To say smoking one joint a week will kill you over time, but alcohol is safe is nothing short of an all out lie, or just a simple misunderstanding of the facts at hand.
Alcohol will kill your brain cells and over time will kill you, even when used resonsibly it is still doing harm to you,
so suggesting that responsible amounts is really neither here nor there, each will damage you in the first instance, it's just the amount of risk that happens afterwards.
having a glass of wine with your dinner will damage both your brain and your liver, but as someone pointed out before, damage does not mean kill, it means damage, and the body is capable of recovering from the damage.
in the same sense smoking pot will damage your lung tissue and will damage your brain tissue, but that it not to say that if a single molecule of carbon monoxide enters your lungs that it kills them, the lung tissues do recover, and assuming that your lungs are mostly healthy tar can also be removed from your lungs by your lungs.
in essance we breath in a huge amount of nasties each day that are trapped and filtered and disposed of by our lungs, that's why we have phlem.
the simple facts are that both damage you, both used irresponsibly will end up killing you with some horrible disease, but when used responsibly it is possible to have a fulfilling life with either, (or both).
It is all about percieved risk and the worthwhile aspect of it...
for example I used to smoke when I was bored, like waiting for a bus or something, and at the end of the day that was stupid, I'd never smoke any other time, only if I was bored, I wasn't addicted to cigarettes, and I could have killed my boredom playing a game on my phone, or reading, or some other more worthwhile activity.
however when it come to drink and drugs it's a different story, I don't drink a lot and I don't take a lot of drugs, however I do find both reasonably social activities that I do whilst I'm having fun.
(note I sid whilst I'm having fun and not in order to have fun).
both are activities that I would tend to do with my friends, however that's not to say that it's something the entier group of my friends do, I have friends who don't drink, and friends who don't do drugs. I can be with anyone, doing anything, (or nothing), and it won't distract from my fun. or from the fun that my friends are having either.
the point is that I know that there is a risk to my health (I don't assume that I am invinsible), But I do percieve that that risk is worthwhile.
I have no intentions of taking any other drugs. and I fail to see this gateway argument. ()frankly it's just wild speculation made by people who don't understand the phycology of the people who are taking drugs).
in response to that I've always said that I don't know anyone who has ever smoked a joint without first smoking a cigarette, so do we now say that cigarettes are gateway drug to heroin? everybody just laughs, but by the same logic that pot is called a gateway drug then surely cigarettes are as well?
Besides all of that there are other ways of taking pot, for example you could eat it, and it has been shown that in small amount canabiss does actually help to protect and imporve the lining of your stomach.
(now I'll do something that is kind of unprecidented in arguments on forums and actually point to some scientific research.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/archive/cannabisibd010805.html
(anyone got a pharmacy/pharmacology lab at home and a government grant to research care to disagree then I'll gladly listen! until then all we have is a few vague, (often misquoted) sources about cannabis! it doesn't take a lot to find evidence against either).
given the evidence above can we say that canabis is safe depending on the way that it is ingested?
-note, I know that that statement is clearly miquoting the facts, but so is the statement about red wine. there is no reason to drink red wine, you could just as easily take asprin, and only then if your diet is so poor that you need your blood to be thinned!
@Dj-Chris, you say that you used weed for two years,
regardless of your take on the issue now, at the time it must have seemed at least a little bit worthwhile, else you wouldn't have been doing it? -or were you doing it to be a part of a crowd?
Alcohol will kill your brain cells and over time will kill you, even when used resonsibly it is still doing harm to you,
so suggesting that responsible amounts is really neither here nor there, each will damage you in the first instance, it's just the amount of risk that happens afterwards.
having a glass of wine with your dinner will damage both your brain and your liver, but as someone pointed out before, damage does not mean kill, it means damage, and the body is capable of recovering from the damage.
in the same sense smoking pot will damage your lung tissue and will damage your brain tissue, but that it not to say that if a single molecule of carbon monoxide enters your lungs that it kills them, the lung tissues do recover, and assuming that your lungs are mostly healthy tar can also be removed from your lungs by your lungs.
in essance we breath in a huge amount of nasties each day that are trapped and filtered and disposed of by our lungs, that's why we have phlem.
the simple facts are that both damage you, both used irresponsibly will end up killing you with some horrible disease, but when used responsibly it is possible to have a fulfilling life with either, (or both).
It is all about percieved risk and the worthwhile aspect of it...
for example I used to smoke when I was bored, like waiting for a bus or something, and at the end of the day that was stupid, I'd never smoke any other time, only if I was bored, I wasn't addicted to cigarettes, and I could have killed my boredom playing a game on my phone, or reading, or some other more worthwhile activity.
however when it come to drink and drugs it's a different story, I don't drink a lot and I don't take a lot of drugs, however I do find both reasonably social activities that I do whilst I'm having fun.
(note I sid whilst I'm having fun and not in order to have fun).
both are activities that I would tend to do with my friends, however that's not to say that it's something the entier group of my friends do, I have friends who don't drink, and friends who don't do drugs. I can be with anyone, doing anything, (or nothing), and it won't distract from my fun. or from the fun that my friends are having either.
the point is that I know that there is a risk to my health (I don't assume that I am invinsible), But I do percieve that that risk is worthwhile.
I have no intentions of taking any other drugs. and I fail to see this gateway argument. ()frankly it's just wild speculation made by people who don't understand the phycology of the people who are taking drugs).
in response to that I've always said that I don't know anyone who has ever smoked a joint without first smoking a cigarette, so do we now say that cigarettes are gateway drug to heroin? everybody just laughs, but by the same logic that pot is called a gateway drug then surely cigarettes are as well?
Besides all of that there are other ways of taking pot, for example you could eat it, and it has been shown that in small amount canabiss does actually help to protect and imporve the lining of your stomach.
(now I'll do something that is kind of unprecidented in arguments on forums and actually point to some scientific research.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/archive/cannabisibd010805.html
(anyone got a pharmacy/pharmacology lab at home and a government grant to research care to disagree then I'll gladly listen! until then all we have is a few vague, (often misquoted) sources about cannabis! it doesn't take a lot to find evidence against either).
given the evidence above can we say that canabis is safe depending on the way that it is ingested?
-note, I know that that statement is clearly miquoting the facts, but so is the statement about red wine. there is no reason to drink red wine, you could just as easily take asprin, and only then if your diet is so poor that you need your blood to be thinned!
@Dj-Chris, you say that you used weed for two years,
regardless of your take on the issue now, at the time it must have seemed at least a little bit worthwhile, else you wouldn't have been doing it? -or were you doing it to be a part of a crowd?
