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Yes - smoking any type of smoke (even if it's just woodsmoke) has the potential to cause problems, observed or not. Most likely it varies strongly person to person. Some people might be just fine, others might have serious issues. If someone truly wants to use it, I think it wise they NOT smoke it.
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Well, the point was that the actual scientific evidence is that the problems they expected to find from marijuana smoke, given its similarity to tobacco smoke, haven't materialized despite repeated studies. If there were such problems, it'd really have been proven by now.
You're right - 'must' implies a reliance.
I meant it as in 'truly insists on doing so, routinely' (as opposed to someone who wants to just try it once to see what it's like).
Ok, fair enough.
Though I'd also add that there are plenty of instances where people do something routinely for pleasure where the "need" statement is still inapplicable. For example, the most moderate people on earth, my parents, pretty much always have a glass of wine with dinner. They don't need to - sometimes they don't - but they routinely do. And, alcohol is one of the more addictive substances. Yet even there, "need" would be inappropriate.
(I do not intend to dig too much into you specifically and/or your statements; I tend to get a little riled up when it comes to this particular subject because I am rather implacably opposed to the War on Drugs and the harms it has caused.....as compared to the harms it has utterly failed to prevent. Therefore, I tend to dig into what I see as often problematic rhetoric used in such debates)