Affects of pot smoking?

Question:

What are some of the real affects of smoking pot? My friend's husband smokes and says its better than anything a doctor could give him b/c its "all natural". And anything she tells him about the dangers of it, he accuses her of living in a 'cookie cutter' world and she only thinks its bad b/c Nancy Regan said it was. Does anyone have any real facts about the danger of smoking pot?

Answers:
it kills brain cells
not to mention it costs money
my friends dad smokes pot and he's a real jerk
it's like alchoholics, it can change your personality too

you get high

Memory loss, schizophrenia and basically screws up your life.

yeah, it can cause short term memory affects..but the main thing pot does is in later life..when the person is older, the person can have a higher percentage of developing mental disorders such as dementia, schizophrenia...etc.like the percentage doubles or triples, so kind of scary...but the occasional is fine. like everything, everything in moderation =)

The only danger of pot smoking I can come up without researching for the "real facts" is the lethargy sometimes felt with smoking certain strains of bud. Certainly it's important about not driving after smoking since attention spans can get limited since your mind seems to race from topic to topic and could cause driving skills to take a backseat, which is, of course, the greatest danger.

Adverse long-term physical effects haven't ever been a factor as far as I've seen in those people I know who smoke everyday and have never had one problem except for the lethargy and the munchies. With the theory that you kill braincells smoking pot maybe that would be something to be wary of but there isn't anything to say that anything that is eaten or inhaled through normal life wouldn't cause the same thing.

So maybe that's the other danger...gaining weight from the munchies.

Affects of pot smoking?

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