| curl-6 said: On cigarettes, I'd support making them illegal in public and restricted, to, say, your house or designated bars. If you want to smoke, fine, it's your body, but don't inflict carcinogenic toxins on the people around you.
There are also studies that find there is a link with schizophrenia, and others that find marijuana increases depression rather than helping with it, if we're going to look at both sides of the fence here. |
I'm not ignoring them. I actually brought up a study earlier in the thread that did link the two (you can dig for it), but it only effected those who've smoked heavily (daily) since early teenage years until their 20s, and even then the results were inconclusive. My point here is that there are studies that refute it, and only one study I can find that shows any link whatsoever.
The MJ and depression thing is kind of hard to figure out. No study says MJ causes depression, they say there's a higher proportion of MJ smokers diagnosed with depression than nonsmokers (important distinction there), so what's likely actually happened is people have other factors in their life making them depressed, making them more likely to do weed or do a lot more weed.
