![[object Object],With marijuana, there is also no risk of death by overdose. If you take too many pulls (number of smoke inhalations), the likely result is a "green coma"; you will just fall asleep. The toxicity of marijuana is very low; there has never been a documented incident of death from smoking marijuana. Once again, alcohol is the bad guy; it claims about 100,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. But what about smoking? Can it not potentially cause lung cancer? This is a rather interesting question. It is true that smoking marijuana, or anything else for that matter, produces resin which builds tar on your lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains higher concentrations of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) than tobacco smoke. It also deposits more tar than does cigarette smoke by a ratio of 4:1. But latest research conducted at the University of California shows that smoking marijuana does not augment a person's chance of developing lung cancer. The large study concluded that even those who smoked more than 20,000 joints over their lifetimes had no increased risk of developing lung cancer. Scientists are not yet sure of how marijuana evades causing cancer, however, they insist that the active ingredient in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), kills aging cells before becoming cancerous. Northern Lights](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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0771004 Marijuana The Facts Without The Political Propaganda
- 1. Marijuana: The Facts Without the Political Propaganda Confronting the Myths: First, it is imperative to clarify some of the common myths about the effects of marijuana. The one that even regular marijuana smokers are susceptible to is the tendency to think that marijuana is not physically addictive. Simply defined, physical addiction means that the user does not feel like him or her self without the drug; in essence, the body needs the drug to feel whole. This type of addictiveness in a drug is much more dangerous than a psychologically addictive drug, which users become dependent on because they like the "world" they are in during their psychedelic trip or other euphoric state of mind. But not to worry. Unlike cocaine, heroin, and nicotine, marijuana is still not very addictive. What makes the other aforementioned drugs so addictive is that they all operate via the "dopamine White Widow reward system." For example, when you snort cocaine, nerve cells in the brain release dopamine (a chemical released when you are engaged in something pleasurable—i.e., sex). In the synaptic cleft, dopamine is prevented by cocaine from being reabsorbed through the dopamine re-uptake transporter. This is what creates the high of pure pleasure—the prolonged time dopamine remains in the synaptic cleft gives its user a false sense of happiness. The brain in time, however, compensates by rapidly reabsorbing dopamine. This is what lures the user to come back for more and more. The abrupt comedown from the drug gets even harsher with frequent use. Marijuana, luckily, does not involve this nasty process. In fact, only about 9% of regular users become addicted to marijuana.
- 4. Canadian Majority Would Legalize Marijuana Source: Angus Reid Strategies Methodology: Online interviews with 1,004 Canadian adults, conducted on May 8 and May 9, 2008. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.
- 5. Risk of Death Deaths per year per 100,000 people at risk related to various factors No. deaths per 100,000 people at risk Risk Factor *Obesity: 10% and 50% overweight or more, respectively Based on U.S. Gov. figures in Pres. Comm. Am. Hab., 1986, Stat. Ab. U.S., 1989, NIDA House. Surv. 1985. etc. see text. -- This particular bar graph illustrates the impotency of marijuana; it simply does not have the virulence to cause a lethal response to humans.
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