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Is Cannabis safe?
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There has been much debate over the safety of cannabis use, especially in teen user and today there was an article about it in the times, wouldn't you know just a few weeks before cannabis is to become class c, Jan 29th.
Here's the link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-953662,00.html
So what does anybody think about it? It would be interesting to hear anything from long term smokers.
Personally i don't think cannabis is having any real mental effect on me unless after a heavy smoking session i tend just to feel abit spaced out, nothing else, but i don't really know the effects this will have on my future life, for all we cannabis smokers know our brains could be fucked in 20 years.
Here is a piece from the article
Here's the link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-953662,00.html
So what does anybody think about it? It would be interesting to hear anything from long term smokers.
Personally i don't think cannabis is having any real mental effect on me unless after a heavy smoking session i tend just to feel abit spaced out, nothing else, but i don't really know the effects this will have on my future life, for all we cannabis smokers know our brains could be fucked in 20 years.
Here is a piece from the article
For Steve it was a frightening repeat of an episode a few days earlier when, with no papers to roll a joint, he ate a chunk of cannabis resin and collapsed in a nightclub toilet. “When I woke up I heard someone saying: ‘It’s OK Steve, you can get up now, you’re all right’,” he recalls. “When I looked around, there was no one there.
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It is relatively safe, but thats different from being safe. For most its not a big deal, although the smoking cant be good for you. But for some it can be addictive and can highten mental health issues.
think of the harm it does to your lungs.
Talking of harm to lungs, blue rizzla are better for you than silvers. Just a point.
funny thing is ...the biggest health issue facing your generation is junk food. your likely to live ten years less than me ...according to current research. your generation and the one coming up behind you are fed so much fat and salt etc ...get hardly any exc=ercise etc. fizzy drinks etcbinge drinkling of alcohol is also a serious problem.
all i can say is i've smoked for going on 36 years now ...there are plenty of 65 yr olds who have smoked for 50yrs. every proffesion in the land has long term dope smokers in their ranks.
the reality is ...the nhs is not swamped with insane dope smokers or dieing of dreadful illnesess dthrough dope ...the mental institutions aren't bursting at the seems with people from my generation who have been smoking a long l,ong time.
The amount of people that smoke dope and the amount that are in hospitals because of cannabis, there's a big difference, the amount in the hospitals are in the minority.
The way i see it, and i dont know how to explain it well, is that cannabis isnt safe, yet the risks to mental health and physical health depends entirely on the smoker. I think mentally, there must be the potential to be unstable, for mental problems to take effect.
I dont see cannabis as a very risky drug to take, as drugs go i think its one with the least worrying side effects. However, smoking, whatever you smoke is a terrible thing to do to your body, and that makes me think that its very unsafe, or at least as unsafe as tobacco.
Also you can create links between lots of weird things:
More people die of heart attacks if they live at a house with an odd number............
Bopz
TheSite article
Drugscope
links page for most useful dual diagnosis websites
Susie
That's so weird, 'cos when I stopped smoking hash I got chronic schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, delusional disorder, acute stress and to top it off nicely a nice case of male erection disorder/premature ejaculation disorder.
:rolleyes:
so bad that even on the occasions they are truthful no one believes them cos of all the other bullshit they spout.
Bopz
Im drunk, and havin a fun day i like beer