There is no near term toxicity and its long term effects are no worse than alcohol or cigarettes (it can cause lung cancer, like any inhaled smoke, and it seems to have a negative impact on higher reasoning skills when used heavily for a long term).
I would agree that some long term heavy (and emphasis on heavy) users might not think that straight most of the time. But cancer causing is misleading. There have been studies that smoking marijuana regularly will not increase your chance at having cancer anywhere in your respiratory system, and that it may actually help prevent it.
Marijuana has probably had more studies done on it than any other substance in the US. With the only negatives of them showing up as a slight increased chance to develop a bronchial infection in those prone to it already, and an increased chance in developing schizophrenia once again in those with a genetic disposition for it. The schizophrenia increase goes something like 1% to 3% to develop in the studies done.
Driving while high doesn't really effect you unless you get distracted, and normal people driving get in accidents because they were distracted all the time so what's the difference?
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There is no near term toxicity and its long term effects are no worse than alcohol or cigarettes (it can cause lung cancer, like any inhaled smoke, and it seems to have a negative impact on higher reasoning skills when used heavily for a long term).
I would agree that some long term heavy (and emphasis on heavy) users might not think that straight most of the time. But cancer causing is misleading. There have been studies that smoking marijuana regularly will not increase your chance at having cancer anywhere in your respiratory system, and that it may actually help prevent it.
Marijuana has probably had more studies done on it than any other substance in the US. With the only negatives of them showing up as a slight increased chance to develop a bronchial infection in those prone to it already, and an increased chance in developing schizophrenia once again in those with a genetic disposition for it. The schizophrenia increase goes something like 1% to 3% to develop in the studies done.
Driving while high doesn't really effect you unless you get distracted, and normal people driving get in accidents because they were distracted all the time so what's the difference?
Many legitimate studies showing the benefits: http://abovetheignorance.org/research.html
Page showing condensed information (read question 17 for information relevant to my post): http://abovetheignorance.org/faq.html
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