What are your main concerns about marijuana?
This is for research, so please limit answers to negative reasons only.
Please keep it civil as well.
(examples)
Marijuana makes you lazy
I do not want people driving while ‘high’
I believe it is morally wrong
It is against my religion
Marijuana is unhealthy (reasons)
etc, etc.
Thanks-
Casey Dwayne
Obviously there’s evidence of bias, if you couldn’t figure that out you have smoked too much.
I’d just like to find out more reasons people are against it. My assumption is misinformation and their own bias.
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So this is coming from a long time smoker and doesnt smoke anymore. I look at it as, its not the marijuana in general thats kills you, its the smoke you inhale from it. Vapors are a good way to go. I believe that drugs cause mental illness as well. Its either for you or not for you.
um, you’re setting up a study with an innate bias. Might want to rethink that. My biggest concern is where to buy the stuff. Also, the taxation of legalized marijuana may lead to a continuation of the blackmarket. I’ve read that the plant may collect heavy metals from the soil, that concerns me too, but it may have potential for cleaning of contaminated soils, as found in brownfields, etc.
i’m pretty sure we all know “Mari-ju-ana is bad.. mmkay?”
I am definitely not against marijuana, but it definitely is not healthy to inhale smoke of any kind. The chemicals in marijuana are worse than those in tobacco, but not enough research has been dedicated to marijuana yet to truly understand the long-term effects of smoking on the brain and body. Marijuana does not make a person lazy, thats a character trait that some people already have. If theyre going to be sitting on the couch all day high, they probably would be sitting on the couch all day anyway. And I have driven while high, been in the car with high drivers, and nothing even close to bad has happened. On the other hand, drunk driving is a huge issue. Thousands of people die per year from drunk drivers, but less than 20 accidents are thought to have been caused by high drivers. As far as morals/religion goes, thats an individual thing. But ‘god’ or whatever you may believe in put marijuana on this earth, and people have been using the plant for centuries. the only reason anyone thinks its morally wrong is because we grow up in a society that demonizes drug use. DARE and similar programs in elementary schools set the tone for our countries youth who are left to grow up with extremely one-sided information. Sure, teach kids about the dangers of drug use. But also teach them about responsible drug use. Long before I started using any sort of drugs, I was very against them. Now I believe that anyone who has not gotten high at least once in their lives should never talk about how stupid drugs are. Drugs have been a staple of human civilization since the beginning. People are always looking for ways to expand their realities, make them feel different or better, happier, freer, or just have a good time. There is absolutely nothing wrong with responsible drug use in my opinion.
All of those “examples” are wrong. I have been smoking for 7 years now, so I know first hand. There isn’t a religion that forbids smoking marijuana. Marijuana is only unhealthy when you smoke it. Therefore, the plant itself is harmless. Anything that is smoked is harmful, anything. When something burns it releases carbon monoxide. Other than the smoke being harmful to your lungs, there isn’t anything else that makes this plant harmful. I have 2 jobs, and I smoke every, single day. I also run for 1 hour everyday, so it doesn’t make me lazy. The plant cannibis ONLY makes people hungry, giggly, and happy. There is NOTHING wrong with that.
People only hate on marijuana because the Government has to make it look bad, because if it were legal, then these medications that rely on people’s symptoms to earn profit would lose money. Because marijuana can take the place of thousands of prescription meds. If the Government really cared about people’s health, then they would prohibit the sell of alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, and salvia. But that is all legal, even though those drugs are all fatal. People become physically addicted to those drugs. Marijuana is the only medication that isn’t fatal, and you can only form a habit with it, it isn’t addictive. But it is still illegal.
If you are against marijuana, then you are playing the Governments deadly game.
The main concerns are really due to prohibition… The fact that we force our curious kids out on the streets with potentially bad people is crazy.
By legalization and regulation + taxing there won’t be any huge problems… ofc a few individuals will ABuse it (just like alcohol) to hide their feelings and memories of bad childhood experiences etc.
But for the great majority i don’t believe there should be any concern
The only real negative effect of MJ is to people who are genetically predisposed to Schizophrenia.
The reason being is that although MJ has the relaxation effect, it also has the paranoia effect–generally felt the first or second time you smoke due to not being used to it.
People with Schizophrenia are advised to take caution when inducing medical marijuana. And this only effects a small degree of the population.
If you are looking for some answers, go on google videos and look up the documentary The Union, which is an objective look on the current laws and effects.
My main concern is running out of marijuana, it really stresses me out and could be avoided through legalization. If you dont like dont do it, but dont cry about it.
Yes, there’s nothing really bad about Marijuana, the whole way it became illegal was a big fat William Randoph Hearst media lie! The only reason you should hate pot is if you hate Mexicans–that’s how it became illegal. You know the first Marijuana law made was in 1619 in Jamestown Coloney ordering all famers to grow hemp, in those days people paid their taxes with weed. Seriously.
Marijuana doesn’t harm your lungs, harm an unborn fetus, harm a newborn, cause memory loss, kill brain cells, or make people lazy. Marijuana is a very very valuable plant. Not only for smoking, but hemp used to be the most widly used product in the world! Jesus’s clothes were even made from hemp.