Personal Time With Greg: Marijuana, Health and Law
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Personally I will never smoke that crap because 1: ill become addicted 2:
very expensive and 3: I know people who smoke that crap and they tend to
have inflamed throughts after smoking too much which in result kills your
lungs or the air sacks in which you collect oxygen I’m no professional but
I’m sure smoking this drug is way!! Healthier than smoking cigarettes.
Possibly not safer as its an halusagain but better for your health.
I don’t believe anything I hear about it anymore. This comment section is
an example.
They can and have proven that the DARE program resulted in higher drug use,
as DARE was not universal and they can compare the drug use of DARE
‘graduates’ versus people in similar socioeconomic circumstances who didn’t
go through DARE.
Nice suit i like the formality
was kind of hoping that you would talk about effects marijuana might have
on pain. Like would it be worth looking into to deal with chronic pain like
proponents of marijuana say? I take more Tylenol then is healthy for me and
wonder if marijuana is an alternative.
All drugs should be legal. I would never do them, but there are many
benefits to making it legal. It would reduce cost thus reducing the profits
for drug lords and illegal sellers. With legalization, you get companies
getting in on it, being able to produce it at high capacity, further
reducing cost while simultaneously making it have to follow FDA
regulations, making them safer. Some of the problem with the more dangerous
drugs are the unsanitary and unsafe conditions, made with chemicals that
can be lethal. When companies start selling it, it will be taxable creating
huge benefits to the economy. With all this, drugs will be pointless to
smuggle into the us, thus ending all the drug wars along the border.
And the whole myth about everybody becoming drug addicts… lets be honest.
Anybody who wants to do them is already doing it. Its not like making it
legal will change good parents’ opinions on them. They still wont let their
kids do drugs just like they wouldn’t let them drink and smoke.
Also, it would be under the same regulations as alcohol, where public
use/intoxication and driving while under the influence would be illegal
still.
In the end, we don’t need the government micromanaging our health. If you
choose to destroy your body and life, it would be a horrible decision, but
you should be free to make it. The war on drugs is unwinnable and costs so
many more lives than it would even pose to save.
The way I understand it (and I may be WAY off base in this) is that all of
the medical benefits of Marijuana can be found in cannabis oil. I could be
completely wrong with that, they may not even know yet, but that’s what
I’ve heard about it.
Rupert is always with us.
Don’t do drugs!
Can I recommend that you start citing your sources on videos like this.
Because I like a lot of what you are saying but I can’t use it if I’m not
sure as to your sources.
Testoterone will also shrink your balls.
You can see the same unintended effect (of a program like D.A.R.E) with
tobacco. Cool people don’t smoke to be cool, they smoke because they’re
cool, and part of being cool is going against what most people want you to
do and other factors that make smoking attractive to those kinds of people.
Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point has a good section about this.
The fact is, most people experiment with all sorts of things, but a
minority of them make it an unhealthy habit, and it’s nature more than
nurture.
I noticed some (aliasing?) jagged lines behind your path of motion when
your move side to side. I figured I’d let you know, though I’m not bothered
by it.
I say do NOT Legalize. After all the Things the Cartels did, I dont want
that Drug in my Country
Finally someone who’ll talk about this without taking either extreme…
The sadhu priests from India that constantly use cannabis end up getting
memory problems after a decade.
I live in Seattle and cannabis use seems to be rather pervasive among my
peer group (white males in their 20’s). Even before it was partially
legalized 11 out of my 14 friends used it at least occasionally.
Speaking as someone who made the conscious choice to abstain from ALL forms
of behavior altering substances (not for moral reasons but because I
personally don’t like giving up personal control of myself) I can say that
from personal experience that I’d rather deal with someone who was stoned
on pot than someone that was drunk. They’re generally far less unpleasant.
And besides I do not Want a Drug Legalized! What now Medical Cocaine?
I love biochemistry. It’s so deliciously complex.
I’m a supporter of legalization. Less resources devoted towards policing
marijuana and incarcerating people on small charges for it (police money,
prison upkeep, propaganda, etc.). Furthermore, it can be taxed, which would
be a great new cash avenue.
I like to bring up the “alcohol vs. marijuana” comparison a lot as I have a
lot of experience with alcoholics and pot heads, even growing up with an
alcoholic father that would get wasted and blow his paycheck on gambling
and fight with my mom. I suppose the health ramifications are harder to
compare, but I think of the social problems instead.
I hear about people getting into car crashes while stoned in Colorado after
it was legalized, and I think that’s where the line of responsibility is
drawn. If you get high and wreck your car (hopefully with no injuries),
then you have only yourself to blame for your irresponsibility. I feel that
people that are high are more aware of their actions and in far better
control of their judgements than those who are drunk. I don’t personally
know any stoners that drive while high who’ve gotten into wrecks or
displayed volatile behavior, but most drunks frighten me because of how
unpredictable they can be.
I say legalize it cops don’t need to worry about it and can work on
fighting more dangerous ones like crack. Plus tax revenue from it is good.
I don’t even use it and think its stupid but other people want to do it and
so long as it doesn’t directly harm someone else shouldn’t be a problem
alcohol and cigarettes do more harm from what it seems to me, but just my
opinion.
At the top left in the closoet it looked like you had a dead body.
Marijuana’s active chemicals are not only THC. THC (such as in the
synthetic form) is pretty inactive by itself, so the synthetic Cancer drug
is pretty useless from what I have heard. There are a lot of THC-like
terpenes in marijuana that regulate the effects of the THC. The two most
common and researched are CBN and CBL. The “medical” strains are higher in
those chemicals.
Marijuana chemistry is really complex, and like you said, poorly
researched.
I support the law. Do not legalize it.
Personally I’m just sick of police officers filling their monthly quotas by
calling in swat teams on teenagers who have a few joints. The incredible
waste of money in law enforcement that the drug war has created is
disgusting in my opinion.
Joints have many times more tar and harmful chemicals than tobacco cigs
do… Some of this can be cut to great extent with regulation, but in the
end if you are against cigs you can’t be for marijuana. Both have a
chemical that alters your state of mind, both do the same damage to your
lungs etc, and both are addictive to some extent. I don’t really understand
how you can be for one and against the other.
Marijuana is to cigarettes as alcohol is to coffee. In the vaguest sense
possible.