Question:
How Bad is weed for you?
Kate_Pyro
2009-07-07 22:52:12 UTC
Ok well a few of my friends have smoked weed in the past, and they offer it to me, i want to know like, the full effects. I have to say that i am curious, but is it like going to kill me?
Fourteen answers:
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2009-07-07 23:27:27 UTC
How bad??? I cant really think of much.

To my knowledge i havent come across an ailment yet that weed has not completely cured for me. Obviously i dont mean that it cures aids and cancer. That would be stupid to say. But what is it do you think, that they give to those patients to relieve tons of problems caused by the disease. Headaches, upset stomach, eating disorders, pain, even withdrawls from real drugs.

Weed will almost never kill you, unless of course you get super baked and go driving around, which for me has no effect on my driving, but i still wouldnt reccomend it for anyone else. But look at it this way too, alcohol in any form and any case kills millions each year. Drunk driving, drinking too much, etc.. But there isnt many cases that you will find ANYWHERE where weed was the sole factor for a persons death. If you wanna say being relaxed, happy, and for the most part, feeling great, is a bad thing then yeah its bad. The thing that you gotta be careful for is to not get lazy, make sure that you go out and do something, or hang out with friends. Dont just lay around all day, every day and eat and watch tv, which is great on occasion but not all the time. Otherwise ill say this, weed is definately not bad. AND DO NOT LISTEN WHEN PEOPLE SAY ITS A GATEWAY DRUG. Ive done it for 10 years now and not one single time have i tried coke, heroin, crystal meth, crack, anything. Dont let yourself think that its a gateway drug and it wont be. Have the will to turn down poisons like that and youll be fine.



If you have the time, since this is a kinda long video, check it out because its seriously worth the time. If you can find it somewhere. Its called "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High." its a good video but im not sure if its still on the site that i watched it at.
Az R
2009-07-08 01:40:42 UTC
Unless you are in a certain risk group, there are not significant risks, other than long term respiratory complications from, you know, inhaling smoke.



Here's what I can recall from memory at least.



Under the age of about 20 - marijuana's been pretty definitevily shown to slow or halt the development of certain areas of the brain that occur during adolescence up through the late teenage years. Specifically areas that have to do with decision making, emotional integration and the like in the right frontal and prefrontal lobes. Good news here is that these seem to resume if you stop using it, and are more or less finished between the ages of 19 and 24-25 or so. This can have a pretty profound impact on people who start smoking it at say, age 13.



-Family history of addiction and substance abuse. Alcoholism is the one you've got to really watch out for, as there seem to be shared genetic risk factors between alcoholism and the serious abuse of marijuana.



Existing mental illness, or a family history of mental illness. Specifically:



Major Depression and marijuana isn't a cheery combo. Makes the depression virtually untreatable, though it's debated in most literature wether it can worsen it. Depression is a very heterogenous illness, and it's very hard to draw conclusions here.



Bipolar Disorder just doesn't play nice with marijuana, both in terms of the medication needed to manage bipolar successfully, and the illness itself. Marijuana's probably in the top three worst things for a person with bipolar. It significantly worsens the prognosis of the illness, and kindles long term increases in cycling, and severity of cycles.



Existing schizophrenia, or severe risk factors for schizophrenia - such as a close relative with the disorder, or certain mutations in a gene called COMT. Marijuana is, bar nothing, the worst thing to mix with schizophrenia. All controlled research on the subject, including some very powerful retrospective cohort studies have been unequivocal on the topic.



Oh, you could be allergic to it, but that's extremely rare. And if you have respiratory problems, like asthma, smoking anything at all is a very bad idea.



This is from recollection, largely on working as a tech in a large scale substance abuse treatment study and gathering research material related to it. If you have any specific questions, feel free to direct an email my way.
Og Arty
2009-07-08 22:14:57 UTC
The Only Thing U should worry about weed

first of all it wont kill u..

it can make u gain wheight

it makes u a bit slower like memory loss

over time it wont do anything bad ur still the same person after the effect is gone,,.

i blaze it alot a nd the only thing i worry about it how much i eat 0.o
JO
2009-07-08 04:16:20 UTC
Out of my large family only my sister and her husband smoked weed. They both have had cancer and out of my large family they are the only ones that have had cancer.

There was no cancer risk from either of my parents or their siblings or from any of my grandparents or their siblings.



If you listen to the ones that smoke it today they think nothing bad will ever happen to them due to smoking it. Try asking older people that smoked it when they were teens or young adults. Ask what kind of disease or problems they have had. Get the facts from the older generation not the new generation that think they are invincible.



By the way how does anyone really know what is in or added to that weed? It's not like it is regulated by the government and they have to tell you what they put in it.

How do you know when you get the real thing or better yet a safe thing?
2009-07-07 23:03:46 UTC
not at all it only makes you forget a few things while you are high. im high right now and feel ******* amazing its awesome you def have you try it does not kill brain cells like some people say thats just stupid, but it does kill cancer cells... i would take it next time they offer youll be fine but you have to smoke twice to get an actual good high.







erowid.org might help you also
Pain Pro
2009-07-07 23:41:55 UTC
haha the only thing that will happen to you is you will get like really really high if its your first time. you will laugh your *** off on absolutly everything that is going on. its a blast but in fact no one, NO ONE has ever EVER died from smokeing pot. the only thing your going to get is a big case of the munchies so make sure you got some food around lol and something to drink. im a smoker myself ive been smokeing it for 10+ yrs now. oh and its not addictive. your just rele going to miss getting stoned lol hope i helped you.
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2009-07-08 14:46:54 UTC
Well lets see!!

I'm 16 and I've smoked ALOT



My first time high I felt as if wow man everything is so awesome. Like you feel like nothing could go wrong and your happy and you almost laugh and normal stuff you wouldn't its like being in a dream like state, laughing at anything, happy, sometimes you get a warm fuzzy feeling (or at least I do).
Kyle S
2009-07-08 02:07:20 UTC
Cigarettes kill 250,000 people a year



Alcohol kills 80,000



Coffee kills 12,000



Aspirin kills 5,000



Marijuana has yet to have a single death directly attributed to smoking too much of it, and this after 10,000 years of known historical use.



It's only danger lies in the fact that it is illegal. So as long as you're willing to face that danger, toke it up, it's not going to kill you or make you stupid.
2009-07-07 23:08:38 UTC
It feels absolutely amazing. And no, weed will not kill you. In fact, NO ONE has ever died from weed in the 4,000+ years of its recorded use. Look it up if you don't believe me. Damn your naive.
Em
2009-07-08 02:15:56 UTC
Weed is not harmful to you what so ever.

There are not any long term effects.

And there is no way you could overdose on it.
10242
2009-07-08 17:32:40 UTC
there is nothing bad about weed. if you don't believe me you can find out more information at these websites



www.mpp.org

www.norml.org

www.drugpolicy.org
Luis Alvarez
2009-07-07 23:04:19 UTC
Well its not bad for you for the most part in the short run, unless you experience a harmful, rare, allergic reaction, then its not bad for you. However, lung damage sets in after a while...
Road Doc.
2009-07-07 23:23:41 UTC
It's a hallucinogen so you don't have complete control over yourself, sure it wont kill you directly but its a risk becasue you could end up getting killed since your senses arent in tune
2009-07-08 16:49:41 UTC
Its not bad at all.


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