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If a person only smokes weed 1 time or 2 times a week, there are little to no side-effects in the short and long term. The only real danger comes when people start abusing it. I doesn't make you stupid if you smoke very rarely, it doesn't make you not shower or become slow or make your teeth bad or whatever you want to say about it. In the studies of car accidents where there was weed involved, the scientist decided to leave out how many of those cases (people) were using other substances as well, for example alcohol. I went to the best high school in Oklahoma. I can say about 75% of my IB (like AP only harder) senior class in high school smoked weed. Even with that, we had a 98-99% graduation rate, around a 90% University acceptance rate, and basically the best scores on the standardized tests.
Weed is not chemically addicting, even though, as I have heard (never smoked weed before) it gives sort of a mental addiction in any case when you aren't smoking it you want to be, un-like coke or heroin or the harder drugs.
I went to a marijuana forum in Oklahoma City and was appalled at how the students there knew nothing on the subject. All they said is it was bad and you shouldn't do it. Also, the horror stories of some children whose parents took weed left alot to be thought about. For example, a girl said her mom beat her and did all of these horrible things, but at the start of her speech she said how she used to walk into her mothers room and see a plethera of drugs (speed, coke, heroin, MDMA, etc...) spralled out on the bed. Of course those drugs couldn't have had effects, oh no, of course not, it was just the weed.
But I'm tired of people just saying it makes you stupid. If it is taken in moderation, I re-itterate, there are little to no long-term or short-term effects. Food without moderation can also be hazardous to the health when not taken in moderation. An obese person has a much higher chance of a heart attack. When you step into your car and drive off, you might never come home because someone decided to drive as fast as possible and lost control over their vehicle and smashed into you head on. Medication taken without moderation can also be harmful. Take a whole bottle of aspirin at one time and see how you feel.
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