jaredowty
Well-Known Member
Smoking weed might be worse than cigarettes if you're comparing one joint to one cigarette
Um, no.
Tobbaco = 440,000 deaths per year in the USA
Alcohol = 75,000 deaths per year
Prescription drugs = 26,000 deaths per year
Marijuana = 0 deaths, ever, anywhere. Overdose is impossible.
If you're pro-prohibition for weed, then you'd better have the same attitude towards alcohol and tobacco (hell, most prescription drugs too). Anything else is just painfully illogical.
For some people the benefits outweigh the possible risks (which are incredibly vague at this point). It DOES help chronic pain, helps people sleep, eat, and the research being done on the cannabinoids (many of which have no psychoactive effects and don't get you high) helping reduce cancer and tumor risk is really fascinating. One of my patients is 65 years old, never smoked in his life (he was a victim of propaganda and thought it was terrible) until he got his card and did, then got his first full night's sleep in 20 years. Does it work for everyone? No. But then again nothing does. The quality of the bud is always a huge factor as well.
Smoking anything will have at least a small negative effect, that's the consensus from just about anyone I think. That's why medical cannabis should be vaporized, or, for the most effective pain relief and the widest variety of cannabinoids: ingesting.