Marijuana Good or Bad?!

You can find all kinds of lying, sickhead articles about the wonders of marijuana to support your right to remain stupid and an anti-American contributor, -or read this:
1) The #1 addictive drug in America is marijuana; and marijuana is the first drug use before getting involved with other drugs -in 95% of the people who later became addicted to stronger drugs.
2) The #1 cause of Mexican drug cartels and corruption of US and Mexican government is marijuana use in America.
3) Marijuana is a mind-altering drug, main active ingredient is THC (delta 9 tetrhydrocannabinol). Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, of which 60 are cannabinoids. Smoking marijuana deposits about 3 to 5 times more tar into the lungs than one filtered tobacco cigarette increasing cancer risks and other long-term diseases by 3 to 5 times that of a tobacco cigarette. Since tobacco smoking is responsible for -and contributing to over 40% of the sick in America, -it is quite obvious marijuana is a growing cancer on America. Tobacco smoking is responsible for about 400,000 American deaths each year.
 Marijuana is often laced with toxic chemicals and even more addictive drugs.
4) Marijuana short term causes: loss of coordination, accelerated heart rate, lower blood pressure, anxiety and paranoia, impaired memory, difficulty in thinking, learning difficulties, lack of attention and focus, poor driving skills, …
5) Marijuana long-term causes: respiratory problems, heightened risk of infections –esp in the lungs, poor short term recall, inability to shift attention normally, inability to understand complex information, increased risk of developing lung, head, and neck cancers, lack of motivation, decreased sperm count in men, irregular menstruation in women, …
6) Addictive: People trying to quit report irritability, sleeplessness, anxiety, and increased aggression.
7) Treatment? There is none. You can get behavioral treatment, -sort of like AA where alcoholics gather in a smoke filled room trying to quit alcohol.
Rand Corp study shows pot users between ages 13 and 23 surveyed at age 29 had less income, less educational achievement, more health problems, lower level of life satisfaction, and a higher rate of the use of other addictive drugs.
9) Driving after smoking even a small amount of marijuana almost doubles the risk of a fatal highway accident, according to an extensive study of 10,748 fatal highway crashes between 2001 and 2003. The researchers concluded that at least 2.5% of the fatal crashes were directly caused by the use of marijuana. The problem here is that police only rarely force a driver to take drug tests; -or the percent of fatal accidents directly caused by marijuana would be several times higher. Driving after large doses of marijuana would of course, -triple or multiply the chances of causing fatal accidents several times. Part of the equation not recognized is the marijuana of 2009 is several times more potent than the marijuana of –even 5 years ago.
10) British Medical Journal: Young drivers of motorcycles and mopeds were also more likely to test positive for alcohol and marijuana. Taking marijuana and driving is irresponsible, -as marijuana affects your reactions.
11) Dept of Neurology, Parts, Greece: The longer people use marijuana, the more deterioration they had in the ability to learn and remember new information. Compared to non-smokers, marijuana users performed worse in recall, recognition, and executive functions of the brain.
12) Marijuana Myths and Lying Are Killing Us: http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426.htm
13) Second Hand Marijuana Smoke: http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426_5.htm
14) Facts on marijuana use the politically correct liars don’t tell you:
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426_4.htm
15) Legalize marijuana in other countries did what?
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426_3.htm
16) myth: marijuana is medicine:
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426_2.htm
17) Want to fix health care?
Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, of which 60 are cannabinoids. Smoking marijuana deposits about 3 to 5 times more tar into the lungs than one filtered tobacco cigarette. Since tobacco smoking is responsible for -and contributing to over 40% of the sick in America, -it is quite obvious marijuana is a growing cancer on America. Tobacco smoking is responsible for about 400,000 American deaths each year.
18) You can quote a sick-head selling a book or their personal love of drugs, -or you can look at facts. Sometimes being politically correct can be popular; but you are still a liar.                    JayR