Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say
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Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say
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#2The real kicker is that even the slim chance of "unwanted mental health effects" could be reduced without removing the substance's pain and inflammation-relieving properties, if the US Gov't would simply allow the plant to be researched for pharmaceutical purposes.
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#3"researchers" change their mind every single week.
Gotta love how media present science.
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#4Insert your smoke weed everyday comment
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#5I may not be doing the article justice, but it seems a bit misleading how this is presented. The title reads almost like "science clickbait" and there's a lot of talk about "safe" and "lower risk" but the study seems to only have actually computed lethal dose. This is an almost entirely useless statistic from my perspective, and by presenting it as justification for any sort of "safeness" seems almost deceptive. They do nod to this with a small section on the other impacts of use, but it seems heavily deemphisized when compared with the core message.
Here's hoping I'm just reading this wrong and looking for the worst possible interpretation; I just worry that when presented without an even hand that these sorts of statements will only impede the goal of more reasonable drug policy and culture.
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#6The real kicker is that even the slim chance of "unwanted mental health effects" could be reduced without removing the substance's pain and inflammation-relieving properties, if the US Gov't would simply allow the plant to be researched for pharmaceutical purposes.
Suspected "unwanted mental health effects" include full blow permanent schizophrenia. (Emphasis on suspected, for we know there's a lot of mental illness self-medication with psychoactive drugs starting with alcohol.) That strikes me as making it very hard to do ethical research of the sort you're positing.
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#7Don't see what is surprising in this article. I don't know anyone who claims you can easily consume enough marijuana to kill yourself. On the other hand, alcohol poisoning resulting in death is a well-known phenomenon.
When people discuss the "dangers of marijuana", they aren't saying you will take a lethal dose. More typically, there are either claims of impacts on the brain, or claims that it is a gateway to potentially lethal drugs like cocaine or heroin.
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#8I can't help but feel that statistic they're using is a little disingenuous. Yes cannabis has a ridiculously high lethal dose, more than you could ever smoke or consume. You'd basically have to create a concentrate and inject it directly or something.
I don't think you should be saying that cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. There are other contributing factors that could cause harm. There seems to be no research into carcinogenic qualities of cannabis smoke for example. I'm an avid user of cannabis but I dont think we need to go around pretending like there are no side effects and its completely harmless.
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#9Insert your smoke weed everyday comment
Echoing flockonus' comment, to replace the "drink everyday" thing, unless you're a woman of age 68 or older, if my vague memory of the recent closer look at the data is correct.
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#10Insert your smoke weed everyday comment
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