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The Dangers of the Marijuana Maintenance Program
In order to stop drinking, some people who have become dependent on alcohol will take the controversial step of substituting the use of marijuana for alcohol, a practice that is known as the Marijuana Maintenance program.
Those who defend the use of marijuana to help themselves stop drinking argue that the use of marijuana is much less hazardous to their health than alcohol. The use of marijuana as a substitute for drinking alcohol, though, does have its own drawbacks.
Although the use of marijuana may indeed be less hazardous than heavy drinking — especially to someone who has been drinking excessively for a long period of time — smoking pot comes with its own set of negative effects and consequences:
•In most jurisdictions, the possession and use of marijuana is illegal.
•According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, marijuana can contribute to mental health problems.
•Use of marijuana can also have long-term effects on the health of regular users.
•Smoking marijuana can affect the user’s learning and social skills.
•Long-term marijuana use can affect a smoker’s memory and speed of thinking.
Also, for those who later decide to quit smoking marijuana, the withdrawal symptoms when they try to quit smoking can be similar to those experienced by people who quit smoking cigarettes.
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Marijuana is awesome there is nothing wrong with it
Your entire article there is incorrect.
Grammatical errors:
“In order to stop drinking, some people who have become dependent on alcohol will take the controversial step of substituting the use of marijuana for alcohol, a practice that is known as the Marijuana Maintenance program.”
You meant to say “substituting the use of ALCOHOL FOR MARIJUANA”
You said it backwards.
Scientific errors:
All of your data about the effects of marijuana is incorrect or at least disputed by many credible organizations, such as UCLA and Harvard. Donald Tashkin runs the lab at UCLA. He is the government’s top cancer researcher and the man they used to study cigarettes, which resulted in warnings on cigarette packs. He ran the largest study of all time, involving over 1200 patients, and he concluded from his study that marijuana does not cause any forms of cancer, because THC kills cancer cells. The Supreme Court ruled that it’s safe medicinally for people with cancer, and does not cause any types of health impairment. There’s lots of studies that come out and say it causes cancer or it does this and that, but they usually are not credible and are very small studies. So that discredits your statement about it’s effects on health, or at least creates an opposition to what you said.
Pot Fights Brain Cancer, Supreme Court OK’s Medical Marijuana
http://www.examiner.com/x-8543-SF-Health-News-Examiner~y2009m5d21-Supreme-Court-upholds-Prop-215-okays-medical-marijuana
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
Marijuana Does Not Raise Lung Cancer Risk
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196678,00.html
As far as memory and speed of thinking, that is all hearsay. There have been many studies that have suggested that it does not affect memory in a negative way that contradict your study.
Puff-a-Day Marijuana Helps Older Rats Remember
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/health/aging/2008/11/21/184247/Puff-a-day-marijuana.htm
Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn’t Damage Brain
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20030701/heavy-marijuana-use-doesnt-damage-brain
Marijuana Might Cause Brain Cell Growth
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8155-marijuana-might-cause-new-cell-growth-in-the-brain.html
As far as addiction. I smoked cigarettes and marijuana both on a daily basis since I was about 15. I quit cigarettes when I was 23 and have quit and restarted marijuana many times. The withdrawal effects are not comparable. Cigarettes are a real addiction, marijuana withdrawal could never be compared to nicotine withdrawal. So when you say “the withdrawal symptoms when they try to quit smoking can be similar to those experienced by people who quit smoking cigarettes”, that’s just ridiculous.
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Marla, what if your brother traded cheese for alcohol? If it was cheese and he was eating cheese instead of drinking, would you try to get him off the cheese? So if the marijuana isn’t causing any obvious problems, why is it an issue and why do you need to try to get him off it?
If you guys could get people to trade alcohol for marijuana, that would save millions of lives. Unfortunately, the addiction to alcohol is much stronger than marijuana so most people who drink would not trade it for marijuana.
Hi .vsm11. I am 100% with you I don’t think that is the corrects solution. that’s is just changing the abuse of alcohol to marijuana abuse,my brother stop the drinking abuse but now we cant get him off the marijuana.
Marijuana is the source of THC (the medicine). THC cleans your arteries by eating built up placque and cholesterol. THC an antidepressant, anti-fungal, and provides PSDS relief. Smoking the marijuana itself is only dangerous as certain levels of tar and heavy metals build up within the body system. usually smokers dont feel those effects within 2-3 years of smoking poor quality highly impure marijuana (unless they contain different genetics that let their immune system not react at all).
THC also binds to cancer cells (as they are clumps of genetically altered fat and protein, THC binds to fat/protein cells.. and eats them. It also causes an increase in appetite for anorexics, and a cure for people with migraines as THC also acts as a nerve/muscle relaxant in the higher level of potencies. It is also very useful for glaucoma and people with insomnia. I don’t think Marijuana should ever be legal. Hower, I think THC and CBBD (another muscle relaxant within marijuana) should be legal as its really the only medicinal molecule in weed. Oh wait it is already legal in canada and tons of other countries everywhere around the world AND ITS CALLED MARINOL.
The only danger is getting busted…
marijuana is a good thing