Why is weed or cannabis considered a drug?

[DinohScene]

The question has already been answered that weed is a drug. So no need to continue that topic anymore. Like people said, Weed is a drug because it alters your brain. Anything that alters your brain is considered a drug. Medicines you get from clinics are drugs. Some drugs are considered good, some bad.

Key word I used is CURE not prevent. They formed a theory called the Reflex Neurosis Theory of Disease. Basically they believed all diseases came from human sexuality, erotic sensations and sex organs. Any use of sexuality without procreation was considered bad.

This is why historically homosexuality was considered bad as well as masturbation. Its basically free sex without the responsibility of a life time of taking care of a kid, before condoms and birth controls were invented. Just one act of sex was a life time of responsibility. Homosexuality was all the fun without the responsibility, and as well of fearing the species would die off with homosexual relationships. It was then written into religious books after, since religious laws were based on the mindset of those times. Religion and community were intertwined

Many middle eastern countries use their religion for Female genital mutilation to suppress women sexuality. The same was for western countries with circumcision to suppress male sexuality, to try to stop males from masturbating.

That's nonsense but you are right about the religious part.
Partially.

There's periods in the Renaissance where homosexuality was widely accepted.
Hell even in Muslim countries, there where periods of it being normal.
In Ancient Rome, nothing was more manly then having sex with another male, it was even considered below feminine to orally satisfy a female.

Anyway, discussing this will lead to a horrible derailment of the topic at hand so I'm not responding to it anymore.

 

[Reecey]

Drugs are wrong, full stop! Long term use of Cannabis/skunk has a none fact alongside it that it eventually causes serious mental illness to everyone that uses it and if you don't think this is a fact that's because if you use it regularly then you probably have mental illness already but it stays dormant until you stop it for a few weeks. As far as other drugs are concerned then your just plain stupid using them apart from Ecstasy that is everyone needs a few ecstasy tablets now and again to rave all night long!

 

[zSyntex]

I like to handle these topics. Let's say there's no reliable evidence that Marijuana is a heavy drug because it's a drug in the true sense of the term.
"Drugs", up to the twentieth century, were those herbal medicines or herbal preparations that allowed them to cure various pathologies, or their allievation.
There are still some grocery stores, or pharmacy and herbalistics.

This already explains how giving the name "drug" to Ganja is wrong, as I see it as a fantastic plant for various uses.
After all, where legal use of the substance is concerned, everyone can decide what to do and if he has never killed anyone or caused any problems, I can not find anything in his contrast.

 

[SG854]

That's nonsense but you are right about the religious part.
Partially.

There's periods in the Renaissance where homosexuality was widely accepted.
Hell even in Muslim countries, there where periods of it being normal.
In Ancient Rome, nothing was more manly then having sex with another male, it was even considered below feminine to orally satisfy a female.

Anyway, discussing this will lead to a horrible derailment of the topic at hand so I'm not responding to it anymore.

I have a lot more to say about this but I guess it is going off topic.

 

[jt_1258]

come on son *sits op on lap* this is gona be a fun little story, hey, maybe even how some children come to be

 

[JCCG1989]

MD here. Well, context is relevant here. "Legal" and "Illegal" drugs are termns defined by the special situation of every different legistlation in the world. Any and every "legal" and "ilegal" drug has it's uses, it's consecuences and it's position in the law. Let's remember alcohol was an illegal drug in the US and that proved to be a wrong idea. The problem with cannabis is that it has little to none medical potential of use (no, all the bullshit you read in forums and pages about curing cancer is not true) and just recently beign utilied as a painkiller. Alcohol and nicotine are legal drugs just because there is an overwhelming presence in the world population.

 

[forerofore]

Every body-altering substance is a drug (except for food)
alcohol is a drug
tobacco is a drug
cannabis is a drug
hell... maybe normal saline (H2O + NACL solution at 0.9%) should be considered a drug since it can kill you easily

taken from wikipedia: (yup... crappy source)
"A drug is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a physiological change in the body"
drug means it alters the body
TL; DR:
they are all drugs.
if it treats/helps you its called a medication
if it harms you its called a toxic
a toxin is a toxic produced biologically (with measurable action, AKA: botulinum toxin, staph exotoxin, tetanus toxin) (no... there are no toxins in most food, you would be dead if they were, this is for vegans lol)

this is not about culture, most people dont know anything about anything and call stuff based on what they hear/parents teach them, so they socially consider "drugs" to refer to substances of abuse, such as opioids, benzos, etc. please please try to learn the real meaning of the word drug so you can tell when a news article is written by someone who knows or not (most arent).

cannabis harms the brain long term and also causes the same damage in the lungs as tobbacco when smoked (only harms the brain on brownies ;D lol).
you are free to use cannabis recreationally or w/e

im out. peace, hope you guys learned something today

 

[BORTZ]

Once again, GBAtemp proves they are incapable of discussing controversial topics, no matter how trivial.