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One of the things I hate hearing about marijuana today is that it is so much stronger than it used to be years ago. All too often this is portrayed as a negative when the reality is quite the opposite. As a former marijuana smoker, I used to always try to get the best quality I could. The only thing this means is that you have to smoke LESS to get to your desired level. More potent marijuana doesn't get anybody higher, it just means they have to smoke less of it. This is a good thing as far as the health of your lungs is concerned. If you smoke low quality, you have to smoke a whole pipe full or a joint or a blunt to get to your desired level of highness. When you smoke some of the highest quality marijuana you usually only need one good bong hit to get to your desired level. It seems like these people who don't know what's going on assume that marijuana smokers will smoke the same amount no matter what potency it is. That assumption is just completely wrong. There is nothing worse than smoking a lot of low quality marijuana and coughing all night long. I have never had any long lasting bad effects from smoking small amounts of high potency marijuana. Your lungs might hurt for a few minutes at the most, but after that you experience no lasting effects. The effects are nowhere near as intense as smoking even one cigarette would be. If marijuana was legal, I probably wouldn't even have smoked it as much. I would be much more willing to bake brownies or make marijuana butter if was legal and cheaper. Unfortunately it takes much more marijuana to eat than it does to smoke. And because it is illegal that raises the cost which pretty much forces people to smoke it. From what I have heard, the only negatives about marijuana are the harms of smoking it. If it were legal it would be smoked less and eaten more. Anyway, I was glad that the Marijuana Nation episode of Explorer didn't directly say that more potent marijuana was bad, although the tone kind of sounded that way. All in all it seemed like a pretty fair and informative episode. I would just like people to understand that highly potent marijuana is not a bad thing at all. I would also like people to understand that keeping marijuana illegal is not preventing anybody from having access to it, they are going to get it either way. The only thing it really has to do with is whether or not people who smoke marijuana should have to go to jail and be punished. All those parents out there who don't want their kids to be around that need to realize that they will be around that no matter what, it is just whether or not they should go to jail if the ever do try it. But I guess that is a topic for another day.
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