Posted on 06/06/2012 6:14:32 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
A third of people think cannabis is harmless, despite it being 20 times more carcinogenic to smoke than tobacco, according to a report published today (Wednesday).
Young people are particularly ignorant of the health dangers posed by smoking cannabis, found the British Lung Foundation.
The British Lung Foundation, which produced the report, said there was “an alarming disconnect” between public perception of the drug as safe, and “the serious, even fatal impact it can have”.
Almost nine in 10 people think tobacco cigarettes are more damaging to health than cannabis ones, found the BLF.
The charity reviewed existing scientific evidence on the health impacts of smoking cannabis, and reported there was strong evidence it contributed to diseases including lung cancer, tuberculosis and acute bronchitis.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection (20 times more carcinogenic, eh?)
Smoking pot, in moderation, doesn’t damage your lungs: U.S. study
I'm not saying that cannabis is harmless, but over the top propaganda is what's led to the attitude that this article is attacking - wrongly as it turns out. Reefer Madness, anyone? At any rate, the people who view it as "harmless" are a lot closer to the truth than these self-proclaimed "experts". Facts can be inconvenient at times.
Personally I'm convinced that it should be legalized - to whatever extent it replaces alcohol as a drug of choice it would be an improvement.
Reminder: don't shoot the messenger. ;-)
Legalize it. Make hemp legal again also.
Prohibition never works. Neither has the “war on drugs”.
Anti-Marijuana - Nothing Can Happen To You Too - Drug-Free America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy_knXF_G6c
I have never met anyone who smokes 40 marijuana cigarettes a day.
Not since Obama gave up that habit 10 or 15 years ago, anyway.
Okay then, what about, say, heroin?
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Legalize it and some rich guy will get richer selling psychoactive THC in nasal spray form. |
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Do you take heroin? Would you take heroin if it were legal? Do people take heroin now? Will being reminded that it is illegal cause them to stop? What about, say, heroin? |
I have never met anyone who smokes 40 marijuana cigarettes a day.
Forty cigarettes to a pack? How much pot do you smoke?
Do you?
Har har f-tard. I smoked more than a pack. My friends smoked more than that, ergo, I have met people who smoked 2 or more packs. Either you’re trying to be funny, an asshole, or you are the one on pot.
Comparing grapes and watermelons, vitiating any point they may have hoped to make.
Less (much less) of a pot cigarette is customarily smoked than a tobacco cigarette. And chain smoking pot is unheard of.
Smoke is a bad thing to inhale, and vaporizers offer a safer way to partake. But still.
Unless it's your goal to establish a Police State.
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Yes, you asked TheStickman a question. Perhaps he will answer it. I've asked you a few questions, will you answer them? |
Per the Tenth Amendment, I say get the feds out and let the states decide how to regulate heroin, as well as marijuana and alcohol.
Do you agree or disagree?
"Would you take heroin if it were legal?"--No.
"Do people take heroin now?"--Some, yes. The stupid ones.
"Will being reminded that it is illegal cause them to stop?"--Some, yes. The less stupid ones.
I remember back when I was a kid and they said that butter and eggs will kill you.. you know because anyone that eats eggs and butter dies so.. Then they discovered, over time that butter and eggs are not so bad and the alternatives were worse and not to mention they tasted like crap. Then we were told that paper bags were going to ruin the planet and plastic was better because of the landfill space, now we’re told that we need to use paper because plastic will kill the planet.
Sugar in soft drinks was going to kill us, then the sugar replacement was going to kill us, now since the replacement is going to kill us so we’re back to using sugar.
Coffee was going to kill us, now caffeine is actually beneficial and coffee is an antioxidant. First tuna was good, then too much will kill you, now it’s good again until it’s not. Aspirin was the cause of ulcers, it gets replaced by drugs that are supposed to be better but now since those drugs have more serious long-term effects we are seeing aspirin return as a miracle drug that actually helps the colon. Twenty years ago, you had to stay out of the sun because of cancer but now, we need sun to stave off cancer and other ailments so it’s good again. Aerosol sprays were going to kill us because they damaged the ozone layer, which we find out later that it wasn’t happening.
We should all have a natural skepticism on published scientific and medical “reports”. Until there are legit reports about the actual long term effects of MJ and the actual follow ups using different groups, we will never really know. All the stuff out now that say it’s safer than breathing regular air is just a bunch of agenda driven drivel. Inhaling smoke from a burning, tarry substance through your lungs was just fine, then it was bad and now inhaling an unfiltered, unregulated stinky, tarry substance to get an intoxicating effect is okay again until it’s not.
I’ll stay with common sense and assume that inhaling smoke from a cultivated smelly plant is probably not a good thing to do to your lungs.
I feel like Woody Allen in Sleeper..
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.
Bang!
Just kidding...I think alcohol is much worse than pot. I don’t do either,used to have a drink here and there in my past, but I never really liked the taste of it. Now that I have health issues, I am not even interested in even a glass of wine- just not my thing- but I am “addicted” to coffee.
So judging people who I have known who do both, alcohol is a nightmare and seems to really change people’s personalities, sometimes to the extreme.
Pot doesn’t seem to do that. I sometimes wouldn’t even know when someone was high, but I could always tell when someone had a couple of drinks.
Not a scientific survey, but just based on everyday life. I also think pot should be legal and treated like alcohol. I think one reason it can lead to other drug use, is because you have to hang out with or go to sometimes questionable people or street criminals to get it...so you’re introduced to the drug/criminal world.
And all the wasted money on the War on Drugs including pot, only to turn around and kind of sort of make it legal for medical reasons...it’s like they can’t decide what to do with it...crazy.
As a 50 year old person, I can attest that all the pot smokers I ever met or grew up with never amounted to crap.
They are either dead or in prison, or learned the error of their ways.
Pot makes you fat, lazy, and stupid. Not necessarily in that order.
Stupid is, as stupid does. Just keep on puffing on the rope, dumbasses.
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