is being a stoner really bad for you?
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Well if I had my choice of an island full of mellow stoners versus agitated, stressed out caffiene addicts with ulcers, I'd choose Stoner Island. On the other hand, if you find yourself staring at your shoes for 5 hours at a time, you may want to consider cutting back  ;^)\n\nLet's see if we can boil this down to the simplest terms:\n\nPot is a medicinal plant with proven beneficial health  properties and insignificant proven negative medical affects, but is illegal in the US. Cigarettes, on the other hand, especially the additives, are the proven killer, affects the entire system negatively and causes innummerable health problems, yet is perfectly legal. Cigarettes contain a broad spectrum of chemicals which in effect are a shotgun blast at the brain's neurotransmitters. Big Money Tobacco knows that one of those chemicals will help drive the hook in deeply. It's a legal drug scam. \n\nThe medical system in the US is designed to keep people sick because it makes more money from sick people than healthy people. It is "Disease Care", not "Health Care". That's why your doctor will prescribe a drug to you rather than tell you that your body has the ability to heal itself. There's not much money in that.\n\nFollow the money, draw your own conclusions...\n\n"A stoner can reduce you chances of havung kids. They make eggs less fertile and sperm less active."  \n\n"you are very stupid. Mariage-i-wanna over time, if you don't kill yourself first, will cause servere damage to all your internal organs, then you will be sorry you ever started."\n\n- I would LOVE to see the medical studies which came to THOSE conclusions. People throw this stuff out there all the time with absolutely nothing to back it up. It's like saying master-bation causes blindness. They are just parroting some nonsense someone else told them once, probably a parent who made it up on the spot as a scare tactic.
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just ask him..if he cares about you he'll tell you and if its yea..then tell him he needds to stop or you guys wont be toghter..you dont want to be with a stoner
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Yes and No. Smoking anything is bad for your throat, lungs and bronchial tubes, which may cause an asthma attack. But, in relationship to cigerettes and other nicotine based products, marijuana will much less likely cause one because the THC can dialate your bronchial tubes, relax the smooth muscle surrounding your throat, and open your aveoli, which are the air sacks in your lungs.\n      Is marijuana going to be the best thing for your asthma?\nNo, but it is better than the use of ciggerettes. be carefull and when ever you are going to smoke you should have your fast acting inhaler with you (albuteral, ect) incase of a problem and, with a medical condition like this, smoking with a friend would be advised
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It is a bad thing to do anything in excess. People don't realize a lot when they are smokin'. You constantlly compare your high to previous highs, continue smoking cause you enjoyed the first high and are trying to achieve it again. (will never happen). It is a depressant. When you stop smoking weed and start up again. You don't get higher. You start where you left off. Continued usage causes depression. It is a downer. Most people smoke weed, eat muchies (sweet snacks), joke around a little, reminise on previous highs, and pass out). It is used as a medication for people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy (cause it is a downer it relaxes you). I tried weed. Shoot it was my favorite. I made a lot of bad choices, ones that I've gained experience from having gone through them, but not ones that I'd want for my kids, or anyone else. The "good" things that weed can do for you are easily achieved by opening your eyes to the high of life. There are birds singing, a different canvass everyday. Flowers to smell, animals to touch. Food, goals to achieve. When you spend your time smoking weed that is your goal, and you become unaware of your surroundings, and your destiny. I am 25yrs old. I quit everything but cig. 2 wks before my 18th b day. I very seldom drink at all. I don't look down on people for using, I was there. Vini Vidi Vici. I came I saw I conquered.
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Short term yes...it may become difficult to express a complete thought while high but if you're hangin' with other people who are stoned they won't notice.
300698
Maybe I am having really bad side effects from being high.........lol
690527
No it is not mandatory to get stoned -- only if you want to vote!
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you like the high too much!!! you like having munchies and being hungry...you like being mellow and not trippin'....you like being horny.....however, the being TIRED  part could affect your ability to function properly in school and in the workforce....so, please be careful
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not at all. It's your body and your choice. I used to smoke everyday too. Try giving it up for a couple of weeks. YOu will feel higher then you have in the last thrree years.
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I have no clue what everyone else said as I didn't take time to read the same thing people always say that is no where near right. First off its an adiction and no one can say its not the same as a physical addiction. I was physically addicted to weed for 10 long years. I smoked an ounce a week every week for 9 of those years. When I finally had kids I stopped and it was the worst month of my life. I couldn't sleep, or eat and even sex got a whole lot more boring. i had never in my life not even once had sober sex until the day i stopped and it was not nearly as fun. \n\nNow, I quit 3 years ago and I still want to get high, I don't but I still want to and I think about it at least once a week. We are the same as drunks in a lot of ways except the only thing wrongwith reefer is its illegal. anyhow, start by slowwing down. I went down to a hlaf for a few weeks, the a quarter for a few weeks, the an 1/8 for a few weeks and finally I got down to smoking once in the morning to get my day going and once at night to get to sleep. once I got over the hump of not smoking in the morning the day time was much easier, until I stopped the final nightly stone. then life was hell for a whole month. I hurt all over, I puked for a week or so occasionally and I hated the world.\n\n\ntry quitting in small steps and don't take advice from people who have never had this addiction. they're just guessing.\n\n\n**added***\n\nonly amatures smoke it with tobacco, don't listen to them for sure.
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I wouldn't say it is "just as harmful," because there are similarities and differences. No matter what kind of smoke it is, it's no good for your lungs. Cigarettes, however, leave tar and nasty stuff in your lungs. Weed leaves a residue, but not as much... unless you smoke a whole lot of weed! Anyway, cigarettes cause more physical damage to a person's body, whereas marijuana causes mental and genetic effects. Marijuana changes a persons DNA, therefore a heavy pothead could produce a child with mental, physical, and/or developmental disorders, where a 2 pack a day cigarette smoker may only produce a child with a weakened immune system and athsma. I hope I helped.
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I just know of the years in Al-Anon & visiting AA & NA meetings, I've met people whose life was ruined but alcohol, hard drugs & prescription drugs.  But I've never met any one who's life was ruined by pot.  \n\nI've also known quite a few very successful people who smoke pot (about 1-3 times a month.)  I imagine those who make it a daily thing will find it interferes with thier life, just not as bad as other stuff.\n\nThat just addresses the addiction issues.  I don't know much about the health issues.\n\nAnd, of course, driving while intoxicated is dangerous no matter what you are intoxicated with.
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No, it's not bad.\n\nin fact for many people it's very good.\nRecent studies have shown that it can be of help to Alzheimer's patients.\nI think it depends on how you use it as to how good or bad it is.\nIf you smoke lots every day, I doubt if its very good. But smoked in moderation, like say a couple of times per week, it will have no long term bad effects, and the benefits of not being up-tight can be of great help.\nI know one guy who is 80 years old who has smoked every day for more than 60 years, and he never forgets anything, and is never ill. The short term memory problem is not created by a brain problem. It is created by a lack of concentration at the time of doing things.\nIf it is used as a concentration aid, which it can be, then there are not even short term memory problems. If used in a spiritual way, by being absolutely aware of every single movemnet that is made, and every breath that is taken, then it can be beneficial. Problems arise when used with alcohol, but those problems are mainly alcohol related.
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i think it is bad because the scientist guy is absolutly correct.\nI smoke pot fo remotional reasons. i f I dont smoke i will have an anxiety attack, and marijuan mellows me out. I smoke from the second I wake up, to the secnd I go to bed. I am succesful, but at work I have to write everything down or i will forget! i know its from the pot
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Oh Lord, I haven't the faintest idea... but I know that it makes you distinctly lazy. People should never attempt to do strenuous work while stoned, it'll just wear them out.
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If used in moderation, no, however it can become bad for you in that it can become an addiction....
959398
Simple answer is NO!!! Whatever you smoke,you are introducing,foreign matter,products of combustion,and chemicals into your lungs.As these are very sensitive organs,you stand a very good chance of damaging them very badly.Grit your teeth,kick the habit,and live longer.....................your family deserve that!!!!(By the way,I am an ex-smoker!!!) Cheers mucker, Take it easy,Rob