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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
Spare me the stigma and conspiracy talk. Weed is definitely one of the safest drugs you could possibly take. All I'm saying is that chronic marijuana use has real side effects.
I can't tell you how many weekend marijana smokers I've talked to that swear its all "stigma" and they'll tell you about all these studies that show this and that about how harmless cannabis really is. I found out first hand what the effects are. I was a daily marijuana user for about 5 years. The side effects of that kind of usage can be subtle, but they're not a joke. There are plenty, but the most concerning to me are the memory persistence issues I experienced. It would absolutely damage a child's learning capacity. It likely wouldn't be immediate or permanent, but I would have some serious doubts about how well a child could retain information after 3+ years of use.
I'm sure the dosage being proposed here is less than what I used, but we're also talking about administering this to school kids who are still developing. I don't know about you but I'll let someone else test out validity of the "stigma" on their kids.
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The key here is the dosage. A chronic marijuana smoker is consuming considerably more than a ADD patient would be. A chronic smoker is getting stoned more than once a day. Where as a ADD patient would not be getting stoned at all. But since the dosages would be controlled for an ADD patient I would assume that the memory loss would not a be factor when compared to someone who is chronic smoker and moderation is not a consideration.