I just picked up a pamphlet booklet thing called marijuana: facts for teen and it didn't really say anything bad about the drug. It has questions and asnwers and none of the answers say "Yes: blah blah blah marijuana is bad blah blah." Instead of yes it sayd it can because nothing about pot is fully proven to be un healthy. The booklet doesn't say anything bad about the brain or memory besides the short term crap. It's a pretty cool booklet I think. If you get the chance you should get one. If you're still in school get one form your health teacher.
You think you could scan some of it man? I dont have a health teacher! And its always good to see some pamphlets that arent total ashcroft propaganda!
it's an inhaled drug, it can't be all that great for your lungs. even with erowid, i still wonder about the reliabilty of theses sites/books/etc. like the dea claims: [size=-1]May cause frequent respiratory infections, impaired memory and learning, increased heart rate, anxiety, panic attacks, tolerance, and physical dependence.2[/size] [size=-1]Use of marijuana during the first month of breast-feeding can impair infant motor development.3[/size] [size=-1] Chronic smokers may have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers including daily cough and phlegm, chronic bronchitis symptoms, frequent chest colds; chronic abuse can also lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissues.4[/size] [size=-1]A study of college students has shown that skills related to attention, memory, and learning are impaired among people who use marijuana heavily, even after discontinuing its use for at least 24 hours.5[/size]
Yea, Its almost impossible to find an unbiased source out there. Although I do have a great example of one. The book is entitled: JUST SAY KNOW! Its great. It has this whole "relearn everything about drugs" type dilio going on. So it gives you unbiased scientific studys cocnerning numerous tyes of drugs. I think its written by a couple of harvard professors, or some other glitsy college. chek it out.
A recent article in High Times talks a lot about the health issues involved with smoking pot, and there is a few of them.
sometimes when im high like now i wonder why is weed illegal in most countries and y do they ignre the advantges of weed and talk bout the bad? wel i came up with these reasons firstly if everyone smokes weed well 99.9% of the population will be happy. government hates happy people coz when u happy u content. dont ask me the reasoning behind that coz i cant remebmer also when u happy u relaxed therefore no stress & worries and other shit. stress contributes alot to a unhealthy body. here all the big drug companies lose out. well that makes little sense to me but fuck that took a long time to type
When you inhale anything, it's not good for your lungs. Cigars and cigerettes are worse then weed. Alcohol is also worse, if u have to much alcohol you could get alcohol poisoning and possibly die. The only thing weed could do to you is make you drousy and pass out. If you down a few cold ones, then smoke a blunt, then smoke a cigerette, you will get crunked as hell!
What about inhaling fresh air? Surely you can't do without that. What about not smoking the herb, but instead vaporizing the herb, which does not release the tar or carcinogens, only the beautiful cannabinoids? In fact marijuana is a expecterant and actually helps clear out the lungs. It also has been known to stop asthma attacks with just one or two hits. Did you know it is better for your lungs to smoke marijuana if you smoke tobacco? Probibally not.
The average cigarette smoker consumes more tar than the average bud smoker does on a daily basis. Just because the average cigarette smoker smokes more cigarettes than the average bud smoker smokes bowls.
ive seens smokers down like 5 packs a day. come on, you're breathing in cigarettes 1/2 the day!!! you might as well just shoot yourself!
indeed it helps clear the nasties out of your lungs and undoes some of the potential damage cigs would do you. to living legends: indeed marijuana does have more tar than cigs but not as much tar is deposited. marijuana opens up the bronchi which expels more tar than normal breathing, while tobbacco closes the bronchi which means you expell less tar per breath after a smoke than you would exhaling normally. besides, tar isnt the main detrement to smoking tobbacco.
