Do You think weed is a dangerous drug.?
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Dangerous, no. Gateway, not exactly. My idea of a gateway drug is the drug that you first got high with. So in some cases it may be weed, in others it's cocaine and harder stuff. And as far as it's being dangerous, no one has ever overdosed on weed. It's only dangerous when you mix it with cocaine and other substances. My suggestion to you, Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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Yes, only the ones wich arent bad for me. And only every once in a blue moon. But theres nothing wrong with a little mushroom or peyote, despite what they might have you believe. Speed and other uppers are terrible stuff, I would strongly advise against it. And pot is just in the same group as alchohol with me, only every once in a while. Its killed far less people than alchohol, even far less than asperin. People are just cattle sometimes, follow the propaganda and not thinking for themselves. Thats the only reason good drugs get a bad rap. I will say some people shouldnt do certain drugs though, not everyone knows how to handle themelves. But at the same time those people shouldnt do alot of other perfectly legal things either, like driving a car or having children. Oh well I guess, I mind my own business with it and dont harm a single soul.
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It can mess with your head(well duh) but I mean more than just at the moment.  It can cause or make depression worse, it doesn't cause mental disorders but can make them worse.  It kills motivation, causes cancer, causes impotence.  Its emotionally addicting, which can be just as bad as a physical addiction.  What you really have to think about is why do it in the first place, there aren't many reasons to smoke pot other than at the moment it feels good, but there are a lot of reasons not to.  I have smoked pot for years, and honestly I wish I had never started.  I wonder where my life would be if I hadn't.
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I believe it should be legalized...  my reasoning is that the LAW ruins peoples lives over a stupid charge of possession, the drug itself does not realy hurt anyone directly, however, the irrational, irrisponsible, and/or wreckless things people do under it's influence can... but same could be said for alcohol...\n\nI used to use it... but I quit...
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Yes Yes Yes 1,000,000 times YES!!!!\n\nAlready answered one like this today, but here goes again...\n\nIt is no worse than alcohol or tobacco,, both of which are LEGAL products.\n\nIt has NEVER caused even ONE death, ever.\n\nContrary to popular belief, it does NOT cause cancer, and it may actually have preventative effects.  (according to a recent study at UCLA, link below)\n\nIt should be legal for adults, just like alcohol and tobacco.\n\n"High" driving would likely still be a crime (even though a new study shows it is not a factor in driving accidents, link below) \n\nPot smokers are non-violent.  The most they'd do is eat all the food out of your fridge.\n\nMOST pot smokers can use it responsibly.  It is not physically addictive.  SOME people might become psychologically addicted, but these people are more susceptible to addiction and would likely become alcoholics or addicts of something else.\n\nThat enough reasons for everyone?
129442
i used to smoke pot to relax but havnt smoked it for years. people who take hard drugs are just crazy
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This is a complex question.  It depends on why you are taking the drugs.  The same drug that could save your life in an emergency could kill you if taken at the wrong time.\n\nMany recreational drugs might feel good or give you a novel experience, but could have long-term damaging effects.\n\nIt all depends.  \n\nSide note: There is some tentative evidence that marijuana can stimulate the growth of new brain cells.
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Not necessarily.  Although there are some factors, such as the company you keep, and the people you buy your grass from, that may increase the odds.  But certainly not because of the grass itself.\n\nIf grass were legal, it would have more in common with alcohol and tobacco than with "harder" drugs.  It has a lot of important medical uses, as does alcohol.  It is something people like to smoke, like tobacco.  But it is also very clearly used to self-medicate for tension and stress, as is alcohol, and therein lies the biggest risk.  A person who uses alcohol or marijuana to cope with stress, rather than changing those things in his life that cause the stress (a lousy marriage, a lousy job, etc.), may end up using too much, too often, and lose the ability to deal with life without it.  It is less physically addicting than alcohol, but in this psychological sense, may be as much of a risk for over-dependence.\n\nMy point, of course, is that it should be legal, so as to subtract the whole "feds and heads" game that causes so much grief.  Save a lot of taxpayers' money, too!
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Yes it is very dangerous.Both are depressants and could cause deadly affects.
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I like to smoke weed every now and then. I think it should be legal. I think it is gods gift to the world!!! I think liqueur  should be illegal and weed legal, no one I know of has ever woke up not knowing where they were or who that ugly guy beside them was from smoking weed. lol
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Thats a good question, and that I do not have a def answer. I think its becouse people just think all drugs are bad and thats it. I don't think pot is that bad, as it has no long term effects. It doesn't make you violent. It doesn't effect any body else. Pot issn't known to cause cancer. I think the public sees drugs as very bad, and thats what people are so againts it. I used to be againts drugs when I was younger, but that is becouse I learned that drugs are bad in school. I been with my friend that does pot, and hes fine, so then I tried it. Who cares if someone gets high. Its not like exctacy, which can be used as a dape rape drug, or lsd that makes you have crazy thoughts. I say smoke away and enjoy yourself, you only live once. Who gives a f** what anybody says.
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Are you sure you aren't doing any illegal substances like marijuana? It has been known to cause people to hallucinate and have phobias for no reason.
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Oh, Marijuana ruins lives, huh?  Let me ask you this.  How many people do you hear about coming home from a night of heavy pot smoking, to beat their wife because dinner isn't ready.  How ofter do you hear of the blind-stoned guy who drove into someone's house running from the cops?  How often do you hear about the pothead starting a gang fight outside a bar....\n\nWait a minute, I'm thinking about alcohol, the perfectly socially acceptable drug that destroys tens of thousands of lives every year.  Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against alcohol. But I do have something against the government telling me I can't put marijuana into my body, but let's some dumb ass loser pump alcohol into his body every night so he can go home to beat his wife and let his children sleep in a shithole because he spends all his money on liquor.\n\nKEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY!!!  IF I commit some other crime, under the influence of marijuana, then charge me with that crime.  I'm a successful member of society, and would hurt no one by smoking (If I were a pot smoker ;0) )  You have no right to tell me how to live my life.\n\nPeople killed by tobacco every year -- 400,000+\nPeople killed in alcohol related incidents -- 80,000+\nPeople killed in car accidents every year -- 60000+\n\nFind one proven case where someone died from a pot overdose.  Good luck.\n\nAll you anti drug activists need to get away from your socialist propaganda that tells you pot makes you a raving lunatic with a low sperm count and no motivation.  I've done a lot of drugs in my life, and I'm a whole hell of a lot more successful than half of the assholes out their in this world.\n\nOh, and if you didn't like my rant, how about this...\n\nGenesis 1:29-30\n\n29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
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I've never heard of it directly killing anyone.  Being stupid can kill, though.  For example you can drink too much water and it will be lethal.  So I'm sure it's possible to kill one's self by being stupid with marijuana as well.
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I am bipolar. I quit taking my effexor xr and other meds some time ago. Marijuana does have it's medicinal value, but with long term use, you will have other side effects. As for me, I haven't smoked for a while now, but if i didn't have a job like the one I do now, i would smoke. There hasn't been any prescribed medicine out there that didn't calm me and let me focus. But, That was with taking 1-2 drags of pot. Not smoking a quarter ounce in a day. Smoking that much is what the dr's are talking about when they tell you the serious side effect. Smoke too much, end up dumb. As with any drug, use responsibly. But...Pot is illegal. (boooo)
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yes i have :]\nmarijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this. \n\nWhat many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.\n\nThe most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol  to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.\n\nMarijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.\n\nDue to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.\n\nMarijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidel
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Alcoholand ciggs are more dangerous than marijuana. Marijuana is one of two completely chemicaly safe drugs out there. The other is LSD (acid). Neither of them have any major negative side effects. In fact ii think the reason it is still illegal is because people arnt educated enough on it. they believe all the negatives they read and never the posotives because they arnt looking for the best thing that can happen while you are stoned, they are looking for the worst. so if it was legalized there would be a largerevold and protest. and thats not what the govt. wants. so they stay safe and keep it illegal. even tho it should not be. as for those of u who think im crazy for saying lsd is harmless. look it up and u will find out it is even more harmless than weed. weed is more dangerous than lsd.