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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Marijuana smoke has carcinogens in it too. If you burn anything, it breaks down into thousands of constituent parts and some of those are carcinogens. Heck, if you eat well done meat, the burnt portions contain polycyclic aromatics that are carcinogens.
I'm all for degrees of legalization, but there are health risks.
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I think that there does have to be a deeper more conclusive study of the effects. But you could argue that smokes and booze were legalized with pretty haphazard information because they were pretty well legacy products.
I did find an interesting study on lung cancer and cannibas,
http://www.ersj.org.uk/content/31/2/280.full
And on long term brain damage
http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles...-addiction.htm
I think to an effect the argument that you can't overdose or it doesn't cause death is a bit of a false flag if the product is more of a damage creating product.
I think that grass does have an effect on developing minds and bodies, and I believe that heavy use is probably damaging, anything in moderation right?
While the argument is that booze and smokes are hideously damaging is a valid argument, but is it the proper thing to apply the same standards to grass? Or is the prudent thing to make sure that we really understand the long term effects of it.
Remember in the 50's most studies came out from the pro smoking side that tabacco had a whole bunch of wonderful health benefits, ask any pregnant woman from that time, and the anti smoking side was battered into submission.
Are we seeing the same thing here with grass?
I don't know.
I'm not against legalizing grass if there is an element of understanding the health risks and the dollar impact to the health care system.
I still stand by the assertation that smoking dope is not the healthiest thing in the world for teenagers either and everything possible should be done to restrict access to them.
Just my two cents.