WARNING: If You Thinking Smoking Weed Is Bad For You, STOP!!!

[beachguy in thongs]

Well most of it's benefits are for people that take chemo, have aids, ect.
The only benefit I get is being stoned off my ass.

Everyone gets the benefits from their cannabinoid receptors.

Everyone gets a 4,000% boost in melatonin levels.

[psychocat]

Like I said, he gave us free will. God gave us the ability to think for ourselves, to plan, to create, to imagine.

You are assuming that I believe in God but since I don't any argument that "God gave it to us so therefore" is really wasted on me.
All things have a balance of good and bad , absolutely nothing is all good or all bad , even toxins in the right dosage can be benificial.

[Nylo]

While I agree with the notion that it was put here for a reason (nature doesn't make mistakes) any politician with a stick up his/her ass will shut that argument down with John Locke's idea that people give up some birth-given rights in exchange to further the security of government among men.

As for psychoCat, I believe there's a natural balance as well. But I think there's a definite line between good and bad as far as mankind is concerned. But I can't say the same with everything else in nature.

'cept maybe carnivorous dinosaurs.

[beachguy in thongs]

'cept maybe carnivorous dinosaurs.

Are you saying that carnivorous dinosaurs didn't smoke pot?

[zeldag]

rite i stopped weed and fags after being an "exesive" smoker of both for ower a couple of years (i mean everyday atl east one spiff and around 10-20 fags) than i stopped aboput a cuple of weeks ago but now i seem to get pains in chest and spit brown stuff (also had a chest infection but that should be gone and when had that i spat green stuff) anyone know if its related?:thumbsup: thanks doc...

[beachguy in thongs]

This is interesting:

A group of regular marijuana smokers was given expired air carbon monoxide (CO) tests before and after smoking low-dose, high-dose, and placebo marijuana cigarettes. Expired air CO doubled following smoking. There were no significant differences in CO levels in the different dose categories. Studies of the effects of marijuana on the body should attempt to separate effects of the drug from the effects that are secondary to the method of intake.

Bronchial challenge with histamine was used to assess bronchial reactivity in asymptomatic individuals who were long-term social smokers of marijuana. Their reactivity was compared to that of nonsmokers and asthmatics. Spirometry results were normal in the marijuana users. There was no significant difference in bronchial reactivity between marijuana smokers and nonsmoking controls, whereas the asthmatics demonstrated the expected hyperreactivity. These observations suggest that customary social use of marijuana may not produce abnormalities in airway function detectable by spirometry or bronchoprovocation.

Because these effects were transient and remained within the range of reported normal values, these data indicate that long-term, experimental exposure to MJ smoke is feasible and does not compromise the general health of the rhesus monkey.

However, tobacco smoking was associated with both significantly higher levels of superoxide anion release by pulmonary alveolar macrophages and significant abnormalities of small airway function and alveolar diffusing capacity. Based on the results of this study, pulmonary alveolar macrophages of marijuana-only smokers do not produce increased amounts of oxidants when compared to macrophages of non-smoking subjects. This observation may account for the absence of abnormalities in small airway function and alveolar diffusing capacity in marijuana-only smokers, in contrast to the presence of such findings in smokers of tobacco, regardless of marijuana use.

We conclude that smoking marijuana (13 to 27 mg THC) has no acute effect on central or peripheral ventilatory drive or metabolic rate in habitual marijuana smokers.

Whereas regular smoking of tobacco alone or with other substances increases alveolar epithelial permeability, habitual smoking of cocaine and/or marijuana has no measurable effect on alveolar permeability in the absence of tobacco nor any additive effect to that of tobacco alone.

We conclude that regular tobacco, but not marijuana, smoking is associated with greater annual rates of decline in lung function than is nonsmoking.

http://www.ukcia.org/research/medline/1.htm

[zeldag]

Bloody hell thanks mate but i want to double check because there is quite a lot of scientific stuff there.

1.Smoking Pure MJ doesnt really affect your lungs in a bad way too much
2.Smoking Tobacco does
3.Stoping smoking MJ doesnt
4. and i aint usre about stopping fags
5 can soemoen just quickly sum it all up by saying hwether i am damaging my health by smoking marijuana/tobbaco(in on joint) and cigarretes juts like that (one day i smoke meself crazy the next i didnt smoke and havnt since...) i eman alot of my friends are saying that not giving ym body those chemicals thta it ws so used to so suddenly should be damaging... (but what do they know?) lol thanks all soryr if this seems like hte same question as above but i feel its alittle bit different, and sorry if its the wrong topic i just didnt want to start a new one cos it seemed a bit pointless.
thanks.

[beachguy in thongs]

We determined marijuana use for seventy 17- to 20-year-olds through self-reporting and urinalysis. IQ difference scores were calculated by subtracting each person's IQ score at 9â??12 years (before initiation of drug use) from his or her score at 17â??20 years.

We then compared the difference in IQ scores of current heavy users (at least 5 joints per week), current light users (less than 5 joints per week), former users (who had not smoked regularly for at least 3 months) and non-users (who never smoked more than once per week and no smoking in the past two weeks).

Results: Current marijuana use was significantly correlated (p < 0.05) in a dose- related fashion with a decline in IQ over the ages studied. The comparison of the IQ difference scores showed an average decrease of 4.1 points in current heavy users (p < 0.05) compared to gains in IQ points for light current users (5.8), former users (3.5) and non-users (2.6).

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

[FindingTim]

So here are my thoughts on marijuana:

I do not necessarily believe in God, but I do believe that there is a higher power simply due to the fact that there are countless miracles in this world. As with natural tobacco (not cigs), I believe that marijuana is meant to be used, whether by eating or smoking. However, I believe that excessive use causes health problems and is natures way of saying, "enjoy me, but don't abuse me." The way marijuana makes the mind expand and lets us appreciate life is so phenomenal that I simply cannot believe that it was not meant to be consumed.

[minnesota man]

I agree.
I think psychoactive plants had a huge impact on people when they first started getting high. I think it is what kicked off classes and societies.