Some of your post might be true, but
not a fact of how they use the marijuana.
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Originally Posted by jasin
Marijuana is not dangerous?  Wrong!!!!! Totally false!!!!!!!
Effects of Marijuana on the Brain.
Researchers have found that THC changes the way in which sensory information gets into and is acted on by the hippocampus. This is a component of the brain's limbic system that is crucial for learning, memory, and the integration of sensory experiences with emotions and motivations. Investigations have shown that THC suppresses neurons in the information-processing system of the hippocampus. In addition, researchers have discovered that learned behaviors, which depend on the hippocampus, also deteriorate. |
Well you know, alcohol could cause that too, and it could be much worse than the marijuana, due to the alcohol's anger or grumpy moods effect the people while the marijuana are less likely to effect people as alcohol.
Anyway, you see while the alcohol was legal, people do it moderate and doesn't drink so much of the alcohol, that applies to the marijuana too. Smoke moderately.
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Effects on the Lungs.
Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers have. These individuals may have daily cough and phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and more frequent chest colds. Continuing to smoke marijuana can lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissue injured or destroyed by marijuana smoke.
Regardless of the THC content, the amount of tar inhaled by marijuana smokers and the level of carbon monoxide absorbed are three to five times greater than among tobacco smokers. This may be due to marijuana users inhaling more deeply and holding the smoke in the lungs.
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This is one of myth against the marijuana, sorry to be blunt, but potheads don't smoke it often like the tobacco cigarettes and don't smoke everywhere like the tobacco cigarettes due to its affect of high.
Remember,
nobody died from marijuana like the tobacco cigarettes.
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Effects of Heavy Marijuana Use on Learning and Social Behavior.
A study of college students has shown that critical skills related to attention, memory, and learning are impaired among people who use marijuana heavily, even after discontinuing its use for at least 24 hours. Researchers compared 65 "heavy users," who had smoked marijuana a median of 29 of the past 30 days, and 64 "light users," who had smoked a median of 1 of the past 30 days. After a closely monitored 19- to 24-hour period of abstinence from marijuana and other illegal drugs and alcohol, the undergraduates were given several standard tests measuring aspects of attention, memory, and learning. Compared to the light users, heavy marijuana users made more errors and had more difficulty sustaining attention, shifting attention to meet the demands of changes in the environment, and in registering, processing, and using information. The findings suggest that the greater impairment among heavy users is likely due to an alteration of brain activity produced by marijuana.
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I support to smoke it moderate, not heavy so no comment from me. Except that I have a opinion that if people use the marijuana so heavily and daily, and it turn out to be a problem for him/herself and everyone else, then that person should go to a treatment, not in the prison, but that still doesn't mean that it have to be illegal for others who do it moderately.
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Longitudinal research on marijuana use among young people below college age indicates those who used have lower achievement than the non-users, more acceptance of deviant behavior, more delinquent behavior and aggression, greater rebelliousness, poorer relationships with parents, and more associations with delinquent and drug-using friends.
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All those listed are caused by the marijuana being illegal, not the marijuana itself.