Is weed harmful for health?

@masterofyou Speaking as a stoner, I beg to differ. I see way more people "experimenting" with other drugs as a result of alcohol, rather than weed. I mean, I'm curious about LSD, but I know enough about it to never try it, but the only people who I've met who routinely do whippits, cocaine, or acid drink way more than they smoke.

@RemovedUsername8862 Look talk all you want and make excuses for yourself but it is a gateway drug... That's it... Go get stoned if you will but please stay off the road...

@masterofyou Of course - do you get drunk and drive? No? Because you're a decent human being with two brain cells? Small, even similar, world!

I again question your statement that it's a gateway drug - do you have any experience that can back up such a bold assertion?

I don't drink or take drugs.. I dont need to take drugs for any reason.... It is a gateway drug .... now move on .... THe way you are talking you have no brain cells You are a stupid little boy with no idea what you are talking about...

@masterofyou How on Earth would you know anything about anything if you've got no personal experience? I know what I know based on personal experience and observation of those around me - can you say the same, oh high and mighty prude?

Read the facts just go...

It is a gateway drug.... Read....that is if you can read..

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/04/26/is-marijuana-a-gateway-drug/marijuana-has-proven-to-be-a-gateway-drug

@masterofyou Check your sources. DuPont, the author of the article, has a vested stake in suppressing marijuana use, as he ran a for-profit treatment program, which led to him being successfully sued for false imprisonment and malpractice. Further, he points out correlative trends, but correlation isn't causation, meaning that his point is a false equivalency.

@RemovedUsername8862 you know the reason some say it is a gateway drug is because some studies have in fact proved that people who do Marijuana are more likely to go on to do other heavier drugs. However there can be a few extraneous factors influencing these results. For instance, many people who do Marijuana in the first place do it with the aim of moving on to heavier drugs, or that their nature or attitudes are such that predispose them to make risky or even reckless decisions. As for there being a direct link between using Marijuana and later other drugs, I could not find a clear positive correlation there.

@basicgirl12 Indeed. I certainly cannot deny the correlation between marijuana and some heavier drugs, LSD and shrooms in particular, I can certainly deny the causal relationship that those who toss "gateway drug" imply. I've known a number of crackheads and tweakers in my time, and while some smoked pot, most of them tell me that they cut their teeth on pills of various stripes.

It's a nebulous situation, and one where it's hard to pin down hard numbers, but I'd frankly be more worried about the future of a guy popping Oxy routinely than I'd be about a kid with a blunt.

@RemovedUsername8862 http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/on-the-road-to-drug-abuses.html Well go smoke yourself to death get high and drop out I really could care less but it is a gateway drug..

@masterofyou ...You literally cannot smoke yourself to death. THC can't shut down any part of your anatomy, and you'd almost certainly pass out long before you got anywhere near a level that could be toxic.

Plus, I can tell whoever wrote that article never actually hung out with or spoke to any stoners. If you're going to use heavy drugs, you start with them, and then finish with the pot. That's pretty much how it goes. Also, the entire article used words like "can", and listed in its sources a study that was later refuted due to improper methodology, according to a cursory browser search, which along with the anonymous and unsourced quote from "Christian" at the end underwhelms me.

Again, I'd advise you to stop making definitive statements about things you have no understanding or experience with.

look idiot I have lost friends and family that have started on pot and went to other drugs they are not here anymore.. Dead!!!!!!!! Go talk to someone you can convince you can't convince me ... I have been on this earth and have seen more than you have little man.... I have seen lives destroyed because of drugs You want to take them go ahead you don't have to have my permission but dont convince me about what they do...

@RemovedUsername8862 Go peddle your drugs some other place... I'm not interested what you have to say... GOOD BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@masterofyou Yeah, people die. People die all the time, and for any number of reasons. I've worked on an ambulance, and I've worked in a hospice, and I've volunteered in a homeless outreach center, and I have yet to see somebody die from pot. Opiates are the real killers, them and ketamine. If you want to go and rage about the evils of drugs, go yell at some pillheads or golden-arms, and leave stoners alone.

@RemovedUsername8862 Hey can you take a hint?? just go away....