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Marijuana Facts: More Common Marijuana Myths Dispelled

By: MedSeed

Marijuana Myth: Marijuana has a direct effect on ones ability to concentrate.
Marijuana Facts: Marijuana, much like alcohol comes in many different varieties and strength. Research has determined that many types of bud actually enhance concentration and cognitive abilities. Sativa strains are commonly known as an intellectual stimuli, sociability are improved in the right conditions.
Marijuana Myth: Medical Marijuana Seeds have less THC than normal cannabis seeds.
Marijuana Facts: Medical Marijuana Seeds are chosen for specific medicinal properties much like pharmaceuticals. Providing you buy seeds from a reputable Medical Marijuana Seed supplier, you will find the viability and potency are the same as seeds world class seed banks.
Marijuana Myth: Today's marijuana is more potent than many years ago.
Marijuana Facts: Very Potent marijuana strains from the 1970's like California Orange exceeded 20 percent THC content. However, these strains were limited to small groups of people in certain geographic areas of California. Recently, the availability of the more potent strains is far easier thanks to the internet and a few talented breeders that have taken these original land race strains and bred them with other exotic plants from around the world, like African and Hindu Kush strains resulting in powerful new hybrid crosses.
Marijuana Myth: Amsterdam is the Marijuana Capital of the world
Marijuana Facts: California may be know for great weather and earthquakes, but it also is home to marijuana culture and high quality genetics. Since the 1960's California has been acquiring and cultivating some of the most potent and elite strains found anywhere on the planet. However, California laws changed in the 1980's when bud was targeted by Regan's war on drugs, that unfortunately wiped out many of the world class strains that had accumulated in the region.
As this continued into the mid 90's, forcing some of the elite breeders to take their craft elsewhere to escape prosecution and Holland looked promising. The Dutch are famous for their floral cultivation, and the cannabis counter culture began to build momentum. MeanwhileAlso, back in North America many growers were migrating to the very liberalanother pot friendly location on the Canadian west coast city of Vancouver. Thanks to open minded areas of the world like Amsterdam and Vancouver, marijuana has flourished and many great new strains have surfaced.
Amsterdam might be known worldwide as ground zero for marijuana, but Humboldt county California, thanks to recent medical legalization, is truly the Pot Mecca.
Marijuana Myth: Frequent marijuana use causes serious lung damage.
Marijuana Facts: The chance of contracting cancer by using cannabis is next to none. Tobacco smokers generally smoke a pack a day for many years, but virtually nobody will smoke cannabis to that extent required to cause cancer. Research done by the University of California in the 90's determined that even prolonged use of cannabis does not cause any harmful lung effects. Cancer risks from common foods (dairy products, salt, red meats) far exceed any cancer risks posed by smoking marijuana. Respiratory health hazards and cancer dangers can be completely removed by ingesting marijuana in baked foods.
Marijuana Myth: Marijuana has more than four hundred chemical ingredients, thus proving that marijuana is dangerous.
Marijuana Facts: Coffee has more than 1,000 chemical ingredients. Rat poison contains only 30 chemicals. Many common fruits contain harmful chemical ingredients. There are no direct connections between the number of chemicals a substance contains and its toxicity. Prohibitionists often cite this misleading statistic to put cannabis is a negative light.
Marijuana Myth: Marijuana use leads to harder drugs.
Marijuana Facts: The U.S. government's own statistics show that more than 75% of U.S. citizens who smoke marijuana never move on to use hard drugs. The gateway myth has surfaced because of a lack of understanding. Using this flawed logic, alcohol should be considered the gateway drug because many addicted hard drug users started using alchol --not marijuana.