You can attach a negative event in history to almost any date. Don't forget about Columbine.

Skinned up is rolling up a j or blunt right? I suppose it means blunt more since they go by the name of blunt skins. Nope, I'm not that skilled but I've known some people that can. Mainly people that can roll js with one hand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/marijuana-and-lungs-study_n_1197854.html

Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does.

The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users – those who smoke two or more joints daily for several years. The data suggest that using marijuana that often might cause a decline in lung function, but there weren't enough heavy users among the 5,000 young adults in the study to draw firm conclusions.

Please before posting at least google your claim. There is so much bad info out there. Its most likely more damaging to your lungs to live in a big city and be surrounded by smog and other unhelathy air pollutants.

some more

http://news.menshealth.com/news-every-pothead-must-know/2012/01/10/

Putting together 20 years of data—and using the magic of statistics to separate the effects of pot from those of tobacco, since people often smoke both—the researchers found that pot smokers seemed to have better lung function than people who didn’t smoke at all.

With all of that said, its kind of meaningless as marijuana is illegal and therefore can not be properly tested in a scientific way, and really we only have statisitics which will show a picture, but aren't a scietific study. One more reason for it to be legal.

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.

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. 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.

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. Maybe wed can help treat cancer, but what does it damage in exchange? Everything has side effects.

I find it sad that 15 year olds at my school smoke weed at grade 9 and act like they're cool! :/

Quote me next time please. 

Ok you win. Weed is awesome and in no way bad for you. You should keep smoking it. Rock on.

B-b-b-but I thought it was good for you? I thought it cured cancer!?

Hey guys .. I'd like to know how things are in different countries. On average how much do you pay for the following in your country?

- A joint

- an ounce

Where I am from a Joint is the equivalent of US$2. If you're looking for Skunk or any specialty high grade stuff then you're talking about 5 USD or so. An ounce is ... roughly $20 - 22.

Also ... how easy is it for you to access the stuff? What about varieties?

I often can't believe the negative stigma attached to this plant. Just remember that inhaling isn't the only way to consume cannabis. You can cook it into foods and still get all of the benefits of THC without damaging your lungs one bit. This is extremely beneficial to any user, especially someone going through serious medical treatments.

And also keep in mind that [fresh or dried] raw cannabis (the illegal plant we're all discussing) has zero drug properties when consumed. It's on par with the healthiest vegetables on the planet. Far healthier than even spinach, and is the absolute best way to fight inflammatory illnesses (such as cancer).

Also, an area of land planted with cannabis or hemp creates a system that is 4x more efficient in producing oxygen than the same area of land planted with trees. Cannabis is naturally beneficial to all life, and can only be consumed as a drug when heated to a certain temperature or combusted. The more we care to learn about this naturally healthy plant, the more ridiculous the drug laws around the world are.

As a farmer, no one should have the right to tell me that I can't plant cannabis, which cleans the air and makes the healthiest salad possible. Nor should I have to fear planting hemp, which can be used to make clothing, paper products, oil, food, etc.

By the way, I celebrated 4/20 by mixing some hummus with some cannabis olive oil I made recently. Very yummy, very healthy.