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Originally Posted by Slamjammer
I have no issues with "medical marihuana", in PILL form, prescribed by a real doctor and treated as any other controlled substance. I do have an issue with it otherwise, as it is simply an entre to recreational use which I oppose. Why? Because there is considerable clinical evidence that it can produce adverse neurological side effects, especially in younger people. In other words, it can rot your brain. Also, in urban areas with a lot of drug trafficking, weed becomes a gateway to other drugs. I have overheard "hey if you like weed, you should try this...or that", on many occasion. It never leads to a good result.
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It is not as effective for the conditions it treats in pill form as a rule, there is a THC pill and from what I understand its said to have negative side effects and people complain of it being 'too strong' sounds pretty weird to me...I think I prefer natural plant matter to some pill with all the added fillers and whatever else they'd add to it...but its not just that I have actually done some research on that and from what I understand it works best in its plant form whether that's vaporizing, smoking, edibles or whatever as opposed to a pharmaceutical pill...there are other helpful chemicals in cannabis like CBD in addition to the THC as well as other plant alkoliods or whatever that can also have an effect on the effects of the strain, different strains can have varying effects.
Also as far as I can tell there is no substantial evidence that cannabis causes neurological damage...some people theorize it but as far as they can tell it may have an effect on brain development but they don't know what that effect is, it certainly does not 'rot' your brain if anything alcohol probably is more likely to do that and everyone seems fine with that being legal so I don't get how people oppose a less harmful substance being legal as it makes no sense for it to be a crime for someone to relax and smoke a joint regardless of their reason....as for it contributing to mental health issues all they have found is correlation which could also be partially accounted for by people self medicating untreated conditions or conditions that aren't being treated effectively.
As for weed being a gateway drug, I cannot say I experienced that...first drug I ever really remember having much interest in was LSD when I was like 15 then tried it when I was 20 as I was curious about it for 5 years but before that drank, smoked weed a couple times and started smoking cigarettes don't even know what the 'gateway' was.