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Originally Posted by alkitsa
My question is as follows:
I had smoked marijuana causally (about once every 2-4 weeks) with friends before the incident. Could this have been the cause for the brain lesions and seizure? Can marijuana cause such a thing as seen in the attached pictures? Would it be ok for me to smoke again socially?
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- Almost anything is possible. Whether something is likely is a different matter. AFAIK, the likelihood of marijuana causing such lesions is pretty slim, or we would have heard more about it.
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- Due to prohibition, we do not know as much about the (potential) effects of smoking marijuana as we would (or should). Over 70 years of research opportunity has been lost. Eventually, we should catch up, but that will still take some time, and there will be a lot of argument/debate/discussion (as there should be) in the process.
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- While marijuana is not as dangerous/harmful as some would have us believe, it is likewise not as harmless as others would have us believe. As with other polarizing issues, the truth lies somewhere in-between. Nothing is without risk.
Bottom Line: It's not a simple cut-and-dried issue/question, and the opinions of anonymous people on the internet can sometimes have little/nothing to do with facts/science. Even supposedly objective scientific studies can be flawed (enough) in design and/or interpretation so as to be biased/opinionated.
This may sound like a cop-out—and perhaps it is (so be it), and I'm almost sure it's not what you want to hear—but I think the best answer/course is for each individual to dig in, do their own research, come to their own conclusions about the risks, and then make their own decisions about how to treat—and what to put into—their bodies.
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