The health effects of moderate marijuana use and why is it illegal?
I’ve been looking through several medical journals and websites on the health effects on marijuana, but I can only find health effects on marijuana ‘abuse.’ Naturally, no drug is good in excess, legal or illegal and it’s rather bothersome that physicians emphasize the dangers in drug abuse, but don’t advise on the risks if used in moderation. Perhaps in fear of promoting illegal activity or addiction.
But I see it as a drug not unlike alcohol and tobacco (and alcohol was in prohibition long ago), but I just really want to understand why it truly is illegal. Medical or otherwise.
Please, written sources and facts are encouraged.
Asked by:King V
TNmuscle posted: 11 Sep at 7:09 pm
I dunno I smoke a good bit of weed (maybe like a dime every couple days) and all it does is make you lazy and retarded lookin… it helps apetite for me, good for getting a lot of protein
Id say as long as youre not wake n baking and smoking a half OZ a day then youre fine
Jacob R posted: 13 Sep at 11:13 pm
its illegal because the government cant tax it. and because white people in the 50s and got scared when their kids startin using it, but it was never a problem when minorities were the main users. I used to smoke a lot of weed and i dont notice any side effects.
Law L posted: 15 Sep at 7:53 am
I’ve never seen the (negative) effects to be too different from being drunk.
Note, I don’t drink or smoke anything, but that gives me sober mind to take in what happens when friends do it.
I mean, when people around me smoke hash, their mental state changes- more relaxed, even giggly- and they sometimes throw up- just like when you get drunk.
I’m not saying ‘YEAH, MAKE IT LEGAL’, because I believe there’s no cap on legality- like there is none on alcohol, which is why drinking is such a problem- and you couldn’t say ‘you can only smoke a moderate amount’, and people would smoke too much and do stupid things- like they do with alcohol.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-drinking, smoking, or even against some drugs, but me choosing not to do those things gives me a non-biased view. The short term effects are like drinking too much, and the long term ones are like smoking too much.
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I think it’s illegal, as well, because no-one knows the long term health effects, especially mentally.
Drinking too much can lead to a dependence which can lead to psychological problems- hallucanations when coming off, depression etc., but smoking tobacco doesn’t cause any mental health problems (except anxiety if you’re not allowed to smoke for a time, and depression when trying to get off) whilst they think hash, long term use- even moderate, long term use- can cause delusions and even schizophrenia, but they’re not so sure, so it makes it hard to say if hash is actually in the same class as ‘legal’ drugs because of the long term, mental (and physical, such as lung cancer) health implications.
pretty_en_pink68 posted: 16 Sep at 6:31 pm
I think the question is why is alcohol legal? Tobacco doesn’t impair judement and is in a different catagory. But alocohol is probaly worse than marijuana. Marijuana has never been legal only for medicinal purposes but alcohol has been banned and legalized more than once. I think they should either legalize marijuana, or make alcohol illegal. Same damn thing.
Mesh posted: 17 Sep at 1:46 pm
I’ve smoked pot for over a decade. I never went crazy, never developed a psychological problem, never got addicted, never moved on to ***** or meth. Neither did any of my friends. None of that stuff in those White House or Office of National Drug Control Policy reports ever happened to me or any of many pot heads I’ve befriended over the years.
I suspect that the real reason it is still illegal is because that in enforcing prohibition the feds have had to completely side step the fourth amendment. I think they’re aware that pot isn’t the danger they made it out to be in the past. I think the reason it’s illegal is because they know the minute they reduce federal penalties and let one foot in the door, they’re going to get the **** sued out of them by every pot head they’ve f^cked over.
I believe the current strategy of the reform movement is a failure. I think we need to hit these dogs with lawsuits.