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Originally Posted by Hellion
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.
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THANKYOU! For saying that. Seriously. People need to read and understand the stuff personally whether they do it or not. That last phrase is why I don't believe in the gateway drug thing. I blame the dealers who people who aren't experienced in being careful who you trust especially your dealers. This goes for my state and it's still much very illegal here over in any other state. I feel we are in the dark ages still, like 1990 hasn't changed that pot is going to send you to hell and make you a communist. Seriously.
The cops who enforce these laws I know personally rather not spend time putting these people in jail, but they get paid anyways, so it's corrupted completely by the drugs they get. Sometimes we have reports of cops reselling the drugs somewhere else or burning/smoking it after arresting the people who possessed it. This isn't an uncommon thing too, and that didn't come from a friend, it came from an local county officer who pulls people over to arrest them for drug paraphenillia charges and felony drug possesion charges so on.
They all assume without even taking the time to understand what they are saying that marijuana has to be feared. That's why the government made propoganda videos before my time about marijuana. Seriously watch old say no to drugs about weed from the 90's on back. You'll get the trend what I mean, it was all for scare tactics and went off of loose info and usually was false on the other stuff. Just things that happen on face value to keep people in line.
See it all comes back to the individual and what I was getting too before getting off track there are dealers that will push harder drugs and keep on going to make more sales on taking other people's addiction issues for profits. Like a pharmacist to a person with a diabetic heart thyroid problem equivalent for regular check ups to the dealer. Then in many cases they'll kill you off if you come off as bad business and give you a discount on heroin and you OD and die. This happens up the road from me regularly.
I grew up around drugs and I know far more than most people when I was 12. I wasn't proud of it, and certainly did like the environment, but I found a lot of information that was very helpful. That the most important thing if you buy drugs for yourself you should know what you are putting into your body.
Legalizing weed would cut that joe down the gas station out of a job at least for laced weed issues.
I've had stuff laced and it was scary.
I don't do weed regularly, but very seldomly. I feel a dispensary is much safer than the local drug dealer.
Seriously think about it, what if you had a child who does weed and you don't know who he is buying it from or where it came from. I mean, I wouldn't condone the behavior and wouldn't shame my child if they got to the age and started doing drugs, the fact they weren't honest and careful would upset me more than doing weed.
It could be their best friend, who maybe as much as a drug pusher as the 40 year old man making a quick buck. It's a matter of trust when it comes to that anymore. I find that sketchy trust is the reason I don't bother doing it much, I'm afraid sometimes if I had money on me I'd get to buy some weed for a friend and i to share and then I get robbed at gunpoint for my money which happened to one of my friends or be led to get jumped and beat to death. Like I wish they legalize it, so this madness can stop I'm afraid of some of my friends getting shot for a a couple grams of purp.