what does marijuana do?

[Snor]

here in holland weed is legal, I know some people that are 14-15 that smoke it regularly, I wonder if that is a bad thing?

When I was that age I was very opposed to marijuana, but even as an advocate in the present I still feel that if marijuana were made legal here in the states the minimum age to legally buy/possess it should be 17 or 18. It should NOT, however, be illegal for anybody to smoke it. If you are mentally equipped to operate a car without hurting yourself or others then you're perfectly capable of smoking it.

dealing* marijuana in the netherlands and smoking outside your house/shop (even carrying more than X grams) is illegal. also the legal age is 18 i think. So your 14 year old friends obtained it illegally (hell who doesn't, happens with all kinds of stuff across the world)

Weed makes you happy or depressed, in the long run it always make you unhappy in some kind of way + it destroys braincells but so does alcohol and shaking your head really hard

*except in the coffee shops... great coffee huh

 

[matnatz]

Marijuana fucks up your life... don't do it unless you live somewhere where it is legal.
Or if you have no job, or are not worried about the negative effects of it.

Drugs are bad... m'kay?

Yerr, becuase just by it being legal, that totally makes it okay to use.

It makes it safer. You can smoke it in a cafe during the day with others around you, a controled environment. Or you can smoke it with that guy called dave in his mates bedroom that smells of sex.

 

[Areani]

Ruin lives...

 

[Captain Blackout]

I point out that taking anything in excess is bad for you, so yes...smoking a joint every 6 hours might actually do something bad...but for those long term effects even after the drug is cleared out of the system...I can't say for sure...but I'm sure there can be long term damage to brains or lungs by smoking anything too much.

Once you quit smoking cigarettes your lungs eventually return to as normal as possible. Considering tobacco does more damage overall than pot I would surmise that if you quit pot or change methods to non-smoking, lungs heal. I'm not positive on this one.

As for brain functioning and long term pot usage: According to all the research I've seen, there are NO lasting effects once you quit marijuana. You regain all mental facilities eventually. Furthermore, long term usage has some significant benefits. The first that comes to mind is that marijuana can and does help protect against the effects of Alzheimers.

 

[lyricalvagabond]

"I've heard people say it's not habit forming, but I call bullshit, I've seen too many people addicted to it to believe that. Also, it's a huge money Drain."

There's a difference between the terms "habit forming" and "addiction". Habits are easy to drop (relatively speaking). Addictions are not. Weed is not chemically addictive, you don't go through debilitating withdrawals when you can't get your hands on some. It can be, however, mentally addictive; people get used to the way they feel when high, and prefer that to the way they feel when they're not high. As for the money drain comment, again, no worse than cigarettes or alcohol. A typical smoker who does 2-3 packs of cigs a day will be spending upwards of $15-20. A good night at the bar would set me back $40-50. Two 12-packs of good beer for a night with a few friends would cost $30. Or I could spend $20 on a bag of weed that lasts us 2 nights. What's the bigger money drain here?

"The problem with weed is that everyone reacts on it differently. For some people it will turn out very addictive and for some people this is not the case."

Just like alcohol.

"It is true that it usually is less addictive as smoking but it still can cause lung cancer, if you keep using it for the rest of your life you even have a larger chance of getting it than a smoker."

This is true... however, as was already mentioned, there are ways to intake THC without inhaling clouds of smoke, so this point is moot.

"Some people also experience hallugenic effects or can even, after prolonged use, get brain damage. The severity of this once again differs per person."

Minus the hallucinogenic effects, again just like alcohol.

 

[ExodusinFlames]

Is 10 bucks for a dimebag good?
Oh yah, what are all the measurements like there's dimebag, how much is that?

...

The name "dimebag" means that you're paying ten dollars. That's the price of it.

The amount of weed you get for that ten dollars varies depending on where you're from and what kind of bud it is. If it's just regs, you get a gram for ten bucks around here. If it's dank or dro, you'll get half a gram for ten bucks.

The most common amounts I hear people buying in are as follows. It's rare to see people ever pick up more than a half for personal use:

Gram
Eighth (about 3.5 grams)
Quad/Quarter (about 7 grams)
Half-Ounce (about 14 grams)
Ounce (about 28 grams)

The eighth and gram usually serve as price indicators; common slang for what kind of bud a person has will go from "thirties" to "sixties," in reference to how much an eighth of said pot would cost. Generally an eighth or quad is the best deal if you're picking up an amount to hold onto because you get a bit extra for the money you pay. Say you buy a quad of dro for 100 bucks; it might have been a lot of cash to drop at once, but you're getting 7-and-something grams at once and if you had just bought the bud a gram at a time, you'd have paid 20 dollars seven times, which is 140 bucks. Think of it as like buying in bulk.

Mary Jane ... Teaching Americans the value of the Metric system.

 

[AdmiralWolverineLightningbolt]

it means that you have to watch tv programs like 3 times before you understand what's going on

 

[EeveeElectro]

My mum had some the other day, despite being 'against drugs'
I called her a silly *****.
I hate it that much, I'd even swear at my own mum.

Later I found her clinging onto the floor because she was scared she was gonna fall off.

But I don't think you should mix alcohol and weed...

 

[ExodusinFlames]

It makes you act like an idiot for a while, can be addicting and kills you faster than smoking. That's it.

Dude got an A+ in health class.

You go girl!

HAHAHA no.
No physical addiction, doesn't kill you faster than smoking, and try having an ACTUAL conversation with someone who is high. They aren't stupid, their subject matter is just different.

Just like alcohol.

"It is true that it usually is less addictive as smoking but it still can cause lung cancer, if you keep using it for the rest of your life you even have a larger chance of getting it than a smoker."

This is true... however, as was already mentioned, there are ways to intake THC without inhaling clouds of smoke, so this point is moot.

"Some people also experience hallugenic effects or can even, after prolonged use, get brain damage. The severity of this once again differs per person."

Minus the hallucinogenic effects, again just like alcohol.

What makes smoking tobacco addictive is the nicotine, none of that in Cannabis. I know many life long weed smokers, and trying to have a debate with them about many subjects is like trying to tell water "Not to be wet" (without being ice or steam).

The big difference between alcohol and weed health wise.
Pot can cause a bit of a mental slowdown. It is however scientifically documented that alcohol does. It causes parts of the brain to cease function. If anyone doesn't believe me, walk down any major street on a St. Patricks Day, and just look at the violence and bloodshed. Conversely, take a peek at say a 4:20 day rally. People sitting back and being peaceful and relaxed.

Internal organ wise, pot does gradually affect the lungs (unless eaten in yummies or using a vaporisor) but alcohol has lasting damage on the entire digestive tract, and severe damage to the liver and kidneys.

Sure it is socially less acceptable because it has an immediately noticable odor (again, vapors or cooking can remove that) it can be grown in easier conditions than tobacco, and as someone previously mentionned the expense of it. Now think if you will, if that were a taxable income for the government ... economic crisis over.

 

[ExodusinFlames]

My mum had some the other day, despite being 'against drugs'
I called her a silly *****.
I hate it that much, I'd even swear at my own mum.

Later I found her clinging onto the floor because she was scared she was gonna fall off.

But I don't think you should mix alcohol and weed...

Are you sure that was weed, and not Saliva Divorinum?

EDIT: Or laced, or was she on something else? ie: Heavy antipsychotics, etc

 

[EeveeElectro]

My mum had some the other day, despite being 'against drugs'
I called her a silly *****.
I hate it that much, I'd even swear at my own mum.

Later I found her clinging onto the floor because she was scared she was gonna fall off.

But I don't think you should mix alcohol and weed...

Are you sure that was weed, and not Saliva Divorinum?

*googles*
Nah, it was weed; that's all my brother gets.
I know some people have strange reactions to drugs when they first try them; I knew someone who collapsed after taking E.

 

[oktalist]

The THC binds to cannabinoid receptors throughout the body, which are used for sending signals between different cells, especially in regulating the electrochemical signals sent between neurons in the brain and nervous system. In particular, they are involved in the system by which the brain gets rid of old memories, and the system which regulates hunger. It also makes you feel real good and aids concentration and lateral thinking. And as a consequence, makes you unmotivated, which is the worst part for me. That and its highly addictive nature. It's never given me paranoia, though.

 

[chipmunk2510]

I don't smoke it but nearly all of my good friends do. The ones that are most addicted are, as much as I love the guys, lazy, mooching bastards a lot of the time. It changes people, it really does.

It's not the weed. Your friends are just fucking tools. Marijuana had nothing to do with it.

EDIT: Forgot to address the OP.
Weed effects people in different ways. I can't tell you what someone else would feel but I can tell you what I've experienced when smoking.
Usually I'll have two kinds of reactions. Either I'll wanna get out and do something like mini golfing or taking a walk. Or I'll just want to stay in and play video games. Both happen in equal amounts but a lot of the time I'll switch between the two within the span of a couple of hours.

 

[ExodusinFlames]

*googles*
Nah, it was weed; that's all my brother gets.
I know some people have strange reactions to drugs when they first try them; I knew someone who collapsed after taking E.

E is a common collapser, due to the unbelievable amounts of dopamine and Serotonin it releases into the bloodstream (both happy thoughts) it can cause motor function to cease entirely lol.

Now Salvia on the other hand ... specifically Saliva Divorinum or "Diviner's Sage" causes SEVERE hallucinations. My old drummer thought we were made of lego and he had one of those "Falling through the floor" trips. Never from weed. Lysergic acid diethylamide, sure. But not pot unless she had alot of something else in her system

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I don't smoke it but nearly all of my good friends do. The ones that are most addicted are, as much as I love the guys, lazy, mooching bastards a lot of the time. It changes people, it really does.

It's not the weed. Your friends are just fucking tools. Marijuana had nothing to do with it.

EDIT: Forgot to address the OP.
Weed effects people in different ways. I can't tell you what someone else would feel but I can tell you what I've experienced when smoking.
Usually I'll have two kinds of reactions. Either I'll wanna get out and do something like mini golfing or taking a walk. Or I'll just want to stay in and play video games. Both happen in equal amounts but a lot of the time I'll switch between the two within the span of a couple of hours.

No, it really does. You don't know these people. It's mainly the one friend in particular, sicne he started smoking weed he just got lazier and lazier. Cos of this he'll just mooch off anyone who happens to live near wherever the fuck he is when he gets stoned.

 

[sin keon]

I don't know the actual effects of weed but I do know a person who smokes weed a lllllooottt and he gets the lowest grates in class. So I would say weed only becomes a problem when addicted just like alcohol.

btw weed is legal in small amounts and when sold by coffeeshops in my country(the Netherlands) but in most of the cases that amount is far greater than allowed.

 

[LCP]

I'M going to put it this way, marijuana is made to cause altered effects, wine, beer, other drinks, actually taste good. you can drink a bit and not be affected.