Cannabis consumption on track to overtake alcohol

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 hours ago, Draconator said:

I so wish I could take Cannabis instead of alcohol. But with my Bipolar, (truth), Cannabis consumption will put me into a clinical depression. So booze it is. 

At least you know about it...  Probably why half of society is wigging out nowadays.

 

They think they are self-medicating but only making things worse because of their unknown predisposition to the ill effects of the drug... 

 

Just a thought.

[Orlando Buffalo]

If I have to hear another student say " no one has died from pot smoking" I will explode. How are so many people aware that cigarette smoke causes cancer but completely unaware that any smoke in your lungs is bad. I don't have a moral qualm with smoking but the lying is annoying. Also doesn't mention the driving while high part, which is much more dangerous for the younger people.

[TheBrownBear]

1 hour ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

If I have to hear another student say " no one has died from pot smoking" I will explode. How are so many people aware that cigarette smoke causes cancer but completely unaware that any smoke in your lungs is bad. I don't have a moral qualm with smoking but the lying is annoying. Also doesn't mention the driving while high part, which is much more dangerous for the younger people.

Well, you can always eat it.  Edibles do me well when I want a good night sleep.

[Mikie2times]

2 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

If I have to hear another student say " no one has died from pot smoking" I will explode. How are so many people aware that cigarette smoke causes cancer but completely unaware that any smoke in your lungs is bad. I don't have a moral qualm with smoking but the lying is annoying. Also doesn't mention the driving while high part, which is much more dangerous for the younger people.

 

Fun fact, they say not to use THC for several months prior to major surgery. I guess it impacts your body's ability to heal larger surgical wounds. I did not listen. So I needed another surgery to fix the fact that the other one didn't heal correctly. Cannabinoid receptors are very complicated with so many interactions to our body. Despite being around forever the medical community still doesn't have a grasp on it all. Certainly not long term impacts of chronic use from edibles or extremely high THC concentrated products. As a simple example most edibles don't contain CBD. CBD is considered to potentially be a neurological protector to some of the negative impacts of THC. Even if we did know more, we don't know what ingesting just THC without CBD will do over a long period of time. That's just one product and one consideration. We have THC extracts at 50%+ THC levels. All sorts of ways to ingest it that are far outside what we might know more about. I would guess it can't be worse than alcohol, but just as confident it's not benign.