Some of the beliefs people have about pot smoking are so messed up, are you people for real?

Question

I'm reading about people staggering and not being able to form sentences , getting all kinds of weird side effects.You people don't really believe that do you? Because if you do you definitly should avoid if because you already have enough problems with reality.

Weather it should be illegal is another matter but it should be legal long before alcohol .Pot isn't a gateway drug to anything except munchies.Get drunk and you will do anything...

Answer 1

i totally agree with you some people are so uneducated on there issue......yet they still love to run their mouths. there's no reason why pot would make you stagger around or trip out or do any of the outrageous things people claim. its retarded people like that that make it so pot a relatively harmless drug is still illegal. 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

I know what you mean, I hate it when I hear that kind of stuff. Alcohol is more harmful to your health than pot could ever be. And alcohol kills, whether it's when you get behind the wheel drunk or you think you're bulletproof and start the wrong fight or you get cancer or heart disease. My husband and I smoke on a regular basis and our lives are great. We both work full time and I exercise 6 days a week and he plays softball and fishes a lot. I think people get the idea in their head that pot smokers just sit on the couch all day and stare at the tv. I know plenty of pot smokers that are very productive (at work and at home) and they show up to work every day, on time. Anyone that blames pot for making them lazy, was all ready lazy in the first place.

Answer 3

nothing has ever happened like that to me when i used to smoke it!
My memory actually got better, i spoke proper queens English, i was a whole different person a better one than i am now and was before i smoked it!

2 of my friends have smoked it everyday continuously since they were 11! they are 26 and 24 now and they have perfect memories, speech and walking skills!

The only reason i stopped smoking anything was out of respect for my auntie who died of lung cancer! so after she passed i gave up the pot and smoking!

Answer 4

My sister is 50 now and she has smoked pot since she was 26. She falls down all the time. She forgets things. She has gotten very heavy from all the over eating shes done from smoking it. She is also very untrustworthy, you cant count on her. I believe its all from her habit.

Answer 5

i have never done any kind of drug (i am 36) i believe that anything that makes u get hooked on it is bad for u.
so avoid it by not doing it the first time. besides, it costs too much money to keep up w/ any such habits.

Answer 6

i used to smoke every single day for about two years. i just have trouble remembering things like if a friend asked me to hang out or something. no major problems.


.. but every individual is different

Answer 7

I feel it should be treated like cigarettes.But i also believe cigarettes sale should be banned.

Answer 8

Honest, Ossifer, had I known what it would do to me, I never would have smoked one.