The Health Effects of Marijuana

Hey Buddy – what negative effects? Like encouraging blood flow & brain activity? Were you planning on citing any scientific research or proof of your statements? Or should we just believe a recovering alcoholic who’s got swiss cheese for brains?

The sources for the information are posted at the bottom of the article.
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/effects.htm

This is just more fear mongering. Keep in mind almost all the anti-drug propoganda is paid for by the alcohol and tobacco companies because they don’t want any competition.

the artical is very clear on telling you the effects of marijuana, but there is only 1 thing missing. We all learned the scientific method growing up in high school. (observation, hypothesis, experiment, analysis..)
but where in this article or any article on the effects of marijuana, do they give you a full write up of there experiments and the steps they took to get the results? Any body with a computer and knows a few big words can type a paper about how marijuana is bad for your health and not to do it. But what is the proof of this drug(herb) being bad? If you perhaps explained the experiments you performed to get the results that you did, and showed how you went at doing it, would be the only 100% way to prove that your expirement or any experiment performed on marijuana was true. So until then, any statement on the effects of marijuana is only a hypothesis, that has yet to be experimented with and fully proved. I rest my case.

This DRUG has effected many many people. My Aunt lost her daughter to this drug. She is dead and it is all for nothing. If you aren’t stupid you would read this page and know that this is the truth!! and of course the people who do this drug aren’t going to believe and of it. They are going to get mad that scientist have found it is in fact bad for your heart and brain function. I know a man that has smoked marijuana for 10 years and he is slow to prosess things, memory loss, heart problems, and he has bad emotional problems. I think that this drug is sick. If you smoke it then of course you are going to disagree. this drug should never be legal.

oh man. i love weed. i smoke it about every other weekend or so. it just affects me for a few hours. opens your mind and makes you feel great, i havent noticed any health risks yet. my grades have gotten better, just got a promotion at work. i can see how heavy usage can have a negative affect as does abuse of any thing known. keep that in mind.
because… i’m totally fine. shouldn’t be illegal. never stops anyone. government can’t tax it. they dont care about you, they want your money.

Hoooo Weee! Talk about “reefer madness”. This whole article is full of it.

God damn i smoke blunts big ones i like vapin my weed hitting the bong rollin spliffs I love eatin the damn stuff too. Hell my daddy said what grows out the ground must be good for you smoke trees till I sleep I like the crystals the most can’t imagine life without weed I smoke smoke all all day yipeeeeee! I love summers

If you believe all the propaganda and reefer madness that our government has been spreading, don’t worry, it’s not your fault. You have been lied to, for 70 years we have been feed misinformation about the worlds greatest and safest substance.

To “Are You People Stupid”: I don’t believe that marijuana killed your aunt’s daughter (your cousin), since marijuana’s LD-50 is 1500lbs. for a 150lb. man in 15 minutes. (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm)

If you’d like to compare your brain function to that of a daily marijuana smoker, I challenge you to an online game of Scrabble, Boggle, trivia, crosswords, Sudoku, or any other mental test in which you think you can beat me.

With all TECHNOLOGIES out amongst us Yea it is time for legalization, in all 40-50 states. How many states are there?

With Vaporizers on their way like the VOLCANO, and blunts being the best part (just rolling the darn things) I see a tremendous boost in our economy. Esp. for the dying and the ill.

I vote Yea on Legalization for Hemp 100%

the gov test on old and dead marijuana they burn stems,seeds,and dead plant and say look this stuff is bad hahaha yeah right

Legalize it already! It helps me concentrate when I’m doing homework plus i have straight A’s in school. Weed doesn’t kill anyone except morons who do stupid #### when they smoke it.

HA! That made me laugh. I know a girl who graduated valedictorian of her 8th grade class….and went on to do the same in highschool. She smoked weed every other day.

Oh, and there has never been even 1 documented case of lung cancer related solely to Marijuana.

Read up.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq1.shtml

that articile is the funniest thing ive ever read. HALLUCINATIONS? Your kidding me, right? I smoked all day, every day, for a year and never once had a ‘hallucination’. Your thinking of shrooms or LSD, buddy. Get the facts straight.

POKE SMOT!!

I have to take the pro side here. I have yet to see the actual scientific data on this “drug”. I have read many opinions, but to date, not one actual result. “EVIDENCE” is just that. Not OPINION. I used for many years though I chose to stop a few years ago. As to ” MENTAL CAPACITY “, being affected, I have always and still am today a 4.0 student and Jeopardy has always been my favorite tv show because I’m pretty good at it. The only deaths I am aware of occurred because of some IDIOT driving, or some other hazardous action while under the influence, not because the “drug” harmed them. Finally, USE YOUR OWN BRAIN!!! Why would anyone listen to anyone whom cannot PROVE what they are saying?

Your cousin didn’t die from smoking marijuana, its scientifically impossible, unless she was smoking 10o’s of pounds a minute. Either way people are going to disagree on this subject, but for you to say someone died from smoking marijuana is an out right lie, unless of course all the leading Doctors in the world are in the dark about this fatal overdose. As for saying marijuana smokers are slow, that’s ignorant, I’m a retired Electrical Engineer who has smoked this herb for over 40 years and it has not made me slow in anyway. Maybe you should give the herb a try before you bad mouth it.

we’re all sitting in a waiting room waiting to die; why the f*ck wouldn’t i want to be high?

to everyone who thinks weed is bad:
u’ve obviously never smoked. weed is amazing. it makes everything better. when ure smokin u feel great, u taste the air if u think about anything u love it. i’ve smoked a lot and i’ve never had one bad thought while doing it. the day weed gets legalized everybody is gonna start smoking and there will be world peace because nobody will be mad at anything.

weed is the best thing on earthwhat are you talking about the only damage it does is your memory cells

Look im from jamaica and lots of my friends smoke ganja and so do i i just graduated from Princeton and I started smoking weed when i was 13 i think im quite intelligent so it is pure idiocy to say that weed has so many negative effects, the only negative effect is erectile dis function which doesn’t happen till you are older (70s) and mental illness which only happens to idiots that smoke weed with thc levels of 40% and above so get your facts straight.

negro g- bro u shot on the bulls eye

Ok So Ppl Swear Like The indo is The Worst Thing in The World… Get your Head Out Of your A** & try it! Stop judging and saying you know so much about it and how bad it is just cuz you read it on some website. The Powers Of the Herb Open Up the Mind So its your job to Seek Deep inside & See What you Find… MaryJane just so happend to become my best friend last 420 never looked back since. i Always Bump Cypress Hill When im Blazed & i Can Tell you its A Hell Of A trip!! O_o

The best plants in the world.

marijuana for sure effects the brain in a negative way, no doubt in my mind. I am 17 years old and started smoking weed every day over the summer and just recently quit for good about 2 weeks ago. It has caused to me to lose it. At first it was pretty fun, but overrated, but I still enjoyed being high, so the first month or 2 was fun. Weed has caused my anxiety to become way worse and I have almost commited suicide because of the negative effects weed has on my brain. For the last month I have gone crazy, because of weed smoking. One day i got high and thought i was the son of the devil and really thought I was going to become possesed by demons. Worst day of my life. And yet I still smoked after that because I thought it was just all in my head. I would tell my self just enjoy it and hve fun like everyone else. Yea that really didn’t work out…Just about 2 weeks ago I smoked, and for the last time. I came home and I started to watch tv. I felt as if demons were chocking my neck and taking over my head. A voice was tellling me that the devil wanted me and was telling me to kill my self and end it all, the weird thing is is that I am a born again christian and so this freaked me out. I was on the edge of taking a knife and putting it to my stomach. The voice was telling me you wont make it to heaven your a worthless piece of ####, your just gonna go to hell. I started crying and read my bible to get all this off my mind. then the words in the bible were moving up and down and became like slanted, it was really creepy. I kept praying and praying and finally all of the bull #### went away. My anxiety is horrible now. I think everything someone says is about me, if someone will laugh i think its about me. Or if i say one stupid thing in the day i want to kill my self. I will never kill my self tho because it is a very selfish thing to do and would devestate my friends and family. Weed has ruined my brain!! i think i am slow and retarted and every girlfriend ive had just went out with me because they felt bad for me. Now people say i am a really good looking kid and every girlfriend i have had has been drop dead gorgeous but my mind tricks me and just says that they go out with you cuz they feel bad for u. I think there is something wrong with me… no wait i know. everytime my mother or father says love u in think three saying that because they think im gonna die soon. Everytime someone is nice to me i just think there being nice because they think im gonna die soon and i dont have much longer to live. My add has become worse, i have no self esteem, and i just think life is pointless. i used to be the top 25 basketball player in the state of arizona in middle school and was getting college offers as a freshman, i was on the jv team, and got called up to varsity for the state playoffs. Now all my confidence is gone. I can’t shoot anymore, cant even dribble well. ive completely lost my game thanks to the negative effects weed as had on my brain, its #### with all the chemicals and has ruined my life. I had offers to nau, new mexico stae and other small colleges but i was only a freshman and i had so much room to improve, now i just suck. I used to be able to make 20 threes in a row easily, now i can only make 3 at most, i still have the same shot but everyime i shoot i just feel i suck. I really do have good form and i know it i just cant play anymore. I also have a horrible memory, forget peoples names and my friends dont like me because i am so self concious. I am writing this posts to warn you about the dangers of marijuana. it is an evil drug. just because the high isnt as hardcore and other drugs like coke and heroin and meth, doesnt mean its not dangerous, if #### with peoples heads. I just cant believe im at this point in my life where i actually am insane and think i am retarted. I know many people who smoked for years and had to quit cuz they were losing it to. Its an evil drug. You know its evil when ive been a strong christian my whole life, and i get high and think im the son of the devil. any parents or kids or read this: STAY AWAY FROM WEED. now im not saying demons are gonna play with ur head or ur gonna become crazy but it ruins peoples lives. i have friends dads who are clinically depressed because of weed, my grandma who used to smoke all the time, has phycological problems. Sure weed has its benifits but everything has benifits. ####, heroin is used in hospitals so dont listen to the bull ####. I am happy I have opened up about all my problems. I’m on medication and it helps a little, but I’ve gone clinicallly crazy because of weed. ill never be the same again. please stay away from it, and dont believe the lies they say about it, its a horrible drug.

Are you guys stupid? Every person has different effects, Everyones different. I smoke and i do better at everything now. So just becuase something bad happened to you doesnt mean it’ll happen to everybody else. Its simple as that people. <3WEED<3