Some active ingredients are shown to relieve pain and nausea for cancer patients and can even block tumor growth in lab animals. ... Teens around the United States may end up smoking more and drinking less. ... On average among high school seniors, a 4.5% decrease in drinking produced a 2.4% increase on getting high (Drum). ... Human services major Cala Musickhas states her opinion on the subject: "I have observed each side of this, and from an outsider looking in, the people who smoke tend to make better decisions then those who drink. ...

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When people are smoking marijuana together, its easier for them to bond and find things in common, just as when people are drinking men find it easier to talk to women and dance with them. ... In fact, according to animal testing, forty thousand times as much THC as you need to get high would have to be consumed to overdose. ... Whereas ingesting marijuana is a common practice in the Middle East as with the drink "bhang", or even when people bake the drug into their food, one has a safe alternative to smoking with marijuana. ... When you consider that one-hundred and eighteen million Americans...

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According to a document leaked to New Scientist, the analysis concludes not only that the amount of dope smoked worldwide does less harm to public health than drink and cigarettes, but that the same is likely to hold true even if people consumed dope on the same scale as these legal substances. ... And while heavy drinking leads to cirrhosis, severe brain injury and a much increased risk of accidents and suicide, the report concludes that there is only "suggestive evidence that chronic cannabis use may produce subtle defects in cognitive functioning". ... The report says that both heavy drinki...

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Should Marijuana be legal in the United States? Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States and in most other countries as well. More than seventy million Americans have tried marijuana, and more than twenty million have smoked it in the last year, but does marij...

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