Marijuana is Very Dangerous

Marijuana...where to begin?

First off, the plant is not addictive. I smoke off and on every now and then at my leisure. I may smoke for a couple days straight and for 5-7 weekends in a row. I may just stop smoking for a while not even think about smoking for months. For me it is purely a recreational thing. I always smoke with friends the same way I'd share a beer or two. Never when I need to drive or work. Sometimes I smoke for meditative purposes. Either way I'm just fine.

What many of you propose stem from your personal downfalls. I lead a very rewarding life. I'm a writer, served in the Marines and all that good stuff. I'm not a bad guy. The only long term affect that marijuana has done to me is expanded my mind and increased my appreciation for the universe. I never smoke to 'get f'ed up' or to make my problems go away. That is incredibly irresponsible. I see it time and time again where people blame THEIR problems on weed. It's a stupid excuse.

If marijuana is dangerous and addictive, than 3+8 = Sandwiches. If you are are too lazy to take care of your problems because of an addictive personality then you are a fool. You lack willpower and have caved in to ancient federal corruption and the government is afraid to be wrong. That's the only reason why its illegal. Either that or they are afraid too many stupid people won't be able to handle its mind expanding qualities, just like what happened to LSD.

I'm not saying you have to smoke to be smart. That's garbage. I'm saying that people are acting like children to things they simply don't understand. It's YOUR fault that you go to marijuana as an escape from your problems. Because in the end your the only one to blame, not a simple plant. The government claims that weed is dangerous are backed up by absolutely nothing. Go ahead, do the research. Try to find any scientific data or experiment results that prove with an absence of bias that its dangerous.

The only way I'd support the 'war' on drugs and keeping pot illegal is if it started shooting lasers and eating people. But I'd probably still smoke it anyway.

I am someone who needs to write for some of these people are not making sense. First addiction is caused by a weak mind or addictive chemical. My husband has tried every drug once and walked away. I come from an alcoholic family where my grandma and grandpa still drink tequila. Those who are supposedly addicted to weed "you all smoked for more than 15 years"! You should never do something for that long. After your 10th year of smoking someone should of said I think you have a weak mind for you've becoming addicted to a substance that has no addictive chemical in it like cigarettes and alcohol. Weed is the same as your over the counter night quil are you addicted to tylenol as well. Marijuana has helped with my insomnia, asthma, and anorexia. Also be an active stoner don’t just get high an watch family guy. Go run, do math homework. My husband and I smoke every Friday we both attend college work two jobs and he trains as an MMA fighter. These addicts have to be fake and if not weed was not the only drug they were taking.

The people that let a plant which has no addictive components control their life, not because of addictive chemicals but because of the incapability of putting the blame on themselves for their over the top habit, these are the people that give marijuana a bad rep.
- The Truth

I believe this to be true...despite the pundits, the nay-sayers, and those generally just in a state of denial, i am living proof that world of warcraft is a dangerous game. It was almost killing me until i stopped hopefully for good 2 years ago. I write this because i believe it is helpful to my progress to recovery. I am here to tell you that world of warcraft is extremely addictive. I am 24 years old, had been playing daily since age 20. I had never gone more than 7 days in that time not playing world of warcraft, and most of the time it was morning login and a few quests upon waking up, and then playing between class or skipping class to play, to late middle of the night playing before finally going to bed. I had suffered financially, economically, psychologically, and emotionally over this very disgusting game. I had episodes of chronic getting angry at a game (ARRGH *PUNCH WALL*) and thinking a game was serious business. I have now not played for 2 years and still have feelings of severe depression, anxiety, pain, and the feeling that life is just not worth living (correlation does not imply causation!). anyone telling you world of warcraft is harmless is in total denial of the truth. hopefully, i will get back to a good and effective, world of warcraft free state of mind soon. peace

See what I did there? It is not a physically addictive substance. It is psychologically addictive, the same as gambling or, you guessed it, world of warcraft. This isn't purely satire, I actually did play WoW obsessively and it had a MUCH more negative impact on my life than did smoking marijuana.

You can't use psychological addiction as a justification for marijuana being illegal because just about everything is psychologically addictive.

People who blame the drugs they take for there shitty lives are just kidding themselves. it is not the weed that ruined your life it was you and now you want to blame something just so long as it's not yourselves.
i do agree that marijuana is addictive but it is NOT physicaly addictive. you only can't stop because you have no will power.
of course your life will be sh*t if you smoke 24/7, it is exactly the same as being on any kind of substance, USE IN MODERATION

People who blame marijuana for there problems are only reinforcing the old rediculous slander campaign run by the american government for so long. seriously guys take some responsibility for yourselves. try saying "I screwed my life up because i couldn't stop smoking pot all day long" rather than making yourself sound like the victim of some evil plant that has you in it's grips.

ok first off you just said u smoked for basically the majority of your life from waking up to every 2 hours what the hell did you think was going to happen . . its not dangerous really but if your going to go beyond abusing you to letting it full on rape you of course thats going to happen jesus

People don´t understand that pot is dangerous because when you smoke weed you are not using directly the drug. You are using a flower that contains the principal drug (thc) and some other cannabinoids (CBD, CBN, THCV, CBC, and CBl). But you don´t use something that contains cocaine or heroin. You use directly the active principle. That diference between marijuana (and alcohol) and other drugs create a big confusion.Example: someone tell you that smokes 10g in a week. Another guy tell you that smokes an ounce in a week. But sometimes the first one is smoking a weed with 15%, or 20% and the second is smoking c**p with less than 5%. In that case, the first one is putting bigger molecules of thc in his body and a lot more. That´s why some people say that smokes a lot everyday and have no withdrawal when stop. The withdrawal is caused by the chemistry in the body. The psycological effects are caused by the chemestry in the brain and in other organs.
THC is a dangerous and addictive drug like any other. And the withdrawal last longer than other drugs because THC is fat soluble, and it gets stored in your fat cells. So the worst part of cocaine or heroin withdrawal last a week or 10 days. In the case of THC the worst part lasts more than a month. And the withdrawal of THC is horrible! Who smokes more than a gram of very good weed like skunk and tried to stop for a while knows what i´m talking about.
Theres is a confusion when we talk about alcohol too because of the same thing: we don´t take pure alcohol. We drink something that contains some level of alcohol. Thats why alcohol don´t kill how it should kill. Actually, alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs and the withdrawal of alcohol is worse than any other drug. Too much worse than heroin. If we start to inject alcohol instead of drinking it, we will die easily.
The conclusion is: Drug is drug. Kill you or destroy your life and others lives in diferent ways. Make you a slave that lose a lot of time of your life believing in the illusion of the high and defending the substance you use.

LMFAO! Weed is not that dangerous people. Weed should not cause as much problems as stated. Just smoke it up once or twice a day and jus chill out. The only dangerous factors about weed is it can be somewhat expensive and can increase your chances of cancer and other respiratory illnesses but doesn't mean u necessarily will.

cool bo tell da man lol

i LOVE MARIJUANA

you notice those symptoms show up when he quits weed

maybe he was all those problems before hew began

and now that he aint tokin hes finally realized how messed up he is

lol WEED IS MY FRIEND

AND WEED IS MY FAVORITE

all these people who say they were "ADDICTED " to pot have never seen a real addiction. Honestly these people are trying to vilify pot because when they quit they had leg cramps and were more irritated. That is not an addiction and ive never heard of leg cramps as a "Withdrawl" Symptom before. Have any of you prostituted yourself for pot. Probibly not. Have you ever robbed some one in order to get your marijuana fix. Probibly not. Has anyone ever ended up in the E.R. because of a pot overdoes. No.. Pretty much everyone that has had their life ruined because of pot, it wasnt the drug itself that ruined their lifes but our messed up drug policy. Marijuana has NEVER caused a single death. Think about that. You can die from taking to much asprine. Hell you can die from drinking to much water. So why spend billions every year trying to ban something that has killed less people then Vending Machines. Furthermore 80% of the USA's drug budget goes towards busting pothead and growers. So that leaves only 20% for Cocaine, Heroin , Meth, LSD, GHB, PCP, Crack, etc.

This guy doesnt know anything about pot. If he did he would know that skunk weed sucks. Its all about that Kush BABY. Give me some of that sticky hyrdo . Anyways the fact that it stores in your fat cells does not mean "Withdrawl" lasts longer (I Put withdrawl in quotes cuz the idea of a pot withdrawl is ridiculous ), It just means that pot is easer to detect in a drug test then coke. Which pretty much just encourages people to use harder drugs. If you have a job that drug test once a month ull have to quit smoking pot. But you can still do some heroin or some meth.

GOOD MAN! I'm a pot smoker but I agree 100%.

Anyone who can turn pot into an addictive and dangerous substance is irresponsible. Enough said.

if you are gonna smoke recreationally/ medically, USE A GOD DAM VAPORIZER!!!!

Finally, someone who actually has and uses their brain to quit doing pot, including all those who quit doing it. SEriously? - you trolls who said doing pot is actually good for you are pathetic with nothing else to do. The comback arguments how pot isn't a drug and just a plant are pathetic, too. It shows ignorance and arrogance and immaturity. Like this person said, heroin and cocaine are planets too, yet not many people use it unlike pot. That's hypicritical. Just because you fcking dumbazz trolls say smoking (pot) is good for you (which isn't), there are others who need and want help to stop doing it because it's ruining their lives. They need voices, just like someone said here already. It's even more pathetic about how there are people replying here about pot being good and arguing that it is, especially when this is a HEALTH WEBSITE. And for those who said smoking pot isn't addictive, you're wrong. There are 14 year old and other users in other ages craving for it if they didn't get smoke some in a week, maybe even a day. Non-users are lucky because they're not wasting their dam time smoking trash and actually have lives to go through, and they also think about their family and how it would affect them. That's called having actual self-respect. sooner or later, pot might actually take a life away just like smoking tabacco.