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a glass of red a night is most likely not going to give you cancer or damage your DNA. a joint a night on the other have just might (depending on your predisposition) have an extremely negative effect

besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis

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It's like you don't even know google exists. You just spout one false fact after another.

Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion.

I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2).

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Ca....

2) https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient...

How long do you think humans have been consuming cannabis? Arguably longer than alcohol, not that it matters anyhow. The restrictions are arbitrary, not to mention being habituated to a nightly GABA agonist (alcohol) has just as many negative implications as nightly cannabinoids. The cannabinoids just won't five you cancer on top of it

So vaporize it.

Not "vape", with juice.

Heat, and inhale.

I'm specifically focusing on the pharmacology of the psychoactive substances rather than the method used to consume them. No matter the method of administration, there are still risks and side effects. Sidestepping the discussion of smoking vs gaping allows us to focus on the action of the compounds themselves. We already know smoking is bad, we should not combust things and inhale the byproducts

Yah, well. Then don't. Maybe plug the gaping hole with it. Rectal administration is a thing. (I've heard)

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