If you think Bud is bad for you check this

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First of all, drugs in of themselves, are not inherently bad. Would you consider Tylenol to be 'bad'? It may not have hallucinogenic effects, but in large doses can be lethal. Have you considered the fatal effects of large doses of a household spice, nutmeg? My point is simple, all drugs can be abused, and can potentially lead to complications and/or death. However, drugs, when used in moderation, have different and very beneficial effects for people. Tylenol being a pain killer, nutmeg being a flavoring agent, and even the illegal substance marijuana for its "relaxing" and reacreational usage.Now I've noticed some people are trying to make marijuana (at least on this topic) seem like it is horrible by saying, "All it does is give me anxiety, oh no!" Drugs have very different effects on different people. Notice how OTCs have varying effects. Some OTCs cure the ailment they say they cure, while for some people they do nothing. Some people get drunk and become violent, while others become lucid, and others become comedians. These examples serve the purpose that drugs vary in their effects on people, but for the most part, marijuana has a powerful and "positive" (positive in this case meaning pleasant or beneficial) experience. Otherwise no one would use it.

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."OK.Oxygen is the gateway element to drugs. I guarantee that 100% of drug users breath oxygen. Anyone else want to criminalize oxygen users? Those rotten oxygen users! Damn them!!!!!!! Damn them TO HELL!!!!!!!!! "I think you're retarded if you do any drugs."I'm retarded then. I suppose you think these people are retarded as well: Carl Sagan, William Shakespeare, Diego Rivera, Jack London, Paul McCartney. After all, each one of them smoked marijuana. Now are they retards or geniuses?Bah. If you fools (naive children?) want to make comments, at least get educated first. I'm not saying it's OK to do drugs, I'm saying shut up if you're an idiot. The purpose of this site is to ASK and to LEARN, not to sulk about in ignorance.

sigh, i think that pot isnt that terrible. yeah, its probably isnt the best thing for you seeing as it screws up your lungs. but my friend used to be a pothead and she said that the only thing that pot smoking affected was her breathing, and like someone else said, there are other ways like brownies and such.i think if you are responsible about your weed smoking (or intaking) and not do it that often then its ok, its fun once in a while

Have to say I agree with Stars. I've smoked pot occasionally over the past 6 or 7 years (never more than 1 or twice a month and not at all in the past 5 months) even though I'm aware of the affects it can have. I don't think it's done me a huge amount of damage so far.

Like any drug, marijuana can lead to problems if you abuse it. In 2001 or 2002, New Scientist published the results of a 10 year study into the affects of marijuana on people. The participant group wasn't particularly large (about 500 people I think) but it included people like myself who are very moderate/occasional smokers, regular smokers who've only been smoking for a year or two and other people who have been smoking 1 or more joints a day regularly for anything up to 25 years at the start of the study.

All of these people were put through a series of tests when they joined the study (I.Q., word-assocation, memory, coordination, health etc.) and these tests were repeated every 18 months or so throughout the 10 years. For the moderate smokers and the short-term smokers, dependant on their particular use, the results weren't conclusive. Some had lost lung capacity, some had problems with recall, some did worse on the IQ tests. But some of them had improved in some areas.

The results for the people who smoked a lot or who had been smoking for a very long time, were much more clear-cut. All of them had suffered deterioration in one or more of the categories and for some of them, their health had deteriorated dramatically over the 10 years as had short-term memory, coordination and concentration. Many of them also suffered depression and moodswings or a level of lethargy which the researchers concluded as a group was highly abnormal. However, it was pointed out that the people in this category were in general much older than the rest of the participants and that their age may have been a factor in their poor performance.

A small number of these people had tried 'harder' drugs but for most of them, marijuana was the only illegal substance that they had ever used.

The study is continuing and will publish another set of results around about 2011/2012 I think.

Longitudinal study....cool. Another logitudinal study (the Framingham study) showed that vitamin supplements are largely useless, unless you have a specific deficiency (exeception: folic acid if you're pregnant).

The problem with studies like the one you mention, unless they're really well done, is that it's hard to untangle cause and effect. It's possible, for instance, that the type of person who indulges in heavy, long-term marijuana use is the type of person who has underlying physical or psychological problems. So it's premature to talk about "proof", but the evidence that's harvested from such a study is very valuable.

Weed feels good, but its bad for your skin, as is smoking tobacco. As a silly vain tossar thats my main arguement against smoking anything

this is obviously written by a pot user @_@

Meaning...? That it would affect the objective truth or falsity of his statements?

If you look this was written 3 months ago, can you please stop re posting this shit. And to let you know i have quit smoking pot and still feel pretty much the same about it. But i have decided not to do it.

Whats your point? If your going to post on an OLD thread, atleast make it worth while.