CANNABIS: Good or Bad?

The rumours about "skunk" are totally dumb-founded. If you say stuff like "skunk bad, weed good" then you don't have a clue. Skunk is just a stupid name for strong weed. It is no more dangerous than your average weed..... really. It's just ******* bomb weed! You want that stuff!!

I think that's quite irresponsible to tell people, skunk is most certainly not something that anybody would want - or if for some strange reason you actually enjoy it, you're in the vast minority.

I get high to relax, giggle, get munchies, appreciate music, read wikipedia for hours etc.

I don't get high to barely be able to walk, have an insanely fast heartbeat, to have my legs twitch, etc.

Either you don't smoke skunk, or you smoke very tiny amounts, or you're some kind of absolute machine.

Bad, seriously in a few years when the long term effects of skunk become apparant the causal relationship of cannabis use and paranoid schizophrenia will become more and more obvious.

It is also smoking and so can cause lung cancer, although obviously rates in tobacco smokers are higher cos they stick burning **** in their mouths and inhale it more often than pot smokers do.

The medicinal effects for AIDS patients I would love to see as cannabis is a known immunosuppressant, through its effects on CB2 receptors, and I don't think that will help too many AIDS pts tbh... Same for cancer patients, how is suppressing their immune system going to help them beat the cancer that is only there due to a mess-up in the immune function and genetics balance? The only patients I would argue get any benefits are MS patients and some with chronic pain possibly...

It's also been linked with infertility, obesity and increased stroke risk...

Bad, seriously in a few years when the long term effects of skunk become apparant the causal relationship of cannabis use and paranoid schizophrenia will become more and more obvious.

It is also smoking and so can cause lung cancer, although obviously rates in tobacco smokers are higher cos they stick burning **** in their mouths and inhale it more often than pot smokers do.

It's also been linked with infertility, obesity and increased stroke risk...

It's also been linked with infertility, obesity and increased stroke risk...

So has watching television. We could do a correlation study to "link" all of them with wearing shoes if we wanted. Correlation doesn't necessitate cause and effect.

Example to illustrate: By the time the sun rises, there's milk on my doormat, therefore the sun has caused the milk to be on my doormat the milk has been placed on my doormat by the time the sun rises.

very true, a lot of garbage spread about the negative aspects of Cannabis.

Some of it presented as valid scientific research.

Bad bad bad.

My cousin has drug induced schizophrenia as a result of cannabis. When i see what has happened to him, i can't think of it as anything but horrendous.

Very important point.

I hate the misuse of correlations. They are thrown about all the time like they are supposed to prove a point...

My cousin has drug induced schizophrenia as a result of cannabis. When i see what has happened to him, i can't think of it as anything but horrendous.

There is proabably countless threads already on this but i thought i might just start a fresh debate.

We hear so much about the mental effects it has.

But surely temporary feelings of paranoia, forgetfulness and the munchies aren't reason enough to ban it? Then there is all this stuff about hallucinations. Granted when i did it, i never whited, id just jam with a zeut, but I have never ever heard of anyone expiriencing any hallucinations to the point that it scared or endangered them, just stories of talking doritos and white dwarfs in the trees.

Granted, im sure long term use can be harmful but even then there is doubts about that. Also overuse of any substance, whether it be legal and illegal, is going to do some harm.

Ofcourse I'll finish on the old cliche point that, as of yet, no-one has died directly of cannabis misuse. It has been proved dangerous in rats, but even then the amount needed to kill them was comparable to a human smoking a few pounds of green in less then a minute. Also, research shows that we even have a cannabinoud system inside of us? As far as im aware, there is no physiological system that makes use of alcohol?

I personally havent smoked pot since i was 14 partly because for 10 quid i could get 10 bottles of peroni or atleast 3 pints of something. Also there is the whole memory thing. Whether having cannabis in your system for 3 months has any cognitive effects, i want to be safe then sorry as i need every braincell i can muster. finally there is the whole social stigma, people looking down at you and labeling you a crackhead.

But what are your opinions on this holy herb?

I welcome a healthy debate from both sides of the spectrum.