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Originally Posted by vektor
A: it is healthy if you both vaporize and don't abuse it, well atleast from my personal experience. It helps with depression, anxiety, relieves pain and helps me sleep so from that perspective it is healthy.
B: it is extremely unhealthy a lot of the time because of the simple fact that it's loaded with chemicals from the grow itself. A lot of growers use extremely harsh chemicals because it increases yield and the majority of the time you have no clue whether it's organic or not.
I've vaporized for quite a while, got a full physical 3 months ago and I was told I'm healthier than almost anyone so I'm fairly sure it can't be that bad if you use common sense. It's pretty easy to tell if it's bad for you based on how your body reacts, if you smoke it out of a metal pipe or a one hitter you will cough and if you do it enough you will be wheezy if you do cardio. If you vaporize there is no effect on the lungs because there are no carcinogens, it's just water vapor and cannabinoids.
So I agree with you guys, smoking is probably not the greatest thing, abusing it while smoking is even worse. That being said there is conflicting scientific evidence ranging from it's worse than cigarettes to smoking actually protects against lung cancer. Logic would dictate that anything making you cough and wheeze isn't healthy. It's a grey area under some circumstances but I'm certain it can be extremely bad for you if it's laced with grow chemicals, there's no filter between the herb and your lungs and you use a metal pipe to smoke it. The way I do it I never cough and my throat never hurts, I'll actually vaporize other herbs if I'm sick because the warm water vapor is extremely soothing.
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Maybe we're getting closer to a difference in semantics here, but I can't really call ANY drug healthy for you. Drugs are prescribed and taken to treat problems in an unhealthy body. When taken properly and not abused like you said, they can reduce or treat or even cure these problems. But it wouldn't be prescribed if you didn't have the problem to begin with, nor should one take it after the problem is gone. It's not like food nutrients, or vitamins, or such that are healthy for you and help your body grow and develop.
But I do agree that taken for the right reasons, and not abused, pot can have many medicinal benefits.
As for treating depression, I find that weird, though I admit I have no experience. Cause I've known so many people who have trouble with depression because of it. Obviously they are abusing it, but I still find it weird you say it can help with depression. I've never heard that before.