I guess most of what we do in life is probably some form of sickness, but I figure it's perfectly OK to be crazy as long as we can manage it. :lol::lol:
The best part about being crazy is they're always the last ones to know....
I guess most of what we do in life is probably some form of sickness, but I figure it's perfectly OK to be crazy as long as we can manage it. :lol::lol:
... and a cigarette a day helps a patient with one of the digestive disorders, too. So?I'd still smoke it if it was legal.... I'm not some friggin 13 year old kid trying to impress his friends.
Prove that claim, cuz there has yet to be any reported deaths attributed directly to the use of marijuana, including cancer..... in fact, there's plenty of studies out there that show it can help cancer patients in a string of ways.
Marijuana - InfoFacts - NIDANumerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50–70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke.
Well, yeah. Obviously the "war on drugs" is a waste of time and money.I think government should be re-thinking drug laws to make it less attractive for funding crime.
I have had many businesses and have even run a multi million dollar company, but that is not the point.
My point is that they all progressed to harder drugs when the high was no longer good enough. One of my brothers ended up in jail because he needed money to feed his cocaine habit.
To this day I don't know what it feels like to be high but I figure I saved a lot of money by not going down that road.
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I'm doing a internet research. Please help me.
1. If marijuana is legal, will you somke that?
2. Do you have any friends somke marijuana?
3. Do you think which is better between cigarette and marijuana?
4. Do you agree marijuana should be legal?
5. Should the government control the quantity of the marijuana?
I'd still smoke it if it was legal.... I'm not some friggin 13 year old kid trying to impress his friends.
Prove that claim, cuz there has yet to be any reported deaths attributed directly to the use of marijuana, including cancer..... in fact, there's plenty of studies out there that show it can help cancer patients in a string of ways.
The only reason why some countries are re-thinking their legalization of marijuana is because of all the idiot tourists from other countries who come to their country and cause all sorts of crap and act like idiots.
And so are they by paying their taxes just like you...... what was your point again?
You may break your back or get brain injury from climbing a mountain or sky diving or from how you conduct yourself at work, or doing something I personally would consider quite stupid...... I can't nit pick over you being covered by our health care because of your own stupidity, because like me, you paid into the system too.... thus I have no room to bitch.
So why do you feel you have room to bitch?
Study finds smoking marijuana and cocaine can cause cancer.
CNN - Study finds smoking marijuana and cocaine can cause cancer
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Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals
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In the game of probabilities...it probably doesn't cause cancer either.Epidemiological studies made during the past 30 years have found that marijuana causes lung damage and probably cancer.
The study also showed that habitual smoking of tobacco, marijuana or crack cocaine in combination could potentially lead to more cancerous alterations in the molecular makeup of cellular structure than single-smoking alone.
Pot does not lead to cocaine, pear pressure does. From my experience, most big businesses and high pressure jobs run on coke and/or alcohol. Pot as a gateway drug has been disproven time and again. There is no relation between pot and coke. They have two very different effects on the brain. For starters, pot makes you docile and sleepy (in most cases) and coke makes you wide awake, feel super human. Sigmand Freud and Hitler were coke addicts. If they had been pot heads, WW11 would not have happened and psychology would not have so many misconceptions about human brain function (not every man wants to hump his mother.) The only connection between coke and pot is in DEA propaganda.
Alcohol IS the main "gateway" drug.Also the same drug dealer often sells both. If crack cocaine was sold in liquor stores, then whiskey would be the gateway drug.
Legalizing marijuana and selling it separately from other drugs would eliminate this link.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/mountain-dew-users-may-go-on-to-use-harder-beverag,369/
Mountain Dew Users May Go On To Use Harder Beverages
April 26, 2000 | ISSUE 36•15
WASHINGTON, DC–The Office of the Surgeon General issued a warning Monday that sustained use of Mountain Dew–an addictive, caffeinated soft drink popular in youth-counterculture circles–may lead to the use of such harder beverages as Surge, Jolt, and even espresso.
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"There are children as young as 10 in this country who regularly do the Dew," Surgeon General David Satcher said. "While the risks associated with use of this extreme soda are lower than those of other, even more caffeinated substances, the decision to become a Mountain Dew user sends a young person down a dangerous path. It is the first step on the journey to hardcore beverage use."
"'It's only Mountain Dew–I can handle it,' is something I hear all too often," Satcher added.
According to UCLA Medical Center addiction specialist Dr. Audra Hurst, Mountain Dew is a "gateway beverage," one that serves as a bridge between safe drinks like orange juice and milk and dangerous substances like black tea and "Water Joe," the street name for a powerful strain of chemically enhanced caffeinated water.
"Everyone is familiar with the frightening image of the trembling, barely functional coffee addict, unable to face the world without his morning fix," Hurst said. "But few people think about the beverages that coffee junkie started out on before working his way up to that pathetic state."
"Regular Mountain Dew use sets the stage for far more serious things," said Lenora Nunez, president of Think Before You Drink, a New York-based soft-drink-industry watchdog group. "You get hooked on it and, suddenly, walking into a Starbucks and ordering a double mochaccino with 144 mg of caffeine or slugging down a carton of Strawberry Quik at 90 grams of sugar a pop doesn't seem like the taboo it once was."
Early-stage Mountain Dew users describe experiencing a sweet, highly pleasurable oral sensation and, in high doses, a rush of energy known as "doing the Dew." In certain users, the product also induces feelings of extreme confidence and invulnerability, leading them to engage in such high-risk activities as bungee-jumping and skydiving.
Enlarge ImageFormer Mountain Dew drinkers who admit to using coffee daily.![]()
"What many users don't realize until it's too late is that when the effects of the Mountain Dew wear off, their energy level plummets and they immediately start looking for another Mountain Dew, sending them spiraling downward into a cycle of dependence," Nunez said. "Before they're even aware of it, the user has developed a profound psychological and physical dependence to the Dew."
Because it is legal and its use widespread, Mountain Dew is often assumed to be safe. The drink, however, is known to pose many medical risks. Clinical studies have linked its consumption to rapid heartbeat, insomnia, diuresis, anxiety, hyperactivity, and the inability to concentrate.
In a trend Nunez calls "alarming," recent studies have shown that the average age at which a child drinks his or her first Mountain Dew is plummeting, while recreational use among young people is sharply on the rise.
"A young child does not possess the maturity and decision-making faculties necessary to use Mountain Dew responsibly," Nunez said. "I've seen kids as young as seven walk up to a soda machine on a street corner and plug their money in."
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that parents often dismiss their children's Mountain Dew use as harmless soda experimentation, something they themselves did when they were young.
"Mountain Dew came into vogue in the late '70s as a performance-enhancing beverage, consumed by young people seeking to prolong their enjoyment of such activities as horseback riding and rope-swinging over swimming holes," Hurst said. "But that was a far more innocent time. Today, we know a lot more about the costs of recreational Dew use and what it can lead to."
Despite such warnings, most regular users dismiss the notion that Mountain Dew is a gateway drink.
"That's a bunch of bull," said Troy DeSilva, 31, a Petoskey, MI, auto mechanic who started drinking Mountain Dew at 13. "What about the millions of decent, tax-paying, home-owning Mountain Dew users who have never gone on to use any harder beverages? Why don't we hear about them?"
"I've been a six-pack-a-day Mountain Dew drinker for almost 20 years, and it hasn't negatively affected me whatsoever," DeSilva continued. "If it did, I could quit any time I wanted to."![]()
Marijuana Vaporizer Provides Same Level Of THC, Fewer Toxins, Study Shows
Marijuana Vaporizer Provides Same Level Of THC, Fewer Toxins, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (May 16, 2007) — A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same level of active therapeutic chemical and produces the same biological effect as smoking cannabis, but without the harmful toxins, according to University of California San Francisco researchers.
Results of a UCSF study, which focuses on delivery of the active ingredient delta-9-tertrahydrocannibinol, or THC, are reported in the online issue of the journal "Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics."
"We showed in a recent paper in the journal 'Neurology' that smoked cannabis can alleviate the chronic pain caused by HIV-related neuropathy, but a concern was expressed that smoking cannabis was not safe. This study demonstrates an alternative method that gives patients the same effects and allows controlled dosing but without inhalation of the toxic products in smoke," said study lead author Donald I. Abrams, MD, UCSF professor of clinical medicine.
The research team looked at the effectiveness of a device that heats cannabis to a temperature between 180 and 200 degrees C, just short of combustion, which occurs at 230 degrees C. Eighteen individuals were enrolled as inpatients for six days under supervision in the General Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
Under the study protocol, the participants received on different days three different strengths of cannabis by two delivery methods--smoking or vaporization--three times a day.
Plasma concentrations of THC were measured along with the exhaled levels of carbon monoxide, or CO. A toxic gas, CO served as a marker for the many other combustion-generated toxins inhaled when smoking. The plasma concentrations of THC were comparable at all strengths of cannabis between smoking and vaporization. Smoking increased CO levels as expected, but there was little or no increase in CO levels after inhaling from the vaporizer, according to Abrams.
"Using CO as an indicator, there was virtually no exposure to harmful combustion products using the vaporizing device. Since it replicates smoking's efficiency at producing the desired THC effect using smaller amounts of the active ingredient as opposed to pill forms, this device has great potential for improving the therapeutic utility of THC," said study co-author Neal L. Benowitz, MD, UCSF professor of medicine, psychiatry and biopharmaceutical sciences. He added that pills tend to provide patients with more THC than they need for optimal therapeutic effect and increase side effects.
Patients rated the "high" they experienced from both smoking and vaporization and there was no difference between the two methods by patient self-report of the effect, according to study findings. In addition, patients were asked which method they preferred.
"By a significant majority, patients preferred vaporization to smoking, choosing the route of delivery with the fewest side effects and greatest efficiency," said Benowitz.
Co-authors include Cheryl A. Jay, MD, UCSF neurology; and Starley B. Shade, MPH; Hector Vizoso, RN; and Mary Ellen Kelly, MPH, UCSF Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
The study was funded by the University of California's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research.
I think sugar is the gateway drug. Kids are hooked on it from a very young age and if you watch kids overdosing on sugar you see how behavioral altering it is. Like most drugs we build up a tolerance for it and the symptoms lessen but not the craving.Alcohol IS the main "gateway" drug.
lol So does C&Ping.study finds reading studies causes cancer.........
I guess you missed the word "more" in this thing you quoted:In the game of probabilities...it probably doesn't cause cancer either.
Excellent citations if you only read the headline.
Quit cigarettes and crack. Then you probably won't get cancer.
The study also showed that habitual smoking of tobacco, marijuana or crack cocaine in combination could potentially lead to more cancerous alterations in the molecular makeup of cellular structure than single-smoking alone.
Nah. It's air. Since their very first breath, people get really weird.I think sugar is the gateway drug. Kids are hooked on it from a very young age and if you watch kids overdosing on sugar you see how behavioral altering it is. Like most drugs we build up a tolerance for it and the symptoms lessen but not the craving.
I think sugar is the gateway drug. Kids are hooked on it from a very young age and if you watch kids overdosing on sugar you see how behavioral altering it is. Like most drugs we build up a tolerance for it and the symptoms lessen but not the craving.
I once sat in a room with 3 friends and 3 of my brothers. They were passing one around and I declined. I remember perfectly my brother saying "just try it, you'll like it".
I replied "that's exactly what I'm afraid of"
Two of my 3 brothers and 1 of my 3 friends ended up becoming addicts. All of them were poor well into their 30's and I've never worried about money in my life. I had more new cars then all of them combined.
Coincidence?
Study finds smoking marijuana and cocaine can cause cancer.
CNN - Study finds smoking marijuana and cocaine can cause cancer
Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals
Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals
Marijuana Causes Cancer, California Regulators Say
Marijuana Causes Cancer, California Regulators Say - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News - FOXNews.com
Medical Marijuana Causes Cancer
Medical Marijuana Causes Cancer
There was an interesting study done a few years ago that determined that all addicts including booze, smoking and various drugs all got started by drinking milk.
as does breathing.study finds reading studies causes cancer.........
Nah. It's air. Since their very first breath, people get really weird.
Considering that we're addicted to oxygen since we began existing on this planet, and Oxygen has oxidants in it which over the years breaks down our DNA, which is also the end result of old age and dying of old age due to failure of organs, Oxygen is the first gateway drug we're ever introduced to.