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weed
what does weed do to you? like i know all of the short term effects and stuff but what about the long term effects? and do you get addicted like you would when smoking cigarettes?
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Nikki is a complete idiot spouting things she has no idea about, but the link below her is fairly accurate, it not a little biased.
So. Weed.
Short term effects you know, but lets cover it again to make sure. Obviously, intoxication is a side effect. It lowers reaction time and overall thinking speed, while acting as a stimulant on your physical body. It also has some slight reactions with the creative centers of the brain, which is why musicians and artists are so often pot smokers.
Weed is not at all chemically addictive, however it can be as habitually addictive as any other activity (video games being an easy example of a common habitial addiction). Essentially, you get used to being stoned all the time, and it takes time to adjust to functioning normally.
Long term, the possible side effects are few and far between. Weed causes absolutely no brain damage whatsoever, and THC is in no way dangerous to the body. In fact, of all the possible drugs out there, weed is one of the few that it is physically impossible to overdose on. If five people sit down, one with weed, one with alcohol, one with coke, one with heroin, and one with ecstasy, and all of them start consuming as fast as they are able, every single one of them except the pot smoker would be dead within a few hours, and the pot smoker will eventually stop because he got hungry and stumble off to find some fast food (possibly causing a fatal car accident along the way)
Any smoked substance contains toxins and chemicals, but it is actually patentedly false that weed is worse than cigarettes. The majority of chemicals present in weed are actually heavy chemical pesticides used to keep animals and bugs away from crops, these chemicals are present because they are cheap and easy to obtain, which is necessary for an illegal grow operation.
Essentially, weed is 10x worse for you because its illegal.
Other than tar from smoking, there are no serious long term side effects from smoking weed, and the average amount of pot smoked per day by a chronic user doesn't even touch the amount of cigarettes smoked by a chronic smoker.
So, less smoked, less chemicals, no nicotine, etc.
So what are the actual dangers of weed.
Namely, that habitual addiction, and especially when talking about young adults, teens, and preteens. A habitual addiction essentially means that you replace a necessary part of your life with something. The most common thing replaced by something like weed is emotional maturity. Weed depresses the emotional spectrum slightly and essentially has a calming effect on pretty much all emotion when high. Now, if someone is living a high stress life, it can be tempting to use Weed to calm down.
So you do. And the next day, and the next day. Soon you've been high for two months and haven't dealt with anything emotionally the entire time. Then six months, then a few years.
Suddenly, you have to stop. You haven't grown up emotionally the slightest bit, because you used weed to avoid learning to deal with your shit and your sadness and anger by yourself.
This is about the most common trap kids fall into, and is the reason why we set age limits on consumption of intoxicants. Basically, because you haven't learned to be a functional adult, and developing an addiction can impede, stop, or damage that process. Its important for people to learn to be fully functional adults on their own, and when chemicals are needed to handle things we've got doctors to tell us when.
Weed is in every way except illegality a better, safer intoxicant than any other you will ever have access to in your life. Which, in a way, makes it that much more dangerous, because once you're high its easy to say "well being high isn't hurting me" and its easy to let your life slip by the wayside because you didn't care enough and weed gave you that extra bit of "I really just don't give a damn about anything, cause I'm high and its fun" that lets you sit on your ass and do nothing, if you're so inclined.
Its not the weed that destroys your life, the same as its not the alcohol or the WoW or work or school. Its your own tendencies to want to avoid facing painful situations and sadness, or even just boredom that can lead you into finding something (including weed) to use to escape everything.
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Marijuana eh?
Weed takes longer to get addicted to.
It does affect your brain just as every other drug does.
It kills your brain cells and blood cells.
7 ciggerettes are equal to one joint.
Im not saying weed is better.
But ciggeretes kill you quicker than weed does.
Weed has 400 different chemicals in it.
THC is a fat-soluble substance and will accumulate in fatty tissues in the liver, lungs, testes, and other organs.
If your a guy it can reduce sperm production as well. If your a girl it will disturb your menstrual cycle and ovulation.
It can also highly hurt your immune system.
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