Weed Is Bad for You. Okay, Now Prove It?
Question by Cory: Weed is bad for you. Okay, now prove it?
You cannot say that it’s bad because you know someone who died or went through rough times on it because of addiction. Theoretically, anything is addictive. You can get addicted to coffee, water, kool-aid, anything. Just because you knew someone who got addicted to it doesn’t mean I, or anyone else, -will-.
You cannot say it’s bad because it kills brain cells. The reason why you’re thinking this is because you probably heard or read somewhere that marijuana damages brain cells, or makes you stupid. These claims are untrue.
Marijuana killing brain cells is based on research done during the second Reefer Madness Movement. A study attempted to show that marijuana smoking damaged brain structures in monkeys. However, the study was poorly performed and it was severely criticized by a medical review board. Studies done afterwards failed to show any brain damage. In fact, a very recent study on Rhesus monkeys used technology so sensitive that scientists could actually see the effect of learning on brain cells, and it found no damage.
But this was Reefer Madness II, and the prohibitionists were looking around for anything they could find to keep the marijuana legalization movement in check, so this study was widely used in anti-marijuana propaganda. It was recanted later.
To this day, the radical anti-drug groups, like P.R.I.D.E. and Dr. Gabriel Nahas, still use it — In fact, America’s most popular drug education program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, claims that marijuana “can impair memory perception & judgement by destroying brain cells.”
The truth is, no study has ever demonstrated cellular damage, stupidity, mental impairment, or insanity brought on specifically by marijuana use — even heavy marijuana use. This is not to say that it cannot be abused, however.
Weed DOES cause memory loss, I’ll give you that. But only for the duration of your high. Once the high diminishes, your memory is in tact and fine.
You cannot say because it causes lung cancer. Most pot smokers smoke moderately, i.e casually. Casual smoking has NEVER been proven to cause any damage to your lungs, heart, or liver. Hell, alcohol is billions worse than marijuana. Alcohol is proven to cause liver disease, kidney failure, brain damage, and even death.
Basically, all you can say is that it will cause lung cancer if you smoke it all the time.
You can’t prove it’s harmful to you, so you result to insulting the stance of my question.
Nice!
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Answer by Jimminy J
I 100% agree with you on this. I’m not a pot smoker, but i agree with the fact that it is possibly one of the LEAST harmful drugs. You hear all thiss awful news about how smoking kills people, how alcohol kills people, and even how mcdonalds kills people, but pot? nothing more than “Phil McPhil got buted for growing a pot plant in his house.”
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