is pot honestly bad for you?

Answer 1

Is BEER, COCAIN, WISKEY, CAGERETTES... I dont beleive you need me to ans that.... ROB

Answer 2

first of all i am a pot advocate. I also live with a disease where i take many meds and smoking a joint helps for nausea, or an appetite or lack of. Many people believe that drivel,but the truth is it doesn't matter what or who you are when disease strikes there's nothing you can do about it.A health fitness dropped dead from a heart attack. Lot of good all that exercise and living right did him. So to end i say it may not be for everyone but for the ones that choose, leave us alone and stop passing judgment.And just for that i'll challenge anyone to a game of scrabble or other word games.Oh wait i need a toke first. Have a nice day. P s, read what "tarvold" says.

Answer 3

Honestly, anyone who thinks pot is bad for you has not done enough research (if any at all). Those who actually believe that pot kills brain cells are misguided people who believe everything their preachers tell them. The American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect if the AMA thought marijuana damaged the brain.

Secondly, pot smoking does not cause tar build up in the lungs. Granted, inhaling any kind of smoke regularly will lead to lung cancer. However, pot does not contain the additives and chemicals that cigarettes do. Marijuana is not processed in any way other than drying it out with either an oven or sunlight. Last I checked, cigarettes contain tar, arsenic, and all sorts of crap. Pot is ALL NATURAL.

Third, no one has ever died from a pot overdose. Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e., stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana as you needed to get stoned. In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. It is easy to see how upwards of 5000 people die from alcohol overdoses every year and no one EVER dies of marijuana overdoses.

Finally, marijuana is NOT a gateway drug. A real world example of what happens when marijuana is readily available can be found in Holland. The Dutch partially legalized marijuana in the 1970s. Since then, hard drug use-heroin and cocaine-have DECLINED substantially. If marijuana really were a gateway drug, one would have expected use of hard drugs to have gone up, not down. This apparent "negative gateway" effect has also been observed in the United States. Studies done in the early 1970s showed a negative correlation between use of marijuana and use of alcohol. A 1993 Rand Corporation study that compared drug use in states that had decriminalized marijuana versus those that had not, found that where marijuana was more available-the states that had decriminalized-hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. In short, what science and actual experience tell us is that marijuana tends to substitute for the much more dangerous hard drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.

Answer 4

Like alcohol, chocolate, or surfing the net -- some people have a responsible relationship with marijuana while others let it interfere with daily functioning. I was a steady user for about 20 years, and it doesn't seem to have done me any serious harm.

I have known people that had zero sense about smoking the stuff -- too dumb to say "No thanks, I'm on my way to work and getting high is a bad idea." But don't balme pot for that, blame stupid for that.

Answer 5

It's bad for you in a sense where it alters your reality and interferes with your function to think and make rational decisions. Of course, drinking and driving seem to be worst than being high while driving.

A cigarette does not alter your sense of reality but it contains far more bad chemicals than marijuana. Perhaps cigarette is bad for you physically and pot is bad for you mentally.

Answer 6

if you take it in minimum, then everything is good for you, from alcohol to pot. i'm talking the natural stuff; anything artifically put in just is bad no matter how much you ingest.

moderation is the key to life. too much of anything is bad:

-too much alcohol destroys your inhibitions and cells, leading to an extreme increase in cancer (but one bottle of beer a day is beneficial to your health)
-too much coffee or other caffeinated beverage overhypes your system, which leads to an increased effacing of coordination and nerves over time (but one coffee/soda a day will not do you harm)
-drinking too much water will overflow into your lungs and you would then drown (but 10-12 glasses a day is more than adequate)
-too much marijuana destroys your system and your brain functions (but an ounce a day is enough to relax your body without adverse short- and long-term effects)

I'm not saying that its okay to do these things. but as you can see, too much of anything, good or bad, is just bad in the end. as long as you are aware of the effects and don't binge, then things get good. trust me.

Answer 7

there are studies that show that as previously thought, smoking pot is NOT as bad as "smoking 20 cigarettes at a time".....
it has recently been shown to increase immunity to certain things and to, of course, be a help for chronic pain and cancer.


Of course, it IS smoke that you are taking into your body, and if you have ever seen the THC resin on a marijuana pipe or the end of a joint, that's what your lungs look like.....so it is bad and good....


plus, it's fun =)

Answer 8

Yes, It contains Diesel, which by inhaling the fumes of damages your lungs, and leave carbon monoxide on your red blood cells which have nowhere to go so as don't move and do not let oxygen on, plus the long term effects are schizophrenia and other mental disorders

Answer 9

What is it?
Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. It can be eaten in certain foods or smoked. It is an illegal drug.

What does it do?
The effects vary from person to person depending on how strong the marijuana is, how it's taken and whether other drugs or alcohol are involved. At first, pot can make people feel relaxed, in a good mood and even silly. Users will likely experience dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, some loss of coordination and poor sense of balance, and slower reaction times, along with intoxication. Blood vessels in the eye will expand causing the red-eye effect. NIDA

Smoking marijuana may impair short-term memory while people are using the drug. This happens because all forms of marijuana contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active chemical in marijuana, which alters the way the brain works. After a few minutes, paranoia or anxiousness may set in, then intense hunger (a.k.a. the munchies). Finally, sleepiness. NCADI For some people, marijuana raises blood pressure slightly and can double the normal heart rate. This effect can be greater when other drugs are mixed with marijuana.

Marijuana affects memory, judgment and perception even in the short-term, as was found in a study conducted by Pope and Yurgelun-Todd published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can mess you up in school, in sports or clubs, or with your friends. Several studies, including one reported a few years ago in the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that if you're high on marijuana, you are more likely to do things that could embarrass or even hurt you-such as driving under the influence or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. For athletes, THC's effect on timing, coordination, and movement-which can last for several hours-can seriously hurt performance. NCADI

Over the long term, smoking pot can cause you to lose interest in how you look and how you're getting along at school or work. NCADI It can also be much worse for your respiratory health than smoking cigarettes; the amount of tar, carbon monoxide, and cancer-causing chemicals inhaled in marijuana smoke are three to five times greater than that inhaled from the same amount of tobacco smoke. (NIDA Infofax)

It's important also to remember that marijuana is an addictive drug, responsible for about 60% of all the teenagers who seek admission to drug treatment centers in the U.S. Smoking marijuana leads to some changes in the brain similar to those caused by cocaine, heroin and alcohol. (Di Chiara's study-in NIDA information). Research at the University of Columbia demonstrates that people who regularly smoke marijuana experience withdrawal symptoms after they stop using it.




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Answer 10

yes and no, Cigs are worst i have a father that works for the goverment and he has sown me test done on people, 10,000 peope somed pot and 10,000 somked cigs all of there life [from 18 til death] the adverage age for cigs death was 56 and for pot 83. Dose that say any thing?

Answer 11

If you treat it like pot I’d say it’s bad for you. You must be certain it’s good for you and only you can answer that for yourself.

By that I mean I use it before weight training and I feel great.