I was going from memory there, but yeah, there are side effects from smoking marijuana.
Perhaps it should be pointed out that there is a difference between "effects" and "side effects"?
People use recreational MJ for the effect, like any relaxant, even a few glasses of wine can have that effect and is the reason why people drink alcohol. Some unfortunately don't know when enough is enough.
A "side effect" is something usually unwanted. In the case of prescription drugs, the adverse side effects are weighed against the desired effect of the drug. Often, the side effects are worse than the condition being treated and the desired effect of the drug is overshadowed by the unwanted side effects, so they have to be treated with other drugs.....and the expensive cycle continues, with the patient poorer but no better off.
Medicinal cannabis does not have these unwanted side effects that need other drugs to offset its effect. It is one of the most harmless substances that a human can consume....but it has been demonised by the drug companies because it would replace most of their poison.
Some of the same side effects also apply to CBD, such as dry mouth and drowsiness. Also, it can interact with certain blood thinners.
I have not seen any independent studies done to confirm that any adverse side effects have been noted. It has not been shown to interact adversely with other drugs either TMK.
Most anything taken into the body as medication will have side effects of some kind. That's just how it works. Mind you, the most of the side effects from CBD appear to be fairly minor.
Minor, compared with prescription drugs, is an understatement!
Side effects are the body's way of telling us that it is being poisoned. That is what the pharmaceutical industry has been dispensing for decades.....legalised poison.
The body itself has all the healing power it needs, but when people feed themselves artificially produced food which is dead nutritionally, the body is deprived of the resources necessary to heal itself. Our immune system is beautifully designed, but it is hampered by poor diet, lack of exercise and a poisoned environment, polluted in every way imaginable. Our food, water, even the air we breathe....everything that can make us sick and keep us sick confronts us every day. Things that can give us a measure of health are either prohibited or ridiculously expensive, whilst the poisons are freely available but also ridiculously expensive. We seem to accept the expense of the drugs but not the expense of good food. Who is responsible for that situation being the acceptable norm? A good diet would eliminate a lot of health problems.
Hippocrates said:
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
We have untapped ways of healing ourselves.....even the drug companies have to do double blind studies in their drug trials because of the "placebo effect", which they treat as some kind of a nuisance. If a person can heal themselves with a sugar pill, then imagine the untapped resources we have within our own mind and body to get well? Instead of fobbing off the placebo effect, why is it not embraced and utilised? I'll tell you why.....there is no money in sugar pills.
If the big pharma companies can't make a synthetic form of a medicinal plant, they can't patent it. If they can't patent it, they can't make their fortunes. Greed drives that industry, not a desire to help people get well. It's time people woke up.