Is smoking pot harmless?

Tuesday 18th November, 06:42 AM JST

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whynothow at 02:12 PM JST - 21st November

at least be honest... if ya dont know, click i dont know and wait for the next topic for your selfrighteous rants.... Give a bunch of geeks/otaku a voice and next thing you know they think they have an audience...
WaDisruptor at 03:38 PM JST - 21st November

Can you overdose on alcohol or many of the legal prescription drugs out there? Absolutely! Pot? I'm not certain of this, but I think it is extremely unlikely. You would probably pass out long before

Does anyone know how dangerous healthwise pot is when ingested other ways (brownies,tea, ect)? Obviously smoking it can damage the lungs, but what about eating it? I don't like smoking anything, but back in my college days a brownie or two on the weekend was always a lot of fun. Living within 40 miles of B.C. helped a lot as well;).
kavikahi at 04:51 PM JST - 21st November

An illegal drug can most definitely be harmful to your health... even if it's good for you!

Snickerz
helloklitty at 10:01 PM JST - 21st November

Smoking pot is not harmful, but mentioning that you have smoked it when in Japan is potentially harmful. A student asked me and I said, "Yeah, 3-4 times, and I felt nothing." She was astounded and loudly announced, "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOUUU SMOKED MARIJUNA!!" Everyone around started looking at me.
kavikahi at 01:42 AM JST - 22nd November

Does anyone know if the contemporary smoke of the time past in Japan was opium hash or marijuana?

Was it the "Kofun" period??

Smoking pot was harmful to the russian sumo wrestlers career huh, therefore this is a loaded question.

:)
donkusai at 02:52 AM JST - 22nd November

Research has shown pot has a cumulative effect in the fatty tissue within the body, including the fatty tissue of the brain. Long term use of pot has a greater effect on the brain than something like alcohol and can lead over time to a significant loss of motor-skills and intelligence. Mind you, things like alcohol effect other parts of the body like the liver.

So, a simple answer is that pot is not at all harmless, but then again, what is these days? A little shouldn't do anything to you, but regular use should be avoided.
Nessie at 04:18 AM JST - 22nd November

Research has shown pot has a cumulative effect in the fatty tissue within the body, including the fatty tissue of the brain. Long term use of pot has a greater effect on the brain than something like alcohol and can lead over time to a significant loss of motor-skills and intelligence.

Citation, please.
Azrael at 05:06 AM JST - 22nd November

It's interesting how people cling to pleasant hallucinogens. I found these two sites, just brushing a Google search:

http://www.marijuanaaddiction.info/effects-of-marijuana.htm

Classic: drugs make you happy today, kill your libido tomorrow. Or leave you unable to procreate, which may or may not be natural selection.

http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm

Impaired perception, diminished short memory are terrifying enough.

Yesyes, people will always make their own decisions. My very personal point of view is, pot OBVIOUSLY affects the brain. For me, my brain is my strength: I am a scholar. I would not even REMOTELY risk my best asset, which is my brain. Taking behavior-changing recreational drugs of ANY sort is a big risk. Nobody is certain how the body is going to react, if the drug is a quality product or a cocktail of padding dust - anything could happen, really. THERE IS POSSIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE INVOLVED. There's a lot of other activities pleasant enough and a whole world out there which are perfectly able to blow your mind. Of course, that is just MY opinion. I don't do drugs - I can't afford to lose a single speck of my brain's efficiency.
Nessie at 10:23 AM JST - 22nd November

Azrael, your link

http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm

is just a roundup that's also without citations. It includes claims that have been disputed or debunked. Same for the first link. I will concede that nursing mothers should not smoke weed, or anything else, for that matter.

I'm still waiting for you to substantiate this claim, which is not supported in either of the above links:

Long term use of pot has a greater effect on the brain than something like alcohol and can lead over time to a significant loss of motor-skills and intelligence.
sailwind at 10:39 AM JST - 22nd November

Ness

Long term use of pot has a greater effect on the brain than something like alcohol and can lead over time to a significant loss of motor-skills and intelligence.

Happy to help.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4iaY7GVjw&feature=related
Nessie at 10:56 AM JST - 22nd November

Thanks Sail. Could you give me a citation of the video source. All it says is "public service announcement." It also doesn't address Azreal's statement "Long term use of pot has a greater effect on the brain than something like alcohol and can lead over time to a significant loss of motor-skills and intelligence." Your video says nothing about alcohol or intelligence.

Interesting one here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1087544/Cannabis-stop-dementia-tracks.html
sailwind at 11:10 AM JST - 22nd November

Ness

Ask and you shall recieve.

http://www.psychiatry.unimelb.edu.au/mnc/knowledge/media.html

Just open the PDF file at the end of the article to get the full results.

I don't now if their ever was a comparision between Alcohol and Pot use and which would be worse in long term effects on the brain. Though all things being relative both are bad with chronic abusers.

Thanks for your link interesting read. It does point out though that maybe some chemical properties of pot can be synthesized to help stave off dementia which of course would be a good thing. But It does not recommend smoking pot at all or getting high.
cysciborg at 07:50 AM JST - 23rd November

there is a lot of evidence, that shows that Pot is needed by the human body, not to mention the brain. I have seen it improve eye sight in people, and help repair brain injury. and some 90 percent of mental patients eventually turn to pot to help in their lives. "IF" only America, and other nations of the world would come to see the good, and medical benefits of pot. the world would be a better place. as a Police officer, I advocated to the Whitehouse, and congress, and state law makers. for it to become legal. and spent almost all my years as a Law Enforcement office advocating that way. its so dumb to allow booze, but, not pot. it really is opposite land in the U.S.
JmannGod at 09:44 AM JST - 23rd November

the point is not whether pot is harmful or not. If it is harmful (and that remains contentious) -that is hardly a reason for its prohibition.

There are NO logical, ethical or economic arguments to support the prohibition of cannabis.
def at 12:39 PM JST - 23rd November

Azrael: I smoked pot daily for near 10 years, and am in perfect health, with a child on the way. Pot is a determent to success, but is in no way lethal, and in no way worse than alcohol or tobacco.

Separating marijuana and all other illegal drugs is a good idea, so people realize that some drugs are dangerous, and some are arbitrarily illegal, like pot.