, then when you take in a lot of water on top of that, you can get very sick."

[HIEROPHANT]

Hear is the link to the KILLER WATER story at the Sydney Morning Herald online......
..... http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/To...251739942.html
LOL

[ermitonto]

Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
http://www.dhmo.org

[Nullific]

Shit people on TV are forced to eat bugs, cow eyes, brains and testicles and swim in tanks full of fish guts and sit in boxes full of spiders and crickets and scorpians and rodents for the right price and they are telling me smoking marijuana is harmful.

[ermitonto]

Not only that, it's so harmful that not one citizen can be trusted with it, not even scientists who want to find out the effects of the substance, or people who just want to make ropes out of it (but here, have a pack of Marlboros and drink Budweiser until your liver turns to mush).

[FRANKFRANKFRANK]

"I understand that everything is ok in moderation, but marijuana is NEVER healthy even in the smallest amounts..."

You gotta look at it like this: do the pros outweigh the cons? I think the high, and all the pleasures and de-stressing that it does will make a person live longer than if they didn't smoke it. An optimist lives 17 years longer than a pessimist, or so I've heard, and I don't know about you, but I'm pretty fucking optimistic when I'm baked.

Even if it does hurt us to some degree, I'd prefer to live with quality, not quantity.

Also, I've gone weeks where I got high EVERY day for no particular reason, and then the next week I wouldn't smoke at all. Nothing compared to when I quit smoking cigs., that's for Goddamn sure.

Not only that, it's so harmful that not one citizen can be trusted with it, not even scientists who want to find out the effects of the substance, or people who just want to make ropes out of it (but here, have a pack of Marlboros and drink Budweiser until your liver turns to mush).

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[HIEROPHANT]

Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
http://www.dhmo.org

Its worse than I thought ,this di-hydrogen monoxide sounds like it could be even deadlier than the "Killer Water" in my posting LOL ,hilarious website which is now in my bookmarks.

[SLiC112]

good discussion people ... keep up the good work...

[kyle]

"I understand that everything is ok in moderation, but marijuana is NEVER healthy even in the smallest amounts..."


That my friend, is what I like to call - a big-ass hypocritical contradiction.



For those who don't see it; "I understand that 'everything' is 'ok' in 'moderation', but marijuana is 'NEVER' healthy even in the smallest amounts..."

You are saying everything is ok in moderation and than saying marijuana is not, well marijuana is a part of everything. Just because it is'nt particularily healthy does not mean that it's not 'ok'. Soda-pop is not healthy (I for one dont drink it) but thousands of children and adults do and they don't need I.D. to buy it. It probably won't kill you eaither, so its "ok". My 2 cents.

[GreenGaucho]

Glad to see my topic drew in so many different opinions and ideas.