| coolestguyever said: http://www.well.com/user/woa/fspot.htm Go ahead and read this to see why marijuana isn't legal. Some effects are accelerated heartbeat, memory loss, slows reaction time/concentration, lung damage. Oh and read the part about how marijuana smoke contains more cancer-causing agents then tobacco smoke. I'm pretty sure cancer, lung damage, accelerated heartbeat (which leads to heart attacks), etc. outweighs some cell growth in the brain. |
I am not defending Marijuana because I think it can turn bright guys into lazy loosers. I just try to explain that the harmful effects of Marijuana is not the reason for prohibition
.Everything you listed exept accelerated heartbeat is only if you smoke marijuhana. You can also take it oraly. So what else would be on your list ? Lung damage=smoking Can cause cancer=smoking. Accelerated Heartbeat WILL be caused if you take caffeine or if you drink energy drings with Taurine. Or Even tea can cause accelareted Heartbeat.
marijuhana can cause Psychosis which is the most harmful factor.
I list the bad effects of Alcohol just some:
Liver destruction up to Cirrhosis and this can cause even Liver cancer. It can even destroy your liver completly so you need a new one. Alcohol Dehydrates the body. This harms every organ in your body. Especially your kidney. Alcohol makes physically addicting. And the withdraw from Alcohol is the hardest of all substances. The withdrawal symptoms from Alcohol are way harder and stronger then the withdrawal symptoms of Heroine. The advantage from Alcohol is that your body needs a long time to get used to Alcohol. Alcohol withdrawal can Kill you. There are just another group of substances (which are on the market) which can do the same thing. And thats benzodiazepines. Massiv Alcohol consume can cause osteroposis and damag your bone substance so they can break very easily. Alcohol destroys hundreds of thousends brain cells even if you use it just once. It can kill you because if you drink to much it can cause lung depression so you choke. Just a few diseases which can be caused by alcohol: Epilepsey Enzephalopathy Polyneurits and Psychosis. And there is much more.
this substance is legal but Marijuana not ? So this cant be the reason.To say the harmful effects are the reason is just hypocritical.
I think that a adult should decide what he is doing with his body. Everybody has the responsibility for his life. So if someone wants to take marijuana or cocaine or whatever he should do it. I wouldnt recommend it. If you are responsible for other lifes for your kids for example or in the traffic. Drugs are a no go.
As long as you dont harm or harass someone with your drugs do whatever you want just dont forget it can be sometimes a ticket to early death or to isolation/jail.
I just looked why they made a Marijuana prohiition. The main cause was that the southern (US) Tobacco companys feared that they will loose marketshare because of marijuana and the Media King in the 1930s William Randolph Hearst feared that he will loose money because of hemp paper which would be a lot cheaper then his paper. And the Chemical company DuPont feared also they would loose money because they produced the artifical Nylon and Ryon. But hemp was even cheaper then this. And after the USA allowed alcohol again in 1933 the man behind the prohibition of alcohol had now a giant army of people which secured the alcohol prohibiton but they would be useless after alcohol was legal again. So he made a Hemp Prohibition so the people could keep their jobs. And the USA made most other UN countrys sign the contract fo the prohibiton. Thats the story behind it.
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