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Well no, there are serious health risk associated with weed. Maybe alcohol have them too, yes both deserve legality, but this is not to say it is "safe", especi

Well no, there are serious health risk associated with weed. Maybe alcohol have them too, yes both deserve legality, but this is not to say it is "safe", especially in young.

dls2016 5y ago
“Maybe” alcohol has health consequences? Like 95,000 deaths per year?
- da_big_ghey 5y ago
  Absolutely, i more made reference to how when somebody mention health impact of weed somebody else say "whatabout alcohol unhealthiness" as though it is relevant.
  - eurasiantiger 5y ago
    Of course it is relevant. Many of those 95,000 annual deaths would be preventable if a good variety of quality cannabis was more widely available and its use was more socially acceptable. I also believe such a paradigm shift would largely eradicate domestic violence.
  - crazy_horse 5y ago
    I had a grandfather die of alcoholism. I'd much rather smoke pot than drink alcohol and long term it's almost certainly safer from what we can tell. It's also hard to be productive drinking but pot can have the opposite effect.
kodah 5y ago
There are health risks associated with THC: - the possibility of psychosis or schizophrenia in people 16-35 (https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis%20Use%20and%20Psychosis_380524_284_47327_v2.pdf https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis...) - the same risk that inhaling any combustible has - overeating - cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/c/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome.html https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...) For some people the benefits outweigh the risks, especially when practiced in moderation.
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  Overeating? That's a health risk for THC? And the last I heard, oxygen was "combustible". Inhaling a combustible isn't a health risk; inhaling combustion products might be. But many pot smokers use a vape, set to well-below the combustion temperature for their chosen herb.
  - kodah 5y ago
    > Overeating? That's a health risk for THC? Yeah, certainly. I'm not a doctor, but weed makes people eat. Hence it's been used to help folks with eating disorders. Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/how-to-stop-munchies-when-high https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/how-to-stop-munchie... Vapes have issues too, which include exposure to heavy metals. By combustibles I mean anything you burn. Again, not a doctor and not a medical scientist so I may be using the wrong words but most people who use weed know these things. Most notably, anything that is smoked will incur a small but sharp rise in blood pressure. If you wear a heart monitor (or wrist watch with one) it's fairly trivial to detect. Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/health/california-cannabis-labs-are-finding-toxic-metal-in-vape-carts https://www.leafly.com/news/health/california-cannabis-labs-...

Well no, there are serious health risk associated with weed. Maybe alcohol have them too, yes both deserve legality, but this is not to say it is "safe", especially in young.

dls2016 5y ago

“Maybe” alcohol has health consequences? Like 95,000 deaths per year?

da_big_ghey 5y ago
Absolutely, i more made reference to how when somebody mention health impact of weed somebody else say "whatabout alcohol unhealthiness" as though it is relevant.
- eurasiantiger 5y ago
  Of course it is relevant. Many of those 95,000 annual deaths would be preventable if a good variety of quality cannabis was more widely available and its use was more socially acceptable. I also believe such a paradigm shift would largely eradicate domestic violence.
- crazy_horse 5y ago
  I had a grandfather die of alcoholism. I'd much rather smoke pot than drink alcohol and long term it's almost certainly safer from what we can tell. It's also hard to be productive drinking but pot can have the opposite effect.

kodah 5y ago

There are health risks associated with THC: - the possibility of psychosis or schizophrenia in people 16-35 (https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis%20Use%20and%20Psychosis_380524_284_47327_v2.pdf https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis...) - the same risk that inhaling any combustible has - overeating - cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/c/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome.html https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...) For some people the benefits outweigh the risks, especially when practiced in moderation.

denton-scratch 5y ago
Overeating? That's a health risk for THC? And the last I heard, oxygen was "combustible". Inhaling a combustible isn't a health risk; inhaling combustion products might be. But many pot smokers use a vape, set to well-below the combustion temperature for their chosen herb.
- kodah 5y ago
  > Overeating? That's a health risk for THC? Yeah, certainly. I'm not a doctor, but weed makes people eat. Hence it's been used to help folks with eating disorders. Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/how-to-stop-munchies-when-high https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/how-to-stop-munchie... Vapes have issues too, which include exposure to heavy metals. By combustibles I mean anything you burn. Again, not a doctor and not a medical scientist so I may be using the wrong words but most people who use weed know these things. Most notably, anything that is smoked will incur a small but sharp rise in blood pressure. If you wear a heart monitor (or wrist watch with one) it's fairly trivial to detect. Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/health/california-cannabis-labs-are-finding-toxic-metal-in-vape-carts https://www.leafly.com/news/health/california-cannabis-labs-...