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Originally posted by sixate
One thing I will say is I think that cigs just as bad as weed. I wish that shit was illegal. Also, I don't buy these idiot doctors that say weed is more harmful to the lungs than cigs. There's a shitload of poeple who die each year of lung cancer from cigs, but I've never heard of someone getting lung cancer from smoking weed. These dumbass doctors need to wake up. Obviously, it's not good to inhale any smoke, and nobody, not even you can deny that.
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I believe that the context they use is that per ounce, weed contains more toxic chemicals than cigarettes. The issue is that, while I know people who smoke three packs a day, [the following statement is not a challenge. Please do not attempt this] nobody will ever smoke 60 joints per day.
I'd also like to comment on smoking and driving. The inhernt problem is that unlike alcohol, which can be detected with a simple breathalyzer test, there is no reliable way to determine how recently and how much someone has smoked. The only assumption that can be made is that if someone has weed in the car, or has an empty bong with ashes in it, that they have been smoking. If there were a reliable test, I would support legalization with identical restrictions to alcohol in regard to driving.
I think that legalization of marijuana would be beneficial to users who, at the moment, canot be certain that their doses have not been altered in any way unless they grew it themselves.