Weed use can lead to kidney failure

[lowthreeohz]

I have read that in a recent study of healthy young adults, marijuana use was not associated with change in kidney function over time or the appearance of albumin in the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage. But personally I tolerate only medical cannabis use here.

would somebody nuke the fucking bot already?

[Craizie]

I don't see how people can smoke weed all day. It just makes me want to sleep. That said, smoking weed as a night cap gave me the best sleep I've ever had. I'd wake up feeling fucking GREAT.

[Gasser64]

I'm glad the drug war appears to be coming to an end. Hopefully anything and everything will be completely legal soon. Gotta agree with Ron Paul here

[RomSh85]

I have read that in a recent study of healthy young adults, marijuana use was not associated with change in kidney function over time or the appearance of albumin in the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage. But personally I tolerate only medical cannabis use here.

[Gasser64]

Where do you get your info from again? Not saying you are right or wrong, I am just baffled on your perspective.

Well I've always been interested in the subject, but there are several documentaries on youtube that would pretty much highlight all my points in my previous post. I think you should go watch them, I found them to be very enlightening. The main reason I just had to find out, was because I just had to know why on earth someone would do it, or any of those types of drugs. The propaganda was all I'd ever heard, which as it turns out is all nothing but a big fat lie. LSD is harmless to you. Can't hurt you, ever. Physically. Lets be clear about that. Anything you've ever heard about how it can damage your body or brain, is a lie. Same thing for mushrooms. Same for DMT and auyhuasca and salvia, but those were a bit later to the game and they've kind of tapered off their lies campaign by the time those became popular.

Bcoop is right thought, its not necessarily for everyone. But it is for most people. Then again, some of the early trials did show a big improvement in some people who were in a mental institution. Some of them. Also take a look at the studies they're doing right now in Britain, on the effect that magic mushrooms have on depression. The results are extremely positive, as all indicators are that it pretty much cures it. No lingering depression, no need for all those other treatments for the rest of your life. The mushrooms also cure something called cluster headaches, which are so painful that they often make people suffering from them commit suicide just to escape the pain.

Ayahuasca will pretty much annihilate heroin addiction. But most of them have a strong effect on addictions. What it all boils down to, is that they are medicine for the mind. Not evil brain melters.

[95DRGT]

LSD has a number of benefits, but it is not harmless.

Always that same LSD story, you've all seen it. 'Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.' What a dick! Fuck him, he’s an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn’t he take off on the ground first? Check it out. You don’t see ducks lined up to catch elevators to fly south—they fly from the ground, ya moron, quit ruining it for everybody. He’s a moron, he’s dead—good, we lost a moron, fuckin’ celebrate. Wow, I just felt the world get lighter. We lost a moron! I don’t mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious, but I am, so that’s the way it comes out. Professional help is being sought. How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy. 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves' . . . 'Here's Tom with the weather.

[The King]

True, if someone already has some form of mental illness psychoactive recreational drugs will likely exaggerate their symptoms, and not necessarily in a good way.

[bcoop]

LSD has a number of benefits, but it is not harmless.

[The King]

Not a medical professional by any stretch, but I wonder if LSD might not have had some merit (if given a chance) in quashing physically harmful addictions, such as alcohol, nicotine, or opiates.

[Scott Mc]

Where do you get your info from again? Not saying you are right or wrong, I am just baffled on your perspective.

[Gasser64]

I think that most of their desire for drug control, actually comes from their pants shitting fear of LSD. If you look into the history of LSD, its definitely pants shitting fear. No question. LSD does something to people, and for the people, its a good thing. It seems to force them to sort of re-examine their lives, and have to face up to a lot of things they've been running from. Soldiers who take it, don't want to be soldiers anymore. Its also completely harmless, as harmless as maryjuana if not more so because you don't have to smoke it.

People who worked in office cubicles, quit their jobs because they start thinking that people were not meant to live that way. It seems to bring to the surface the bad things that you know about yourself or things you're doing that you are on some level against, and make you realize that you just can't do that anymore. Bad, bad news for the establishment and the power base as it was when LSD was banned, and as it is now. I'm not some pitiful hippie, nor have I ever done any of those drugs. I just found the history of it all to be very interesting.

So basically if you have LSD completely legal, you've got a shit ton of people who are now saying "nuh uh. I'm not going along with this bullshit, no more." That's why they're piss scared of it.

[jluv]

That would be my only complaint against weed, but it wouldn't be a very good complaint. Not when alcohol is legal. Basically, its outside of government's power to control alcohol. Or weed. That's pretty damn clear. But weed does seem to make some people just sort of piss their lives away. Maybe if they never had access to it, they'd have just moved on and actually did something. But the same thing can be said for any substance abuse. I'd just like to see people actually admit that about weed. I know some potheads that take it as their life's mission. Which is, to only concern themselves with weed and the acquisition of more weed. Not a good life to lead, not at all.

It kills ambition for a lot of people. Really, it just makes being bored more bearable, being broke or stressed easier to accept. Most of those people would have fucked off their potential anyway, either with another drug, poor choices, etc.

Regardless, making it illegal changes nothing. It's around. Always has been and always will be. People who would smoke are gonna smoke anyway. Let's not make them criminals for it. And the honest, controversial truth is that the same thing applies to ALL drugs. We might as well spend the resources to regulate, educate, treat, and help our economy from a city level all the way up to a national level. Drugs are here to stay. Fighting it only puts money in certain assholes' pockets. Let's figure out a way to capitalize on this shit while still pumping a little more into drug education and treatment programs.

The government could actually have much more control over the effects of drug use if they legalized and then regulated everything. I would bet almost anything that the long-term end result would be the same or less users, but a ton less criminals. You'd think they would want that kind of control.

Don't get me started.

[Gasser64]

weed always made me lazy. Most dopers I have been around seem to not care about anything except smoking. Then of course it opens the gate to other drugs to escape reality.

That would be my only complaint against weed, but it wouldn't be a very good complaint. Not when alcohol is legal. Basically, its outside of government's power to control alcohol. Or weed. That's pretty damn clear. But weed does seem to make some people just sort of piss their lives away. Maybe if they never had access to it, they'd have just moved on and actually did something. But the same thing can be said for any substance abuse. I'd just like to see people actually admit that about weed. I know some potheads that take it as their life's mission. Which is, to only concern themselves with weed and the acquisition of more weed. Not a good life to lead, not at all.

[Sgt Beavis]

So I took time to research CHS a bit and there are three overriding things I see.

1. It appears to be a type of allergic reaction.. or at least the symptoms are allergy like
2. It doesn't kill anyone.
3. It goes away if you stop doing pot.

In other words, it's a non story.

[Sgt Beavis]

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