Im in 7th grade and all my friends are going to try weed tomorrow. Should I try it?

Question

almost everyone in school does it so it cant be that bad. Is there any way to smoke too much and something bad happens?

Answer 1

people overexaggerate the bad effects of it.................just be careful dont get caught you cant overdose on it so dont worry about smoking too much

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 2

Let's see your other questions

Do I deserve an extremely attractive woman?

So heres the deal. Im 24 years old and am going to graduate college in about a year. My parents are millionaires, so one day I will be also, even if it is by default. Things came very easy for me in high school. I was good at sports, had lots of friends, new cars, and I am good looking (did some modeling j.crew/stucture/nike. blah blah) High school was all good and well and so was most of college. Now that Im getting older, I cant bank off all the superficial stuff I used to. Im pretty poor, too old for college, and have hardly any friends (being they all graduated and moved on) I can get an average girl easily but when I do I have no interest in them, which makes them go even crazier for me. I know I can get a beautiful girl but just not right now. I will be rich in a few years and I know I will be able to find my insainly georgous. When I meet an average girl I can get close because I expect more. What do i do????


You're 24 and in the 7th grade, no wonder you only get average or below average girls!

Answer 3

In a word NO.

While not getting into moral or legal areas, a person who is in 7th grade is to young to begin to experiment with drugs of any sort. Before you start attempting to "widen your horizons" or whatever they call it now, you should know what your horizons are, and at your age you simply do not have the experience to comprehend the experience. I am not trying to talk down to you, nor am I saying you are a stupid kid (the fact that you asked this question shows you are not stupid), I am just saying that before trying to change your perspective on reality you should be experienced enough to have a perspective on reality.

Now, for the health issues. Weed is less harmful than Alcohl, and there is little chance of the weed harming you, however, there have been cases of persons who get high and hurt themselves (or allow themselves to be hurt). You will be more susceptible to accidents and injury. Also, it will make you more susceptible to suggestions and some things that sound good when you are high will make you feel very guilty when you come down.

Peer pressure can be a strong force on a young person, but do not let it make you do someithng you know is wrong.

Answer 4

I don't care if you are teaching 7th grade don't do it. Speaking from experience weed will only slow you and your brain done. Don't ever do something just because everyone else is doing it. Weed does have many side effects that could affect you years from now. Don't try it and no other drug for that matter. Be the smart one, the mature one, the grown up one and say no. You could pass out if you smoke to much and be so high that you do something that you will regret when you come down off your high. Smoking impairs your decision making and your reaction time. Long term effects it will kill off your brain cells and make you not retain what you have learned in school. It can stay in your system for months and your parents can buy a home drug test and then you are busted. Be smart.

Answer 5

Marijuana does not make you stupid (permanently) nor does it make you "do bad things" like commit crimes (other than smoking weed itself).

It is a recreational habit for some people as well as a symbolic resistance to societal norms and a form of rebellion for others.

Is it Bad?
Depends what you call bad. I smoked weed for years and now I'm in college getting a 3.3 GPA. It alters the way in which your brain receives stimulation - therefore altering perception slightly.

I don't think its a bad drug nor do i dislike people who use it. I DON'T use it anymore myself though. I don't know what your faith would have you think about it though, but i strongly encourage you to get more information from many people on it.

There is some merit to be spoken for trying new things but I DON'T think you should try it. Don't get offended when i say that you are too young. I don't mean to imply that you cannot make your own decisions thats what being a 7th grader is about: Learning to do that. But believe me when i tell you that it is nothing special and you can get in A LOT of trouble. Just like with alcohol...
Some things worth trying to see if you like them should wait a few years and Marijuana is definitely one of them.

Answer 6

not a good idea and this is coming from a guy who really enjoyed the experience. At 13 you have so many chemical changes going on in your body it is not a good idea to mess with whats going on in there. There is some evidense that usage of mary Jo causes a change in ones Physical appearance and not in a good way. It does not affect your face butt well there are parts you may not want to stick out that could stick out a little too much. Stay home and play with yourself it will be just as fun and will not make changes in you that you can not predict or have control over.

Answer 7

No don't do it. Find some reason to not be with them. Misery loves company and I want to warn you, that once you start smoking that drug, you will eventually become hooked. Then these so called friends will want you to participate in something stronger. Please don't do it. It will ruin your life and your grades will go down hill. It also cause the user to become very angry and annoyed. Your parents do not want you to try this nasty stuff. Obey them. Do not listen to the friend, because they don't want to smoke it alone. Then they can blame it on to you. Pot is not good. Whoever says it is , is a looser. I will pray that you WON'T DO IT !!

Answer 8

So, if they jumped off a bridge you would too? It's bad for you. If you want something out of your life, then don't do it. Besides, if they are your friends, then they wouldn't force you to do it. Talk to your parents about it, let them tell you why it's not a smart idea to smoke weed. It ruins lives. If almost everyone in your school is doing it, it may be time to find a new school, and new friends.

Answer 9

One of your other questions states your age as 14. If you're 14 and in the 7th grade ... weed just ain't the right direction. It will make you even slower.

Answer 10

Just say no...

It reduces your control. It could make it easier for someone to take advantage of you. If MICROSCOPIC amounts of other chemicals or drugs are on it, it can be fatal. Many chemicals are fatal in doses < 1 milligram, particularly in a young person. To help you get an understanding of the amount of another chemical which can be harmful, 2/100's of a drop from a typical eye dropper is 1 mg. of water. - Take a drop of water, cut it in half, cut it in half again, cut it in half again, cut it in half AGAIN... that is still more than 1 mg.

Consider a prescribed drug called fentanyl. It is a pain reliever roughly on par with heroine, around 100 times stronger than morphine. In a person who has not been using the drug, half a milligram can be fatal...

Drug addicts have been known to add other drigs to marijuana leaves in an attempt to get a "better high" from the drug.

Answer 11

Please don't.

The "almost everyone does it" argument is monumentally stupid.

The truth about it is that trying it occasionally is not a big deal. But doing it more often can lead to huge problems. In particular, it can impair your judgements about other things that may be much ore serious. While you may think that you are grown up -- the truth is that you are still very young & ought to wait a while until you do things like this.