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At 10/19/11 08:23 AM, MatthewF wrote:

At 10/18/11 10:38 PM, Boss wrote:

At 10/18/11 10:36 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: It can cause depression, anxiety, alienation, panic attacks, and such.

key word being can

if you're a square or a narc or something

You can also get HIV from having unprotected sex with a hooker. Would you then have unprotected sex with a hooker?

You can break your neck from falling down the stairs, or use electricity and get electrocuted, or take a shower and slip on the soap and smash your head. Will you do those things?

Marijuana has been linked to developing Schizophrenia,

Correlation does not imply causation. There are also plenty of people who start smoking weed at the same time that Schizophrenia develops.

There isn't one statistical example of people smoking weed at the same time as developing Schizophrenia, until there is, that statement is wrong.

and people who smoke it tend to have less brain mass.

Source?

Having fewer brain cells is enough of a reason for me to avoid it.

Brain cells are lost all the time through natural processes, when you're growing up, for example, they die off.

Also, provide source for this too, please.

At 10/19/11 09:15 AM, ValkyrieCommander wrote:

Correlation does not imply causation. There are also plenty of people who start smoking weed at the same time that Schizophrenia develops.

*At the same time as Schizophrenia develops normally.

like alcohol its treated as a depressant.
and just like alcohol its bad in its own way . . .just its illegal most places in the world

The smoking part. It's way more nutritional, delicious, economical and overall healthy to ingest it via gonja butter. Also, heard the buzz is longer. Any body know any good brownie recipes?

Though marijuana contains a fair amount of carcinogens (more than tobacco), many of them can be removed by smoking from a bong or water pipe (bubbler). This will help mitigate some long term effects, but will not stop the build-up of THC in your body.

To understand how THC can affect you negatively, you need to understand how in affects the brain. THC can imitate a hormone or some shit that I can't remember in your brain. This hormone (or whatever it is) controls certain parts of the brain, telling them to "shut down". This means that when you smoke marijuana, you are deactivating certain mental functions (such as motor control and logic) in an unnatural way.

THC has a half-life of 20 hours to 10 days. That means if you even smoke once every 5 days or so, you're continuing to put the THC stacking debuff into your body. Due to the way marijuana gets you "high", it will start causing effects such as insomnia, short temper, and lack of social grace.

I know this, and personally choose to smoke. I think that before choosing to smoke pot, people should at least know the way it works.

'cus it gives dem rappers da brain damage.

Well from all the people I know that have or do smoke weed. You will never get a job, or lose it if management finds out. While in school you'll do terribly, you'll stink like ass, and you'll fail the "fly-by" classes like auto-body where you simply melt metal. You'll think your cool, and you won't shut the fuck up about smoking weed and why you should "totally do it made, its awesome".

Honestly if you need drugs to mellow out, loosen up, or become excited. You would be better to visit a therapist, and talk with your friends and family about your underlying mental issues.

It raises your anxiety when you see law enforcement

The only harmful thing about weed is the tobacco you mix it with if you're making a joint !

At 10/19/11 09:08 AM, 123mine123 wrote: 1) Its addictive

lol

2) It ruins your lung, causes you to have a higher risk on lung diseases like cancer

lol

3) One smoke can take 11 min of your life.

lol

4) Theres nothing good about it so its bad

lol

5) It will control your life, meaning you cant last a day without doing it

lol

and a lot moar...
DONT DO DRUGS!!!

Go back to your D.A.R.E. officer and tell him he's an ignorant dick.

There is nothing bad about smoking weed.

Also it makes you gay.