Here this sums up a Pot user right here and why assholes like Darkstar defend it…
Other Physiological Effects
In addition to the brain, the side effects of marijuana reach many other parts of the body. Marijuana is filled with hundreds of chemicals, and when it is burned, hundreds of additional compounds are produced. When marijuana is inhaled or ingested in some other form, several short-term effects occur. Some of the marijuana’s side effects are:
-Problems with memory and learning -Distorted perception
-Difficulty with thinking and problem solving
-Loss of coordination
-Increased heart rate
-Anxiety, paranoia and panic attacks
The initial effects created by the THC in marijuana wear off after an hour or two, but the chemicals stay in your body for much longer. The terminal half-life of THC is from about 20 hours to 10 days, depending on the amount and potency of the marijuana used. This means that if you take one milligram of THC that has a half-life of 20 hours, you will still have 0.031 mg of THC in your body more than four days later. The longer the half-life, the longer the THC lingers in your body.
Effects of Marijuana on the Lungs
Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers have. These individuals may have daily cough and phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and more frequent chest colds. Continuing to smoke marijuana can lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissue injured or destroyed by marijuana smoke.
Regardless of the THC content, the amount of tar inhaled by marijuana smokers and the level of carbon monoxide absorbed are three to five times greater than among tobacco smokers. This may be due to marijuana users inhaling more deeply and holding the smoke in the lungs.
Scientists have learned a great deal about how THC acts in the brain to produce its many effects. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to organs throughout the body, including the brain.
In the brain, THC connects to specific sites called cannabinoid receptors on nerve cells and influences the activity of those cells. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. Many cannabinoid receptors are found in the parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement(5).
The short-term effects of marijuana can include problems with memory and learning; distorted perception; difficulty in thinking and problem solving; loss of coordination; and increased heart rate. Research findings for long-term marijuana use indicate some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term use of other major drugs of abuse. For example, cannabinoid (THC or synthetic forms of THC) withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system(6) and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine(7). Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse.
Effects on the Heart
One study has indicated that a user’s risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana(8). The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana’s effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.
Effects on the Lungs
A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers(9). Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.
Even infrequent use can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, often accompanied by a heavy cough. Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency to obstructed airways(10). Smoking marijuana increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck, and the more marijuana smoked the greater the increase(11). A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced strong evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers.
Marijuana use also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens(12, 13). In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke(14). It also produces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form—levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells(15). Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs’ exposure to carcinogenic smoke. These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may increase the risk of cancer more than smoking tobacco.
…and there is fucking more at that link for you.
And every site I have visted classes Marijuana Smoke and Tobacco smoke as the same thing with the marijuana being the worse of the two.
Go figure when I was doing my searches, Shitty canibus sites that I’m sure DickSucker vists are only worried about how second hand smoke will affect their drug tests :rolleyes:
Yeah don’t be worried if the smoke is harming others, just worry if you get to keep your job a week longer. :rolleyes:
I really dont think you have a clue about anything in life. And if you’re so worried about healthcare and the rising costs of it, perhaps you should look at what obesity is doing to healthcare costs, and evaluate how you’re adding fuel to that fire. And right after that, you can stop worrying about me and my joints.
im sure marijuana smoke isnt the healthiest thing for your lungs, but with a vaporizer you arent doing your lungs ANY damage. And you can bake THC into an assortment of edible items.
also, people smoke 3 packs of smokes a day. I dont know anyone that smokes 60 joints in a day.
Furthermore, if you dont want to get secondhand pot smoke, dont go to a hash bar. It will still be illegal to smoke pot in public. In much the same way you cant just walk up and down the street sipping on a bottle of Wild Turkey (much to Sonny’s chagrin). There will be designated places where it can be consumed.
Well guess what asshole if you havn’t read I am doing somthing about it.
I knew it was only a matter of time till your weight loss went to your fucking head just like the fucking drugs you do loser.
PS kinda hypocridical isn’t it since Marijana makes you less motivated to do shit and sit around don’t want to do a fucking thing. But of course you missed that point I borught up ealier about teens sitting around, playing video games, eating more thus adding to an already lazy obese america.
You have thousands of dollars of a mind altering liquid in your basement. You like to drink the liquid to relieve stress and socialize with others. You use it responsibly and it has no negative influence on your life or anyone elses. This liquid, if used irresponsibly, could had a negative effect on ones life. You think this is perfectly fine.
I have a $20 bag of a mind altering plant on my desk. I like to smoke the plant to relieve stress and socialize with others. I use it responsibly and it has no negative influence on my life or anyone elses. This plant, if used irresponsibly, could have a negative effect on ones life. You think that the government should come into my house and take me to jail because of this.
There were 3 men and they all died in a car crash and went to hell. When they got there the devil asked them all in turn a question.
To he first he said “what was your biggest sin on earth?” and the man replied “Oh man I just love alchol and being drunk man” so the devil showed the man to a room full of alchol of every type and description and he put the man inside and said “see you in 100 years” and locked the door.
To the second man he asked the same question and the man replied “oh man I just love to have sex with the ladies, I was really unfaithful to my wife man”. So the devil took the man and showed him to a room full of hundreds upon thousands of georgeous and beautiful naked women. The man ran inside and the devil said “see you in 100 years” and locked the door.
The third man’s answer to the question was “oh man I just LOVE weed! Im high all the time man and I can’t live without it!”. The devil showed the man to a room packed with the most amazing grade-A bud you’ve ever seen, stacked to the roof! The man went inside and the devil locked the door after saying “see you in 100 years”.
100 years later the devil came by to let the three men out. He opened the door to the first man’s room and found the man collapsed on the ground, passed out with empty bottles laying around him and puke all over him. He was a mess.
The devil opened the 2nd man’s door and the man came running out of the room and cried “IM GAY! IM GAY!”. Finally the devil came to the third man’s room and opened the door. Sitting in the middle of all the bud, in the exact same position the devil had left him in was the man. He looked up at the devil and with a single tear rolling down his cheek he asked ; “hey man, got a light?”
Fucking losers like you always try to justify shit.
You want to go get fuck up and kill yourself go ahead please by all means, I wish you all the luck in the world in succeeding (And I hope you do).
My fucking point is SMOKE isn’t contained INSIDE THE FUCKING BODY like alcohol is. Alcohol doesn’t get passed in the fucking air you retard.So when people smoke it in public, in social bars and clubs (quite acting like it won’t fucking happen and people are going to turn into fucking saints) that shit affects people and their fucking lungs.
Keep it up with the physical insults as well you fucking hypocrite.
All you can do is resort to physical insults instead of statements or articals other that crap from “cannabis monthly” or what ever other bullshit sites you like to visit.
It not only shows your age, but how fucking stupid you really are.
If you are trying to get me to make a physical threat on here to get banned its not going to happen, so keep it up asshole.
DS, you need to go back and read what 1320 quoted of mine. Because evidently you think I keep refering to how you smoke pot.
Its not you the pot roll model that is the problem, its everyone else, But since you want to resort to the physical insults like a child (mean while you wern’t exactly a fucking light weight last year) I can stoop to your level.
YES I hope you do get drug to jail and loose everything. Want me to make the phone call?
Yeah I see every tobacco smoker voluntarily giving up smoking in public places and doing it at home only :rolleyes:
They still smoke in resturants, they still smoke inside bars and so forth. Don’t give me that shit. Just because you don;t blow it in my face while you’re in a resturant doesn’t mean its not still affecting its non smoking customers…
