iwannadie wrote:i hear ya, i was on a high dose of oxycodine and oxycontine. the mixx of all the pills plus aspern had be on the very edge of liver failure daily for a month. those pills are risky stuff, the weed though you could never smoke enough to od on. there was a woman here who was going in for surgery and was trying to refuse opiot based pain meds instead insisting they let her use the weed, of course they didnt. its better to use morphine(herion) instead i guess. seems they are cracking down on medical use these days also.
makes no sense you cant use this stuff in your own house while hurting noone.
Pretty much anything you can put into your body will kill you in high enough doses. Caffienne for example will kill you if taken in high enough doses.
Eating a bushel of carrots will put enough poison into your system to kill you.
Every instance in which you introduce a given drug into your body increases your bodies resistance to its effects. This is most noticible with things like heroine and cocaine where the timeline for this is very short. At a certain point the amount required to get a "high" is greater then a lethal dose for that person. That's where ODing comes in. If they had kept taking the same amount every time they would get a reduced effect every time. People will not live long enough to reach this point with MJ or caffienne, but the possibility is still there.
If you want to consider the long term effects of smoking pot remember this. Your brain operates off of 2 different systems, one is electrical and the other is chemical. A signal is transferred through a neuron through electrical conduction at the end it reaches the synapse where neurotransmitters are released. These neurotransmistters diffuse across a gap between the signalling neuron and the recieving neuron. Because of the narrow space it can be a nearly instantaneous reaction. However, I'll say again, HOWEVER rx increases the size of this gap, increasing the distance over which the chemicals need to diffuse which in turn slows transfer and reaction rates. This is not something that will wear off, or repair itself over time. Once the damage is done, it is done and there's no way to undo it. Please note, this is not the washed out and mellow feeling that you get immediately after smoking up. This is the long term effects of use of this drug. It will damage your brain.
Contrary to what seems to be popular belief amoung drug users the brain cannot repair itself. The brain is made up of myelinated neurons. Neurons with fatty deposits wrapped around it to speed conduction along the length. Once one of these is severed, damaged, or destroyed it cannot be regrown, it cannot be repaired, and it cannot be replaced. It is gone forever.
Nerves in the body however can be regrown (sometimes) this is because they lack the myelin sheath. Scientists still aren't completely sure why non-myelinated cells can grow back and myelinated ones cannot but it remains true.
That being said, it's still your choice. It's never something that I'm going to do, but then again I get on a motorcycle which can obviously lead to dismemberment or even death. We all choose the risks we're willing to take. Which is why I wear my full face.
And the last thing you want to do is go battering people unlike alcohol which seems to trigger that off in a lot of people who consume a lot of alcohol. When you smoke weed your just chilled out and relaxed, to me there's nothing wrong with that! 
