Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Marijuana alters your perception of reality. Anything that makes my mind duller, such as drugs or alcohol, I will never partake of.
This is true but I feel the need to point out that it is a very temporery effect (not much longer than 4hours depending on a number of variables such as motabolism, the strength of the cannabis you ate/smoked and whether or not you topped the level up.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Marijuana causes cancer, lung disease, heart disease, and other various sources of poor health, just like tobacco. Anything that is guaranteed to make my health decline and has a good chance of killing me, I avoid.
Once again this is true <b>when smoked</b>, and even then there are devices such as bongs and vapourisors which minimise the damage done to your lungs rather effectively (vapourisors considerably more than bongs).
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Since people know the downsides of marijuana and smoke it anyway, they're stupid.
That is your opinion and perhaps you are justified in it (if you are as clean as you say you are); but then if you eat red meat, alot of spicey food or do any dangerous activities such as driving a car or crossing a busy road then you are stupid. Rhese are dangerous and/or have negative long-term problems associated with them so by your logic anybody who knows of these dangers is stupid.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Stupid people have little to offer society except as manual labor.
I will take your meaning of stupid as people who have lower than average intelligence and will agree with you to some extent, but consider this: without such manual labour society as you know it could not exist.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Therefore, ship off all the druggies and put them to work manufacturing bombs we can drop on third-rate nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, or France.
Heh, right. As long as a person is compotent at doing the job they are employed to do then what they do in their own time is irrelevent, as long as it does not interfere with what they have to do.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
It'll be great. If they refuse to work, we simply cut off their supply until they beg for more.
While this might be true when it comes to crack cocaine and heroin I don't thing any of the other hard drugs have come downs even remotely that bad.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
When they finally puke their guts out and die, simply replace them with more addicts.
I don't think there are any drugs where the withdrawl is this bad, but if there are please inform me of them.
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Or if they actually do sober up, make them become useful members of society that contribute something worthwhile, like, I dunno, emptying my garbage cans every Tuesday and Friday.
You seem to think that people who use drugs (whether soft or hard) do so 24/7... They don't, not even crack/smack addicts are that bad (I think they usually go for 1-2 fixes a day - not too sure on this one).
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
I am aware, however, that marijuana supposedly has valid medical uses, though I'm quite certain that there are other, less harmful, remedies available.
There is no supposed. The theraputic effect has been shown to calm the shuddering seen in patients suffering parkinsons, it has been shown to help people suffering from aids/on chemo therapy eat more food and keep it down. There are many theraputic effects of the medical use of cannabis (and remember that morphine is used in medicine, and is also an illegal drug which is very addictive).
Insane_Megalamaniac wrote:
Therefore it should be legal to smoke the shit with a prescription filled out by a licensed physician.
Alot of patients who would need cannabis would not smoke it, there are many, many ways to prepare it with food and drink which have no negative side effects (the damage done by cannabis is done because most people smoke it; if a person chooses to eat it then this factor is irrelevent.
Abunai! wrote:
BMD05 wrote:
Marijuana is NOT physically addictive.
It is, minorly. Many people experience minor, flu-like withdrawal symptoms after a bit more than a month or so.
Sorry but I have to call bullshit; it is not physically addictive at all.
Abunai! wrote:
That potency is increasing to 7% (funny, I heard well over double that last time I took health class) or so isn't much of a worry to me, because most of the side-effects I can remember have to do with the smoking itself (e.g. the scorching of throat cilia), and not with the THC, though I could be wrong.
This may or may not be the case but so what if the potency is increased. All it means is that for the people who smoke it they have to smoke less to get an equivalent high; this can only have positive effects meaning that less carcenogens, soot etc are inhaled into the lungs thusly less damage will be done over the long term.
ptlis