my parents thought they had me

[R0lliN_StOneD]

my dad came to me last night with an article that he had found that talked about the effects of marijuana on the human body...heres some of the bullshit that he read to me...

3 joints of marijuana is the equivelent of 112 tobacco cigarrettes in terms of cancer causing affects...BULLSHIT

smoking marijuana as a teenager completely stops brain development causing minor retardation as an adult...mostly BULLSHIT

and it said some other things too about how it makes it so you cant have kids and shit...

anyways he was like...well now that you know what your doing to yourself do you wanna continue killing your body?

i said gimme a minute dad, hopped online and googled the effects of weed...printed off the first article i found and had him read it which was the exact opposite saying that tabaco is much more harmful than weed and a bunch of other pro weed stuff...he read it then looked at me and was like...well just cus someone wrote an article about it doesnt make it true...i said MY POINT EXACTLY im not gonna make a decision based on some bullshit article im gonna decide if i want to do it for myself...its not like i dont understand its bad for you in some ways...thing is though...i just dont give a fuck

[RealizeLegalizeHarmonize]

FUCK!!! when will people fucking learn that WEED ISNT THAT HARMFUL! its all the bullshit propaganda coming from the police and "Mothers against drugs" type associations.. makes me so fucking mad....

[jackel]

i will say that cannabis does have more cancer shit. however a regular smoker doesnt smoke as many joints as a cigg smoker does ciggs. so basically it balences itself out in that field.
however, marijuana has been studied for years for its health benefits. check out this site
http://www.medmjscience.org/Pages/scien ... tates.html
shows a list of some of the early studies that showed health improvements for patients.

[Anaris]

Scientists can't agree on whether it causes cancer or not yet, I'm told. Apparently it's difficult to determine without longitudinal studies because of the effects weed has on your lungs.

And, any direct numbers comparison between cigarettes and joints is bullshit.

[StickyIcky_BB]

i dont believe marijuana has any cancer causing chemicals in it. well there may be some in it, but alot of veggies have cancer causing chemicals in it too. but i dont see every vegan getting cancer now do you? i do believe in getting other cancers only related to having any kind of smoke substance in your body/lungs. marijuana has been around for thousands of years,if it did cause any kind of cancer, you would figure we would know by now.

[magnus]

yea thats bullshit people dont know the facts and the truth; I hate the government and its propaganda to stop marijuana fuck them

[Anaris]

Burn any organic material and you get carcinogens. Studies have shown that cannabis produces more tar and burns at a higher temperature than tobacco, but there's studies that suggest some of the cannabinoids actually protect against cancer. In other words, until somebody legalises cannabis and carries out a genuine longitudinal study, nobody'll really know.

[King Bong]

Most of the research 2 ban pot was done by oil companies who wanted Hemp off the market cos it was better than their synthetic fibres, bunch of corporate wanks

[DaMan15]

see if it was legal there wouldnt be this argument about who is right

[mango cigarellos]

yeah the government fucked up in the 70s when they made weed illegal because they didnt kno any thing about it and they just wanted it to stop. if weed were to just started today it would be made legal to buy like cigarettes
so blame the hippies but if it wasnt illegal then i wouldnt have started hahahah

[Dr. Gonzo]

yeah the government fucked up in the 70s when they made weed illegal because they didnt kno any thing about it and they just wanted it to stop. if weed were to just started today it would be made legal to buy like cigarettes
so blame the hippies but if it wasnt illegal then i wouldnt have started hahahah

dude im pretty sure that weed was outlawed in the 30's, not the 60's

[magnus]

yeah the government fucked up in the 70s when they made weed illegal because they didnt kno any thing about it and they just wanted it to stop. if weed were to just started today it would be made legal to buy like cigarettes
so blame the hippies but if it wasnt illegal then i wouldnt have started hahahah

no
weed was made illegal in 1972, but before that it was legal but you had to have a stamp to have it and to get the stamp you had to have bud so it was self incrimination and therefore outlawed, but the reason that it was made illegal to have w/o stamp because of the ignorance about the drug and racism of the mexicans b/c they would smoke it in the fields when they worked and we hated mexicans and so we hated weed b/c we thought it made people crazy

so no dont blame the hippies

[beef]

it wasent illegal until 1972? i thought it was illegal a long time before that

[magnus]

it wasent illegal until 1972? i thought it was illegal a long time before that

reas what i wrote, technically it wasnt illegal until 1972 but before that(all states did this at different times from 1900-1930) it was legal ONLY if you had a stamp and to get a stamp from the gov you had to have weed and since you had weed they arrested you so it was self incrmination meaning that your making yourself a criminal by following the law and that was illegal so it went through the supreme court and shit so it was legal for like a few months before they made that drug act in 1972 that made it illegal

[stiky dodo dumb]

well i beleave its been determined that marijuana smoke contains the same omount of carcinogens as tobacco. but they also say the reson the average cigg is better for you then a tipical joint is bacaus its got a filter, becaus as most of us know tobacco today is full of deadly chemicals, known carcinogens and all around hazardus material. also not every joint you roll is gonna be a gram joint, well i found out that one cigg contains exactly one gram of dry tobacco. so like jackel said we doint smoke nearly as much ciggs and pot joints, think about it one carton of ciggortes is almost a half pound of tobacco. wich coust only 40 bucks at the most, and 7 ounces can go for about 1,500 if you find the right guy. what im trying to get at is that a 1/4 ounce can often times be a greater help then a whole carton of smokes, or atleast a full ounce. i mean my dad goes through two cartons a month, thats over a pound of tobacco, if he wasnt soo heavely addicted he might just get my with only a few ounces of pot.

also vaporizors are slowly changing the way people consume pot, well atleast in the medical feild. vaporization eliminats over 90% of the cansrious tars and other by-products of combustion. i cant really say anything on whether it stunts brain developmant, that you can research on your own. but what i do know is that not only will smokeing pot thoeretically lead to cancer, emphisema or other repetory track infections. smokeing is very bat for you and is something you need to think about befor you just light up. my mom once told me that ciggs are just another way to slowly suficate and end your life sooner then it needs to, well she doesnt think so but i see pot as just as bad. given that tobacco is laced with rat poison and formeldihyde, pot smoke clogs your lungs with just as much tar as any form of unfiltered tobacco.

and the thing about that marijuana stamp tax was not only that you needed a stamp to buy grow or posses but they didnt ever make them avalable to enybody. so ya prohabition started in the 30's, prohabiton of medical and recreational use as well as industrial production of hemp. the only thing the CSA ever did was clasify cannabis with all other dangerious halucinogens, not that pot was dangerious or halucinogenic but they needed somewher for it to go.