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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP -- where do you live that you aren't surrounded by weed? In the DC area, the smell of weed is everywhere--walking down the street, at the mall, in the grocery store, at the library, etc. Why would you expect any less on a college campus? I went to college before weed was legal and was surrounded by weed, so, yes, I think there's even easier access to weed in college now that it's legal/decriminalized in a majority of states.[/quote]

Safer than drinking to excess.[/quote]

No, it's not.[/quote]

Please explain. Dying of alcohol poisoning exists. It's impossible to die from cannabis. [/quote]

Not PP but actually you're wrong. [b]There's strong evidence to suggest some[/b] cannabis use in young men 17yrs old+ leads to long term psychosis and can trigger schizophrenia. That's a death sentence if ever there was one.[/quote]

So what you're saying is, as far as we know at present, there's no proven link. Kind of different than the 2200 alcohol poisoning deaths a year just in the US. [/quote]

There's not "strong evidence" -- meta-analyses suggest that there is an increased risk of association between heavy cannabis use and psychotic episodes --but given that the risk of psychotic episodes are relatively low the increased risk is less than a 1% likelihood (even though this might be a "two-fold" or even "four-fold" increase.  Second, the connection with schizophrenia is even less well-established and even rarer.  Third, all of the evidence are based on correlational models--not causal evidence.  It is likely that at least some of the association is that people who are prone to mental illness may be drawn to drug usage as a form of self-medication, making the causal effects less.
Cannabis isn't harmless, but your statement seems fear-mongering.[/quote]

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