Cannabis definitely boosts euphoria with a 'high' or 'stoned' feeling. It's immediate negative side-effects are mood swings, increased heart beat, impaired short-term memory, difficulty in concentrating resulting in impaired professional work skills and impaired driving skills. The prime long-term negative effect is serious respiratory damage through smoking, as in the case of cigarette smoking, which hugely promotes the chances of lung, throat and mouth cancers.
There's no way we can ever 'yes' to something like cannabis.
As-salamu 'alaykum wa rah-matul lah sister Heba
For some, working out gives them that euphoric feeling, for others it's skydiving.
Sister, where are you getting all your information from?
Cannabis is not like cigarette smoke, although I can see why you would get that idea as they are rolled in a similar fashion and can be smoked in the same way. There are other methods of consuming cannabis that are not harmful due to the properties of smoke, but to say that cannabis smoke is as damaging as cigarette smoke is a gross exaggeration. They call cigarettes cancer sticks for a reason
I use to smoke, and after only a few months (of light smoking) I was being slowed down so much, I couldn't even run long/short distances.
There is little to no evidence suggesting that cannabis causes lung, throat and mouth cancers, or any other cancer at that matter. There is actually more evidence suggesting cannabis can help with cancer.
They recommend that people don't drive angry, tired or sad as it impairs your driving abilities, does anyone listen? If people want to drive impaired (due to emotion, stress, or substance) they are going to, but cannabis does not impair your driving skills to the degree one would think (as does alcohol). One should always assess their condition before driving and cannabis does affect that ability to assess.
This will give you an idea as to how much cannabis can affect your driving. Please note that even the driving instructor said that they were driving fine up until about halfway (when they were being given much larger amounts of cannabis).
I don't believe many people know/understand this plant. Society has been using it for ages.
Prior to the world wars, it was very commonly used the medical community; during the two world wars it was made legal again because of its vast industrial/commercial uses.
Looking at it all logically, I just do not see "the great harm" that this plant possesses.
I'm just looking at the fact of things.
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