googleplex
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Weed is both safer then cigarettes and alcohol. Still not great for you but nowhere near as bad.
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Cannabis more damaging to under-18s, study suggests
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Weed is both safer then cigarettes and alcohol. Still not great for you but nowhere near as bad.
highrider
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ehh, i don't need to justify it any more than a drinker needs to justify a beer. as far as what is safer to use, i would suggest looking at some information about the numbers of people actually dying from cigarettes and alcohol. then follow that up with deaths associated with marijuana.
as for the ot, i started smoking on a fairly regular basis at 16 or 17. i've never felt it made me less intelligent, but i guess you wouldn't know that anyway lol.
highrider
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well done sir.
radioheadrule83
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I'm a proponent for legalizing it, and helping to cripple the illicit economies that surround it, I think as leisure drugs go - it's not so bad. In my experience in recent years, it's cocaine which has increasingly worrying use in most towns and cities, it's gone from party drug of the affluent to common in every club and pub toilet. But weed is more rampant, it's almost normal to habitually smoke it - it's considered as safe if not safer than alcohol, and I know people who started as young as about 14/15 on it. The more we understand the better really. Sounds like a comprehensive study, and something that kids and parents alike should bear in mind!
SpectreFire
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Weed is just like most other sort of vices, it's fine when you take it in moderation, but when you practically live off it of. No matter how relatively harmless it is, you'll probably end up doing some sort of longterm damage regardless.
Potheads who practically live and sleep weed should probably be worried the most. That shit cannot be healthy at all.
Potheads who practically live and sleep weed should probably be worried the most. That shit cannot be healthy at all.
Complex Shadow
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don't play dumb. you knew what he ment and you know your wrong.
blainethemono
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http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm
my first week of college there were multiple students who required medical attention for alcohol poisoning, i think at least one of them died. You don't see stuff like this happen with marijuana
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
You did it wrong.
Joke post? I really hope so.
Banana Kid
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So only make it legal for 18 and up. Solved!
so they measured once and then again at 25 years later and found a reduced iq in the ones who had been heavy smokers when they were adolescent.... I wish I could find the study proper somewhere.
This is basically my question, none of the articles on the paper that I've read have indicated how they analyzed the data or controlled for other potential variables, particularly in other aspects of lifestyle and learning. From the articles it doesn't seem conclusive of causation.
This is basically my question, none of the articles on the paper that I've read have indicated how they analyzed the data or controlled for other potential variables, particularly in other aspects of lifestyle and learning. From the articles it doesn't seem conclusive of causation.
Mammoth Jones
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I mean, I don't fuck with that stuff and for good reason. The notion that any drug is "harmless" and can be taken with wild abandon is naive. Know the risks, know the rewards and make up your own mind and use at your discretion.
entremet
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Damn.
weed is way safer than alcohol.
Partial Gamification
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Naw man it was fun to smoke on occasion as a teenager but I can't ever have seen myself doing it on the regs at that age.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
More reason to legalize and regulate, keeps it out of the hands of children, and generates money for the economy.
Do it.
Do it.
Vicetrailia
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I was 10 the first time I sold weed, was kinda like breaking bad...cept I didn't hurt anybody.
Fusion Pizza
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All the more reason to tax and regulate like alcohol, 21 years of age is the PERFECT time to start smoking, if you are so inclined, it isnt for everyone, but in my opinion its leagues better than drinking.
FrostuTheNinja
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Mind altering substance affects developing minds? You don't say.
Glad I did start until I was well into my 20's.
Edit: Heh... Great minds.
Glad I did start until I was well into my 20's.
Edit: Heh... Great minds.
Fusion Pizza
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Moderation in all things!
Exactly, if you have like 10 moderately done vices than you are healthy. Booze, today, buy whore tomorrow and puff the the next day.
freenudemacusers
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I knew going back to prescription drugs and amphetamines was a wise move.
Or whatever they were smoking was cut with something that is known to cause psychosis.
One of many reasons to legalize, I might add.
timetokill
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Oh hey guys, what if the US just legalized marijuana and set the legal age limit to...I don't know, say 18 or even 21, before you could use it?
Wouldn't that solve a ton of problems, ranging from our absurd incarceration rates to some serious tax problems?
I think I should call the president with this info. Surely somebody of Obama's stature can respect and appreciate such a good idea.
Wouldn't that solve a ton of problems, ranging from our absurd incarceration rates to some serious tax problems?
I think I should call the president with this info. Surely somebody of Obama's stature can respect and appreciate such a good idea.
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