Ok buddy, chill out. I never said smoking weed makes you permenately stupid, ever. I said WHILE HIGH, your reflexes, memory, and desicion making ability decress. I didn't say it makes you fucking retarded.
And saying smoking 1 joint isn't equivalent to 5 cigarettes, well...
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/07/30/marijuana-cigarettes.html?ref=rss
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291472,00.html (It's fox news, but meh)
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/92740AB0-1031-49FE-8A34-85785944F3F2/
http://digg.com/health/Your_favorite_wacky_tobacky_joint_hits_your_lungs_like_5_cigarettes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20052489/
http://www.inform.com/related_content/36627295,0
And I could go on, but I don't want to spend 30 minutes posting every site.
Now, yes eating McDonald's is unhealthy, but you can eat McDonalds every now and again and still be in great shape. Smoking is a different story. Yes I have seen Supersize Me, and my response is this: He ate an extraordinary amount of McDonald's with little excersize. If you watch at the end he talks about his girlfriends "detox diet" she gave him and he came back to being healthy within a couple months. If you smoke, there is no "detox diet" to make you healthy again. You can realize this when you're older and it catchs up to you, when you wheeze heavily when you try to do anything. I understand smoking anything gives you a plethroa of diseases, like lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, etc. I also understand eating McDonalds every week will make you obese, which also carrys a plethora of diseases with it. I'm saying in general, eating McDonalds casually can be counteracted with good exercise and if needed, medicine or surgery. When you fuck up your lungs (which you will do smoking for 10, 20, 30, 40 years) there isn't an exercise you can do, there isn't a pill you can take, there isn't a surgery you can get, you will always have bad lungs. Just for the record, I don't condone smoking alot or eating fast-food alot.
I know that athletes use drugs, I'm not an idiot. But they aren't smoking weed every day, or every week, like many people would if this drug was legal. Now, not to say they aren't damaging their lungs. Unless you're a chronic smoker, the affects of smoke won't be truly felt until 40's, 50's or even later in your life.
Ok, I'm not some schizomaniac thinking the government is out to kill me. You want to know why I think the government is accurate? Not only that they do their research and experiments, but I don't think they have a reason not to be pro-marijuana. Like I've said, they'd make tons of money on it. Call me a sucker, but maybe they understand that they could have their kids doing drugs and maybe they don't want it to be like that, ever think of it that way???
I don't give a shit what the T.V. tells me, I know that you're smoking and it's not good for your lungs, it's like cigarettes. My dad smokes 3 packs a day and he's done so since he was 20, which is 25 years of smoking. I hear him coughing, I hear him wheezing, and he does alot of physical activity. I know it's not good for you, maybe if I would enjoy feeling the high for 30 minutes.
I WOULD try it, but as it is, I'm alleric to smoke of any kind. Be it cigarette smoke, or marijuana smoke, my lungs couldn't handle it. I'm worried about dealing with all the irresponsible morons out there who do stupid shit while high, like driving. I'm a fairly liberal guy, I wouldn't really care if they jsut did it in their basement, but I know how stupid people are.
