Is it normal to think that there are negative side effects to smoking weed?

Shade is right. If one wants to know about something, one must research. Which OBVIOUSLY, NO ONE on this post has done, AT ALL!
First off, weed IS a drug.
Definition of drug: any substance, other than those necessary for life, (food,water,minerals,vitamins,sunlight), that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal body function.
Second: everything is fine in moderation, & bad in excess. Pure Water can poison you if you drink enough of it. Chewing on a coca leaf can be beneficial for you it gives your mouth a slightly numb feeling (good for sore teeth or other orthodontic problem, and gives you a little energy, like caffeine. but when you extract the oil of the plant and distill it( cook off other chemicals and water, leaving you powder cocaine), you are already in excess at fraction of a gram! To give you an idea of how excessive this is, a coca plant the size of a large dog will produce less than 1oz of powder.

Third: Of course it can be bad. IT'S A DRUG! Just look at the idiots who smoke it every single day. They are literally fascinated by shiny objects! Weed slows brain function. Slow it enough times and it stays slow! When was the last time you saw a business exec., or gov't official say, "Dude, I got the munchies!". Never!

So go back to school and this time, pay attention. God help this country if you are actually in school right now. Because THAT means you are the future of this country. No wonder it's going to shit.

Actually, weed isn't a drug. Drugs are manufactured, man made chemicals. Weed is a plant. XD

And yeah it has a bad side, everything you put in your body can be bad depending on the individual. Funny thing is, there are more carcinogens in the air and the food we eat and the medicine doctors give us than there is in cannabis. And of course anyone can be psychologically addicted... But you can be psychologically addicted to pretty much anything.

All I'm saying is people are always up in arms about a few things that might be bad for you, but they're ignoring lots of other ones that are even worse just because you never hear about that shit unless you actually do research.

I agree for sure. Weed can fuck you up in the long run, in its own subtle ways trust me. I've seen people who were like those "smoke all day" teenagers/young adults that ended up getting all paranoid, "out there", and stupid over many years of constantly being baked. Like anything else, moderation is key. Same with drinking. In moderation, its fine but when you get drunk all the time it fucks you up

Could anybody link me some of that research you keep talking about? I checked quick and it just seems to me that little serious studies have been made on weed.

Even tylenol has negative side effects. Everyone's body is different. Sure, filling your lungs with smoke isn't ideal. But you can eat it too.

The only negative thing about smoking weed is getting caught. This is one of the MANY reasons it needs to be legalized NOW!!

I feel the same way as you do. I try explaining that to other people, but they always try to throw what I have to say back at me, and call me closed minded. Really, they're the ones who don't know what they're talking about. I totally get why you think they're ignorant idiots. I feel the same way.

I was talking to the person 2 posts above me in the red who's anonymous. I wondered who started this, it doesn't say in the app :p

You have a very good point.
I can see why cannabis would be considered illegal, but it also bugs me that it just got thrown into that category because it shared factors with harsher drugs.

As others have stated, every body is distinct and reacts in its own way, but just like medications warn against all side effects (which always seem much much worse than anything I've EVER experienced while smoking).....why not do this with bud?

There are soooooo many different strains used for many different things.

In a world that's "going green" this plant could help so much as a natural herbal remedy.

'nuff said.

Ignorant, dear? High words coming from someone who doesn't even identify by their anonymous username. I'm not afraid to put my name to what I say, or to cite my sources. You would claim me ignorant, but I've done my research.

As you saw, my one inaccurate statement was already corrected; I should have define my terms better, but you seemed to ignore the rest of my educated post to pick out the one discrepancy and ignore all the facts I laid down. Tsk, tsk.

To elaborate which I stated in an erroneous fashion, I'm trying to point out the discrepancies. Everyone is fast to jump on the negative side effects if psychoactives or anything of questionable legality.

But do you ever question the synthetic drugs people use without question daily, trusting the buearocrats to determine what is safe? Do you know how harmful Tylenol is? Birth control pills, contraceptives, hormone replacement? We all know about steroids now.

Point I'm trying to make, we are poisoning ourselves with the things we consume without question, when some of these illegal substances have fewer negative side effects. Not that there are none, I never said that. I've seen individuals react really oddly to drugs, but that doesn't mean they're all bad. There's a growing list of medical conditions treatable by cannabis. Research into LSD (illegal because it was made a class 1 in the 70s, I believe) could produce treatments for migraines and cluster headaches, in fast that very research was halted because it was criminalized.

You're not incorrect, I just think you're not looking at the issues in full perspective.

I got a lot of good info from erowid.org, in the cannabis vault. There's a huge FAQ section, links to external sources, effects summary, pharmacology, and all the info you would want on weed or anything else. It's a website that prides itself on giving the straight dope (lol puns) on psychoactives.

You sir are a moron.

I just found out that smoking weed in cigars and swishers can cause cancer. ?!

Wow... Someone with the ability to think....

Amen..