>> ^Sagemind:

I think it you miss the point though.
Tobacco used to be just a plant. You smoked the plant. What could be more natural?
The Big Tobacco companies took over. Now it's no longer tobacco plant you are smoking with cigarettes.
Only 50% of what is in a cigarette is tobacco and even that is treated with sugars and chemicals to make it easier for the body to absorb. The rest is chemicals, reclaim and recon which are all there to addict you while it's killing you at the same time.
With marijuana, in most cases it's still just plant, in the same form as it was when it was picked from the plant.
I don't smoke either of them but if I had to choose, I'd pick the one without the additives and addictants. I doubt there is anything "Natural" about smoking any form of grass. It's all a form of carbon monoxide (in my opinion), the grass itself is more natural and I think that counts for something.
One of the horrifying concepts in legalizing marijuana, is that Big Tobacco companies will take over the manufacturing process and will bastardize the product like it has with cigarettes and the health effects will be disastrous.
>> ^Ghostly:
>> ^Sagemind:
I think this is relevant here.
What's inside a US blended cigarette?
http://videosift.com/video/What-s-inside-a-US-blended-cigarette

I suspect if you you compared smoking natural weed to smoking natural dried tobacco the negative effects health effects would be similar. Likewise, if joints were prepared in the same way as commercial cigarettes they'd be just as bad as one another.
I won't presume to know the health effects of the natural products, but I'm all for people being allowed to use them as they see fit. So long as I'm not forced to breath second hand smoke in public places because even if they're not bad for you, personally, I don't care for either.


Nah, I got all that but perhaps failed to express my point clearly. I was trying to point out that it's silly to argue (not saying you were but others do) that pot is "healthier" than tobacco since it is not being compared like to like i.e. either both natural or both with added shit. Either way my personal opinion (admittedly with out anything solid backing it up) is that any type of smoke is going to be worse for your health than clean air. Despite that I'm all for people being free to choose regardless of how good or bad it is, natural or with added shit, so long as I'm not forced to inhale it, I don't care if others want to poison themselves.

I knew going to McDonald's was bad for your health.

@Payback

The difference between discriminating against people with open bleeding wounds and people of color:

Bleeding alerts you to a potentially dangerous condition which might adversely affect your health, therefore justifying your prejudice.

Color alerts you to.. nothing, therefore your prejudice is irrational and uncalled for.

Demeanor [i.e. abnormal gestures, aggressive posture, pacing back and forth] is a much more solid reason to discriminate against a person.. who may just happen to be of color.

Racism is racism. No two ways about it.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
american style health care is overpriced, over-prescribed, and exactly as much choice as your health insurance says you need.
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My posts are really doing it for you lately huh Thank you again marinara!

american style health care is overpriced, over-prescribed, and exactly as much choice as your health insurance says you need.
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A socialist nation with an enfranchised church and a hereditary monarch as head of state? Pull the other one.
>> ^quantumushroom:

Yeah, it's socialist. Not quite Cuba, but still...
The English are denied the right to defend their lives with firearms. There's cameras everywhere keeping everyone "safe". Freedom of speech has been shackled a hundred times over. When a government owns your health, it owns YOU.
The welfare state continues unabated. Please take Obama as a parting gift, we'll throw in Biden for free.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
You think that Britain is socialist!?
>> ^quantumushroom:
I thought socialism would have turned England into a utopian paradise by now!

Yeah, it's socialist. Not quite Cuba, but still...

The English are denied the right to defend their lives with firearms. There's cameras everywhere keeping everyone "safe". Freedom of speech has been shackled a hundred times over. When a government owns your health, it owns YOU.

The welfare state continues unabated. Please take Obama as a parting gift, we'll throw in Biden for free.


>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

You think that Britain is socialist!?
>> ^quantumushroom:
I thought socialism would have turned England into a utopian paradise by now!

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Too angry to comment right now.


Calm down, getting so worked up is bad for your health. It may even cause a heart attack and then the Fox Newsorrists win.

putting your hand in the ice machine could be bad for your *health

>> ^Trancecoach:

well, I don't disagree with you, but fast food joints are also run by local managers.
>> ^ghark:
There's something sinister about marketing - I mean this ad is all fun, hip and 'edgy' (well tries to be), but it's pushing food that is contributing to the global diabetes disaster and multitudes of other health problems (globesity). I doubt many people realise just how nasty the crap in these burgers is, but everyone wants to eat tasty food, and these places are convenient to go to when there is one on every corner, so they win, in part because of marketing like this.
My advice, if you want to go out, go to a restaurant owned and run by someone local, it may cost you a few more dollars and be more difficult to get to, but you'll be doing your health a favor, and your local community as well.



Aye not owned though, which is the key, because all decisions about what go into the food come from management higher up.

well, I don't disagree with you, but fast food joints are also run by local managers.

>> ^ghark:

There's something sinister about marketing - I mean this ad is all fun, hip and 'edgy' (well tries to be), but it's pushing food that is contributing to the global diabetes disaster and multitudes of other health problems (globesity). I doubt many people realise just how nasty the crap in these burgers is, but everyone wants to eat tasty food, and these places are convenient to go to when there is one on every corner, so they win, in part because of marketing like this.
My advice, if you want to go out, go to a restaurant owned and run by someone local, it may cost you a few more dollars and be more difficult to get to, but you'll be doing your health a favor, and your local community as well.

There's something sinister about marketing - I mean this ad is all fun, hip and 'edgy' (well tries to be), but it's pushing food that is contributing to the global diabetes disaster and multitudes of other health problems (globesity). I doubt many people realise just how nasty the crap in these burgers is, but everyone wants to eat tasty food, and these places are convenient to go to when there is one on every corner, so they win, in part because of marketing like this.

My advice, if you want to go out, go to a restaurant owned and run by someone local, it may cost you a few more dollars and be more difficult to get to, but you'll be doing your health a favor, and your local community as well.

*dag will hate me for saying it, but spending too much time on Videosift is bad for your health!