Is Marijuana really harfmul? I was a smoker for 30 years and i am the epitome of good health?

i was thinking of making a tea for a sick old lady friend who suffers from bone aches
Answer:
If you do say so yourself.
Self-medicating someone who is probably on prescription medications already is a BAD idea. Obviously, your common sense has been effected.

Although there are many conflicting studies involving health issues and the effects of cannabis, certain physical and mental health effects conclusions have been reached. Today, there is still a substantial amount of propaganda and misinformation from both cannabis advocates and opponents due to the legal issues of cannabis, including legal and political constraints on cannabis research.
Cannabis is currently recognized as a psychologically addictive drug. There is no cannabis withdrawl disorder in the DSM-IV, but studies have demonstrated that cannabis use can induce withdrawl symptoms similar to other drugs with recognized physical dependence. Cannabis withdrawl symptoms are similar in magnitude and time-course to the well-established tobacco withdrawal syndrome.[55]
The most obvious confounding factor in cannabis research is the prevalent usage of other recreational drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.[56] Such complications demonstrate the need for studies on cannabis that have stronger controls, and investigations into the symptoms of cannabis use that may also be caused by tobacco. Most cannabis research within the USA is funded by government agencies who in turn publish position papers citing research studies that spotlight the negative consequences of cannabis use.[57][58] In light of this, some people question whether these agencies make an honest effort to present an accurate, unbiased summary of the evidence, or whether they "cherry-pick" their data, and others caution that the raw data, and not the final conclusions, are what should be examined.[59]
Unlike tobacco, cannabis has not been shown to cause emphysema, lung cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[60][61][62] Other studies have suggested that cannabis use by expectant mothers does not appear to cause birth defects or developmental delays in their newborn children.[63][64] According to a United Kingdom government report, using cannabis is less dangerous than tobacco, prescription drugs, and alcohol in social harms, physical harm and addiction.[65]
Cannabis is known to act on the hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with memory and learning), and impair short term memory and attention for the duration of its effects and in some cases for the next day. In the long term, some studies point to enhancement of particular types of memory.[66] Cannabis was found to be neuroprotective against excitotoxicity and is therefore beneficial for the prevention of progressive degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease.[67] A 1998 report commissioned in France by Health Secretary of State Bernard Kouchner and directed by Dr. Pierre-Bernard Roques determined that, "former results suggesting anatomic changes in the brain of chronic cannabis users, measured by tomography, were not confirmed by the accurate modern neuro-imaging techniques," (like MRI). "Moreover, morphological impairment of the hippocampus [which plays a part in memory and navigation] of rat after administration of very high doses of THC (Langfield et al., 1988) was not shown (Slikker et al., 1992)" (translated). He concluded that cannabis does not have any neurotoxicity as defined in the report, unlike alcohol and cocaine.[68][69][70]
Research between the use of cannabis and mental illness has also brought significant results. Cannabis use is generally higher among sufferers of schizophrenia, but the causality between the two has not been established.[71][72] Another study concluded that sustained early-adolescent cannabis use among genetically predisposed individuals has been associated with a variety of mental illness outcomes, ranging from psychotic episodes to clinical schizophrenia.[73][74]

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personally i dont think its harmful unless you do too too much . but a little tea? that seems fine.

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Well Im in the same boat as you and I dont think so!

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Possibly, yes but then again so is smoking a cigarette

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of course it is bad for you worse than cigarettes. Kills brain cells people that smok marijuana are losers, dead beats.

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Didn't you see the commercial back in the 80's where the compared your brain to an egg, and then threw the egg in a hot frying pan and said "This is your brain on drugs".

Any questions?

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maybe you think you are in good health but the hash made you think it!!

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yeah i died from it..literally

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well it does bring up a valid disussion, i mean how do you explain people like george burns. i guess its all in the genes. i like a toke once in awhile also.

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it is but it is NOT as harmful as cigarettes are!

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It's harmful to the lungs if smoked. However, if in tea form, as long as it is not tainted with any other drug, there are no negative health consequences.

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Besides damage to the lungs there aren't really and long lasting effects. It has been proven that it THC doesn't even kill your brain cells it just slows them down, but if you stop using then they return to there normal state.

Make her some tea it could really help her. You may want to tell her what it is though.


Ya know Jessicab... you really shouldn't make statements you obviously know nothing about.

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no pot isnt harmful...the only way u could die from doin pot is way to much of it in on day like 100lbs in 1 day..idk i guess the only way to c if she feels better is to give her sum.idk tho

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I personally don't think it is. I don't smoke, but I think if there was a way to tax weed it would be legal.

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well it is a drug so be careful with sick old ladies. a tea sounds good tho, better than the smoke which i dont trust because it could cause damage to the lungs air sacs.

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not in my opinion. depending on the grade, it has different effects. schwag gets me a headache, dro gets me throwed, and mid grade is perfect.

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huh what was the question

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It has an major effect on short term memory. One of the reasons the stereotype exists of the "pot-head kid" student not getting good grades.

It affects memory, and can affect childbirth if the smoker also smokes regular nicotine cigarrettes in conjunction with marijuana.

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thats effed up, do it lol

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Pot tea? It might help her. I think the only harmful part of it is that smoking 1 joint is the equivalent of a pack of 20 cigarettes on your lungs. I don't smoke it but I did when I was in high school.

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Give it to the old lady, why not?? Not in high amounts though--Voters in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, have all voted in medical marijuana statutes (or legislatively implemented in the case of Hawaii) which specifically allow doctors to 'recommend' pot to patients they feel may benefit from the therapeutic effects pot has on untold numbers of ailments and illnesses

-- I have never used it myself, i dont see a need for it or have the slightest inclination to ever knowing how it must feel to smoke it or eat it or whatever.. but if its helpful to manage all the pain associated with certain conditions and illnesses then people should be free to use it!

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So how are your lungs? Your old lady friend needs to get help from a doctor for bone aches.

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any time you burn and inhale particles into your lungs you are risking harm. i think it's pretty well accepted that it has beneficial effects and imho should certainly be legalized but being a long-time toker myself i prefer the vaporizer! there are no particles involved; you are just inhaling the fumes.

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yes it is for low lifes!!!!!!!!!...


and scudders ~~~~

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Some says it bad for you, and other say its not bad for you at all and is used for medical uses.

I think it is good for you and it can also be used as a pain killer.

What i find most disturbing is that the govenment allow the selling of tablets than if taken too much can kill, IE Parsetamol (spelling) take a bottle of that and you will surley die, but there has never been a death or sort from weed, its the total oppasit, it helps ppls in pain, yet it is ilegal, what sort of fucked up govenment is that.

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go for it

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It can cause excessive boogers.

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