Something I heard about marijuana

Before I begin, let me start by saying I do NOT smoke marijuana. I never have, and I never will. And I've never taken any other illegal drugs either and have no intention of it. I'm just sharing with you all something I heard and thought this section of the forum was the best place to post it. Anyway, what I heard was that marijuana does not affect anyone's health, and all it does is make people feel good. I also heard from people that used to smoke it say that it helped them with things like stress and obsessive compulsive disoreder and at times temporarily relieved them of those types of things. I even heard that weed was legal in some states as long as it's used for things such as what I've said I heard.

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In addition to higher risk of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, I have also seen reports that mouth and upper resp cancers are higher risk from smoking marijuana / cannabis because it is more likely to be smoked without a filter. And presumably because those dodgy additives are being inhaled as well. Because it's not generally legal, there is nothing to legislate what can and cannot be added into it.

I'm in the minority of people I know of my age in real life, in that I have never smoked it. I used to work in a group of people of very similar age to me, around 40 of us in all, and only 3 of us had never smoked it. I never saw any indication in those who did smoke it that they were better at dealing with stress or any other problems. It's a temporary feelgood, nothing more. It doesn't fix anything. And once it starts to affect your memory, you're facing real problems. But it feels good, so nobody wants to consider that maybe they would not be any worse off for not smoking it.

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