WTF are you on about? Drinking the government Kool Aid I see. So smoking tobacco will kill you and is imbecilic and you wish it'd kill the tobacco smokers you hate quickly, but smoking weed is just fine, in fact it should be encouraged in your little world.
Get a grip. Smoking tobacco, whilst potentially harmful, is no worse for the lungs etc than smoking skunk, or running down the side of a gridlocked dual carriageway. Government figures which list any death from cardio vascular or lung issue as smoking related (remember, passive smoking kills too) is how they come up with such inflated numbers of deaths "due to smoking". It's the same con as CAGW - wake up and smell the coffee before this kind of mis-information strangles your brain.
I'm not saying smoking tobacco is safe, just that the religious fervour attempting to demonise a legal drug is seriously overstated IMHO. Michealm may take issue with this, but at least he is a qualified MD.
I do hate smokers, smoking and the health results of the past time. I think it is stupid to do something that kills you but gives you nothing in the process. Smoking tobacco only brings you back up to even (proven by the fact that you can smoke tobacco and legally drive when you can't with alcohol or weed). Smoking weed which I gave up after many, many years of smoking when my kids were born may still kill you but at least you get something from doing it - stoned!
As far as inflated numbers well in my family everyone who smokes or smoked is dying or has died as a direct result of it. My grandfather - dead , lung cancer which progressed to throat cancer and then onto brain and spinal cancer. Grandmother - emphysema which we are currently watching her die from. Aunty and uncle both very ill with lung issues and heart issues and will be dead before 70. Cousin - only young but smoked through pregnancy and delivered a very tiny baby as a result which is only just recovering from this 16 mths on.
The reason I am behind weed (bush not hydro) is because it is a non aggressive drug in an aggressive world and generally encourages the user to think freely (my experience anyway). Both things that we need more of because so many people are drinking the "koolaid" that is put out by the media and the government and storming around with a general level of aggressiveness that I just find repulsive. You mention that smoking tobacco is no more dangerous than smoking weed - well yeah smoking dried tobacco leaves sure but a commercial cigarette - please you are embarrassing your self here and appear to have more than a little koolaid on your lips. Just to be consistent I am dead set against hydro weed because it is full of bad .... just like commercial cigarettes. Unfortunately the war on drugs has driven a minimally dangerous drug under ground and made it vastly more dangerous which in turn has driven up the negative psychotic impacts.
Things I have done stoned - run a marathon (3hr 2min), 2 x half marathon (1hr 26min & 1hr 28min), Olympic distance triathlon (2hr 10min), Degree in Naturopathy, Degree in Urban Development - Property Economics, 2nd person ever to complete a ropes course in the gold coast hinterland (the only other person at the time was the designer). All these things done whilst loaded up on THC.
I don't drink alcohol (used to big time), smoke cigarettes or unfortunately smoke weed (anymore) nor do I watch the news or TV (except for motor racing, rugby and survivor!).
My best mate is an MD and I am a retired from practice Naturopath with many years of clinical experience.
I think I am speaking from some element of experience and knowledge, how about you?
