Apart from getting addicted to it is there any other bad effects? This is for a friend who I feel marijuana is seriously effecting his life, thanks.
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July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
not a clue not interested…..sorry….
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
you become a burn out. basically ur get stupid, loose ur brain cells and its like ur there but not there, u get me?
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
You can get seriously stupid and slow…like really slow
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Honestly the one and only problem with it is that smoking anything, even lettuce for example, is bad for you, due to the smoke.
It is true that it can destroy cells, however these cells aren’t necessarily healthy. This is where the experimentation on cancer patients comes into effect.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
speech impediment
memory loss
bad for lungs/heart
greater chance of getting cancer
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
The Same effects as smoking cigarettes………….. bad lung and liver…. major health problems
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
memory loss is a big one
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
u turn retarded
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
It’s not addictive.
Extreme happiness is the long term affect.
Maybe a bit of mental illness aswel, but we don’t talk about that.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Loss of short term memory, fatigue, lung problems, cancer, heart problems..but we all gotta die of somethin!! ~Pot Smoker~
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
you could easily look this up and get a lot of information. i smoke pot every day, but i am not going to be bias.honestly, pot is less harmful than cigarettes, and alcohol, which actually kill people! there has been no proof that marijuana can truly harm your body, although, yes it is bad for you obviously. honestly, through my experiences and knowledge, marijuana only seems to make you lazy. while you’re high though, it has many effects. but just from smoking it long term, it won’t permanently harm you, at least not very severely. it’s not physically addicting, so your friend is only mentally addicted to it. websites though that claim certain long term effects of marijuana aren’t necessarily true.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Marijuana take away your ambition. it may make you more ambitious to grow it yourself and sell it, but everyone I know it takes something away from them. They replace the feeling of adequacy with the drug and there for never move forward. Sometimes it is feeling unhappy with where we are at that pushes us to become great! It’s like they aren’t driven! Not to mention it is illegal and causes birth defects in children and to many is viewed as a gateway drug!
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
you know marijuana is illega on the United states right. so you better tell him to stop. if you really want to know some affects here r some:
-forgetfulness
-dizzyness
-bad breath
- etc.
its jus really horrible…..tats y its illegal in the U.S
also help wit mine:http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
no, no, no. shut up all of you people who know nothing about this. it was NEVER proven to cause cancer so hush up. and it’s not addicting physically. only mentally. bottom line is, it’s really not all that bad for you.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Well, first you get sort of, like, you know and then there’s this…ummm, ah…what was the question?
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial stimulation, which includes giddiness and euphoria, followed by sedation and pleasant tranquility. Mood changes are often accompanied by altered perceptions of time and space. Thinking processes become disrupted by fragmentary ideas and memories. Many users report increased appetite, heightened sensory awareness, and general feelings of pleasure.
Negative effects of marijuana use can include confusion, acute panic reactions, anxiety attacks, fear, a sense of helplessness, and loss of self-control. Chronic marijuana users may develop a motivational syndrome characterized by passivity, decreased motivation, and preoccupation with taking drugs. Like alcohol intoxication, marijuana intoxication impairs judgment, comprehension, memory, speech, problem-solving ability, reaction time, and driving skills.
The effects of long-term marijuana use on the intellect have not been established, and there is no evidence that marijuana causes brain damage. Smoking marijuana can damage the lungs, however, and long-term use may increase the risk of lung cancer. Although marijuana is not physically addicting and no physical withdrawal symptoms occur when use is discontinued, psychological dependence develops in some 10 to 20 percent of long-term regular users
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July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
I have 2 brothers that both do that & before they smoked they were happier and where always active.
This is what happened after they started using:
They began to get fat: because it gives you the “munchies.”
It is a gateway drug (leads to other drug use).
It kills brain cells and can have traces of chemicals on it because when they clean the plant they use chemicals that usually stay on it.
Other Facts:
increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.
marijuana smoke contains 50–70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke.
marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers
it changed my brothers and it will change your friend forever.
you will miss how he used to be.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Well apart from the addiction, he may end up GETTING CANCER AND DYING, and i also think GOING TO JAIL. It will ruin his life, get him to stop, and if he want to but cant, make him flush it down the toilet in front of you, all of it (search every nook and cranny of his house), and tell him to join helping clubs or go to rehab. If he says he dosent care, and shows agression towards you, then stay away from him or call the police.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
It ruins your life it kills brain cells its a drug that is illegal in most places.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
There is no scientific proof that marijuana is addiciting. It has no chemicals in them that make sit addicitve. People only think you can get addicted because it’s a so-called “drug”. You CANNOT become a marijauna addict. These are social factors that make someone want to smoke it all the time…
As for your friend, his sperm count will become lower and slower. Resulting in idiot children
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
you forget to pick up your little brother from basketball practice
or
youre babysitting and the child falls in the pool
…stupid anti-weed commercials
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
WOW ive never experienced any of these symptoms. what kind of pot are yall smokin???
really to be honest i would like all of these people to show me a case of someone dying of lung cancer from smokin pot… and this person cant smoke cigarettes.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
marijuana is not nearly as bad as cigars or cigarettes there is no chemicals or nicotine in pot also dont listen to answers from people that never smoked itt they are just stupid and think DEAD BRAIN CELLS………………………….
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
They’re really no long term effects in marijuana besides being more happy. I’m surprised people are actually comparing marijuana to cigarettes in any way. Marijuana has been proven not to be addicting, only mental addiction can occur which is nothing remotely close to physical addiction. A lot of people say that you lose brain cells, there has been no scientific proof of this whatsoever. People also say you lose your memory which is completely faulty as well. In conclusion, your friend is, and will be completely fine.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
It damages your brain cells and can lead to death as well as alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, heroin, and meth and many more narcotics. Just because marijuana makes you high doesn’t mean anything. People say when your high, you feel happy and that your in your up’s. Some people even see unrealistic things; like flying elephants or unicorns, for example. But the reality is, that your’e killing yourself slowly. I have had a friend that was a constant marijuana user, from 13 years old every day he would come to class late every day when the bell rang at 9:00am he would come in at 9:10am - 9:15am but he would arrive at school at 8:20am. Now he is 24, and now he has nothing. He has lung cancer and his mom has kicked him out of the house when he was only 16 and lived with his aunt since then and now he tells me that he regrets smoking pot. I tell him, thats life, and you chose to make the wrong decision, see you could have lived a wonderful life: a career, a wife, children , and most of all happiness but and now you’ll have to live with sadness and pain.I never smoked pot, and don’t want to smoke it. As well for other narcotics. Now my friend is sober as a judge and goes to rehab and gets chemotherapy. He is supposed to have cancr removal surgery next month. The effects of marijuana? Pain, Suffering, Getting High, Wasting Money for nothing, and being left with nothing. Just because you smoke marijuana doesn’t make you cool. What makes you cool is who you are.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
i think the only bad thing that can happen is just bad memory..
other then that, nothing that big. just make sure he doesn’t make weed his whole life.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
A review of the scientific literature indicates that rumors regarding the “stoner stupid” stereotype are unfounded. According to clinical trial data published this past spring in the American Journal of Addictions, cannabis use — including heavy, long-term use of the drug — has, at most, only a negligible impact on cognition and memory. Researchers at Harvard Medical School performed magnetic resonance imaging on the brains of 22 long-term cannabis users (reporting a mean of 20,100 lifetime episodes of smoking) and 26 controls (subjects with no history of cannabis use). Imaging displayed “no significant differences” between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls, the study found.
Previous trials tell a similar tale. An October 2004 study published in the journal Psychological Medicine examining the potential long-term residual effects of cannabis on cognition in monozygotic male twins reported “an absence of marked long-term residual effects of marijuana use on cognitive abilities.” A 2003 meta-analysis published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society also “failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect of long-term, regular cannabis consumption on the neurocognitive functioning of users who were not acutely intoxicated,” and a 2002 clinical trial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal determined, “Marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence.”
Finally, a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry found that long-term cannabis smokers who abstained from the drug for one week “showed virtually no significant differences from control subjects (those who had smoked marijuana less than 50 times in their lives) on a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests.” Investigators further added, “Former heavy users, who had consumed little or no cannabis in the three months before testing, [also] showed no significant differences from control subjects on any of these tests on any of the testing days.”
(References: Lack of hippocampal volume change in long-term heavy cannabis users. American Journal of Addictions. 2005 | Neuropsychological consequences of regular marijuana use: a twin study. Psychological Medicine. 2004 | Non-acute (residual) neurocognitive effects of cannabis use: A meta-analytic study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2003 | Current and former marijuana use: preliminary findings of a longitudinal study of effects on IQ in young adults. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2002 | Neuropsychological Performance in Long-term Cannabis Users. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2001)
And marijuana is in fact no more addictive than ice cream.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
First of all, let’s dispense with all this nonsense about whether Cannabis is addictive; it is the person that is addictive not the substance. That is why you are getting very conflicting and often dangerous responses from people on here. Shopping, gambling, alcohol, sex, exercise are not addictive unless you are an addict. I drink alcohol sensibly, I gamble occasionally, I shop carefully, I have sex a lot, and I go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week but I am not an addict. If an addict goes shopping they go mad and buy lots of unnecessary things they often do not need.
Look into your friends genetic background. If his parents or grandparents were/are addicts, highly depressive, or had eating disorders, it is likely that he will be addicted to cannabis.
Studies into returning Vietnam Veterans showed that those who were addicted before they went remained largely so on their return and despite very high percentages of users, the others returned to pre Vietnam levels of use (Vietnam Veterans 898 - 1976 & 2003 reports)
An addict continues using despite the serious consequences to his life, health, family, finances, work, driving licence and the Law. They can’t stop themselves; they need professional help in an ethical rehab - the sources below can advise you.
If I were you, I would listen to those giving you personal examples of how cannabis affected their loved ones and family. If your friend wants to continue there is little you can do to stop him. Okay, we all have to die of something, but why die lazy, forgetful, dirty, fat, scizophrenic, with a criminal record, and with bad breath. As for the link to cancer, personally, I think that has more to do with the smoking than the weed, but why risk it?
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
none except your lungs can be damaged, but that can also occur from pollution and smoking ciggarretes.
its not true that you become stupid or slow or unmotivated. These are characteristics that you would have before smoking. A good amount of stupid, slow and unmotivated people do smoke marijauana (as well as smart, educated people), but remember correlation does not equal causation.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am
there arent any…