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More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by ek »

vegai wrote: post #12

Where the hell does one who has no connections get some? I don't live in America, however, there must be some basic strategies that work everywhere, right?

It depends in a lot of ways on where you live. In California for example, it's very easy to get a card for about $100 and then you can just go to dispensaries.

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

sv123 wrote: post #11

glad you like the site :)

is this yours? I run ThatHigh.com -- would love to discuss possible partnerships. i get over a million page views a month, obviously that could be very targeted.

not sure how we could help each other, but perhaps we could meet sometime? are you in SF?

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

hristov wrote: post #8
hardik wrote: post #2

I have observed most of HN community to be pro-marijuana. Having no real experiece here and being really curious, I would like to ask you guys this simple question: Is Marijuana risky for your health? Have you personally been affected?

I cannot answer your question because I have only used pot two or three times in my life, but I can give you some advice: don't take the word of a drug user about whether drugs are good or bad for you. Drug users, like most people tend to suffer from self delusion, and you really do not want to be a victim of that. There are very few people in the world that can be brutally honest about themselves and their lives. Ve…

While I agree with the second part, I think it's a fallacy to connect it with a fictitious group of people labelled "drug users".

True, there is a class of people who "use" drugs and a class of people "abuse" drugs, but in the common vocabulary, there's unfortunately no distinction between the two. And there really ought to be.

We (society) get all of the negative consequences of drug abuse and none of the positive consequences of responsible drug use.

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by hardik »

maqr wrote: post #5
hardik wrote: post #2

I have observed most of HN community to be pro-marijuana. Having no real experiece here and being really curious, I would like to ask you guys this simple question: Is Marijuana risky for your health? Have you personally been affected?

Those aren't the right kind of questions. How about: Is prohibition good for society? Who is benefiting from prohibition? Should people be allowed to willfully consume drugs of their choosing? To answer your question, I think most people would agree that it's less "risky" than alcohol, but risk is a hard thing to quantify. The reason there's so much pro-marijuana on the internets probably has less to do with marijuan…

I completely respect the freedom of choice you are referring to in your questions but I am genuinely interested in finding out about marijuana's health risks.

Just like risk is a hard thing to quantify, so is "right kind of questions" hard to define. :)

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by russellallen »

hardik wrote: post #2

I have observed most of HN community to be pro-marijuana. Having no real experiece here and being really curious, I would like to ask you guys this simple question: Is Marijuana risky for your health? Have you personally been affected?

For what it is worth, I have been told by the head of a paediatric mental health unit at a major hospital that there was increasing evidence in the literature of a link of some kind between marijuana use and the onset of episodes of schizophrenia, although the mechanism wasn't agreed upon. She said newer research was increasing the confidence in the link rather than decreasing it.

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

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Post by hardik »

hardik wrote: post #2

I have observed most of HN community to be pro-marijuana. Having no real experiece here and being really curious, I would like to ask you guys this simple question: Is Marijuana risky for your health? Have you personally been affected?

Thanks for the response guys; I am wondering if there is a winner-bias at play here. (I don't expect too many drug "abusers" as referred in a comment above here on HN)
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