Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "New Illinois bill would change workplace marijuana rules" video.
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@AngelaSantanaYoSantana Some points, alcohol can be metabolized, and turned into sugars. As sugar (glucose) it can be used as an energy source or stored as fat (a negative towards health). As far as damaging effects, in a healthy person, this has to be looked at in reference to both quality used and time used to drink it. Most healthy people can detoxify alcohol at a fixed rate, so if the quantity used does not exceed the bodies capability there is little effect; while a smaller quantity can cause harm as well. The problem with Marijuana is that it can't be metabolized, it has a half life in the body, it is also stored in fate cells (a separate issue). That means that a regular user accumulates the active chemicals in the blood stream and/or fat. So, for argument sake let's assign a value of 2 as intoxicated (since the effect is very much individual based, I know of no standard value for intoxication). A person smokes 1 joint today giving a value of 1. Marijuana's half life is seven days, so the user only uses 1 every seven days (very artifical behavior, more frequent use is probable). On the seventh day after smoking the value in the blood is 1.5, one from that days joint and .5 from the devious one. Seven days later, the user smokes another joint. After smoking, the blood value is 1.75; one from that day, .5 from the previous week and finally .25 from two weeks ago. Now a fourth week, again after smoking, the value is one from the fourth week, .5 from the third week, .25 from the second week, and finally .125 from the first week. Giving a blood level of 1.875. A fifth week will place the user in a state of intoxication, something the user doesn't believe because it has never happened before. The results aren't this simple, the strength of the chemicals in Marijuana (the dangerous ones are in street purchases ) very by a number of factors including how much non-Marijuana material is included, some of which are dangerous in their own right, other being whatever weeds they can add. The dangerous ones include Jepsen Weed (sp?), meth, opium, and even fentinal, the last are more likely added to move the user to other drugs to replace the effect.
Now to the affects, years ago the Canadian government of the time ran a series of experiments to determine the risk to equipment operators (including truckers). The results included three things adversely affected without the user being aware; and all three are tied to gether. Speed, distance and time perception. People routinely felt they were going faster or slower than they were, the same misperception of distance and speed where either over or under judgements are made. Other tests have shown a tendency towards paranoia with heavy, frequent users (particularly an issue with people with paranoid issues or tendencies). Others at risk are people with borderline personality issues and people with some other psychological issues.
The problem with much of this is the fact the user may no longer see the effects; while those around the user do see them. In other words, the user may lose the ability to determine reality; additionally, a heavy frequent user may be open to suggestion from the environment or others. Again, we are talking frequent, heavy users; but for some, the distance between occasional use and heavy frequent use becomes blurred due too altered perception.
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@Noahspurlin22 "No it's not" refers to what part of the post? It is hard to debate or refute an vague statement. If it is the half life of Marijuana in the system, it is about 7 days to the best of my memory. In other words half of the amount smoked in one day will still be there in 7 days. A half of that will still be there in 14 days, and half the amount there at 14 days will be there in 21 days. If you smoke the same amount each day, at some point you will exceed the amount that you use in any one day. The potency of the Marijuana also is a factor, somethingthe user doesn't control.
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Oint to remember Bhang is a Marijuana product made out of the flowering portions of the plant, Marijuana is made from leaves and stems, hashish is the sap of the plant beaten out of the plant and dried. All these are natural and get their effect from THC, with Marijuana being the lowest concentration and Hashish the highest. Hashish is a dangerous drug which can cause psychosis, brain, liver and kidney damage. The amount, frequency and potency of the others all can affect what effects if any occur and how fast they occur. You notice that I did not discuss edibles, the problem with these have the same potency, frequency and amount, but the additional issue that the effect take longer to manifest themselves, and actual overdoses have occurred requiring medical intervention.
Now an additional variable, the psychiatric state of the person taking the THC. People with borderline personality disorders (something they not really know about) and certain other mental conditions may see a worsening of those issues. This especially with people with paranoid tendencies. Even people without undetlying conditions may have psychological issues.
THC has a.so been tested as an incompacitating agent by at least two militaries of which I know. Neither adopted it because the effects were not predictable. These ranged from zoned out to psychotic. The latter especially a problem if the agent was meant to reduce violence.
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