Marijuana is harmless and is safer to use long-term than alcohol or tobacco.

Rebuttals to Rebuttals1. Smoking Marijuana vs the Proper UsageMy opponent's argument here is, in it's entirety, an Ad Populum fallacy. The fact that more people smoke it is irrelevant: that's not the medically advised way of administering the drug and it is thus them harming themselves for not acting in accordance with the medically sound standard.Just because the majority of recreational marijuana users smoke the drug, does not make Marijuana inherently harmful rather than the people who choose to smoke it themselves. Marijuana is a herb, and also a legal mmedicinal treatment for patients suffering of a variety of conditions, including the terminally ill, people with basic aches and pains, and people with severe neurological diseases. [1] To assume that it's smoked version is equivalent to itself and thus makes the herb harmful would be equivalent to assuming that Tylenol is harmful because some people take massive amounts of it and OD. If more people (somehow) took boat loads of Tylenol and died as a result than people who used it properly, would that make Tylenol inherently harmful or the actions of the abuser inherently harmful? 1A. Abuse does not equal addiction or persistent useMy opponent falsely equivalates abuse of the drug to "addiction". Abuse of the drug, in this case, applies to taking it in it's improper form or to taking extreme quantities of it at once (i.e 30,000x the regular amount)2. "There is no medically advised form of administering marijuana"This is entirely untrue. Yes, medical dispensaries do offer their patients a choice to take marijuana in the smoking form as it takes effect quicker (which the direly ill may desire despite it not being the recommended form), but even entirely pro-marijuana groups [3] that regulate the sale of medical marijuana say that the edible form wields little health risks whilst the ill-recommended smoking form does. Thus, the medical community recommends either edible marijuana, vaporized marijuana, or marijuana tinctures for people wishing to use them in the proper, medically advised form, and not marijuana when considering only the adverse health effects it wields. [2] [3]Since the proper form of marijuana usage is through vapor, edibles, or tinctures, any health risks associated with the smoking of marijuana can be attributed as being at the fault of the user for improperly administering it rather than as the fault of the herb itself.2A. Marijuana v Tobacco in the proper usageMuch like how my opponent has claimed there was no medically advised standard of marijuana consumption, there is actually no recommended dosage amount or method of administering marijuana medically. Why? Because tobacco is an inherently lethal drug, unlike Marijuana.Tobacco is only consumable in one fashion: smoking, unlike marijuana. The smoke inhalation is proven to have an adverse effect on the lungs and brain. [4]2B. Marijuana v Alcohol in the proper usageMuch like tobacco, there is no medically advised usage of alcohol in it's recreational form (if we discount that alcohol is to mean alcohol as in "rubbing alcohol" or the likes). Even the casual yet regular usage of alcohol, if not used to an entirely abusive or addictive standard, is proven to cause long-term adverse effects including liver, heart, and brain damage. [5] [6] [7]C. My opponent's study - this rebuttal applies to new arguments 2 and 3The study in question, despite my opponent's claims, does directly cite an adverse effect on the nucleus accumbens in animals, and cites the results of these studies as having leeway in the basis of the motivational purpose of their hypothesis.".. animal studies have demonstrated that exogenous and endogenous cannabinoids can significantly alter synaptic transmission in the nucleus accumbens (Lupica et al., 2004) and in the amygdala (Azad et atl., 2004). Third, animal studies have shown that structural abnormalities can occur in the nucleus accumbens of the THC-treated animals (Kolb et al., 2006).."Additionally, whilst it was found that there was an increase in grey matter density in the nucleus accumbens, it was never proven that this can be directly correlated to on-balance harmful results or mental disease. My opponent has gone to a major stretch in correlating changed grey matter density to schizophrenia - the density change was not even relatively significant compared to changes associated with negative mental diseases like schizophrenia (which is scarcely mentioned in the study) as alleged. How is the information found in this study proven as being of all-around "harmful nature"? If it has the potential to treat and cure pain associated with terminal illness and sickness, then I would say it disqualifies marijuana as being "harmful" because the benefits of curing painful conditions outweigh the relatively minor changes in grey brain matter, making it on balance more beneficial than harmful. New point rebuttal - Effects last longerThis argument does not even take a jab at attempting to prove why the effects of marijuana used in it's proper form are naturally negative, as they can include pain relief, calming of seizures, and relief of stress. "Laziness and lack of motivation", even if lasting for long periods of time, are still not as harmful as the lung cancer, liver failure, extreme vomiting, and etc that tobacco and alcohol can potentially cause. My opponent alleges that the effects of dangerous substances like alcohol and tobacco are "just temporary" and "out of the system within 24 hours" - this is untrue. Lung cancer and liver/heart failure do not "exit the system within 24 hours". [5] [4] [6]------I have respectfully won the debate thus far in proving in previous rounds that Marijuana, for whatever reason, has not been proven to be attributed to any deaths (EVEN if used improperly/abusively), compared to the inherent deaths as a result of alcohol and tobacco, proving that it is thus less harmful than the other two combined. References[1] - (http://www.cancer.ca...)[2] - (http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com...)[3] - (http://www.marijuanagrowershq.com...) [4] - (http://www.quit.org.au...)[5] - (https://www.drinkaware.co.uk...)[6] - (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov...)[7] - (http://en.wikipedia.org...)