Open letter to all you people that like to wield medical facts without having a fucking clue.

You have HIV. It's at stage 3. I'm deeply sorry.

I agree with OP. My brother died of a weed overdose when he injected too many cannibis needles.

Guys, don't make light of this. It can and will kill you.

EXCITED DELIRIUM EVERYONE ! :D:D:D good for ur health ! :D:D

if you smoke this for 3 hours and take this anabiotic pills you will feel better in a second

You mean "I use to read wall of texts then i took a arrow to the knee" sorry had to:s

It's not what they do with their health. Well, it freaks me when people make uninformed decisions. Also when they give bad advice to people.

what're you talking about? everybody knows the government did studies that proved this nearly a century ago, banned it to keep it out of people's hands after heavy lobbying by big pharma.

ahahah I love this *bookmarked

then webmd must give you cancer or something

silly interwebs, you're going to kill somebody

:D

Hot dog with hot coffee. What a lovely day!

I don't know where you find this gold, but it's always perfect.

Yeah ,this was the forum I happened to be at when the rant invaded me D:

There's people out there that actually believe all that crap.

Only if you Übercharge them.

Also, that Pyro is a spy!

Shut up Herp.

Painkiller? max payne detected.

I still have my integrity untouched.

Ignorance is a bliss they say.

But seriously, you all can die for what I care if you insist in being stupid, but don't make others die because of your stupidity.

gonna try it in a sec...

I never said there's no therapeutical uses of compounds found on weed. They can be used for a number of things, but one thing is that and another it's claiming it's healthy.

It was not the THC (that one gets you high) but CBD (this one makes you...calm? stoned? dunno). Basically, if you just want to smoke weed you get a plant with high THC (probably some sativa), and where legal, hospitals get CBD high, THC low ones (usually indica). Thats what Ive read so far. CBD relaxes some muscles and eases problems that people have with chemo nausea while also having some pain suppresing effects. But its all too new and people are too touchy about this subject, so I doubt we will be certain soon. More like one or more decades.

In studies, what's just as important as the findings are the methods of measurements and data input. As a statistician, I know how easy it is to manipulate data so that "connections" can be found between factor X and factor Y. But yeah, I agree alot of people don't know what they are talking about when they just correlate two variables.

I'm not a native English speaker so I'd appreciate if instead of being a bich over things like that you stick to the content and not the container. Thanks.

haha actually the moment i saw that word and OP's name i automatically assumed he's spanish with english as a second language. he could have been italian or something else so i could have been wrong, but it looked more like an ESL error than a matter of literacy like you assumed.

i partially agree with your other point. people are naturally defensive of the opinions they've carefully cultivated, because they're invested in them and they coincide with their conception of the world. it's not very helpful to resort to personal attacks to make a point, as people will feel insulted and ignore the meat - many of the positive responses you'll get are people who already know your arguments and agree with them. in a sense a big long rant doesn't serve as much more than self-gratification.

OP is right, no doubt about it. but there's just no sense in getting pissed off at people for something like this. sure their reasoning may be based on weak inductive arguments but frankly a lot of the things we know for "fact" is based on induction and trust, which meshes with our reward system i.e. letting a trusted colleague teach us correct facts 90% of the time is often helpful because we don't have to spend our own time researching the truth. i can see why it seems contemptible but stupid people are victims more than anything else.

But if you try hard enough, you can make anything study say one thing or another... similar to your "studies linking weed smoking with less birth defects" there have also been studies saying that drinking while pregnant is good for cognitive development. People that put that kind of crap out should be shot.

Have you even understood what I try to say? I dare to say you didn't. I don't hate weed, why would I?

Also, link those studies. And they have to be scientifically correct, using double-blind method and statistically significative.

Please link those studies. If they're out there I'd really be interested in the read. You can try PubMed if you have access to it. I do, but I'm making dinner and packing my house.

One sentence about weed in a whole article = article is about weed.

It's probably worth pointing out that there is a sad tendency in today's scientific (and especially medical) landscape that the majority of the findings in published scientific studies are actually false. This isn't some crackpot conspiracy theory, it's a simple observation derived from clear and logical statistical methodology (meta analysis) employed on the very methodology of the studies in question. And, yes, this finding was published in a study. Far from being ironic, the point is that in an overwhelming majority of hundreds of published scientific articles that were analysed, the authors of these studies have failed to correctly employ statistics and methodology, or their data analysis was of (not necessarily conscious) self-serving nature, and their research findings are thus skewed.

If you don't feel like wading through the original paper, the Wall Street Journal sums it up here. In short, chances are that a study that touts the benefits of so-and-so substance/treatment/you name it isn't as accurate as it purports itself to be.

What's that revolution going to be based on? I'm good at getting mad with things.

LOOL

Smoking weed has all the medical issues regular smoking does (in fact, more, because there's no regulations governing blunts; they tend to be unfiltered, say.)

But that's not the only way to take it. Brownies with weed in them aren't substantially more dangerous than brownies without weed in them, and as long as you're not about to drive or operate heavy machinery, the most dangerous ingredient is probably still the sugar.

More generally, the laws against marijuana prevent us from developing and encouraging safe ways like that to use it. And they're stupid laws, because THC (the stuff in them that gets you high) isn't any more dangerous than any one of a thousand things doctors prescribe for pain every single day. It's a potentially-useful substance that's banned purely because of an enduring moral panic.