What good does marijuana do?
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There probably isn't a good reason for him to smoke it. Unfortunately that probably won't be enough. \n\nI've known alot of people like that in regards to normal smoking. All of them refuse to stop as well no matter how bad it is for them. \n\nAs to using any drug for a stress reliever, it kind of reminds me of my oldest sister. Stress caused her headaches, so instead of learning how to deal with the stress, she would get medications for the headache, which would incedentally give her a temporary leave from the stress. She would openly refuse to deal with the stress. This went on until a couple mounths ago her heart condition came back(because of the stress) and she died at age 35. Using any drugs for stress can't be a good thing.  \n\nWhat good can it do? Basic pain relief and relaxant. \n\nI also clouds a person's mind. If you could get him off of it for a month, he would have a sharper mind as it has an effect on short term memory.\n\nbut overall it won't actually cause him immediate physical harm as long as he doesn't do anything stupid while under its influence. Due to a lack of study noone knows what it will do in the longer term to him.
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Hemp is great for making paper products, a crop can be grown in a matter of weeks unlike trees and it does not have to go through a bleach process unlike the wood from our forests. It is this bleach process that is harmful to the environment. Hemp crops are also known for putting more oxygen into the atmosphere than any other crop. These are reasons why I think hemp can help the environment.\nHemp is not the stuff pot heads use to get stoned, it is well known that hemp has no high factor. Hemp is also a great source for protein hence all the food products on offer in the health food shops
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Dear Friend,\n\nYes, marijuana should be legal.  It is a mild narcotic with no addictive properties.  Money spent in a futile attempt to stamp out weed could be directed towards more pressing social problems.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois
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no my dear,marijuana,makes no one manic nor aggressive,bipolar disordered thinking is a debilitating disorder that may interfere with activities of daily lioving due to sever alteration in thought processes and perceptions of reality, gettiung stoned makes you euphoric,can cause paranoia, and makes u hungry,and is a depressant, when bipolar patients are in the depressed phase ,it is much more severe than being stoned and it lasts longer than a high, marijuana is actually a neuroprotectant it does not kill brain cells , it is the only drug that kills gliomas ,a serious fatal form of brain cancer ,that traditional medication and surgery do not help,it protects the brain from suffering the damaging effects of a stroke ,and causes nuerogenensis,nerve cells to reproduce, only stem cells can do that ,besides canniboids, and it is not in one of the largest lobbying powers the pharmaceutical companies ,(which have an obscene amount of influence ,which they exert at the expense at consumers), to have marijuana become a legal drug and make a few money makers obsolete, and they are in bed with our government, \ndo not believe anything I say my dear, you can trust me further than you can throw me, but you cannot argue with the facts or change reality, go to calpirg.org,I am a member of this consumer group ,which seeks to limit the damage pharmaceutical companies wage on consumers, via dirty tactics and legislation ,also check out heads magazine  it cites all valid ,credible research ,by valid credible researchers ,and go look at the q and a of mmexykat, one of her answers cites a study, from heads magazine with all details, it is a medical marijuana magazine,unlike hi times which is a stoner magazine
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Weed will not kill you\nWeed will not kill other plants.\nWeed does not make you go crazy.\nWeed does not have any hallucinogenic effects.\nWeed is not that bad overall.\nWeed is, however, considered a gateway to harder drugs.\nThere are many of you reading this and other statements like this that are asying to yourselves, "I smoke weed and I don't do any harder drugs".  But there are also many of you that have been there.  You once said, "The weed didn't hurt me.  This Meth (or Heroin, or Cocaine:whatever it may have been) won't hurt me either.  And I know better than to get addicted to anything.  It's just for fun." \nAnd, because it does cloud your judgment and put a damper on your reflexes and motor skills, much the same way that drinking alcohol does, our government has deemed it illegal.\nThe fact that it is illegal is just about the only thing that makes it "so bad".  \nWeed actually has some very good uses.  As I'm sure you all know, it reduces pain and nausea in terminally ill patients.\nAnd although it hasn't been scientifically tested, in some people with ADHD or ADD or depression, it has helped them to focus.  I have personally seen people with these diseases that smokes weed and they were able to make good grades in school, stay out of trouble, and become more successful in life.\nFor people who cannot control their minds, the weed slows down the thought processes and allows them to think more clearly about one thing at a time.\nI am not totally on one side or the other when it comes to legalizing it.  There are those that should very well be able to get tit for medical reasons and cannot.  And there are those that would abuse it just like alcohol.  \nI do, on the other hand, feel that if they were to legalize it, that they should put an age limit, 21 maybe, on it, just like alcohol.
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This is a complex question.  It depends on why you are taking the drugs.  The same drug that could save your life in an emergency could kill you if taken at the wrong time.\n\nMany recreational drugs might feel good or give you a novel experience, but could have long-term damaging effects.\n\nIt all depends.  \n\nSide note: There is some tentative evidence that marijuana can stimulate the growth of new brain cells.
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I'm only going to answer this because the person who said marijuana destroys brain cells is wrong. Marijuana in studies with ADULTS proved to cause minimum to NO damage in brain cells and or brain function. I'm friends with one of the most famous Pot doctors in the world and he has written a book that talks extensively about marijuana as a medicine for people EXACTLY like your friend.
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It helps people that have cronic pain live a better life.  It allows people that are so sick that they cannot eat, eat.  It is a great hand lotion.  It can be made into fuel for cars.  It is made into rope, and sails for ships.  And its great in brownies.  It has more uses that you would think.  Look into in at www.norml.org
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The whole world has decriminalized marijuana, except the U.S. The Police and gov't use it as a means of invasion and control. They use it as a means to fill their prisons. They use it as a means to steal and confiscate and redistribute wealth to themselves. They use it as a means to get into your pockets and to search every crevice of your privacy. They use it as an excuse to monitor your phone and email. They use it as a means of entry when they "smell" it. There is no human right that stands in their way when an "informer" reveals there "might" be marijuana present. It is an excuse for them to do everything for our "protection" and to protect our children.\n\nWhy on earth would gov't want to legalize or even decriminalize marijuana. They got it goin' on.\n\nAfter smoking marijuana for 30 years, I am now afraid of all drugs. It chose my friends, my music, and what I did with my time. I somehow managed to finish college, but I did not excel, and it kept me away from the best students, out of the best groups, and I would never be hired by the best companies or work for the highest salary. I accomplished very little aside from what I had to. I managed to raise three lovely girls, but the divorce was largely over marijuana use. I've lost two jobs because of it. \n\nIt gets ahold of you psychologically, and controls your life. You spend untold amounts of time smoking it, or trying to smoke it, or trying to find it, or trying to make money so you can buy some. It drains your time, your energy, your memory, and your pocket book. The resources lost to marijuana must be incredible.\n\nDecriminalize it yes. Nobody should go to prison and be branded a criminal because they can't control their drug use. It is like a disease that should be treated, not by isolating the person and destroying them and their family, but by helping them to understand their dilemma, and giving them treatment. \n\nIf you want new facts about marijuana, and some fuel for your arguments, check out the reference.
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Marijuana is not bad even for your memory and health. Contrary to popular belief, the short term memory loss only happens when you are high. Once youre grounded again, your memory goes back to normal. Anyone who uses marijuana as an excuse for bad memory is either uninformed or pretending to not remember something.\n\nAs for health, aside from the smoking aspect, there is nothing unhealthy about it. It doesnt kill brain cells or anything like that. If you eat it, (in brownies or something) nothing bad at all will happen to your body. And if you use a bong (a water pipe) 50% of the carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals) in the smoke stay in the water and dont go into your body. Marijuana is probably the safest "drug" out there today.\n\nPeace
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Depends on what kind of drugs... medicatoin to make you feel better is good, it helps you heal, ilegal drugs bad because they just f**k you right up but some people may see them as good because they can help heal their problem such as marijuana for healing pain
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Marijuana is bad.  Mmmmkay?    Don't use marijuana, Mmmkay?
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*Shaking my shaggy skull* Noperz, smoking pot makes you no smarter or dumber than you started out to be in the first place.\n\nBut that said I must add a few things...\n\nContrary to the popular myth that smoking marijuana kills brain cells there is mounting evidence that is not only false, but the effects of THC could have the opposite effect.\n\nCannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects. http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=neurogenesis+and+marijuana&ei=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&fr=moz3&u=www.jci.org/cgi/reprint/115/11/3104.pdf&w=neurogenesis+marijuana&d=GGiVrm1aMbo9&icp=1&.intl=us\n\nPrevious research had suggested that neurogenesis happens only in select locations in the brain, such as the hippocampus, a region involved in learning and memory. Some studies have shown that this process is inhibited by most illicit drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. However, says Xia Zhang of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, marijuana's effect on neurogenesis has not been clear.\n\nHe and his colleagues started investigating this mystery by searching cell surfaces in live, cultured slices of rat hippocampus for receptors that respond to marijuana and a few other similar drugs, called cannabinoids. They reasoned that if marijuana affected neurogenesis in the hippocampus, then cells in that area must have a way to recognize the drug. Sure enough, 95 percent of hippocampus cells responsible for neurogenesis showed evidence of cannabinoid 1 ( CB1 ) receptors, one of two receptors that respond to cannabinoid drugs. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1624/a06.html\n\nThe current study focused on a particular formulation of synthetic cannabinoid known as HU210 -- a compound which Zhang described as the most powerful cannabinoid in the world.\n\nThe authors explored both the short-term and long-term effects of exposure to HU210 in rats.\n\nTo measure the drug's short-term response, they gave adult rats a single injection of HU210. To study the same drug's effect over the longer term, the researchers gave a separate group of adult rats twice-daily injections of the cannabinoid over a two-week period.\n\nAutopsies revealed that by the end of the 10-day HU210 treatment regimen, new neurons had been generated and integrated into the circuitry of the hippocampus region of the rat's brains. This process, known as neurogenesis, was still in evidence a full month after treatment had been initiated.\n\nNeurogenesis was not triggered in response to brain cells being killed through cannabinoid exposure, the researchers add. In fact, HU210 injections did not appear to prompt any loss of neurons in the hippocampus. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=54893\n\nMind you, the study is using a super-concentrated drug form and the verdict is still out on smoking it, but they do suggest THC is the only known drug that actually can reverse the loss of brain cells.\n\nFinally though once again, pot does not change your intelligence and different people react to different drugs differently. But it is possible THC will be a cure in time for certain brain affictions...
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I don't smoke marijuana, but I think that if it will help people it should be legalized.
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weed is an herb so you do the math yes it's good and good for you i helps your blood pressure go down and they wouldn't give it to people with cancer if it wasn't good for people
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yes i have :]\nmarijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this. \n\nWhat many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.\n\nThe most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol  to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.\n\nMarijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.\n\nDue to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.\n\nMarijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidel
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Yes, the health effects of marijuana are no more harmful then tobacco and alchohol.  Personally i would much rather deal with people that are high, then people who are drunk