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Originally Posted by calculoso
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Those sites certainly show one side of the story, but it's kind of like getting information about the Alberta oil sands from the Green Party or dietary advice from PETA. They have a particular angle they want to show and aren't necessarily offering up the full picture. They are focusing on people who cannot, or don't want to moderate their use. It's no different than alcohol in that respect. There seems to be the impression among many people that all marijuana users are chronic habitual users, when in reality most are just people who occasionally use marijuana and only take light doses.
This is a little personal, but I was prescribed benzodiazepines by a doctor about 8 years ago and they were extremely hard to get off of. It was actually hell, and those drugs are legal and marketed right to people. It's funny, because I experimented with marijuana a few times as a teenager but I never liked it and never touched it through my 20s and part of my 30s. It wasn't until I had to come off of benzodiazepines that some recommended marijuana as a way to help with the withdrawal. Not to mention that I drank less alcohol, exercised more and weighed less when I was on pot than when I was lulled into a coma with clonazepam. It was definitely the lesser of two evils for me. I haven't used anything in about a year now, but if somene offered it, I probably would. I certainly don't feel the need to run out and get some though.