(11-04-2012, 01:27 AM)AnnabelP Wrote: [ -> ]To come back on topic, just Googling "cannabis gynecomastia" produces loads of material. Clearly the question of whether weed causes gyno is controversial but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that it inhibits it.
On whether weed is too risky to smoke regularly, this like so many other things in life, is a matter of personal risk assessment, which may have a very different result from public risk assessment. With countless millions of pot smokers around, even a very low incidence of adverse events can reasonably be seen as a serious public health problem. Similar considerations apply for example to conventional HRT. Bryony is right to say that one should be aware of the risks but it is your personal assessment that counts for you. For the record, I have only smoked it once, but since I gave up smoking the much more dangerous tobacco a long, long time ago, I have been scared to smoke anything in case I get hooked again; the act of smoking seemed to me almost as compulsive as nicotine is addictive. Serious obsessions or addictions are much more dangerous since personal risk assessment goes out of the window
AP
"Experience is what you have just after you needed it most".
Hi AP,
In general, I agree with your point about personal risk assessment, but
only for people who are loners
In my humble opinion, modern society (since I was a kid in the 60s) has been a relentless brainwash in the form of, to quote Aleister Crowley, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".
It is
not true, as long as what you do to yourself harms others,
directly, or indirectly.
If you look back through the logs, you'll see that I have strong opinions about wives and loved ones. When you harm yourself, you harm them. If you go through life thinking to yourself "I have to be true to myself and bugger all others", then you quickly wind up on your own, sad and lonely, possible losing your mind.
I loathe and detest the cult of "me, me, me". What pot smokers, along with married men who want the full gender reassignment surgery should think to themselves is: "what about the people who love me? What is it going to do to them? Do I care about them? Do I love them enough not to do this thing?"
Nothing else matters to me; as an agnostic (too confusing to use the correct word, atheist) I have no absolute moral reference; but I do have a code to live by, and the very first line of that code is:
do no harm to others who love you.
(Flag: major off-topic rant.)
That first line is why I have no time for men who are FF have kids and a wife and they all love each other going for the GRS operation. I am perfectly happy and would encourage single transsexuals, particularly those with no interest in penetration to go for it. (I might advise them to consider Facial Fem. surgery first though)
(But to have your penis cut off and deny your partner the ultimate act of love and bonding for what is, essentially, a hobby, a whim, a conceit, a sham, a masquerade, is to my mind, an absolute disgrace.
I believe that there are some unfortunate people who find it impossible not to be as completely female as possible, but I am convinced that such people would never be able marry and have children successfully. Such people should be content with expressing their feminity in ways that were never available to us before.)
The second line of my moral code is:
do no harm to others, unless they deserve it by having wronged you or someone you care for.
That rules out pot smoking for loners too, in my opinion. As I live in a country that has a national health service, that takes a huge percentage of the massive amount of tax that I pay/have paid, it p**** me off to have to pay out for repairing the damage that some thoughtless, feckless morons do to themselves in the form of drug/tobacco/alcohol/food abuse. Yes, they may have assessed the personal risk, but do they give a s**t about who has to carry the can for their indulgence?
If we had a society where we provided freedom AND responsibility, so that people that screw themselves up have to live on some kind of work farm under controlled conditions until they have paid back the cost of their rehabilitation in full, but the kind of liberal attitude that preaches personal freedom somehow always seems to include joint responsibility!
Anyway.... rant off! (no offense intended - just feel strongly!)
B.