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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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
Please, pontificate further on your beliefs about the dangers of marijuana use, while simultaneously avoiding sounding ignorant or dull.
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 :/.
You are grossly misinformed about the dangers and benefits of marijuana.
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/
(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
There’s nothing marijuana-specific in the article which answers the question. Another clickbaity title.
Role of cannabis availability in this should be researched!
Seems reasonable, considering the abuse potential is worse with things like Adderall than cannabis.
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.