Originally posted by: dguy6789
THC overdose is impossible, but last time i checked, it is not the only chemical in marijuana.Marijuna has other chemicals that screw up your lungs, granted marijuana cant kill you fast, but overtime it can cause certain organs to fail.
Yes, certainly there are dozens and dozens of chemicals in marijuana, especially if you count the ones that are produced when you burn organic matter.
That is the only issue. There are no dangerous(deathly) chemicals in cannabis itself. When you burn any organic substance, all sorts of nasty byproducts are produced, like benzene.. mmmm.. benzene.
That's one of the reasons people use vaporizers. It heats the cannabis to just the right temperature; the cannabinoids boil off, and all the organics get left behind. It is much healthier for you.
Let's face it folks, our lungs weren't designed to inhale smoke.
If cannabis were cheap enough that it was worth it to eat it, there would be no significant long term side effects whatsoever.
Look man. You don't know what you're talking about, plain and simple. People who smoke cannabis exclusivly don't develop lung cancer. People who smoke cannabis don't drop dead from "organ failure". That's a bunch of crap. The fact of the matter is that cannabis is safer than most over the counter drugs.
You're more likely to die from Tylenol than cannabis. What about the people that live in societys where cannabis is smoked from an early age, all throughout adulthood? They probably have a longer lifespan than most Americans, because they aren't so stressed out all the time.
It's actually interesting. The lung tissue in people who smoke cannabis becomes pre-cancerous, but it never actually forms into cancer. I was reading an article a while back on some research teams that were studying this phenomenon, and they were hoping that it could eventually lead to new cancer treatments.
That doesen't mean that you can't develop lung ailments like emphysema and chronic bronchitis, which accompany smoke inhilation.
If you're going to focus on why cannabis is bad, you should focus on the "smoking" part of it. That's the only reason it is harmful to your body, at least that we've been able to determine. There are very few, if any, side effects, even from long term use. You can't say that about very many drugs.
I know quite a few people who have smoked pot for the last 25 years, and they live healthy productive lives, just like there are people who go out and hav a drink with their buddies everyday after work for the last 25 years. It really is no different.
OTOH, when was the last time you saw someone that had been doing meth, heroin, coke, etc for the last 25 years and leads a productive life? There aren't any.
Those are the drugs that screw you up.
IF the governments goal is to protect us from ourselves reguarding drug legality, then those are the drugs that need to be againt the law.
Otherwise, it's all a bunch of hypocritical bullsh!t as long as alcohol and tobacco are legal.