If you've never smoked pot....are you qualified to tell other people its effects?

Question

conrange...

Does this mean we ban every drug that has POTENTIAL psychological side effects regardless of any POTENTIAL good it may offer to others (chronically ill cancer patients lookin for some pain releif, etc.)? Also, you can consume THC via pill, or inhale from a vaporizer and it will have zero effect on your lung health.

I really don't think smoking marijuana can be legitamately equated with drowing or going down in a plane crash.....Mainly because the 'effects' of marijuana are not asphyxiation or dying in a blazing inferno. As for this being a moronic question....why did you waste your time answering it?

Answer 1

I've never smoked it so I would never say how it effects anyone since I don't know.

What I do know is how it would effect my son if he tries it. I am then qualified to kick his a s s. "My house, my rules" type things. If I can live without ever "experimenting" with pot, so can he.

Answer 2

You fall into a category of what seems to be a shrinking population of none weed smokers. I guess that's good in a sense. Yes drugs are bad but, weed isn't terrible. It's not bad for your body like other drugs or even cigarettes though it's affects impair you. When your high, your in altered stated mind like if your were drunk. For some, that's good thing but for others it has led to trouble. Do you really need to smoke? Do you really need to use a substance to have a good time or alter your state of mind? I understand you may be curious and want to try it once or twice but, can you really control that? Yes it's not physically addictive like nicotine or heroin but, for many people they can't stop using. It becomes a habit, not an addiction. Like i said, being high can lead to trouble so is that risk you want to take ? Is feeling good for alittle while worth the legal and medical risk? Many will say "it's just a plant, it's harmless." However, there is a lot we don't know about marijuana and it's affects on people. There was recent study on a possible link between marijuana use and cancer. Here's something else to think about. I too have never smoked it and recently i learned that im allergic to it. Imagine you take a hit and your allergic ? Thank God i never tried, an allergic reaction is very dangerous. Just something to think about. As the after school specials will say "no hope in dope" lol

Answer 3

OMG! People that smoke pot cant even remember the effects because pot causes short term memory loss silly!

Answer 4

If you have hung around people that do it and see how they act, then you can see how they get affected because their body language and mood changes. But to be 100% accurate, you would probably have to take it to see. Though i wouldn't after watching what it does to others.

Answer 5

Why not? People who never smoked cigarettes speak on their effects all the time...

Answer 6

Moronic Question:

Any doctor can tell you the symptoms and effects of various disease and sickness, they don't have to experience every one of them first hand by infecting themselves!!!

Campaigners pressed the Government to reclassify cannabis as new evidence emerged that the drug could more than double the risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia.
Research found any use of cannabis - which means even taking the drug just once - was associated with a 41% greater risk.
People who smoked the most cannabis were the most likely to suffer a psychotic breakdown marked by delusions, hallucinations or disordered thoughts. For frequent users, the risk rose to between 50% and 200%.
In the wake of the research, published today in The Lancet medical journal, there were calls for the Government to reverse its decision to downgrade cannabis to a class C drug.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "The Lancet report justifies Sane's campaign that downgrading a substance with such known dangers masked the mounting evidence of direct links between the use of cannabis and later psychotic illness.
"This analysis of 35 studies should act as a serious warning of the dangers of regular or heavy cannabis use, doubling the risk of developing later schizophrenia, a condition in which a person may hear voices and experience strange thoughts and paranoid delusions."
Shadow home secretary David Davis said: "On the basis of the scientific and medical evidence available alone, the Government should reverse their disastrous policy of declassifying this harmful drug."
The study is likely to have a big impact on the Government's deliberations about cannabis. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is now considering whether cannabis should be returned to its previous status as a class B drug. Under Tony Blair's premiership, the drug was downgraded from class B to class C, so possession ceased to be an arrestable offence.
Alternatively, a class B rating could be reserved just for the extra-potent form of cannabis known as "skunk".
But Paul Corry, director of public affairs at mental health charity Rethink, said education about the dangers of cannabis was more important than reclassification.
A single cannabis joint can damage the lungs as much as smoking up to five cigarettes in one go, according to experts.

Scientists warn that the drug forces the lungs to work harder by obstructing air flow and causes chest tightness and wheezing.
It also damages the small vessels that transport oxygen around the lungs.
The news comes after research published last week showed that cannabis could more than double the risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia.
Researchers in New Zealand investigating lung damage found that the harm was directly related to the number of joints smoked, with higher consumption linked to greater incapacity.
The effect on the lungs of each joint was equivalent to smoking between 2.5 and five cigarettes in one go, they said
They added that the extent of the damage was dependent on the strength of the joint and the way it was smoked.
Dr Keith Prowse, chairman of the British Lung Foundation, said: "This research confirms that cannabis poses a serious health risk to the lungs and smoking a joint can be more harmful to the lungs than smoking a cigarette.
"It's important to remember, though, that tobacco continues to be more harmful overall because it is typically smoked in much higher quantities than cannabis."
Martin Barnes, chief executive of Drug-Scope, said: "Although there is a lot of focus on the links between cannabis use and mental health problems, this research highlights the fact that cannabis can also be harmful to physical health."

Heavy cannabis use among vulnerable young people exacerbates their social problems more than the user realises, according to a new study.
A report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found that when various aspects of users lives were probed in detail that associations between their use and problems such as unemployment, educational under-achievement and homelessness became apparent.
The report found those with the greatest number of social problems tended to use most heavily.
Researchers, drawing on 100 interviews with 16 to 25-year-olds who used the drug every day for the past six months, found the consequences were relatively benign for those in higher or further education.
Dr Margaret Melrose, the report's author, said: "Young people may not be aware of the extent to which cannabis use might exacerbate their existing social problems, and professionals who have had experience of cannabis users in the past may assume the effects are relatively harmless if they take young people's assessment of the impact of cannabis use in their lives at face value.
"More probing may be required in order to explore the level and nature of cannabis use and how this may be adding to a young person's problems."

Answer 7

BRANDON I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN AIRPLANE CRASH--BUT I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE
NEVER BEEN DROWNED EITHER--BUT I KNOW THE RESULTS
CYNICAL-KID KEEP SMOKING THAT STUFF--YOU WILL FIND OUT ALL BY YOURSELF--YOU WONT LISTEN TO ANY OF THIS WILL YA?

Answer 8

you can read and learn of the effects of marijuana, but you will never have the insight as you would as if you had smoked it,

Answer 9

as long as you start the explanation with "I've heard about" and it's a credible source, not some media frenzy or society- fueled bullshit.

Answer 10

I smoked pot once and it didn't have any effect.....so no, I don't think I am qualified. :)