Are there any permanent adverse effects from heavy mj use?

Well weed isn't bad for you to put it in plain text.
There have been no leads to death from marijuana period.
But with cigarettes serving as 4 million deaths a year you can scale it down to see how bad the herb is.

Some of the effects from smoking heavily honestly are (for me) ..

Life goes by quicker.
Smoke is smoke so obviously it affects the lungs, BUT does not cause cancer. (Risk of black lung)

That's all for me.

Btw bud, don't go off of looking at old stoner hobos. Hobo's are just failures in the beginning because they usually fuck up in the beginning and as they are failing they smoke weed. Has nothing to do with the weed ^_^. But if you look at me for example, I smoke weed daily .. I play 3 varsity sports, I have a good job, I have a girl friend, I'm well liked at school and have my parent who loves and cares about me. Weed is just something I like to do, it's my choice and I do it cause I want to do it.

After all that I should post how weed helps me ..
Helps me sleep - Insomnia runs through my moms side.
Helps me eat - Adderall can be a bitch.
Helps me concentrate - I've got great grades.
Makes me so much more calm.
Geeking out = Smiles = Happiness. ( Isn't that what we strive for in life? )

 

I don't know about permanent and I'm not sure what you'd call heavy mj use, but I smoked an eighth every four days (UC Santa Cruz, weed capital of the US college system) for a semester. It's now a good four months later and I still have some pretty significant short-term memory loss. It's nothing debilitating, of course, just mildly irritating, but I'm in Boston now, and I damn near don't smoke at all. But the memory loss is still there.

Everyone's different though.

 

Eh, might gain a little weight if you get the munchies a lot? I myself have a shorter and not so great memory, but it's nothing life-changing lol, and it seems like it's only when I've been smoking or smoked earlier in the day do I not remember things.
On a sober day all is pretty normal.. I been smoking for a solid year and a half, and had been smoking on a semi-regular basis for about a year before that.

 

Well of course the THC's out by now, but memory loss isn't a necessarily direct effect of THC hanging around. I don't think the mechanism of marijuana-induced memory loss has been figured out yet. (I could be wrong)

 

What? Weed helps you concentrate? I bet it's the adderall brother.

As for my advice, smoking everyday won't kill you and you can slide by an do an average job with life but I don't think if someone is an everday stoner that they can truly reach their potential. I speak from personal experience, this is why I don't get blazed everyday now. And I have never met an everyday stoner who has good motivation.

The best thing to do is to learn how to respect the herb and use it in moderation.

 

You are going to become a DUMBASS

 

The only short-term effects are hunger (lol) and short-term memory. You can't remmeber most things while your high, and you won't remember them later.

The long-term effects can be lung cancer (smoking, but that takes a long time obviously) and short-term memory. Personally, I smoke alot. And I do have to double-think usually every day or every other day on at least one occassion. Just can't be as quick as I was before. Not much of an ADVERSE effect, but its still not good.

Yet I still puff.

 

A renewed appreciation for life, music, sex, and anything you normally like is suddenly a million times better. Oh and a cough. That's about it.

To put it into perspective, I don't do anything that'll be potentially bad for me. I don't even drink anything with caffeine in it any more. I'm a daily toker and after daily smoking for a year I have a minor cough (not even an involuntary smokers cough though, I just force myself to cough as it's a good way to clean out the lungs).

 

While the smoke won't cause lung cancer, it will eventually coat your lungs in tar and other byproducts of combustion. However, if you use a vaporizer or edibles, you don't have to worry about this. THC itself has never been proven to bring any permeant adverse health effects.

 

Depends how mentally strong you are. I've been smoking for two years, and when I can't smoke for a week or two at a time, I tend to be more bored. I don't get suicidally depressed but I will mope around wanting a toke.

If you smoke at night for a week straight, when you run out you won't be able to sleep. And when I say that, I mean sleep aids might not even work. To the contrary smoking in the daytime only won't effect your sleeping habits.

These are the only things that might change you. I would much rather smoke grass instead of take any prescription medicine when I have an ailment.

 

If you watch the Montell Medicinal Marijuana episode, there's a guy on there who has been smoking 10 government issued joints a day, with no recognized ill effects. He works five days a week as a very successful executive. And frankly, 10 joints a day, DAYUM SON!!!

 

They've done studies on heavy marijuana smokers, people that smoke pretty much everyday. They looked at their lungs and brains and such. There were no signs of any permanent damage caused by weed in the study.

Study finds no link between marijuana use and lung cancer | ScienceBlog.com

 

At the moment, its really difficult to say the effects marijuana has on a person over a long period of time. Although many people are seemingly unaffected, true information and support will only come with time. It seems like we are gonna be the guinea pigs for it.

 

You're basing this off of prohibitionist statements/propaganda. Cannabis has certainly been around long enough, as well as studied enough, for us to know of it's long term effects.