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Werner Michael answers:

Here’s an idea, let everyone live their life the way they want to…

Werner Michael answers:

There absolutely nothing wrong with smoking weed. She is her own person with rights that you don’t have a right to infringe on. She’s not going to kill any body cause she smokes, she not going to kill herself cause she smokes, her smoking does nothing to harm you. Only if it harms others in a real way not just cause you don’t like it but real harm then leave her alone about it. Stop trying to control that which you have no right to and be a FRIEND not a parent that has swallowed all the nonsense on marijuana from “Drug Free America” “live Above The Influence” That’s all a load of hogwash. Do real reading on marijuana and you’lll learn truth not lies.

Werner Michael answers:

First of all, smoking weed isn’t a huge problem… It does cause damage to the lungs, as any smoke does, but THC has actually been shown to inhibit tumor growth… So no cancer… And some of the smartest people I know(we’re talkin 90%s in everything at the university level) are pretty big stoners…. I’ve never seen or felt any signs that it has any negative cognitive effects.

Secondly, weed doesn’t give you a physical addiction… Your body won’t develop a dependence on it. It can create a mental addiction, but that is fairly easily broken as others have said, a little extra fun in the sack might be just what the doctor ordered. Pavlovian positive re-enforcement is a great way to go about this. For each day he doesn’t smoke, offer a reward, if he falls off the bandwagon, don’t offer him the reward, but no punishment either… The more upset a person is, the more likely they are to smoke up.

That being said, weed is not a dangerous drug, look up the BBC documentary “Is Alcohol worse than Ecstasy?” and you’ll see a ranking of the top-20 worst drugs, weed falls in behind booze and cigarettes. If the smoking aspect is what concerns you, there are several ways of consuming marijuana without smoking it… Baking it into brownies is the classic, you can make a drink with boiling milk, or you can make green dragon, which is basically weed soaked in high proof alcohol for a month… After that, each shot is the equivalent of a joint, so there’s little alcohol consumption, and no smoking…

Stopping cold turkey isn’t even that hard, unless he’s formed a heavy mental addiction, which is pretty rare.