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> We've been conditioned to believe marijuana is bad Well, you'll have a really hard time convincing people that it's good. (Unless they already have a vested

> We've been conditioned to believe marijuana is bad Well, you'll have a really hard time convincing people that it's good. (Unless they already have a vested interest in rationalizing their decisions.) Nobody ever got smarter from smoking too much weed.

mtraven 6y ago
http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. What about my own scientific work? ... I have made a conscious effort to think of a few particularly difficult current problems in my field when high. It works, at least to a degree. I find I can bring to bear, for example, a range of relevant experimental facts which appear to be mutually inconsistent.
redisman 6y ago
> Nobody ever got smarter from smoking too much weed. What about having fun or relaxing? Most recreational substances or activities aren’t supposed to “make you smarter”.
- rtx 6y ago
  Its a drug and should be promoted as such. Lets not swing the pendulum the other way. I can't be convinced putting smoke in your lungs is not harmful.
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  - kaoD 6y ago
    If smoke is the problem you can eat or vaporize it for example.
  - byecomputer 6y ago
    Everyone knows it's a drug. It also has a handful of applications in medicine, but so do a lot of drugs. Doesn't mean it's for everyone. As a recreational drug, the societal and personal harm associated with consuming marijuana is rather low. And nobody with any integrity is acting as though smoking something isn't bad for your lungs. Weed has already thoroughly permeated society, no use trying to turn back the clock there. We should just stop arresting people for it and stop making it so you have to take unnecessary risks to get it.
  - whalesalad 6y ago
    Smoke is merely 1 of 100 ways to consume cannabis.
arpa 6y ago
That's a very prejudiced opinion, and you should critically review it.
antonvs 6y ago
You're repeating something you've been indoctrinated to believe, that you haven't given any thought to, so yes it's going to be difficult to convince you and others like you otherwise.
kaoD 6y ago
The negation of bad isn't "good". It's "not bad".
andai 6y ago
Like anything you can overdo it. I regret smoking so much in my youth. I also regret drinking so much, and eating so much pizza and chocolate, and spending all day surfing (the web, sadly, not the waves). I was doing all those things before I became old enough to buy cannabis (although cannabis did exaggerate them somewhat). It does seem like the cannabis had a negative effect on my memory and emotional stability (I was high basically the entire day for several years while my brain was still developing). And many of my worst paranoid delusions ever have been on uncomfortably high doses of cannabis. But so have some of the most beautiful and dare I say spiritual experiences of my life, and I wouldn't take those back. I do wish I'd waited until I was older though, and in a better place emotionally (I was using it as a painkiller, if you will.) All things considered though, I'm a much bigger fan of psilocybin and LSD. Rather than worsening my addictions they made me quit a lot of unhealthy things I was doing. I also found microdosing to be very beneficial. For comparison, you can conduct a business meeting on a small dose of LSD and find that it actually helps you pay attention and think clearly, while even small doses of cannabis will interfere with something as trivial as a trip to the corner store.
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LocalH 6y ago
A headier pot certainly makes my mind sharper. Now, a pot with a heavy body load, that's more of the stereotypical "lazy stoner". But to say "nobody ever got smarter from smoking...weed" is kind of short-sighted.
johnhenry 6y ago
Correct. You have to smoke exactly the right amount.

mtraven 6y ago

http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. What about my own scientific work? ... I have made a conscious effort to think of a few particularly difficult current problems in my field when high. It works, at least to a degree. I find I can bring to bear, for example, a range of relevant experimental facts which appear to be mutually inconsistent.

redisman 6y ago

> Nobody ever got smarter from smoking too much weed. What about having fun or relaxing? Most recreational substances or activities aren’t supposed to “make you smarter”.

rtx 6y ago
Its a drug and should be promoted as such. Lets not swing the pendulum the other way. I can't be convinced putting smoke in your lungs is not harmful.
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- kaoD 6y ago
  If smoke is the problem you can eat or vaporize it for example.
- byecomputer 6y ago
  Everyone knows it's a drug. It also has a handful of applications in medicine, but so do a lot of drugs. Doesn't mean it's for everyone. As a recreational drug, the societal and personal harm associated with consuming marijuana is rather low. And nobody with any integrity is acting as though smoking something isn't bad for your lungs. Weed has already thoroughly permeated society, no use trying to turn back the clock there. We should just stop arresting people for it and stop making it so you have to take unnecessary risks to get it.
- whalesalad 6y ago
  Smoke is merely 1 of 100 ways to consume cannabis.

arpa 6y ago

That's a very prejudiced opinion, and you should critically review it.

antonvs 6y ago

You're repeating something you've been indoctrinated to believe, that you haven't given any thought to, so yes it's going to be difficult to convince you and others like you otherwise.

kaoD 6y ago

The negation of bad isn't "good". It's "not bad".

andai 6y ago

Like anything you can overdo it. I regret smoking so much in my youth. I also regret drinking so much, and eating so much pizza and chocolate, and spending all day surfing (the web, sadly, not the waves). I was doing all those things before I became old enough to buy cannabis (although cannabis did exaggerate them somewhat). It does seem like the cannabis had a negative effect on my memory and emotional stability (I was high basically the entire day for several years while my brain was still developing). And many of my worst paranoid delusions ever have been on uncomfortably high doses of cannabis. But so have some of the most beautiful and dare I say spiritual experiences of my life, and I wouldn't take those back. I do wish I'd waited until I was older though, and in a better place emotionally (I was using it as a painkiller, if you will.) All things considered though, I'm a much bigger fan of psilocybin and LSD. Rather than worsening my addictions they made me quit a lot of unhealthy things I was doing. I also found microdosing to be very beneficial. For comparison, you can conduct a business meeting on a small dose of LSD and find that it actually helps you pay attention and think clearly, while even small doses of cannabis will interfere with something as trivial as a trip to the corner store.

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LocalH 6y ago

A headier pot certainly makes my mind sharper. Now, a pot with a heavy body load, that's more of the stereotypical "lazy stoner". But to say "nobody ever got smarter from smoking...weed" is kind of short-sighted.

johnhenry 6y ago

Correct. You have to smoke exactly the right amount.