JokerNick said:
weed will give you cancer... look it up
But be careful who you look up. American studies, particularly those conducted by the government (and in the USA, that pretty much means every study) are notoriously biased against marijuana because they're funded by a government that gets money from keeping drugs illegal, and by the tobacco lobby, which also makes money by keeping drugs illegal.
American studies traditionally make the mistake of assuming that the average marijuana smoker smokes as much weed as the average tobacco smoker smokes tobacco. That is not true, of any but the most ridic stoner. I don't even think I've met a stoner who smoked that much weed. But this is the stoner that they base their studies on.
If you look at a real study, which examines the effects of marijuana use on the average weed smoker, you'll find that the risk of cancer is there, because weed smoke does have more carcinogens and is held in the lungs longer, but because so much less is smoked, the risk is significantly, significantly, SIGNIFICANTLY lower. Like, it's not gonna ****in' happen.
Brain cell destruction is also considerably less than that of alcohol and harder drugs, and recent studies actually suggest that weed grows brain cells.
JokerNick said:
the hole myth of "weed" not causing cancer is that people don't chain smoke weed
Right, which basically makes it not a myth.
Equint77 said:
ecstacy gets you ****ed up without feeling ****ed up..ecstacy gets you ****ed up without feeling ****ed up..
That wasn't ecstasy that you tried, son. Ecstasy is beeeeeyyyyyyde.
I personally smoke cigs and weed, and drink like a fish. But I'm fully aware that the healthiest of these habits, by far, is weed. I also know that I'll quit all three if/when I have kids. My half-sister's dad was a super-stoner when he was raising her and it was not good for her. So in that respect, drugs, including nic and alcohol, are bad. I don't think I could be a good father if I had to take a break from raising my kids to grab a cig, or if I couldn't get through the day without a jay, or a shot.
Know what's awesome, though? Shrooms, dude. Nonaddictive (well, psychologically they probably can be), non-carcinogenic, and they will **** you up, but good. Man, I had a conversation with Superman, watched rocks breathing, got in a boxing match with reality, pursued my best friend across the Utah Canyonlands, Gunslinger-style, for at least a month, and totally re-centered myself, philosophically and theologically, all in one afternoon at the Canyonlands. Now that's good clean fun.
