You forgot some marijuana symptoms: Paranoia, hunger, easily-triggered sense of humor…
And get out of here with that "never killed anyone" stuff. If nothing else, you smoke enough of it, you're gonna get lung cancer just like with tobacco.
Marijuana isn't as bad as some think it is, no, but it's not the panacea others think it is either. (But no, it should not be prohibited.)
"Paranoia, hunger, easily-triggered sense of humor" symptoms? Paranoia like what Percocet does? The primary doctor prescribed pain killer after surgery, etc.? Or do you mean the paranoia and hallucination inducing nerve drugs they gave my wife? She was seeing people standing in our house watching her, a shadow in the corner, and a blood covered man standing next to the bed. Are those drugs okay because a doctor gave them?
I mean... wow, cannabis sounds absolutely horrible. Sheesh! /sarc
I'm not saying pot is worse than other drugs, especially synthetic ones. But the OP is entirely one-sided in regards to its effects.
Hunger and laughing easily are pretty horrible side effects. haha
The stuff literally saved my wife's life, so I'll admit I'm biased. She NEVER had paranoia from it either. I'm not sure where that side effect idea is coming from. Maybe people are getting it laced with something.
We are not enemies here either and are mostly on the same side. :) It's my meat sack, right? Let me do with it what I wish.
Do as you wish. My objection here is not about marijuana per se. It's about the OP's hagiographic presentation of it.
And I got the paranoia bit from family members who have done it and told me what it does to them, so yeah, maybe it doesn't happen for everyone. Never touched the stuff myself.
Actually it is Dr Tashkin who did a longterm studay and at one time he did beleive thier was lasting damage becasue the effects were immediatly shown after smoking the Cannabis. After this largest longest study done was completed Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage for Cannabis users.
It also showed a preventative measure against Cancers for even longterm smokers more than those who do not smoke at all.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/10/study-smoking-marijuana-not-linked-with-lung-damage/
I'm sorry, but the mere idea that repetitively inhaling smoke of any sort, no matter what has been burned, could do no damage to lungs just fails the common sense test. With all due respect, I think you might be allowing your advocacy to blind you a little.
Could it be that smoking does cause damage, but that the anti-carcinogenic properties of marijuana effectively cancel out the effect?
Study: Vaporization Offers Attractive Alternative to Smoked Cannabis@nocturnal, Cannabis consumption now includes oral/edible, smoked/combustion, and vaporizing. Many studies are being done at this time. Here's a recent study released just a month ago:
everything in moderation can be a good thing. Abusing good things can be bad.
Zero humans will die from cannabis this year, but 50k people or more will die this year from solely alcohol poisoning. Severe Cannabis "addicts" become moody when they don't use cannabis. Severe Alcoholics can't stop drinking or it will kill them. It is legal to consume alcohol and prescription pills that are prescribed, but in many cases abruptly stopping usage in those with dependency can kill them. Heroin addicts get sick from withdraw; alcohol is one of the only drugs that can kill a human from stopping use. But it's legal, so can't be that bad, right?
Government says cannabis is illegal and has no beneficial use; owns patent for use of non-psychoactive cannabinoids - see patent #6,630,507 on USPTO site 😎
I am all for people formulating their own opinions and I appreciate that we won't all agree. However, cannabis has not killed anyone in 10,000 years of use and there is not one shred of evidence that says otherwise. Not a single one. How long did it take the medical field to learn the adverse affects of alcohol abuse? Oh, that ALL happened after prohibition.. So not long. We can document deaths from alcohol because it actually causes death. The reason it has yet to be documented, even ONCE, for cannabis clearly shows that cannabis itself cannot kill you. I believe it has been found that it would take a human ingesting 1,500lbs of cannabis in 15 minutes to kill them. HA! Eat 100 lbs of McDonalds and that will kill you much faster.
We can agree to disagree, but I side with you in that it should not be prohibited. It is clearly and blatantly NOT prohibited in the best interest of our health; it's the best interest of their wallet. Why else would they buy the "land" to build on later? Thank you for contributing to the conversation / debate. It's a start 😉