Marijuana can cause many harmful effects. ... The report says that both heavy drinking and marijuana smoking can produce symptoms of psychosis in susceptible people. ... Animal studies have found that THC can damage the cells and tissues in the body that help protect people from disease. ... For some people, marijuana raises blood pressure slightly and can double the normal heart rate. ... Subjects also committed 2.5 times more errors when they attempted to tou...

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A disease causes its own signs and symptoms. ... They pick up right where they left off, no matter how much time has gone by. ... The addict can only return to normal life when only the drinking or drug use stops completely. ... Treatment non-compliance is the biggest cause of relapses for all chronic illnesses, including asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and addiction. ... Remember, addicts are not bad people, they are sick people trying to get well. ...

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There are many problems with the government thinking it can protect people from themselves, and their own choices. ... No one has the right to tell you, I, or anyone else what they can or can not do with their own bodies. Once we give up that right, there is no longer a line to be drawn saying what the government can or can not enforce in our homes. ... Many people my age that have completed the D.A.R.E program share in my frustration of the lies we were told, and how we were scared into believing them. ... Especially considering that the government's drug prohibition is the cause for ...

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