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Having an addiction has nothing to do with any particular substance except for physically addictive drugs like opioids and benzodiazepines, nicotine.
These are physically addictive drugs that make you sick when you stop taking them.

Do you want to see the misleading statement about nicotine?, one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in existence.

What class of drug is nicotine?

Nicotineis a stimulatory alkaloid found in tobacco products that is often used for the relief of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and as an aid to smoking cessation.

Wow, using nicotine to treat nicotine withdrawal symptoms. The duplicity of this statement is stunning.

Marijuana has no such withdrawal symptoms, unless the person using cannabis has an addictive personality. In fact marijuana is prescribed to cure addiction to opioids, such as heroin and benzodiazepines.

Having an addictive personality has nothing to do with a particular substance except that they offer a psychotropic satisfaction. People can be addicted to food. Obesity is a real medical problem . I see no condemnation of overindulgence in anything , except marijuana. Is that noteworthy?

Do you speak about nicotine addicts, alcohol addicts, coca cola addicts, coffee addicts, sugar addicts, the same way you speak about recreational or even medical marijuana users?

How about medical marijuana, CBD, THC, in pure form prescribed by the medical community in addition to the addictive drugs like morphine, .

The point of all this FEAR of marijuana is wholly a result of false propaganda. It has been used for thousands of years to treat minor discomforts and for religious (spiritual) rituals without ill effects .

It is a much safer drug than alcohol or nicotine, if used with common sense, just like all POTENTIALLY dangerous substances that include almost all spices, herbs, prescription drugs.

I had to quit baby aspirin as a blood thinner because it was causing a pre-ulcerous condition in my stomach after 10 years of 1 p/day use. This is in common uses for relief of minor pains and discomfort in babies!. I hear no voices of concern.

If you are going to condemn the use of drugs, including prescription drugs, be consistent and consider that there is no evidence that marijuana was solely causal to death of anybody. Show me statistics which do not include secondary “hard drugs” such as alcohol, cocaine, or amphetamines.

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It can’t be proven to you as you can’t have the requisite epistemology.

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[quote=“martin-peter-clarke, post:22, topic:8070”]
It can’t be proven to you as you can’t have the requisite epistemology.

Oh, I have some from my own experiences as musician 7 years on the road playing all the entertainment cities in the US. Never heard of anyone being harmed by marijuana.

Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamines, Alcohol have a completely different history . They are in a different class of drugs altogether.

But if there is so little epistemological data, how can you be so sure about the statistics associated with marijuana being causal to psychosis, with intellectual impairment, with lung cancer etc, etc. ? There never was such a thing as “Reefer Madness”.

I know one false statistic associated with marijuana when it was completely illegal .
Remember 3 strikes and your in for 20 years? For marijuana possession ??
Marijuana heightens sensory perception and during the war on drugs , there was a justified heightened paranoia of being caught and spending the rest of your life in jail for having weed in your possession, regardless if you were stoned or stone-cold sober.

Pot Smoking Not Linked to Lung Cancer

Medically Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD on May 23, 2006

Study Shows No Increased Risk for Even the Heaviest Marijuana Smokers
By Salynn Boyles

May 23, 2006 – People who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancer, new research suggests.

While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users.

Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers.

Please don’t misunderstand. I do not advocate for the unrestricted use of marijuana. It is a drug.
I only want to keep the record straight.

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Nine years later.

As of 2015, there is no consensus regarding whether cannabis smoking is associated with an increased risk of cancer.[129] Light and moderate use of cannabis is not believed to increase risk of lung or upper airway cancer. Evidence for causing these cancers is mixed concerning heavy, long-term use.

So my statement is valid.

As it is on psychosis etc, etc.

The insanity of how the American political-legal system deals with this is not my problem.

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interesting paper:

[How does marijuana produce its effects? | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)]

Don’t forget that marijuana is a big market, with millions of $ of profit to make.

I am not adverse to the use of marijuana as a therapeutic. I drink herb tea with a part of CDB.

But CDB is not THC …

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Legalization does not necessarily encourage. Parents in my generation did that, they should have been arrested. Now, doctors, via pharmaceutical companies, prescribed, refilled, had reports on, how “safe” opioids are. That’s criminal.

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They did the same thing with tobacco, even used it to treat asthma, denying that it caused cancer. They even smoked themselves, as they did the same thing with lead filled gasoline. They denied that too, knowing full well it caused cancer. They know the same thing with marijuana, but they turn their heads, deny, despite studies, and use it for medicine, just as they did tobacco. It may not be in our lifetime, they’ll stop supporting the marijuana industry, just as they did the tobacco industry. They won’t be using the marijuana industry’s studies anymore, just as they don’t use the tobacco industry’s studies anymore. Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds both said their studies show tobacco is healthy, until the real truth came out. It will go the same with the marijuana industry. Maybe not in our lifetime, but eventually.

That said, I have nothing against legalizing marijuana, but we need to treat it like alcohol and tobacco, because that’s basically what it is (not alcohol or tobacco, but in the milieu., despite what big time supporters may say and insist on. Thing is, the whole topic is not worth discussing because of big supporters who deny these thing, insisting it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and safer than tobacco and medicine. That’s what they said about tobacco too- it was medicine to treat various ailments, including lung issues. The medical profession was really stupid back then, as it supported a greedy industry. They wised up and stop supporting, after tobacco killed a lot of people. They also wised up about the lead and started admitting they shouldn’t have been supporting that with denial too. Those studies are there, but they are buried in support for a new greedy industry, that should really be treated like alcohol and tobacco.

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What do you mean by psychosis?
You know that the brain already produces “controlled hallucinations”, according to Anil Seth.

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And get perks for the push.

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I mean psychosis. Which you are demonstrably capable of screeding here, including in the context of cannabis abuse.

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Yes, but marijuana is not necessarily responsible for psychosis. Psychosis is a pre-existing condition, that for some individuals may be amplified by marijuana.

Hey, lock yourself up in a sensory deprivation chamber for a few days and your brain will become psychotic from lack of sensory input. OTOH, overload your brain with sensory experiences and your brain may become psychotic.

This seems to be the case with autism and the proper dosage of cannabis may have a calming effect on neural activity, which is demonstrably true in the videos as witnessed and recorded by the parents, who are the most experienced individuals with this terrible psychotic disorder.

Psychosis can be triggered by a number of influences and is not peculiar to marijuana. You have to look at these things in a general context and not cherry-pick them as being responsible for psychosis.

And in the case of any psychotropic substance “abuse” all bets are off in regard to causality although there is not a single medical report of a fatal cannabis overdose, ever.

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Just putting it out here. This is not saying I agree or disagree with this article.

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Rare type of disease?
Some people can die from a bee sting, Does that mean that bees are detrimental to the human race? Every exception always involves a pre-existing condition, not caused by marijuana.

Fact is that bee venom can be used to treat cancer if a proper delivery system can be developed.

NanoBees Join War on Cancer

And so it is with Cannabis. It can be used for a host of beneficial medical physical and psychological disorders if used with proper precautionary measures.

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Like I said, this whole conversation is worthless when there is at least one person who is gungho on marijuana, thinking it is 100% safe, but the truth is, it’s just like the tobacco and gas industry. The doctors want kick back from somewhere. You go ahead and read “High Times” for your info. Meanwhile, this conversation is worthless and pointless because of that.

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I don’t think marijuana has industry like gas and tobacco. They don’t have large corporations with politicians in their pockets

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Don’t underestimate corporations and mafias !

There is profit to do !

[https://www.ig.com/en/shares/cannabis-trading]

[Biggest Challenges for the Cannabis Industry in 2022]

[California’s legal weed industry can’t compete with illicit market - POLITICO]

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I hope you do not think that I am the person who is gungho on marijuana, thinking it is 100% safe.
I am reporting on the latest news in that industry and trade

I am convinced that marijuana has an excellent record as compared to other medical and recreational psychotropic drugs. A fact that has not gone unnoticed in many countries in the world, except for the US.

The Worldwide Cannabis Industry is Projected to Reach $90.4 Billion by 2026

The market is primarily driven by factors such as growing medical applications of cannabis and increasing legalization of cannabis and rise in social acceptance of marijuana

North America accounted for the largest market share in the cannabis market owing to the increasing legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational purposes across the region. However, one of the restraining factors in the growth of cannabis market is complex regulatory structure to produce and use cannabis.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/02/18/2177949/0/en/The-Worldwide-Cannabis-Industry-is-Projected-to-Reach-90-4-Billion-by-2026.html

As far as Sativa’s little brother, the non-psychotropic Industrial Hemp has indeed only beneficial properties for many ecofriendly industrial uses.

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> At least 13 deaths from a cardiovascular mechanism have been reported from use of this drug which is very likely to be an under-estimate of the true incidence of its contribution to sudden death.

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WOW, 13 marijuana related deaths out of 55 million! current users, and these deaths were not directly from marijuana overdose but from pre-existing heart conditions.

How many Americans regularly use pot? The number is, errr, higher than you think

More than half of American adults have tried marijuana at least once in their lives, according to the survey. Nearly 55 million of them, or 22 percent, currently use it - the survey defines “current use” as having used marijuana at least once or twice in the past year. Close to 35 million are what the survey calls “regular users,” or people who use marijuana at least once or twice a month.

Those numbers are larger than what we see in some other surveys. A Gallup poll released last year found that more than 33 million adults identified as “current” marijuana users, although it didn’t specify a time frame the way this survey did. [The latest federal survey on drug use]

(Results from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables, SAMHSA, CBHSQ) found about 33 million adults used marijuana in the past year, considerably lower than the Marist poll’s 55 million figure.

Regardless, 55 million people is a staggering number. It would mean that there are nearly as many marijuana users as there are cigarette smokers (59 million).

How many people die from cigarette smoking each year?

Tobacco-Related Mortality

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.1,3

Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year. Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following: More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke) 278,544 deaths annually among men (including deaths from secondhand smoke)

If you want to stop mortality from drug use , start with cigarettes and vapes.

The risk of marijuana related deaths is less than the risk of caffeine related deaths.

Can you overdose on caffeine?

In a 2018 review of scientific journal articles, researchers identified 92 reported deaths from caffeine overdose . This review included all journals since online databases began. The researchers believe that around one-third of these deaths are likely to be suicide.

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You were wrong. Again.

And marijuana is not necessarily responsible for only 50% of psychosis…