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Originally Posted by salukigirl
Anything you breathe into your lungs that is not Oxygen, Nitrogen or Carbon is a carcinogen. Period. THC is what is called a secondary metabolite. So is nicotine. Secondary metabolites are things plants produce that are intended to be poisonous and are to a lot of animals - but not humans. A lot of people like to think that they smoke weed and, since its "natural", it wont hurt them but it causes the same thing as smoking natural tobacco.
The thing is - EVERYTHING causes cancer. And nobody can agree on anything. We all drank water out of Nalgenes thinking this is better for the environment because we are wasting plastic bottles etc... but those have BPA.....which causes cancer.
My point being - everything has good parts and bad parts. Anything in excess is bad. Pot has been medically shown to help with a lot of things. Each individual needs to decide whether the bad things are worth it for the good. Right now, my smoking tobacco - lung problems outweigh the possibility of me going postal on someone lol. So anytime my parents tell me that its bad for me I say "would you rather me kill people? Cause you take away my nicotine and it will happen" lol
And I think that saying that all meth heads have smoked pot is a slippery slope. You can't say that pot is a gateway drug because hardcore drug users have all smoked it. Those people have probably done everything under the sun. I know many more people that smoke pot without ever moving on to anything else than people who use it and suddenly go "oh my....crack would be good!" It's just not plausible.
Someone should really go look up the history of hemp and weed and why it was originally outlawed in the first place. Hemp proves to be useful for everything timber is, and for much cheaper. The timber industry was in danger of loosing their business because of this crop that could take over for everything timber did. So a lot of money was put into campaigning for how awful it was (Hence the movie Reefer Madness).
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Anything you SMOKE is bad for your lungs. Period. Even if you use a water pipe or a vaporizer (turns out that joints are actually the safest way to smoke it); ingesting it orally is THE safest way to use marijuana. THC itself, though, is NOT carcinogenic. In fact, it's much better if you smoke good quality weed that has a higher THC content, because that means you have to smoke less to get the same effect.
http://abovetheignorance.org/faq.html#a17
And yup, EVERYTHING today causes cancer. Not too long ago, there was that cell-phone scare, because apparently, CELL PHONES cause cancer too. Click link above. ^ ^ ^ Feel free to read the rest of the page while you're there.
I agree wholeheartedly. ANYTHING is bad for you if it's not done in moderation. If you're going to smoke marijuana for recreational use, rule number one, it needs to be done in moderation. Rule number two, it needs to be smoked for the right reasons; if you smoke marijuana to escape from your problems, then it's being used as a coping mechanism and is not getting anything solved. But there is a difference between using it to avoid/escape from your problems and using it as a way to unwind at the end of a hard week with the good company of some friends. People do the same thing with alcohol. Though alcohol is definitely worse for you than marijuana, if someone gets drunk every day after work, then it's probably alcoholism. But if someone goes to a bar every once in a while (for their birthday, for instance) and drinks with friends to have fun, it's not seen as a problem. Like I said, pot is NOT physically addicting. AT ALL. PERIOD. One DOES NOT go through withdrawal symptoms after discontinuing use; while it can be psychologically addicting, people who supposedly go to rehab to recover from their "marijuana addiction" most likely were made to go even though it was not needed, or they were also using harder drugs that actually do require rehab.
http://abovetheignorance.org/faq.html#a20
Here are the uses of hemp. Same page, just feel free to read more... :P
http://abovetheignorance.org/faq.html