Sorry pal...you are never going to get me to back off eliminating your precious drug once and forever.
Here is one link...now axemoron may try to convince you that this article is garbage...of course the article attacks his or her sensibilities, ya know how the truth hurts, but it does not say pot is good for ya. If anyone needs more studies just ask and I will provide them. Maybe axemoron has some information, other than dumb ass assertions, like ..."most inaccurate garbage ever"...why do you do that...ya know...make assertions? Is that all you got? clearly potheads trying to protect their precious drugs only have dumb assed assertions.
check it out axemoron...
Marijuana - Marijuana Use and Effects of Marijuana
I took a gander at that link and didn't see a single link to any study or data underpinning the assertions made there. I guess just because it's on WebMD.com we're supposed to take their word for it? I'm somewhat of an authority on pot smoking too, Jim. Started when I was 11 or 12 and had my fill by the time I was 25 or thereabouts. Been close to 35 years since I've partaken, but I recall my young and self-destructive days very well in spite of all the partying I did. I also have life-long friends who still partake in (some) moderation, and the authority with which you assert what pot will do to the human mind and body is in direct contradiction to my own personal experience, or that of anyone I've ever known, as do the assertions made at your link in the body of the piece, though the listed effects seem pretty accurate:
- Dizziness
- Shallow breathing
- Red eyes and dilated pupils
- Dry mouth
- Increased appetite
- Slowed reaction time (If you drive after using marijuana, your risk of being in a car accident more than doubles.)
Except for dizziness and slow reaction times, this list presents no potential for anything dangerous, and even the dizziness and slow reaction times are perfectly consistent with alcohol consumption too.
Glaringly absent from that list is anything backing up your claim that pot is a hallucinogen. I certainly never had any hallucinogenic experiences with pot, except maybe thinking that Pauly Shore was actually funny.
Another claim to being an "authority" on pot that I have is through my family tree. My late uncle, Warren McCollum, Played "Jimmy" in the exploitation/propaganda cult-classic, "
Reefer Madness." He played the high school student who succumbed to the "pusher man's" urgings to join the other party-goers by taking a few tokes. He then left the party, as the story goes, and ran over someone innocently crossing the street (about 26:20 in the link). The film was done in 1938. A couple or three of years later Uncle Warren had to parachute out of the bomber he was the bombardier on somewhere over an (unknown to me) island in the South Pacific. He broke his leg and ankle and by the time I was born in '55, was a very strange and disturbed fellow. He and my aunt and their four kids bought the house right next door to my Granny's house, which is where I grew up, so I saw Warren nearly every single day of my life up until I ran away, and then joined the Army in '72. He would never talk about the war, kept to himself to the point of not even responding to people, including us kids, around him. By age 70 or so, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and oddly-enough, that is what made him open up and begin to enjoy life a bit. Maybe a year or so before the tumor took him, he asked my cousin, his son, if he would get him some pot, which my cousin did, and the ol' guy stayed stoned literally for the rest of his days. That was the only time in my 25 or 30 years of growing up and living in very close proximity to him, that I actually got to know him at all, and that was long before any talk of "medicinal marijuana" started making the rounds also. But it was unquestionably medicinal for him. It helped relieve the headaches from the tumor, and allowed him to eat enough so that he didn't have to go to some kind of old folks home and be hooked up to IV's all day, every day.
The overwhelming amount of evidence in my life strongly suggests that pot has no lasting deleterious effects on anyone, regardless of amount consumed or age of the consumer or frequency or longevity of the consumption. That's my story, as an "authority," and I'm stickin' to it.
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