Safe Or Not? True Marijuana Facts

[Shrooms]

Yeah so I've been away for a while, I eased up on the smoking. I'm actually taking a break for school and football like I said, but I'm sure I'll be around sooner or later. I'd just like to leave everyone with this, maybe it can be stickied for everyone to see. Enjoy

In america alone, 75,000 people are killed due to alcohol related incidents per YEAR. The death toll for smoking marijuana has yet to start.

Delta 9-THC, the active cannaboid in marijuana smoke, is not physically or chemically addicting. A marijuana smoker can stop at any time they wish, with their own control, with no harmfull side effects, unlike tobacco smokers.

Also unlike tobacco, marijuana has NO harmfull or addictive chemicals or preservatives added to it. Factory produced tobacco has several.

Marijuana has been proven to be effective in reducing the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma, and also aiding in the prevention of alzheimers.

None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damge in humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose use. The claim that marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific study.

Marijuana does not `cause' psychosis. Psychotic people can smoke marijuana and have an episode, but there is nothing in marijuana that actually initiates or increases these episodes. Of course, if any mentally ill person is given marijuana for the first time or without their knowledge, they might get scared and `freak.' Persons who suffer from severe psychological disorders often use marijuana as a way of coping. Because of this, some researchers have assumed that marijuana is the cause of these problems, when it is actually a symptom. If you have heard that marijuana makes people go crazy, this is probably why.

Is it true that marijuana makes you lazy and unmotivated? Not if you are a responsible adult, it doesn't. Ask the U.S. Army. They did a study and showed no effect. If this were true, why would many Eastern cultures,
and Jamaicans, use marijuana to help them work harder? `Amotivational syndrome' started as a media myth based on the racial stereotype of a lazy Mexican borracho. The prohibitionists claimed that marijuana
made people worthless and sluggish. Since then, however, it has been scientifically researched, and a symptom resembling amotivational syndrome has actually been found. However, it only occurs in adolescent teenagers -- adults are not affected.

When a person reaches adolescence, their willingness to work usually increases, but this does not happen for teenagers using marijuana regularly --even just on the weekends. The actual studies involved monkeys, not humans, and the results are not verified, but older studies which tried to show `amotivational syndrome' usually only suceeded when they studied adolescents. Adults are not effected.

Doesn't marijuana cause a lot of automobile accidents? Not really. The marijuana using public has the same or lower rate of automobile accidents as the general public. Studies of marijuana smoking while driving showed that it does affect reaction time, but not nearly as much as alcohol. Also, those who drive `stoned' have been shown to be less foolish on the road (they demonstrate `increased risk aversion'.) Recent studies have emphasized that alcohol is the major problem on our highways, and that illicit drugs do not even come close to being as dangerous.

But ... isn't today's marijuana much more potent than it was in the Sixties?
(Or, more often ... Marijuana is 10 times more powerful than it was in the Sixties!) GOOD! Actually, this is not true,
but if it were, it would mean that marijuana is safer to smoke today than it was in the Sixties. (More potent cannabis means less smoking means less lung damage.) People who use this statistic just plain do not know what they are talking about. Sometimes they will even claim that marijuana is now twenty to thirty times stronger, which is physically impossible because it would have to be *over* 100% Delta-9-THC. The truth is, marijuana has not really changed potency all that much, if at all, in the last several hundred years. Growing potent cannabis is an ancient art which has not improved in centuries, despite all our modern technology. Before marijuana was even made illegal, drug stores sold tinctures of cannabis which were over 40% THC.

Annual American Deaths From:

Tobacco.............400,000
Alcohol.............100,000
All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000
Caffeine..............2,000
Aspirin.................500
Marijuana.................0

MODERATE use of cannabis will raise the IQ in young users.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

Marijuana will not mess up your hormones.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...564&query_h1=1


Marijuana may protect your brain from Alzheimers.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/05...eut/index.html

"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known."
--Judge Francis Young of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

In terms of reducing brain cells, swimming is moe detremental to the brain than THC as while swimming you have to hold your breath.

In 1937 (the last year that marijuana was legal) only 100,000 Americans used marijuana. Now that marijuana is illegal, 30 million Americans use marijuana.

Educate.
Shrooms:thumbsup:

Shrooms Reviewed by Shrooms on 10-06-2006. Safe Or Not? True Marijuana Facts Yeah so I've been away for a while, I eased up on the smoking. I'm actually taking a break for school and football like I said, but I'm sure I'll be around sooner or later. I'd just like to leave everyone with this, maybe it can be stickied for everyone to see. Enjoy In america alone, 75,000 people are killed due to alcohol related incidents per YEAR. The death toll for smoking marijuana has yet to start. Delta 9-THC, the active cannaboid in marijuana smoke, is not physically or Rating: 5

[Shrooms]

by the way, many of these were supplied by the lovely Recreation Board. forgot to credit in the OP. thanks guys

[OniEhtRedrum781]

I copy/pasted/saved this into MS Word so I can slap it in the face of whoever I want, whenever I want, thanks...

[T®auma]

I copy/pasted/saved this into MS Word so I can slap it in the face of whoever I want, whenever I want, thanks...

I like it. I will take 2!:dance:

[Frivolous248]

Whoa, neato!

[Shrooms]

bump......5 stars please

[LIP]

All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000

Thats an interesting fact.

This proves that illegal drugs are better for you then legal ones. hahahaha. The government is fucked.

[IllusionalFate]

All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000

Thats an interesting fact.

This proves that illegal drugs are better for you then legal ones. hahahaha. The government is fucked.

Many more people use legal drugs than illegal ones, meaning that if the same number of people used illegal drugs as legal drugs, then the deaths from illegal drugs would most likely be much higher than from legal drugs. Most illegal drugs are probably less harmful than legal ones though if used correctly, and if they were legal they would be even more safe since they would be regulated.

[Shrooms]

Many more people use legal drugs than illegal ones, meaning that if the same number of people used illegal drugs as legal drugs, then the deaths from illegal drugs would most likely be much higher than from legal drugs. Most illegal drugs are probably less harmful than legal ones though if used correctly, and if they were legal they would be even more safe since they would be regulated.

read MACs post

[Maggz]

In a non-biased report... non-stoner biased, well I had a cold a week ago, and after a coupla fuckin bowls i felt nice.. until my buzz was gone i felt a bit better, got higher the next day .. results : NO MORE COLD!!!!!!!!!!