Howard the Duck

uh, i wouldn't want to be in a peaceful quasi-ecstatic mood all the time when I listen to music - i sometimes want to be angry so's I can hear angry music, depressed for sad bastard music and alert when i'm trying catch all the notes in jazz

the other things you've mentioned are basically "escapes" - you have to face it sober sooner or later

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blastingas10

You're right. I do think sobriety is the best way to go. I have no problem with sober people. My problem lies with the people who drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and still think that Marijuana is bad. If Marijuana is illegal, then alcohol and tobacco should be as well, and that's what angers me the most.

You see a anti-Marijuana commercial on TV, then the next commercial you see is a beer advertisement that completely glorifies the ****. It's just not right.

Salami

You're absolutely right there. Smoking has long lasting, potentially fatal effects, wheras the effects of weed are usually short term, and the long term effects can be easily minimised. And although I've never seen a beer comercial following an anti marijuana one, I'd be pretty angry if I did.

Howard the Duck

i've seen a documentary that says marijuana smokers have the same chances of developing throat cancer as normal smokers

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Salami

I'd be very sceptical about that. Remember, in cigarrettes there's not just the tobacco but the tar to worry about. Tar sticks in your lungs, and will probably have worse lasting effects.

Howard the Duck

people usually smoke marijuana resin than leaves, which have a lot of unwanted chemicals as well

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Salami

To be frank, neither marijuana and cigarrettes are completely harmless, but I think blastingas is right when he talks about the amounts of each taken in. Most people I know only do weed about once a week, which at least gives your body some time to recover. However, the effects of smoking can only be fully reversed after 15 years of not smoking.

Sparky

I thought there has yet to be a link between marijuana and cancer?

blastingas10

There are things like vaporizers that make the smoke a lot less harmful. And people who smoke cigarettes tend to smoke a lot more than people who smoke weed. There aren't many people who smoke 20 marijuana cigarettes a day, but there are a lot of people who smoke 20 cigarettes a day, and even more than that.

anticipation

They're actually just completing a study on this exact subject; so far, the combined use of marijuana and tobacco is almost twice as harmful than the use of just tobacco, but strangely marijuana smoke on its own has shown to be not as dangerous as tobacco smoke.