Posted by Caleb462 on April 24, 2003, at 21:57:34
In reply to Re: Help””” I want my cousin to stop smoking canabbis, posted by paxvox on April 24, 2003, at 20:41:17
>Smoking pot habitually as a teenager WILL keep one from fully developing intellectual potential
You say "WILL"... perhaps it's possible, but perhaps it is not. There is no way to prove this either way.
>and it WILL get you put in jail, which will affect your life forever.
MIGHT get you put in jail. If one is cautious, the likelihood is fairly low.
>A third point I will touch on, but you will have to research, is that pot still has not been ruled out as being carcinogenic. When one smokes pot, the smoke is inhaled more deeply, and held longer in the lungs.
True, but the average frequent pot smoker smokes what? 3 joints a day? That's compared to say, 15-25 cigarettes a day by tobacco smokers. And some pot smokers smoke only a few times a week, or a few times a month. Smoking pot is still dangerous, inhaling any kind of smoke is, but it certainly shouldn't be considered as dangerous as tobacco smoking - and studies have shown this.
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