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Don’t you understand?! Smoking isn’t cool, weed isn’t cool! It’s just plain stupid and ignorant. It doesn’t make pain go away it just creates new problems. Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses.

Smoking directly causes over…

Numerous studies have shown that medical marijuana lessens and can even eliminate pain for a period of time much like Ibuprofen or any other OTC pain reliever.

Smoking cannabis has never been proven to be linked with causing ANY type of cancer, even lung cancer. Beside that, medical marijuana can be ingested which requires zero smoke and causes zero medical problems.

“Smoking directly causes over 100,000 deaths in the UK each year and contributes to many more.” Smoking cigarettes and crack maybe. No one in the history of forever has been killed by merely smoking weed. 

Marijuana is not chemically addictive and therefore most users have been shown not to become LONG term users but, aside from that, it doesn’t take an abundance of marijuana to produce the desired effects. 

Trying to overdose by smoking medicinal cannabis is impossible because you would reach a point (WAAAAAAAAY before overdose) where you were just too high to smoke anymore or you’d be asleep on the couch. Trying to overdose by ingestion is also impossible. To do that you would need to ingest 1/3rd of your body weight in less than 15 minutes. Impossible.

 ”Weed turns your brain, lungs, and heart to crap!” In a young developing brain smoking marijuana CAN cause issues, however, there really isn’t much anyone can do about children smoking weed in the same way that we can’t stop them from drinking alchohol: An extremely dangerous drug.

About the “lungs” I have one thing to say: Michael Phelps.

The only way cannabis can damage the heart is by making it work faster. Raising your heart rate does not necessarily mean damaging your heart though. Caffeine and exercise will also do this.

“It triples your chances of getting cancer and inhibits cells in your body from doing their job.” No, it doesn’t. It MAY increase your chances of getting (smoking related) cancer IF, and only if, you are smoking cigarettes as well.

As far as “inhibiting cells from doing their job” goes there are WAY more dangerous drugs in your grandma’s medicine cabinet with WAY worse side effects than short-term memory loss, increased heart rate, altered problem solving, and possible anxiety/paranoia.

All I really have to say after this is DO YOUR RESEARCH and take a chill pill… or a hit.

(Source: chall3nge-acc3pt3d)