fetus development, now, if you look at statistics of countries where cannabis is legal, 80% of born bables are born healthier than babies in countries where cannabis is illegal.[/qoute]
I don't need to point out the fact that ice cream sales increase when serial killers emerge . . . usless relational statistics that are not possible to collect correctly can't support this one. Sorry.
As for leading to harder drugs it is more or less even,
Ah yeah, see the chemical vs psycological dependancy section again. This makes it worse, because the abuser is looking for the high, not the THC.
there is no way it can damage your brain so badly, you loose more braincells while playing ESF than you do smoking a joint,
Neither you, nor I, have enough medical data at hand to prove this . . . I assume you are using anothers lab work to support your claim. Let me be absolutely clear on this, the only medical data you can trust is that which you have collected and tested yourself. Most labrotories determine the outcome first, then collect data to support their claim, and throw out that which doesn't fit the model. Both sides do this, so no one can claim, with 100% certainty, that they understand how THC (and the rest of cannabis) affects the body.
THC is a sythesized natural chemical that already exsists in your brain, any damage to the brain is caused by carbon monoxide, and thats only if you smoke it, . . . THC is a chemical which will emphasise any existing mental problems it CANNOT cause them. The memory loss is only when under the influence, because the chemicals that cause this problem get converted into cannaboids which are then stored into the bodies fat cells, which cannot in anyway influence you.
It is a naturally occuring chemical which exsists in SMALL amounts in your brain. Besides the obvious effects during your "high", you are also wearing down receptors for that chemical in your brain, just like diabetics get when the Insulin receptors are worn in the body. You cannot increase chemical amounts in the brain and not damage it. Your logic is flawed. In addition, your body recognizes an excess as a bad thing, and sets the liver to cleaning it . . . this causes the liver to ignore other things it should be proccessing, like bad cholesterol . . . and other lethal toxins.
In addition, the storage of the chemical in fat cells works untill your body enters ketogenesis, at which point they are re released into the blood stream. (Didn't containment fail in Iraq too

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Unfortunately cannabis does have a immunosuppressive effect, . . .
A nice and lethal combination when your body can't process bacterial toxins and toxoids,
while trying to clean out the THC. Nothing that will kill you now . . . you are young. But when your 50, and combining this with other bad habits, you are making death your freind. Need I point out that no one claims that Alcohol and Tobbacco are "safe".
You don't die quick from them either.
A very good friend of mine, who smokes an exsessive amount of dope,
Those studies are flawed, they do not trend data for more than a year, much less than the decade mine took. I see it's affects in all of the users who have reached their late 20's to early 30's. It becomes rediculous after a score of years of more.
I got an A for my essay on this, I know what I'm talking about from life experience as well, ive stopped for my exams
GJ, however, you are a student, and your freinds are at best a decade younger than mine. I see it's affects trended over many years. You can always tell a stoner apart, and there is a reason. In moderation, pot isn't a death sentance, but you can't say it's harmless . . . that's just nonsence.