My Most Recent Discovery With Marijuana

if come to the conclusion that marijuana
is in fact bad for you. ive used marijuana 
for long periods of time. i used to be
all for pot, the legalization, the use
and at one point mandatory use. i used it
every day religiously and saw all of the
pros of the usage. i used to sell it, all
day all night to anyone, thinking i was
giving out medicine to those who needed it.
 
i still believe it has potention for 
positive uses.
 
the reasons i believe marijuana is bad for
you and i mean has negative effects long
term are these:
 
first of all the most common side effects
are known and will be discussed first.
it coats your lungs and prevents all the
oxygen you could potentially be using in
your body and brain. 
 
it creates dry mouth, when obviously we
need a decent amount of saliva in our
mouths for a number of reasons.
 
it destroys a persons memory. i have 
experienced the effect and witnessed it.
 
it slows and clouds your thought process
by distracting you from what really 
needs thought or talked about. it confuses 
you in situations. it makes you think of
other things HARDLY related to the subject.
 
it causes a serious chemical imbalance.
the results of this side effect are 
infitine. from not being able to enjoy
something unless under the influence
to irregular sex drive. i could give
a list of examples for this that would
be longer than this entire post. 
 
it slows or even stops the brain from
developing. the learning capability
while under the influence compared to
sober is solid evidence. ive seen two
people evter a situation where a lot
was needed to learn in order to adapt
to environmental change. the person 
using marijuana daily could not learn
at least 90% of the important things
needed to adapt. the sober person was
always trying to teach the user and get
them to catch up. it blocks learning! 
this is one of the biggest indicators to 
me that the drug is harmful. 
 
if the point of marijuana is to relax 
and or enlighten you then read carefully.
the arguement of relaxation is good because
yes it physically does relax you. but what
is the point of relaxing? to take away
stress and therefore make you fresher
for the things you take enjoyment in
and the everyday things in life like work.
but it does more harm if it only 
temporarily relaxes you and at other times
makes things worse. it is agreed that
marijuana magnifies experience correct?
if thats the case then it magnifies stress
when youre being stressed, makes problems
bigger than they, makes you MORE depressed
it makes you think MORE unfocused not
the opposite. if youre using it to treat
a psychological illness it can
only make it worse if pot does what the 
user has said its done since the
controversy has existed. 
 
i can go ON AND ON. i have used it for a
long time. i have not used it for a long
time after using it. i decided this year
that starting on janurary 1st i would
use no drugs or alcohol including
marijuana. since then i have slowly slowly
seen the differences. i have observed
the effects from a clear headed perspective
by taking note of its effects on my peers
under the influence. 
 
there was a part of me telling myself all
the good things it does for me. and another 
part telling me that may be wrong. the part
that sees the negative effects. the part
that sees the negative has grown much
larger than the other which is why ive
changed my mind after believing for so long
 
i now see it as a stage people go through
to learn things about themselves. and thats
one of the benefits. you can learn the things
about yourself that need to be improved in
order for you to EVOLVE. but not all day
every day. then your just hurting yourself
by doing the wrong things all the time.
 
marijuana is considered by the average user
to be natural. why? because it grows out
of the fucking ground? we found a plant,
smoked it and said hey this has some 
EFFECTS what else can it do, and ever since
then weve tried to figure out what its for.
its no longer used naturally, and never was.
smoking things is NOT natural. mixing a
chemical with fat for it to actually be 
able to be used by the body is NOT
natural. taking the plant INDOORS and
pumping way more light and nutirents into 
it than it would normally receive is
NOT natural. 
 
it MIGHT be able to be used correctly if it 
was used when a person was sick at the correct 
dose which is probably hundreds of times lower
than how we use it today.
 
todays use of marijuana has an overall
negative impact on our mind and bodies.
the primary use of todays marijuana
is to show us the people who need to 
cahnge things in their lives to become
healthy. those people are your every day
marijuana users and the marijuana
is what prevents them from realizing this.
 
this was a quick post about my most recent
discovery. response?
 

 

my response to the previous replies:

 
 

for a year a smoked maybe 5 grams a week. the next year i smoked a quarter a day. these facts arent weird or blind. theyve been proven and/or i have observed them. and when i say brain development i dont mean like the physical structure of the brain i mean like hormones chemical imbalance you know? psychological. not being able to move on. ive seen people grow and evolve slower when theyre high all day.
 

if you do research objectively you will find the evidence goes both ways. there are lots of studies about the good. a lot of studies about the bad. there arent too many GOOD long term studies. these studies cancel each other out for me and im left with studying it in person for myself. 
 

ive smoked different amount consistently. ive layed off for a while on different occasions.
 
i enjoy the responses and am actually waiting for this person that is supposed to come and disprove everything