| VGKing said: Weed CAN be used as medicine. I know that, weed is already legal for medical reasons in many states. I have no problem with that. But you said it should remain illegal? Now are you saying it should be legal for medical reasons but illegal for recreation? What I said about not knowing how it effects yours brain is true though. Someone who smokes MJ ever day for years can be fine but someone else can end up with health problems. This is classic "correlation does not imply causation". And how many times have I posted studies in this thread that find MJ to "not effect brain tissue" or something along those lines. Scientists know very little about the brain whcih is why there is an epidemic of mental health issues like depression. Do you know how these issues are treated? Doctors play a guessing game by giving their patients a popular drug for depression, if that doesn't work, try another one...repeat. If we really knew exactly what causes these problems and we could better provide medicince, maybe even weed. I don't neccessarily disagree, but you're ignoring part of my point again: "We don't need to know exactly how, but the effects would certainly be visible and apparant if there were in fact effects... which there are not (or are so small to the point that we don't even notice)" The medicinal properties still haven't been 100% proven though, if that was the case it would have been legalized in every single state by now, at least for medical reasons. But it's not. For every study that shows it can have "healing" properties, there is another one that shows it doesn't. So, you obviously just pulled that out of your arse. I linked dozens upon dozens of studies that prove medicinal qualities, and I could go into the hundreds if I want to. (hell, I know someone has compiled a list of thousands of studies). Where are these studies that suggest the contrary? There may be a few, but there won't be nearly as many that find links. Also, there are just some obvious uses for it that you really can't argue against... I've used it for headaches occasionally and my (mild) insomnia... works better than any prescribed or off-the-shelf meds I've ever used, and I've never had any shitty side effects that I might get from those. Maybe wed can help treat cancer, but what does it damage in exchange? Everything has side effects. Millions of people have been using it for thousands of years and serious side effects have never been apparant*. I'm not saying side effects don't exist, I'm saying they're so insignificant or benign (i.e. not negative) in 99.9% of people that it doesn't matter. *There will probably be that 0.1% of the population that will experience noticeably damaging side effects, but that's the same with every substance... be it a drug or diary products or whatever. You've still not presented any valid arguments whatsover for legalisation. If you don't personally like weed or want to use it, fine, but that's a shitty reason to keep it illegal. By the way, do you know why it was made illegal in the first place? |
Quote me next time please.
