What ARE the dangerous affects of pot smoking?!
Question: So I been a recreational user of marijuana for close to three years now. I use it regulary sometimes once a week sometimes 2-3 times a day. I've heard many false accusations against pot (but I am quitting for the time period, possibly permantly) and I wanna know what are the TRUE negative effects of pot smoking. The only one I dont wanan know about is respitory, because that's an obvious Im lookingm ore for physical (reproductive, muscle, liver etc) and psychological. Please have a source behind your answers. Thank you.
Answers: So I been a recreational user of marijuana for close to three years now. I use it regulary sometimes once a week sometimes 2-3 times a day. I've heard many false accusations against pot (but I am quitting for the time period, possibly permantly) and I wanna know what are the TRUE negative effects of pot smoking. The only one I dont wanan know about is respitory, because that's an obvious Im lookingm ore for physical (reproductive, muscle, liver etc) and psychological. Please have a source behind your answers. Thank you.
Quick summary of the commonest issues.
40% increase in the risk of psychotic mental illness.
Chronic users all develop a degree of brain atrophy, (shrinkage), this causes and accellerates dementia.
6 times more likelt to lead to lung cancer than conventional tobacco.
friends of mine who have smoked weed for 20+ years suffer from paranoia and verbal diarrhea (check out the 2 dudes below me as prime examples!). on the physical side, it's more carcinogenic than tobacco.
I am going to be totally honest with you. ANd I am not a vigil ante on here that is gonna rub in your face it is illegal and than not answer your question and check your grammer. I am not writing a term paper here and I am not Mary Shellie.
In my opinion it is ridiculous it is illegal. If you watched the "History Channels, HOOKED." you can see how marijuana became illegal of a prejudice. Just like Cocaine and opiates. They blamed the Mexicans. Anyways I real feel the only thing it does after moderate use, is make you lazy and hungary. So big deal if you are going on a Sunday picnic. I do believe however it is mentally addicting. My proof for this is when someone runs out, they get crabby as hell. I think it is no-where as bad as cigarettes, even though they say one cigarette is an outlandish amount of weed. I never had an issue with it with my lungs and if you do, put it in a water bong. If you stop getting erections, quit. I know plenty of people that said it made sex better. I was one of them. Was. It does not make you into a raging lunatic like alcohol can, it relaxes you and everyone knows this. MY source for my statements are from hanging around intellectual friends that smoked it for years. It does not play major havoc on your brain registries like cocaine, it does not make you withdraw from hell like opiates and it does not make you want to beat the hell out of someone if they tick you off because you had one too many beers. Remember one thing. The FDA runs this country. They tell us exactly what they want us to do. But they don't tell you the long term effects of the stuff they put in a Big Mac do they? Remember society thinks there is a class of people that can do drugs. And a class of people that cannot. No one ever questions a little old lady when she gets her Percocets filled do they.
super moddle is tlkin tripe. everyone goes on about it causes schitzophrenia, and all this that and the other. this is bullsh*t. they have no physical evidence of this. pot smoking was commercially known and brought upon the public eye in the 50's and the average user in their 20's at that time would probably be around now. ofcourse it will do a small amount of damage to ure health because you are smoking a drug which can 'potentially' cause schitzophrenia. there are also more stronger versions of the drug available, and who knows what they cause, i would imagine a considerable amount more. so i say smoke it but dont be stupid and do it every day. once a week and you will be absolutely fine. and im positive there are gonna b a load of answers by middle aged mums saying stop its the worst thing ever!! ofcourse its very very bad for you! it isnt that bad for u love shut up if uve never smoked it. PHEWW!!
In psychology we learnt that when you take any drug that alters your mind such as pot, ecstasy, amphetamines or anything like this, when you take it a certain hormone is released into your brain that causes you to become much more paranoid. When you stop taking the drug however because your brain is used to the level of the hormones so it keeps pumping it out at the same level and so you become much more aware but also paranoid, which often leads to schitzophrenia. This HAS been proven by psychologists so don't say that it hasn't. Thanks.
I am an ex smoker. I did smoke it on a regular basis when I was young & as an adult untill age 32. ......My ex began smoking pot when he was 12 years old. I married him when he was 29 years old. In those 14 years we were together I witnesed what the effects of pot can do to an individual. He literally lost his short term memory. If he did not write out notes on things he had to do on a weekl;y bases he would not do them he would forget. When I attended college I studies Neuroscience I learned that smoking pot will destroy short term memory. That is fact. I personally do not believe pot should be legalized. I have seen what it can do to long term use. My friend who has Cancer has a running prescription for it . That is okay but she only smokes it when she has her chemo. It takes away her nausea & it gives her an appetite. To just smoke everyday all the time for years will become harmful in the long run.
Maybe smokin seeds and stems will kill your sperm count.
I know from occasional use that it dehydrates you as i always get headaches from it.
I believe it stops your body from absorbing iron and calcium too.
And definitely paranoia - depending what type and how much smoked - a friend ended up in and out of psychiatric units frequently when he smoked green. (he does have psychiatric problems and uses other drugs too, but there was a pattern to his use of green and frequency to the units)
I too get paranoid from it sometimes - my hearing seems extra good! it can heighten awareness, which maybe what i think of as paranoia - maybe its not paranoia just clarity on whats happening around us........
I think the doctor above has made good points..
it cant directly cause mental problems, you need to have the gene already there, but there is a risk, i dont think its bad as people think, got to be better than binge dinking, and at least your liver will be ok :)
I think too much pot smoking leads people to do nasty things. My brother said that a lot of american shoulders are smoking pot in irack and that is why they keep shooting englishmen.