How many side-effects are there for smoking marujuana?
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It robs you of your ambition to compete, makes you lazy, causes eating binges, dulls the senses, your timing is enabled and if you ever got this really great job, if they drug tested it would cost you your lively hood. Not to mention its against the law. Now lets talk about a couple of positive side effects. I believe everything deserves its due. For terminally ill patients its nulls pain, for those who suffer from glaucoma it slows the process, its proved to be a mind expander, and for severely emotionally ill people that suffer from major depressions, its been known to help them function better in society. It lesssons  the state of paranoid for some, but it also causes severe paranoid in others.
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Hello there,\n    I'm a hooka smoker myself, i'm 23 now and have been smoking it for 8 years. Here in Egypt they call it Sheesha.\n\nHere's a list of potential dangers that i know of:\n1- It has higher risks of lung, tongue and oral cancers due to lack of proper filtering.\n2- The sweetning agents in the tobacco mix turn into carcenogenic compounds on combustion.\n3- It has significantly high risks of tuberculosis especially when shared with more than one person.\n\nSo, i think it's about time we both quit dont you? :)\nend of line..
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sure there are....\nLet's see... you can get either Lung cancer, Cancer of the Mouth, Cancer of the Larynx, Cancer of the Esophagus, Cancer of the Bladder, Cancer of the Pancreas, Cancer of the Reproductive Systems (and if your a guy... you'll have a slight chance of becoming impetent) and/or other cancers and all you have to pay is probably over $2500 for the increasing rate in which cigarettes/cigars are sold!\nAND if that isnt enough for you, let's add to the fact that smoking can increase your risk of getting coronary heart diseases, emhphysema, chronic bronchitis, acute myeloid leukemia, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and/or other diseases. \nALSO, a decade of your life will be wasted and your body will be in poor health by the time you reach the 40s (assuming you're not already there) because smoking also affects your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.\nPHYSICAL effects of smoking can cause your skin to wrinkle faster than nonsmokers, bad breath, yellowing teeth, and etc. \nThe person above me pretty much described smoking during pregnancy and secondhand smoke so I'm not going to go there...\nSO... my answer would be "yeah... you get tons of shit and all your doing is throwing your life away"\n\nplease note that my answer is sarcastic (for those slow people out there...) but the facts are facts... they're true!\n\nP.S.- Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death out there... and yet it kills more people than suicide, homocide, car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, and illegal drugs COMBINED. Keep that in mind...
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I would have to say I know of people of whom i have talked to and or have know from my much younger years and yes they tried both. Marijuana and Tobacco and you don't get any smarter that's for sure. It keeps a person from being able to study or to drive on the roads or to concentrate on much of anything for long periods of time.Although there's not been very much study done on the Marjuana smoking some doctors have been known to prescribe it to cancer patients for to keep them so doped up that they may or may not have alot of pain with their type of cancer so, if you want to play it smart , I SAY DON'T DO EITHER ONE, NOT EVEN TO TRY FOR A SECOND.AS THEY SAY BE SMART DON'T START !!!!!
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In low single doses (200 to 400 mg) and daily doses of up to 1,200 mg the incidence of side effects is low. However, in patients treated on a long-term basis with more than 1,200 mg daily discontinuation rates are as high as 10 to 15%.This includes smoking, injecting or any form of absorption.\n\nCommon adverse effects include: nausea, dyspepsia, gastrointestinal ulceration/bleeding, raised liver enzymes, diarrhoea, headache, dizziness, salt and fluid retention, hypertension.\n\nInfrequent adverse effects include: oesophageal ulceration, heart failure, hyperkalaemia, renal impairment, confusion, bronchospasm, rash
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Let us examine the facts.\n\n1.  constant irritation can cause tumors to develop.  Smoking irritates the lining of the lungs.  You don't smoke periodically; therefore, you have constant irritation.\n\n2.  nicotine irritates the lining of the artery wall and thereby causes plaque to adhere to the walls increasing your risk of having either a heart attack or a stroke.\n\n3.  smoking causes irritation of the bladder and the bowels on the same premises that nicotine causes the irritation.  Thereby increasing your risk of having colon and bladder cancer.\n\n4.  finally, after 50 years of research of people who don't believe in God because you can't prove he exists scientifically, leaves little doubt in this nurse's mind that there is no link between smoking and certain cancers.\n\nDisclaimer:  there are four types of lung cancer.  The type usually caused by cancer is small oat cell carcinoma.  The most difficult to treat and with little success.
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Short-term effects of using marijuana include:\n\n• Sleepiness \n• Difficulty keeping track of time, impaired or reduced short-term memory \n• Reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination, such as driving a car \n• Increased heart rate \n• Potential cardiac dangers for those with preexisting heart disease \n• Bloodshot eyes \n• Dry mouth and throat \n• Decreased social inhibitions \n• Paranoia, hallucinations \n• Impaired or reduced short-term memory \n• Impaired or reduced comprehension \n• Altered motivation and cognition, making the acquisition of new information difficult \n• Paranoia \n• Psychological dependence \n• Impairments in learning, memory, perception, and judgment - difficulty speaking, listening effectively, thinking, retaining knowledge, problem solving, and forming concepts \n• Intense anxiety or panic attacks\n\n Long-term effects of using marijuana include:\n• Enhanced cancer risk \n• Decrease in testosterone levels and lower sperm counts for men \n• Increase in testosterone levels for women and increased risk of infertility \n• Diminished or extinguished sexual pleasure \n• Psychological dependence requiring more of the drug to get the same effect
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sexual side affects, jumpy, but it does help to stop smoking
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Short-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Increased blood pressure\n2. Constricted blood vessels\n3. Dilated pupils\n4. Mental alertness\n5. Increased energy\n6. Increased heart rate\n7. Decreased appetite\n8. Increased temperature\n\nOther long-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Addiction\n2. Paranoia\n3. Irritability\n4. Restlessness\n5. Auditory hallucinations\n6. Mood disturbances\n\nwell, those are just the LITTLE effects of cocaine.. if you want a thorought reading on its effects, read this sight below, i find it very useful and brief and straightforward in the effects of cocaine and a lot more..\n\nand since i think God is calling me to type more and give you a lot more information, ill summarize the effects for you.. here it follows..\n\n1. cocaine effects could lead to permamnent damage, addiction and DEATH!\n2. CARDIAC ARREST or SEIZURES and RESPIRATORY FAILURE..!! (oh my, would you like to look so ogly dying because you can no longer breathe?)\n3. when you try using cocaine, the initial effects is that you will have increased energy leading to great productiveness at the beginning and longer endurance, but to attain this, you will have to consume more and more cocaine, your body will urge you to have more that will lead to addiction!!! (would you like your friend to be an addict and if get caught be thrown to jail or a mental ward??)\n4. appetite suppression will lead to a thin figure but this will only urge your body to consume more and more cocaine, and the effest will be none other than aDDICTION again!\n5. when you get addicted to that drug, you will now build a drug tolerance that will yield you to consume much more drugs than you take before, and this follows a great variety of SERIOUS medical condition!\n      *heart disease\n      *heart attacks\n      *respiratory failure\n      *strokes\n      *seizures\n      *gastrointestinal problems\n      *convulsions\n      *nausea\n      *blurred vision\n      *chest pain\n      *fever\n      *muscle spasms\n      *coma.. = DEATH!\n\nif you love your friend like i know you do, please let him/her read this sight. or its better to tell him/her this informations. or rather, seek help, do something wghile you still can. i know you love them, dont you?? \n\n\nhttp://www.friendster.com/profiles/kimpotpot
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Side Effect's \n\nPossible Adverse effects include acne, edema, liver and adrenal gland damage, infertility, impotence in men, and virilzation in women.
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I really am not sure, but I do know that when I was very ill a few years ago I had to have several surgeries, my ex gave me pot to smoke to help me through my recovery.  I may have smoked a small cigerette roll once a week so I was not really a pot smoker.  It did help me heal faster and that is the honest truth.  I did do research for you and found that heavy pot smokers there are indeed risks I will paste below for your reading\n\nOther negative results of smoking pot are that it…\n\nChanges the chemical balance in your brain, altering your mood, appetite, ability to concentrate, and energy levels. \nLowers testosterone levels in men and upsets the balance of hormones in women that control menstrual cycles. \nDecreases sperm count and increases sperm abnormalities. \nJeopardizes the eggs in women’s ovaries (remember, you are born with the total number of eggs you will have for your lifetime – they are irreplaceable!). \nThreatens your ability to learn and remember things, leading to forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating. \nCauses the same lung problems as cigarette smoking, including emphysema, cancer, frequent chest colds, coughing, and more phlegm production. \nLeads to anxiety problems, depression, and paranoia. \nIncreases risk for cancer of the throat, lungs, head, and neck. \nWhat are the immediate effects of smoking pot?\n\nRelaxation \nAltered sense of hearing, time, and vision \nEuphoria \nIncreased heart rate and appetite \nDilated pupils \nMemory impairment \nRed eyes and swollen eyelids \nDry eyes and mouth \nLoss of coordination, slower reaction time (never drive after smoking pot) \nImpaired judgment \nHow addictive is marijuana?\nThere has been conflicting research linking marijuana and addiction. Although pot has not shown signs of causing severe physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms, associated with drugs like cocaine and heroine, marijuana often causes psychological dependence. This means that the user experiences a psychological need for the drug and its effects in order to function on a daily basis. \n\nIf I quit marijuana, will I experience withdrawal symptoms?\nThe severity of withdrawal symptoms depends on the level of your habit, but if you smoke heavily, you are likely to experience psychological withdrawal, such as feeling sick. You may also experience chronic fatigue, headaches, mood changes, and feel depressed or anxious. Other withdrawal symptoms include nervousness, insomnia, loss of appetite, chills, and tremors. Impaired brain functioning can include short-term memory loss and inability to think abstractly. [top]
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More common side effects may include: \nDizziness, light-headedness, nausea, sedation, vomiting\nLess common or rare side effects may include: \nConstipation, depressed feeling, exaggerated feeling of well-being, itchy skin, skin rash, slowed breathing (at higher doses)
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It all depends on your dependency to the physical and mental aspects of smoking. I quit on January 1st. I ended up with a horrible flu and clinical depression. The flu is a "good" thing though. Your body has to repair the damage caused by the smoking. Flu-like symptoms are rare, but it is usually coughing, shivers, cold sweats. If you take Wellbutrin to help then you might have night terrors from the medication. The length depends on your social situation. If you have friends who smoke or like to go bar hopping (in states where indoor smoking isnt banned) then your cravings will last a long time. Become a hermit and youre fine, lol. But I don't recommend that. Part of the quitting process is learning to look cigarettes in the eye and not smoke them.
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If 60mg of nicotine is absorbed by the body, it will kill you. Nicotine poisoning causes vomiting and nausea, headaches, difficulty breathing, stomach pains and seizures. Each of these symptoms can be traced back to excessive stimulation of cholinergic neurons by the nicotine.
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There are several issues to the effects of canabis smoking as with the taking of any drug, and as with any drug, there are it's one dangers.\n\nCanabis contains more tar than tobacco, so there is a chance that it can lead to breathing problems if it is smoked in quantity over an extened period of time.\n\nHow you smoke it is a factor on how dangerous it is - if you smoke it in a joint with tobacco there is's a danger that you may become addicted to tobacco, esp if smoking joints is a regular thing.  If you smoke it through a pipe, or in a pure joint - see my comments above regarding the breathing problems.  If however you smoke it through a vaporiser only the THC (the active ingrediant) is evaporated and the rest of the bio mass (hash or bud) is left uneffected so the physical effects are minimised.\n\nAs well as the physical effects, recent research has showen that long term, heavy use can lead to mental disorders ranging from mild depression upwards - however this research is only at the initial findings stage and is ongoing (esp in europe where the governments are more willing to fund the research), but the results are mounting.\n\nI would sugest that you search a qualtiy peer reviewed scientific publication such as that given below for current reseach on all the potential dangers of canabis smoking. As well as the usual sources (google)\n\nThat said above in moderation (like alcohol - an even more dangerous drug IMHO) it can be fun and ejoyable, so long as you local laws are not too harsh.\n\nAt the end of the day I feel that this is not the place for asking such a complex question as the actual safty of canabis is still being reseached and the wealth of information through research is rather poor in regard to other substances.\n\nFrom an ethical point I see no harm in smoking canabis or the taking of any othe drug for that matter, just so long as the taker is in control of the substance and not the other way round and that no other person is adversly effected.
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Long-term physical effects of smoking marijuana;\nIn some ways, the effects of smoking cannabis are similar to the effects of smoking any substance. Any time you inhale smoke, the respiratory system is adversely affected. These effects are particularly apparent with repeated and prolonged use. Studies have pointed out that cannabis produces more tar and burns at a higher temperature than tobacco. Some cannabis smokers inhale the smoke more deeply and hold it in their lungs for a longer period of time. However, the average cannabis user smokes less frequently, and there is evidence that cannabinoids present in cannabis may actually serve to protect against cancer. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-10/correspondence.html#thc Furthermore, the concentration of toxic and carcinogenic additives such as nicotine, arsenic, and radium-226, is substantially greater in tobacco cigarettes than in cannabis.Medically, cannabis is most often used as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for certain terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS. It is also used to relieve glaucoma and certain neurological illnesses such as epilepsy ,migraine and bipolar disorder. The medical use of cannabis is politically controversial, but it is sometimes recommended informally by physicians. A synthetic version of the active ingredient in cannabis, THC, is readily available in the form of a pill as the prescription drug Marinol. THC has also been found to reduce arterial blockages.http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050404/full/050404-7.html A sublingual spray derived from an extract of cannabis has also been approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis in Canada as the prescription drug Sativex.
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nope sounds like it might have a lot of side effects