Is it ok to smoke marijuana?

Question

Isnt tobacco way worse than weed?

Answer 1

Nope. Weed is illegal.

Answer 2

It depends on what you mean by "okay."

Marijuana is illegal, tobacco is not (though it seems to be becoming that way). Thus, smoking tobacco (on your own time) will not cost you a job, a professional license or your reputation. Smoking marijuana, technically, could do all these things.

Fail a drug test for a job, and odds are you don't get (or keep) the job...they test for marijuana, they do not test for tobacco.

There was a UCLA study that showed that marijuana users suffered less lung cancer than tobacco users. However, "less" is always a weird word...because it DOES cause lung cancer...just "less" than tobacco.

However, the flip side is that marijuana is proven, in quite a few scientific studies (including another UCLA one) to have medicinal values and often works better for pain with chronically ill patients than many of the heavy narcotics...plus, is about 99% non-addictive.

The general rule is that it's non-addictive, however, there have been a few exceptions. Plus, anything if it's abused enough tends to become either a physical or psychological addiction.

If you have been prescribed for medicinal use in a state or country that has okayed such practices then technically it is "okay," however as a country the US has said no to the practice (So, some states say yes...the country says no...but, it is up to states to enforce it...so, while the country may say no...nobody will arrest you if the state says yes! How's that for confusing?)

Answer 3

yes, tobacco is worse than weed but smoking marijuana is illegal. So neither of them is ok.

Answer 4

Don't worry about marijuana or tobacco, worry about cigarrettes which contain way more chemicals than tobacco and marijuana. At least tobacco and marijuana are natural products. Although, laws don't see it the way we do. I agree with you.

Answer 5

Cigarettes are worse health wise. But weed is bad because it is illegal and you could wind up in prison for a very long time and ruin your life. So i would say don't do either because both can mess you up.

Answer 6

marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 7

No it is not o.k. to smoke marijuana! Whether you smoke marijuana or tabacco, the quality of life is decreased, by the person smoking and any people around them when they smoke. We should do things that strengthen the quality of life, not weaken it.

Answer 8

Weed is actually 10x more potent than cigaretts. Neither are good for you...but they are fun! And I almost have to agree with "them" it can be a gateway drug...especially if you start young.

Answer 9

no...coz it's bad for your brain....although in some countries, smoking marijuana is not illegal...some say it really affects your brain...

Answer 10

Its ur life do u really need to ask other people if its ok!