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Originally posted by Phaenx
By that logic, breathing is bad for you.
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Ever try breathing in and out real fast? I mean water can kill you. If you drink to much.
On topic though, two important points were brought up here. Hal brought up the fact that studies, wether they are about drugs or whatever, are always biased. Whoever paid for the study will get the result they wanted or it wont be published. Also Nisses mentioned that for every report stating that marijuana smoke is good there are atleast 2 if not 3 that says its bad. Which is probably true. But we also need to ask ourselves this, are there more people funding studies that want it to come out bad or more that want it to come out good? I would say that there is probably a higher then 3 to 1 ratio of people with money wanting to fund studies showing marijuana is bad vs good (or not good just... not bad so much) Anyway what it all boils down to is this, marijuana is bad for you. So are alot of legal things. Just because it is bad doesn't mean it should be illegal for adults to use it in their spare time. Alcohol is bad. Tobacco is bad. Fattening foods are bad. Cholesterol is bad. Caffeine is bad. All those things are just plain bad and serve no real purpose, yet all of them are legal. Now there are of course a number of legal things that are good, to a point, then when used in excess become bad. Vitamins for example. Or the aforementioned water. Sunlight. Most anything a doctor might give you. Salt. I could go on but the point is simply this, if you immerse yourself in something, no matter what it is, its going to turn out bad for you. In other words if you do nothing but smoke pot every day for a year then yea, duh, it will probably mess with your mind. Probably less so then if you were drunk a year or hopped up on legal pills for a year though.