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

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Post by grav1tas »

JeremyBanks wrote: post #3
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?

Is Marijuana risky for your health? There don't seem to be any long-term health risks. None have been demonstrated, a some you might expect (such as lung cancer) seem to have been disproven. Smoking can irritate your lungs in the shorter term, but fortunately there's no need to smoke. Have you personally been affected? If you use it frequently it makes it easier to fall into unproductive habits. For people who have a…

Can you link us on some studies disproving a link between Marijuana and some long-term health risk? I find it hard to believe that smoking something ISN'T bad for you, though am aware that there are other uses of it, as well..but a lot of people (if not most) tend to smoke it. What about the long-term cognitive impacts of using Marijuana as a mind-altering substance? Alcohol, caffeine and other drugs have long term effects, so what are the ones from Marijuana?

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

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Post by zalew »

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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqq8-3ZBFeE @8:00 there's some myth debunking about alleged health risks due to smoking mj.

continued http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU2YB9OgaU&feature=relat...

I recommend watching whole 'The Union'

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

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Post by YuriNiyazov »

grav1tas wrote: post #21
JeremyBanks wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Marijuana risky for your health? There don't seem to be any long-term health risks. None have been demonstrated, a some you might expect (such as lung cancer) seem to have been disproven. Smoking can irritate your lungs in the shorter term, but fortunately there's no need to smoke. Have you personally been affected? If you use it frequently it makes it easier to fall into unproductive habits. For people who have a…

Can you link us on some studies disproving a link between Marijuana and some long-term health risk? I find it hard to believe that smoking something ISN'T bad for you, though am aware that there are other uses of it, as well..but a lot of people (if not most) tend to smoke it. What about the long-term cognitive impacts of using Marijuana as a mind-altering substance? Alcohol, caffeine and other drugs have long term e…

What are the long-term effects of caffeine?

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

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Post by trotsky »

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?

Regular/daily use is definitely demotivational, at least in the long run. This can (but certainly doesn't necessarily) lead to depression, which can be a serious illness for some.

One major effect is that use makes things more interesting. This can be beneficial - it might allow an artist or programmer to dive into their work or help in music appreciation. This same property also masks boredom which can have serious consequences. Someone who is bored with their life often seeks to change it for the better, a person bored with TV may turn it off.

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

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Post by leppie »

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'll let you know if I die ahead of time.

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

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Post by thomasz »

JeremyBanks wrote: post #3
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?

Is Marijuana risky for your health? There don't seem to be any long-term health risks. None have been demonstrated, a some you might expect (such as lung cancer) seem to have been disproven. Smoking can irritate your lungs in the shorter term, but fortunately there's no need to smoke. Have you personally been affected? If you use it frequently it makes it easier to fall into unproductive habits. For people who have a…

> There don't seem to be any long-term health risks.

As long as you don't count psychosis as health risk...

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

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Post by roel_v »

hardik wrote: post #19
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)

Yes there presumably is. If you want scientific research, you should go to scholar.google.com or better yet to the library of your nearest teaching hospital / medical university. There have been thousands if not tens of thousands papers on the issue. You'll never get a scientifically valid answer on the internet, and probably not even in the library - but at least there you'll have data.

Anecdote time: I know a doctor who is convinced that he is right on his opinion that marijuana causes depression, has near-100% gateway properties and causes long term brain damage even after short periods of use. The rub? He works at a psychological hospital that get a lot of patients with acute drug-induced psychoses or other drug-related issues. From his sample, of course he comes to his conclusions! I have tried to explain the concept of 'sample bias' several times to him but either he is incapable of such numeric thinking or just refuses to do so.

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

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Post by aneth »

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…

Given a world in which we are free to choose, as much of the US is becoming, these are the right questions to ask.

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

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Post by roel_v »

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…

You're basically saying that only non-users can make a cost/benefit analysis of drug use. One could equally well claim that a portion of non-users have an anti-drug bias for self-justification reasons. Where does one draw the line? The only solution is to not rely on 'opinions' and naked theory, but on data. Which is hard, but even when accounting for error margins, there is to the best of my knowledge no reason to accept that people who have at one point in their lives illegally used controlled substances have a statistically significant bias that distorts everything that comes from them.
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