but what does weed do to your lungs?
it it worst then what booze does to your liver
I also believe weed should be legalizing but should you be smoking it?
I'm not sure about how much damage weed does to your lungs vs. the damage alcohol does to your liver. I do believe (from what I've read/head) that a single marijuana cigarette is worse for you than a typical tobacco cigarette... the flip side being, very few people will smoke a pack a day of marijuana cigarettes.
It's an interesting point, but at the end of the day, even if marijuana is harmful to our bodies, is that any of the government's businesses? An argument could be made that it affects health care costs, but so does overeating, and that's not government regulated... so even if smoking weed is bad for us physically, that's not a compelling reason for government intervention in my books.
*Note the article is referring to MEDICINAL marijuana consumption, which is completely different from legalizing marijuana. If you're in pain, and your options are getting hammered (to dull the pain) or getting high (to dull the pain), then the effects of weed are less destructive to ones ability to drive than alcohol. I can see the logic of marijuana vs. booze, but in regards to traffic fatalities I think this study is a bit of a stretch.
The impression I got from the article, and from medicinal marijuana in general, is that it's a baby step towards legalization. That is, it's easier to justify legalizing it for "medicinal" purposes than it is to just out and out legalize it. I believe once its been legalized for medicinal purposes, it becomes much more accessible/available for consumption in general... hence the jump from "medicinal" to full legalization. Medicinal is just an intermediate and short-term justification.
