(January 14, 2016 at 3:07 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 2:00 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: While I am a heavy pot smoker myself and personally love the effects of it on me, but marijuana has certainly had negative effects on people. I think ruined would have to be clarified. There is good evidence to suggest heavy pot smoking can have a negative effect on both depression and schizophrenia. It can definitely feed into laziness and trap some people in depression. I'd certainly be surprised if nobody was pushed over the edge by heavy pot smoking. Both my parents were heavy smokers when they were younger and are now pretty much anti-pot advocates for personal reasons of how it affected them. I wouldn't say their lives were 'ruined' by it, but they both regret all the time they wasted smoking pot.
I'm all for legalization and love weed but some people view weed with too heavy of rose tinted glasses.
I've seen for myself the negative effects heavy smoking can have on people, and I've experienced it to a lesser extent. While you can't form a chemical addiction to weed, you can certainly form an emotional dependency. Weed certainly doesn't help when your dealing with depression, it makes the real world much more difficult to face, but once you have a dependency you find you can't get through the day without it, you can't deal with your problems because you're high and so you smoke more to alleviate the stress. I'm not sure what you mean by 'pushed over the edge' but I witnessed a friend develop a dependency and it really messed with his head, heavy bong-based smoking turned him into a really unpleasant person, though once he kicked the habit he leveled out again.
Oh good; more assertions and third-party anecdotes.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
