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Originally Posted by Justugh
opium is not natural it takes processing to make it up ( u can not pick and smoke the poppie flower)
weed u grow it ...u cut it ...u hang it ....u smoke it
coffee has more processing to it then weed does (grow it ..harvest berry..take bean out of berry...dry bean...roast bean...ground bean...pour hot water tho it )
for u to do harm with weed (od heart attack anything like that ) it takes u comsuming your bodyweight and half in less then a hour .this is a impossible feat do to the effects of it u will fall asleep before it gets that far .........panic attacks and freaks out do not count that is in the person head not in the reactions to the body
lady that tried it ...........u had something stronger then what u rem in the last few years the power has increase to near 25% thc ......back in the 90s the best out was maybe 14% ............if u ever do try it again go to a shop and ask for something high in CBDs and low in THC
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You kinda contradicted yourself slightly there with the Coffee requiring more processing because you literally compared Cannabis being naturally occurring to Coffee being naturally occurring.
The lines of "natural" are very blurred right now, but whatever way you look at it, Cannabis, Opium,
tobacco and the caffeine in coffee are all naturally occurring. Opium really doesn't require much processing as it has been used for thousands of years - way before chemical processing and refining existed. You can also take a tobacco leaf, hang it, dry it and smoke it straight away and it's pretty clear how harmful tobacco can be.
Some naturally growing plants are extremely toxic just to eat raw straight from the plant, which is as natural as you can get. So really, my point stands: just because something is natural, it doesn't mean it's healthy.
With that said I'm not against the consumption of Cannabis. My step father smokes it because it helps with the pain from his osteoarthritis but doesn't hhave a long lasting crappy feeling like the other stuff the doctor gave him. As for myself, I used to smoke it every day. But there have been too few studies and too few controlled trials to vouch 100% on the efficacy of the treatment of mental illness. Epilepsy we know is very well treated by Cannabis which is why a new drug containing Cannabis has been doing well in trials here in the UK for treating epilepsy.
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