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smellycat said:
I think there is indeed a difference between so-called "natural" drugs  and manufactured ones.

For example, when I smoke the ganj, I'm taking it in its natural form, how it is found in nature.  Although there have been technological advances in the production of marijuana (like hydroponics, indoor growing, new strains, etc) that increase the potency of the plant, I'm still smoking it in an non-isolated or refined form.  The more someone works at isolating the THC, the easier it is to take larger doses of it, which is both good and bad: while hash most certainly gets you higher, it perhaps does more damage than the marijuana that it was made from.

In other words, I think the more isolating and altering of the chemicals found in nature, the easier it is to take in harmful amounts of it.  Too much off a good thing, ain't so good...

This argument could go the other way, too: Perhaps smoking pure THC is actually better for you than smoking the plant with all that additional and unnecessary plant matter.

This is a complex topic and I guess you can't make a broad assumption that covers all the drugs out there...so you're not unjustified about finding that statement amusing (however, I still think there is some validity to my first point).

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