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Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana’s health benefits

Lord of Planar said:
Heroine is a processed plant product. Not a natural one, and shouldn't be legal. Arguments to make it legal would apply to many other drugs currently only by prescription.
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So.. what does a "processed plant product" have to do with anything? Its a derivative of the poppy.
 
American said:
I'm saying too many people say it's harmless, and I say it has been used regularly under a studied condition to know that for sure. I don't have to be smoking it, to make that statement. If you or anyone else want to puff weed, and tell yourself it's harmless to breathe smoke, that's on you.
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American, with respect...it's use as a medicine has been documented for over 5000 years...this weird prohibition, reefer madness treatment has only been very recent, comparatively speaking. How many millennia of safe usage would be enough to satisfy you on this one?

You're absolutely right on the smoking aspect. It's not healthy, especially if you are a medicinal user, and require it on a frequent / regular basis. But the industry is coming up with numerous ways to reduce that health impact: edibles, vaporizers, topical creams for targeting pain relief, tinctures, concentrates. These all represent significantly lower health risks for lungs.

You're also absolutely right on the needing more study - I think with more study more ways will be found that pot can help people. The problem is that the folks who do the testing are highly motivated to find fault with it. Pot is much less profitable to pharmaceutical companies, primarily because people can grow their own medicine, rather than buying outrageously priced chemicals from them. Because of this there will always be conflicting studies and fear mongering. I know that you're smart enough to see that, even if you won't admit it on a debate forum... ;)

I can tell you that pot saved my life. Without it, my general anxiety disorder would be untreated, since I am highly sensitive to the side effect of prescription medications for my condition - I can't take any of it. I would have offed myself a long time ago faced with that proposition. But, thanks to pot, I have a good career, and a family that didn't leave me. As well, my family has a husband and dad, an income to help support them, and generally we are all happy together. Given that, even if pot does reduce my chances of hitting the "average" life expectancy, it has greatly increased MY life expectancy.

This is what you're saying you're against, if you're attempting to further stigmatize medicinal pot use, man. Give it a bit of thought.

As for recreational, well...as others have pointed out we do all kinds of reckless things in the name of fun. Prohibition generally has little to no impact on that, so you might as well regulate it, ensure that it's as risk free as possible, save the money spent on keeping people in jail for it, and make some money in taxes. This side of it isn't as important to me one way or the other, other than if more people get to try it recreationally, there will be less stigma attached to using it medicinally.
 
American said:
The highest average was not 30-40 cigs a day.
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I'm thinking in terms of average, not highest average. The only think I saw in your link was less than 1 million people smoked more than 40 cigarettes a day. My response was that it put the average smoker somewhere under 40 cigarettes a day.

How was I wrong?
 
jaeger19 said:
So.. what does a "processed plant product" have to do with anything? Its a derivative of the poppy.
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The concentration of it. I'm not claiming Opium is anything good, but there is a vast difference in use and abuse.
 
jaeger19 said:
heroin is a medicine and has been used as a medicine for more than 100 years.
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Heroine, like Oxycontin, are drugs that are effective when used to treat pain. When used otherwise, the body chemistry reacts in a way making them addictive.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Heroine, like Oxycontin, are drugs that are effective when used to treat pain. When used otherwise, the body chemistry reacts in a way making them addictive.
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They have dependency / addictive properties regardless of whether they are used to treat pain.. or to have fun on a sunday night.

The body does not distinguish based on purpose.
 
Lord of Planar said:
The concentration of it. I'm not claiming Opium is anything good, but there is a vast difference in use and abuse.
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Actually. the processing reduces the concentration of many naturally occurring chemicals.
 
American said:
Consumers flooded with dubious claims about marijuana?s health benefits | National | bakersfield.com


Not much of a surprise that people hear what they want. The rabid attempt to make marijuana good and not harmful has been a problem for years. People want to believe that breathing smoke isn't dangerous. Now they want to believe it'll cure disease without any data.
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Your government has made it illegal to do legitimate research. What do you expect?

Also, were you aware that marijuana users don't all "breath smoke" when you made that statement?
 
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