The Health Effects of Marijuana – Expert Q&A



Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Michigan, what should you know about its health effects? Join our experts for this Q&A …

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  1. In Colorado they have a number of statistics on babies birthed with levels of thc in their body. If the effects on youth are bad, the effects on children are likely worse, being underdeveloped. They also have the same collected info on driving accidents while under the influence. It was noted, measured etc after an accident and in the hospital when injury occurred or if police found obvious use in the car. They had quite an increase.

  2. THIS WILL REMINDING A PERSON THAT REALLY HITS HARD THAT NEVER FORGETS !  SEEING THE 2 TOWERS THAT CRASHED DOWN AND CALAPS WITH TI MUCH CRAP INTO THE AIR ! ITS THE SAME WAY HAS THE TWO PEOPLE STANDING UP TO SEE IT HAPPENS WHEN THEY HAVEING PROBLEMS  BREATHING AND HEADACHES IS THE SAME WAY , LET SEE YOU WARE WITHOUT THAT GAS MASK OR OXYGEN TANK IN THAT DUST OR SMELL LET SEE YOU CALAPE LIKE HAVEING A STROKE !

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  4. This gets a C minus, D plus. The two women physicians are clearly not experts regarding cannabis, although they may be perfectly competent in their fields of adolescent psychiatry and pulmonology. They were clearly winging it. The pain specialist knew far more, but still had not read as extensively as one would hope. A person can search Google for expert, NIH-funded studies over the last two decades and quickly learn more than offered here. The work of Dr. Donald Tashkin, now an emeritus UCLA pulmonologist, had documented acute respiratory defects from cannabis smoke, but despite this, his work showed no increased incidence of COPD, lung, or head-neck cancers among marijuana smokers compared against non-smokers. How was this not mentioned? How can U. Michigan put up a pulmonary expert to discuss cannabis who has no knowledge of the background literature? – or did she not wish to mention it? There have been numerous studies showing a decrease in REM sleep caused by THC — it is surprising that none of these panelist knew about it. Falling back on "there has been no research" tells us that these "experts" were nothing of the sort, or simply did not do their homework. I suspect that this panel was thrown together rapidly for public consumption, without much forethought. Their stated preference for edibles has to be couched with the caveat that the dose received will depend on the lipid content of the co- or prior-ingested food. How then are edibles preferable if the bloodstream concentration of THC can vary 3-fold depending on prior or simultaneous food consumption? The high concentration of THC in present day cannabis allows for vaping far smaller amounts of herb to reach a therapeutic dose. It is far more reliable than edibles in that respect. Altogether this was very disappointing. If you want to use cannabis for medical purposes, use common sense. Start slow, with a low dose, and take it from there, no matter how it is ingested. If you are a recreational consumer use it moderately. If you are a teenager, yes, wait, and if that is not going to happen, use it moderately — e.g., on weekends, not school nights, and stay indoors and take it slow. Studies have shown no detriment in adolescent academic achievement with moderate use.

  5. Blah blah blah, what makes me laugh quite simply is that any thing you take in high doses is going to have some effect on you.Soon they'll be saying that breathing air isn't going to be safe for us. If I drink a dozen beers compared to two beers I'm sure im going to know the outcome I'm going to have, it's no difference to pot.I blame Cheech and Chong ha ha

  6. Smoking weed during adolescence definitely would have a negative effect on development.
    It is a HORRIBLE estrogen binder/mimicker and if you are the type that gets anxiety when your high its even worse. You certainly dont want that during adolescence. Chronic use CAN also cause chronic pain, infact if i even have one joint these days ill wake up sore all over. When i was a regular smoker chronic pain was daily and normal. When i quit it went away.
    Alot of these things depend on your genetics. Some people will smoke or drink everyday and experience no harmful effects whatsoever.
    The reality is weed is not the same as itbwas when rastas smoked daily for 50 years. Now its geneticalky altered, up to 50 percent more powerful and that kind of use will probably cause dementia.

  7. Well I cannot say much about alcohol and cigarettes because at least that's already being controlled somehow, but people in pain are not getting the opioids they need for their pain because it's considered a drug not everyone can consume marihuana! So if marihuana is legal for everyone to smoke then they should make opioids legal for people that can't smoke or consume marihuana!

  8. Instead of you all talking about "( oh alcohol, cigarettes , marihuana , and opioids are bad , why don't you all try to make all that illegal substances! Consider all those things I mentioned above drugs, and control them and only give it to sick people! That's the cure to ending addiction on teens and adults! And from kids accidentally consuming it!

  9. Why are you all worried about teens getting addicted if you are legalizing it and giving it to them in their hands! An opioid doesn't make you feel high like marihuana! An opioid relaxes the body from feeling pain, marihuana makes people feel like they are in cloud 9 especially wen its mixed with alcohol!

  10. You all need to do your researches with homeless people so you can see how they started to consume drugs, and it all starts with weed, alcohol, and cigarettes yes! Everything that you all have legalized!

  11. You can get high on medical marihuana, just like a a street marihuana! There's people that are not sick smoking and consuming marihuana and it's legal????

  12. Ok what I'm seeing is this generation and our future generations going down the drain because of making medial marihuana legal! Now there's more teens and adults using it and abusing it!

  13. Young people are getting addicted because doctors are giving the opioids and marihuana to the wrong people! Why are they giving opioids and marihuana to young people??? That's why there's ibroprufen tylenol naproxen and over the counter medications depending on their situation, now marihuana and opioids are for adults with pain also depending on the their situation!

  14. Why are doctors giving marihuana and opioids to young people that don't need it? There's people in real chronic pain especially older people, and they are not getting opioids for their pain , instead doctors advice marihuana which like I said some people cannot smoke or consume it, because it makes them sick just like ibroprufen, tylenol naproxen and other over the counter medications that don't help and just put people to sleep! And some people don't want surgery , so why are doctors making it hard for people with pain and are not giving them the opioids they need,

  15. Ok some people cannot consume marihuana and some people cannot consume opioids 🙄 they both come from a plant and they both help people with pain so why is an opioid considered a drug and not the marihuana?

  16. I consume flower based cannabis several times a day. I was nearly dead five times over with paralysis, brain lesions, spinal cord tumors, these “theoretical” effects are mostly just anecdotal.

    Cannabis is absolutely recommended as a treatment for down regulating the para sympathetic nervous system in PTSD and MAST CELL ACTIVATION SYNDROME.
    Much of this information is not based in science. It’s just a guess based on conjecture.

  17. I'm sixty seven and fifty years of Cannabis use and abuse has not destroyed me but forty six years of alcohol abuse nearly did until I quit drinking out of the clear blue, with no prior thought or discussion about ever doing that..

  18. I'm 5 mins into this video and Boom there it is…LIE
    *The man on the far right said "as with all drugs people develop tolerance and need more…but not so for alcohol. Bullish bullsh bullsh!!!! I have smoked the exact same amount,1 oz/mo., every month for 17 years. I used to drink…got arrested 4 times, lost license, home n kids, got divorced and got beat up A LOT. But I kept needing more and more. I'd be dead if my boyfriend hadn't got me off the booze and onto the stuff our brains are made for.
    #if I'm wrong I welcome proof. Cuz I got a big family. I've seen alot.

  19. When i started smoking weed at 16 my grades went from just passing to top of the class because i could concentrate a lot better. Can any medical specialist explain that.

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