cannabis, especially as smoked in cigarettes.
Questions tagged [marijuana]
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Is smoking weed bad for your health?
Some people believe that smoking marijuana (without any tobacco) is harmful to your health and may cause problems. Examples of things I've heard weed supposedly causes:
All the health problems of tobacco (cancer, strokes, etc)
You get addicted to…
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Has the marijuana black market in Colorado increased since the state repealed its state laws prohibiting it?
Jeff Hunt, the Vice President of Public Policy at Colorado Christian University, wrote in a recent opinion piece in USA Today:
In the years since, Colorado has seen an increase in marijuana related traffic deaths, poison control calls, and…
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug enforcement agency says on its Marijuana/Cannabis…
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Do THC or other cannabis compounds cure/slow cancer?
I see this popping up on my Facebook feed quite a lot (to be fair, it's usually the same 3 people): Claims that evidence has shown that marijuana/cannabis/THC/other cannabinoids can have a positive effect in cancer treatment. I wonder what the truth…
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Does Marijuana deposit four times the tar in the lungs as tobacco?
This picture is from Emily Miller's Facebook page shows one lung divided into two parts one labeled Tobacco and one labeled Marijuana. The Marijuana side is substantially less-healthy looking and the the picture's caption reads,
Marijuana deposits…
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Are 20% of automobile drivers under the influence of marijuana?
An article by Quinton James and Johnkeria Kinglocke titled "The Truth About Marijuana" published on the website of the Hanley Foundation (an anti-drug abuse organization in Florida) claims (my emphasis):
Would you allow someone to drive you while…
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Does marijuana impair driving?
Is the use of cannabis/marijuana/THC associated with risks when driving a motor vehicle, similar to impairment from the use of alcohol?
The conclusions of public studies seem inconsistent. For example, norml.org's Marijuana and Driving: A Review of…
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Does smoking one joint give as much exposure to cancer-producing chemicals as smoking four to five cigarettes?
I was linked to a website from Parenting Stack Exchange called drugfreeworld. I then browsed around a bit, and I found this interesting line on the Marijuana page:
Aside from the discomfort that goes with sore throats and chest colds, it has been…
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Is marijuana stronger now than it was in the 60s?
"There's no question that marijuana, today, is more potent than the
marijuana in the 1960s. However, if you were to look at the average
marijuana potency which is about 3.5 percent, it's been relatively
stable for the last 20 years. Having…
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Does long-term marijuana use lead to a significant drop in IQ?
This article claims that marijuana (cannabis) is linked to a drop in IQ. Specifically:
Participants who used cannabis heavily in their teens and continued through adulthood showed a significant drop in IQ between the ages of 13 and 38—an average…
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In states where medical marijuana laws are passed, did prescription painkiller sales decrease?
I recently heard that US states where medical marijuana laws are passed have seen a decrease in prescription painkillers sales.
For the study, researchers analyzed all deaths caused by opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2010 in the U.S. Then, they…
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Was the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed because of the commercial interests of Dupont?
In How Marijuana Became Illegal Bud Fairy writes:
During the same period, Du Pont was developing cellophane, nylon, and dacron from from fossil fuels. Du Pont held the patents on many synthetics and became a leader in the development of paint,…
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Are there people who can't get high on marijuana?
I smoked my head off and can't feel anything. And my friends can get high just by breathing all the smoke in the room :)
Someone told me that I need to try more and get used to it, and it will happen at some point. On Yahoo Answers I read that…
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Did Richard Nixon commission a study on the effects of THC and then have the results classified?
This was recently shared to my mother's Facebook page. She is currently battling an aggressive cancer that was brought on by Chemotherapy that she had to fight stage 4 breast cancer over 10 years ago.
The US Government has known since 1974 that…
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Can you get high from second-hand marijuana smoke?
It has been widely claimed that the dosage levels of psychoactive drugs from second-hand marijuana smoke is insufficient to have an effect - i.e. to give a "contact high"
Opposing Views
The notion of the “contact high” is a myth. In order to get…
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