re: so the 2 states with legal pot have their nfl teams in the superbowl

Damn dude, you want to make fun of my links, but yours is no better, but yes I'll humor u.

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THC is a relatively harmless drug for the human body but the problem is that to get THC into their systems, most people choose to smoke it and that’s where it can become dangerous. Scientific analyses of marijuana smoke, cited in Iversen’s book, have identified at least 6,000 of the same chemicals in marijuana smoke as are present in tobacco smoke. Smoked marijuana and smoked tobacco are chemically very similar, the main difference between them being the THC in marijuana and the nicotine in tobacco. LINK

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system

Look up the Endocannabinoid system. It is natural chemicals and receptors in yoru body that are chemically the same as cannabinoids found in marijuana. Your endocannabinoid system controls all of your major bodily functions. Watch this video, this is a doctor talking age related illnesses and how the endocannabinoid and cannabis controls this.

Doctor talks about pot

the tar in cigs and weed are completely different. Cigs are fertilized with radioactive fertilizer and weed isn't. So that right there is enough to stop comparing cig tar/smoke with weeds tar/smoke. Plus many of the chemicals in weed have medicinal properties, whereas tobacco smoke has hardly any. Also I never heard weed had over 6000 chemicals in it, only several hundred.

https://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_tobacco.html

Also thc is fights against lung cancer too. You smoke it and not get lung cancer, wow thats amazing! How many people die of lung cancer from smoking cigs a year? How many people get lung cancer from smoking only pot? Weed is good as shrinking tumors and cancers since the endocannabonoid system controls most of our bodily functions. Cannabis causes apoptosis in cancer and tumor cells. How is this bad again?

This is sciencedaily too, so argue that one haha

Weed cuts lung cancer tumor in half

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Mar. 1, 2012 — A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug's ill effects on working memory, the ability to transiently hold and process information for reasoning, comprehension and learning. LINK

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Yea it may impair short term memory, but the overall memory loss (long term included) is minimal. I'm not trying to brag, but I have a great memory. There maybe 1 other person who can remember stuff as good as me and guess what, he smokes pot too. I'm around sober and high people all the time and none knows I'm high unless they know I smoke and I tell them. Remember the old saying, use it or lose it? Same applies to your memories. I may forget some stuff that isnt important to me, but major events, or any other significant memories I can easily recall.

What about weed and divergent thinking? "A new paper published in Psychiatry Research sheds some light on this phenomenon, or why smoking weed seems to unleash a stream of loose associations. The study looked at a phenomenon called semantic priming, in which the activation of one word allows us to react more quickly to related words. For instance, the word “dog” might lead to decreased reaction times for “wolf,” “pet” and “Lassie,” but won’t alter how quickly we react to “chair”.

Interestingly, marijuana seems to induce a state of hyper-priming, in which the reach of semantic priming extends outwards to distantly related concepts. As a result, we hear “dog” and think of nouns that, in more sober circumstances, would seem to have nothing in common."
https://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/10/marijuana-and-divergent-thinki/

Also what about how weed is good for alzhemiers?

"Abstract

Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, and with the ever-increasing size of this population, cases of Alzheimer's disease are expected to triple over the next 50 years. Consequently, the development of treatments that slow or halt the disease progression have become imperative to both improve the quality of life for patients and reduce the health care costs attributable to Alzheimer's disease. Here, we demonstrate that the active component of marijuana, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), competitively inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as well as prevents AChE-induced amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) aggregation, the key pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease. Computational modeling of the THC-AChE interaction revealed that THC binds in the peripheral anionic site of AChE, the critical region involved in amyloidgenesis. Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, THC is a considerably superior inhibitor of Abeta aggregation, and this study provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism through which cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17140265

So yes, maybe in teh short term weed may fog your memory, but other than that it is good for your brain. Hell it is even an antioxidant and neuroprotective.

"One of the first studies to document these effects was a study published in 1998, which found that cannabinoids could protect neurons from exposure to toxic levels of glutamate – a neurotransmitter that plays a role in a number of neurodegenerative disorders. The study compared cannabinoids head-to-head with antioxidant vitamins C and E and found cannabidiol to be 30-50% more effective than either of the vitamins. A follow-up trial published in 2000 showed similar results using animal models instead of cell cultures."

https://www.truthonpot.com/2012/11/01/cannabis-a-powerful-antioxidant/

So THC is better for you than vit C and E, wow! So it gets you high and is better than those high touted vitamins? It seems meant to be.

So how does an antioxidant suppress the immune system? Here is response to the immune study on weed:

"The immune suppression issue was first raised in research by the notorious cannabophobe Dr. Gabriel Nahas, but a flurry of research by the Reagan administration failed to find anything alarming. The recent discovery of a cannabinoid receptor inside rat spleens, where immune cells reside, raises the likelihood that cannabinoids do exert some sort of influence on the immune system.2 It has even been suggested that these effects might be beneficial for patients with auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Nevertheless, not a single case of marijuana-induced immune deficiency has ever been clinically or epidemiologically detected in humans."

So again the study was nice and all, but no weed induced immune deficiency has been detected in humans, so that contradicts the study right?