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Originally Posted by peter12
So, it is swapping one poison for another. The effects may be very diminished when compared to heroin, but it is pretty clear that marijuana has significant risk when used regularly - particularly for mental health.
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Not for the general population. There are 2.3 million users of marijuana in Canada.
Approximately 1% of the population of Canada has Schizophrenia.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/...chap_3-eng.php
The population of Canada is 35.16 million, according to a Google of "population of Canada", and 1% of that is 351,600.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid...%20of%20canada
351,600 people in this country who have schizophrenia. Now I have to assume that not all of them were completely normal until they started hitting the bong. I posted something several weeks ago from the UK psychiatric society that did acknowledge that in people at risk for schizophrenia, frequent marijuana use does increase their risk of contracting that affliction.
Even if we accept all 351,600 schizophrenics in this country are weed created (Which again, they're definitely not) you've got 2 million people who are fine.
I cannot understand how you wouldn't view more people on weed instead of heroin as a good thing. It's undeniably a good thing. You might think weed is evil. It's not, but you're entitled to that opinion. Heroin is ISIL. Weed is kids with hoodies doing BMX tricks off church railings.