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Kit-Fox wrote:There is no conclusive & unbiased evidence that shows a link between the use of cannabis & psychosis. It may affect a pre existing undiagnosed condition or be a trigger event for an underlying condition, but we cant say for sure that use of cannabis will 100% lead to psychosis.

Most of the other 'side-effects' of cannabis use are similarly suspect, put bluntly we just dont know enough. Add that to the kind of people who are likely to use illegal drugs & you will find that a vast majority already have some existing weakness or illness that would predispose them to be affected by cannabis (such as already having a split personality or other mental disorder. Or a psyhical inability to correctly process & filter the drug out of your system)

Mister Sandman wrote:There is a correlation between cannabis and psychosis. No question about it. There is sufficient scientific data to show that. However, it isnt to say that use of cannabis will 100% lead to psychosis it says there is a higher risk of developing a condition or increasing the severity.


Smoking weed can and will lead to Respiratory illness this has been poven time time again. (there always is some exceptions )

Other side effects, well it depends on what you are meaning, but i am sure that in most cases, it would occur.

Thriller wrote:No drugs should be illegal, you can die from over eating, alchohol overdose, smoking to much.. makes no sense to make drugs illegal, just creates a black market that creates far more problems then the legislators like to think it fixes.

Mister Sandman wrote:And
Let me stop you before you go off topic even more. This topic is about weed, more particularity the smoking of weed.
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[KMA]Avenger wrote:

Mister Sandman wrote:And
Let me stop you before you go off topic even more. This topic is about weed, more particularity the smoking of weed.

is it?Yes.

the Hemp plant is branded as a drug and yet the medicinal properties of the hemp plant is ignored.
i couldn't careless if we was talking about crack cocaine or meths, if i had cancer and those drugs were found to cure cancer, as much as i am against those drugs, i would take it to cure myself and the Govt be damned!

[KMA]Avenger wrote:@sandman:

kit-fox is 100% correct, artificial THC's are NO WHERE near as powerful as natural THC, and besides, who wants to ingest something artificial when a natural version is readily available?

It still doesnt need to be used. To me, there are far better means of medication than weed.


at the end of the day, cannabis/hemp/weed...whatever you want to call the plant, is a 100% natural plant and should be accessible to the entire population for whatever use of the plant people deem fit...

Opium comes from a 100% natural plant, so by your logic it should be accessible to the entire population for whatever use of the plant people deem fit....

1 more thing we haven't touched on, is the fact that the hemp plant has been used by the native American Indians for all sorts of things, from rope making (due to the hemp plants strength), to fishing...


Hemp and marijuana are not the same thing. One of the most important differences is that marijuana can get a person high and hemp cannot.


i'll quote my brother after he saw the film Run From The Cure and with regards to fishing because he is a fisherman:

"there's no better bait than hemp so now i know why the buggers love the stuff so much!"

[KMA]Avenger wrote:sandman, can you please quote paragraphs in the normal manor, I.E outside of a quote, it makes easier reading?
not that i'm telling you how to post, its just a request, nothing more

as for opium, well i should have been more precise with my post...opium is HIGHLY addictive, and anything that is HIGHLY addictive in my opinion should be made illegal, that goes for tobacco as well, and i say that as a smoker myself.

what drugs would you say are better than the natural medicinal properties of all plants, the ones made by pharmaceutical company's?depends on the aliments.

Drek wrote:Mr. Sandman said "There is a correlation between cannabis and psychosis. No question about it. There is sufficient scientific data to show that. However, it isnt to say that use of cannabis will 100% lead to psychosis it says there is a higher risk of developing a condition or increasing the severity.


Smoking weed can and will lead to Respiratory illness this has been poven time time again. (there always is some exceptions )

Other side effects, well it depends on what you are meaning, but i am sure that in most cases, it would occur."

Just because there is a correlation in the data do's not mean one factor has directly caused the other, it just means there is a relation. It could be that someone with a tendancy toward depression/mental illness will chose to use cannabis for the well known effects that may alleviate the way they feel ie. an attempt at self medication.

Also with respect to the respiratory illness risk, a cannabis smoker is no more likely to develop lung cancer etc than someone who smoke's ordinary tobacco.