Marijuana Health Risks

This cluster debates the health effects, safety, and addiction potential of marijuana compared to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, alongside discussions on legalization's impacts on usage and research.

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Ariel_Asura May 23, 2024 View on HN

I think this is exciting news. Scientifically, there is a clear consensus that marijuana is far less harmful to human health than most illegal drugs. It is also less dangerous than legal, highly addictive substances like alcohol and tobacco. The health effects of marijuana, compared to other recreational substances, depend on frequency of use, potency, dosage, and the age of the user. For healthy adults, occasional moderate use is virtually, if not completely, harmless. Marijuana primarily makes

aclevernickname Aug 15, 2013 View on HN

Please, pontificate further on your beliefs about the dangers of marijuana use, while simultaneously avoiding sounding ignorant or dull.

BossingAround Sep 13, 2022 View on HN

Your data is not representative, but your conclusion sounds reasonable to me. The fact that cannabis is forbidden while much more destructive drugs like alcohol are promoted in our culture is ridiculous. If only we treated cannabis the same we treat tobacco or alcohol :/.

coralreef Feb 24, 2015 View on HN

You are grossly misinformed about the dangers and benefits of marijuana.

pmarreck Dec 6, 2021 View on HN

Not every counterargument or counterevidence to your worldview is an appeal to taste, authority, tradition or religion.https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/10/07/what-20...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/

arcticbull Jun 13, 2019 View on HN

(1) Marijuana is not nearly as bad for you as tobacco or alcohol, whereas I think we all agree hard drugs are worse. This study from a few years back should put things into perspective [1]. I think it's disingenuous to compare a drug that's objectively safe to one that's broadly recognized as objectively harmful.(2) As of October 2018 (shortly before legalization) 47% of all Canadians have tried pot. [2] Now that it's legal, people are just more willing to fess up to it. A

lightgreen Nov 17, 2019 View on HN

There’s nothing marijuana-specific in the article which answers the question. Another clickbaity title.

bitxbitxbitcoin May 15, 2025 View on HN

Role of cannabis availability in this should be researched!

seattle_spring May 1, 2024 View on HN

Seems reasonable, considering the abuse potential is worse with things like Adderall than cannabis.

Puer Jan 7, 2019 View on HN

This is the Nirvana fallacy. You aren't addressing the main point of the article, which is even if marijuana is legalized its use perhaps shouldn't be widely promoted because its health effects--both positive and negative--aren't fully understood yet.