Pot linked to bad teeth

I tried in vain to get the story from the paper, but try to call up Yesterday's news. This is junk science at it's best. Reports from Toronto have found that pot smokers that use at least once a week are more than three times as likely to get periodontal disease. Now they claim it's the pot. Nothing to do with munching all those Cheetos or eating brownies. Nope, it's smoking dope. Once a week. Dr.James Beck, a dentistry professor at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, described how users' teeth would eventually fall out. He then goes on to warn of dire consequences from the resulting gum disease that would lead to heart disease and stroke. This is really scary. I think I'm going to go watch TV and relax to try and relieve some of the tension. By the way,The report said that 26% of Ontario students used cannabis at least once in the past year. 10% are daily users, increasing with each grade from 4% of seventh graders to 45% of grade 12's. It doesn't say how many years it takes a pot smoker to get to grade 12, which is surprising given the other claims.
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so does ibuprofen

Okay, so I'm using drug that might, possibly lead to (horrors!) rotten teeth. What to do? Oh, here's an idea--send a SWAT team to break down my door in the middle of the night. Make sure they come in with guns drawn, in case I decide to exercise my legal right to defend my home from unknown intruders. Terrorize my children and put them in a foster home, where they may or may not be housed with older juvenile sex offenders. Take my home, my car, my livelihood. If possible, put me in prison, where drugs are readily available and needle-borne Hepatitis C is rampant.

Another possible solution would be to legalize drugs and use some of the billions of dollars saved to provide medical and dental treatment to those who want it.

YOU are terrorizing your

YOU are terrorizing your children. I don't know either one of my parents and I'm 29. They always had friends over, were gone, or in the bathroom. Way to go.

another possible solution

You can move to Vancouver.They won't let the cops kick doors down with drawn guns anymore and there's lots of good cron.Of course it's still illegal and then there's the DEA running around trying to deport people.Never mind,bad idea.

cigerrets

so good....love them

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