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Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Dopes
()
Date: April 15, 2014 09:19PM
Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Karen Weintraub, Special for USA TODAY 6:46 p.m. EDT April 15, 2014
A new study links casual marijuana use with significant changes to parts of the brain.
Using marijuana a few times a week is enough to physically alter critical brain structures, according to a new study published Tuesday in The Journal of Neuroscience.
"Just casual use appears to create changes in the brain in areas you don't want to change," said Hans Breiter, a psychiatrist and mathematician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who led the new study.
There is actually very little research on the potential benefits and downsides of casual marijuana smoking — fewer than four times a week on average.
In his study, done in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University, scientists looked at the brains of 20 relatively light marijuana users and 20 people who did not use it at all. All 40 were college students in the Boston area.
The study found volume, shape and density changes in two crucial brain areas — the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala — involved with emotion and motivation and some types of mental illness. "This is a part of the brain you do not want to mess around with," Breiter said.
The more marijuana the students smoked, the more their brains differed from the non-users, the study found.
The brain continues to develop well into the 20s, and even into the 30s, said Breiter, who is concerned about the long-term impacts of marijuana use on the developing brain.
Staci Gruber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research, said Breiter's findings are consistent with her own, although she has focused on somewhat heavier users.
"There have been a growing number of studies that suggest that marijuana use in emerging adults is associated with differences in brain structure and cognitive abilities," said Gruber, also the director of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital outside Boston. "I'm not saying (pot smoking) is analogous to shooting heroin or cocaine, but it's also not quite the benign substance people thought it was."
Responding to a study that found a decline in IQ points among people who used marijuana regularly, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, told USA TODAY recently that people should be more aware of these potential brain impacts.
"Perhaps it would be better if ... there was a little bit more recognition of that particular consequence," he said.
Karen Weintraub, Special for USA TODAY 6:46 p.m. EDT April 15, 2014
A new study links casual marijuana use with significant changes to parts of the brain.
Using marijuana a few times a week is enough to physically alter critical brain structures, according to a new study published Tuesday in The Journal of Neuroscience.
"Just casual use appears to create changes in the brain in areas you don't want to change," said Hans Breiter, a psychiatrist and mathematician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who led the new study.
There is actually very little research on the potential benefits and downsides of casual marijuana smoking — fewer than four times a week on average.
In his study, done in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University, scientists looked at the brains of 20 relatively light marijuana users and 20 people who did not use it at all. All 40 were college students in the Boston area.
The study found volume, shape and density changes in two crucial brain areas — the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala — involved with emotion and motivation and some types of mental illness. "This is a part of the brain you do not want to mess around with," Breiter said.
The more marijuana the students smoked, the more their brains differed from the non-users, the study found.
The brain continues to develop well into the 20s, and even into the 30s, said Breiter, who is concerned about the long-term impacts of marijuana use on the developing brain.
Staci Gruber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research, said Breiter's findings are consistent with her own, although she has focused on somewhat heavier users.
"There have been a growing number of studies that suggest that marijuana use in emerging adults is associated with differences in brain structure and cognitive abilities," said Gruber, also the director of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital outside Boston. "I'm not saying (pot smoking) is analogous to shooting heroin or cocaine, but it's also not quite the benign substance people thought it was."
Responding to a study that found a decline in IQ points among people who used marijuana regularly, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, told USA TODAY recently that people should be more aware of these potential brain impacts.
"Perhaps it would be better if ... there was a little bit more recognition of that particular consequence," he said.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Yucky24.
()
Date: April 15, 2014 09:43PM
I can't count the number of debates I've had with libtards who support weed legalization where I reveal to them that weed lowers IQ and causes mental illness and cancer. They always say that I'm completely full of shit and that smoking weed is actually good for people. This is yet more proof that the degenerate pro-drug D Baggers are fucking up our race by pushing drug use. Likewise for the growing legions of faux-conservative libertarians and moderate Republicans.
Drugs kill or ruin the lives of one famous celebrity after the next. And it's obvious to anyone who's ever been around drug users that their brains have been damaged. Drug use is obviously harmful for individuals and society. Yet the tidal wave of pro-drug propaganda sweeping across the West is only gaining in strength. It's only a matter of time before we become as fucked up as Afghanistan.
Drugs kill or ruin the lives of one famous celebrity after the next. And it's obvious to anyone who's ever been around drug users that their brains have been damaged. Drug use is obviously harmful for individuals and society. Yet the tidal wave of pro-drug propaganda sweeping across the West is only gaining in strength. It's only a matter of time before we become as fucked up as Afghanistan.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
eesh
()
Date: April 15, 2014 09:51PM
LOL Where's all those pot advocates that just say "it's organic man, this shit is natural."
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
gerrys liberal friend
()
Date: April 15, 2014 09:54PM
man free the people man
don't panic its organic man
peace, pot, and prosperity man
yeah mannn
don't panic its organic man
peace, pot, and prosperity man
yeah mannn
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Xud9y
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:00PM
I wonder if any other legal recreational drug has side effects on the brain?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Dopes
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:02PM
Yucky24. Wrote:
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> I can't count the number of debates I've had with
> libtards who support weed legalization where I
> reveal to them that weed lowers IQ and causes
> mental illness and cancer. They always say that
> I'm completely full of shit and that smoking weed
> is actually good for people. This is yet more
> proof that the degenerate pro-drug D Baggers are
> fucking up our race by pushing drug use. Likewise
> for the growing legions of faux-conservative
> libertarians and moderate Republicans.
>
I smoked up plenty. As did most of my friends. I like the stuff generally. But no way that I'd even start to try to argue that it doesn't have some fairly obvious and sometimes significant effects particularly among heavy users. You'd have to either be blind or in complete denial not to see it.
That said, I'm still for decriminalization. The way were doing it now just causes more problems than it solves.
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> I can't count the number of debates I've had with
> libtards who support weed legalization where I
> reveal to them that weed lowers IQ and causes
> mental illness and cancer. They always say that
> I'm completely full of shit and that smoking weed
> is actually good for people. This is yet more
> proof that the degenerate pro-drug D Baggers are
> fucking up our race by pushing drug use. Likewise
> for the growing legions of faux-conservative
> libertarians and moderate Republicans.
>
I smoked up plenty. As did most of my friends. I like the stuff generally. But no way that I'd even start to try to argue that it doesn't have some fairly obvious and sometimes significant effects particularly among heavy users. You'd have to either be blind or in complete denial not to see it.
That said, I'm still for decriminalization. The way were doing it now just causes more problems than it solves.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Jen Money
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:15PM
Alcohol is far worse for you, yet it's legal.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
smoked from 16 - 25 daily
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:20PM
>
>
> I smoked up plenty. As did most of my friends. I
> like the stuff generally. But no way that I'd
> even start to try to argue that it doesn't have
> some fairly obvious and sometimes significant
> effects particularly among heavy users. You'd
> have to either be blind or in complete denial not
> to see it.
>
> That said, I'm still for decriminalization. The
> way were doing it now just causes more problems
> than it solves.
+1
It really gets to you after a while. It made me paranoid, delusional, emotionless, boring. It was like I was living in my own black/white world when I smoked everyday.
>
> I smoked up plenty. As did most of my friends. I
> like the stuff generally. But no way that I'd
> even start to try to argue that it doesn't have
> some fairly obvious and sometimes significant
> effects particularly among heavy users. You'd
> have to either be blind or in complete denial not
> to see it.
>
> That said, I'm still for decriminalization. The
> way were doing it now just causes more problems
> than it solves.
+1
It really gets to you after a while. It made me paranoid, delusional, emotionless, boring. It was like I was living in my own black/white world when I smoked everyday.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
eesh
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:27PM
Jen Money Wrote:
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> Alcohol is far worse for you, yet it's legal.
Don't tell me you are some junkie whore....
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> Alcohol is far worse for you, yet it's legal.
Don't tell me you are some junkie whore....
Border Security is CHEAPER Than Wars
Posted by:
WingNut
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:30PM
That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY fun.....
No one has EVER died from a marijuana "overdose"...
Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and holding them in your lungs.
Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for concentration, logic and reasoning.
I seriously recommend that young people get as much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as often as they can afford.
No one has EVER died from a marijuana "overdose"...
Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and holding them in your lungs.
Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for concentration, logic and reasoning.
I seriously recommend that young people get as much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as often as they can afford.
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Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
exsmokefiend
()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:53PM
WingNut Wrote:
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> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
did you ever smoke quaaludes? fuckin shit is nasty. no way it should be free.
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> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
did you ever smoke quaaludes? fuckin shit is nasty. no way it should be free.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Smokie Da Bear.
()
Date: April 15, 2014 11:03PM
eesh Wrote:
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> LOL Where's all those pot advocates that just say
> "it's organic man, this shit is natural."
Eff you man... I smoke da chronic as often as I can.
I support myself and don't except no social servizes.
I make me my six figures and prefir knot to bee no alcohollic.
Its da truth!
Peace!
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> LOL Where's all those pot advocates that just say
> "it's organic man, this shit is natural."
Eff you man... I smoke da chronic as often as I can.
I support myself and don't except no social servizes.
I make me my six figures and prefir knot to bee no alcohollic.
Its da truth!
Peace!
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Rockhound
()
Date: April 15, 2014 11:37PM
WingNut Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
Hahahaha, well said. +1
-------------------------------------------------------
> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
Hahahaha, well said. +1
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
pothead in denial
()
Date: April 15, 2014 11:51PM
WingNut Wrote:
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> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
broooo your spot on man. its the big pharma and the evil cooperations who pay for the studies.
weed is organic, so dont panic.
smoke all day long broooo
going longboarding tomorrow brosky
yeah
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> That's all bullshit, Big Pharma, Anheuser-Busch
> and Big Tobacco just don't want you to have ANY
> fun.....
>
>
> No one has EVER died from a marijuana
> "overdose"...
>
>
> Unlike tobacco smoke, which is carcinogenic, weed
> smoke is perfectly good for your lungs. There is
> NOTHING wrong with taking 40-50 B-loads a day and
> holding them in your lungs.
>
> Weed is totally good for your head too. Great for
> concentration, logic and reasoning.
>
> I seriously recommend that young people get as
> much weed as they can, and smoke as much and as
> often as they can afford.
broooo your spot on man. its the big pharma and the evil cooperations who pay for the studies.
weed is organic, so dont panic.
smoke all day long broooo
going longboarding tomorrow brosky
yeah
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
DuhDerep
()
Date: April 16, 2014 12:30AM
Uhm, EVERYTHING you ingest (or even do0 changes your brain. How dumb are some of you people? Sugar changes your brain. Eating apples changes your brain. Eating red meat changes your brain. Being in love changes your brain. Driving a car changes your brain. Having sex changes your brain. The brain is a fluid living organism, it is supposed to chnage.
Please try to stop being so stupid and please stop saying so many stupid things.
Please try to stop being so stupid and please stop saying so many stupid things.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
a legit stoner just posted
()
Date: April 16, 2014 12:33AM
^LOL
Hey bro, just take another rip from your bong. Thesmoke organic vapors are great for you and your lungs.
Hey bro, just take another rip from your bong. The
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Mr.reality
()
Date: April 16, 2014 12:37AM
Well, i'm doooomed!!!!
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
probably y u r on ffxu posting
()
Date: April 16, 2014 01:04AM
Mr.reality Wrote:
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> Well, i'm doooomed!!!!
Get help!
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> Well, i'm doooomed!!!!
Get help!
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
TKXmD
()
Date: April 16, 2014 01:23AM
a legit stoner just posted Wrote:
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> ^LOL
>
>
> Hey bro, just take another rip from your bong. The
>smoke organic vapors are great for you and
> your lungs.
^
Typical dumb fuck poster here, nothing to offer, but looks in the mirror and posts a lot.
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> ^LOL
>
>
> Hey bro, just take another rip from your bong. The
>
> your lungs.
^
Typical dumb fuck poster here, nothing to offer, but looks in the mirror and posts a lot.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
triage
()
Date: April 16, 2014 08:13AM
Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first. Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you. My conservative friends are quite correct that drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may have some yet unproven negative impact on the body but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and mames.
So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more of hard liquor and something like a year a six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent stuff.
Get real about saving our youth conservatives. Get real about alcohol.
So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more of hard liquor and something like a year a six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent stuff.
Get real about saving our youth conservatives. Get real about alcohol.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
WingNut
()
Date: April 16, 2014 08:18AM
triage Wrote:
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> Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
> My conservative friends are quite correct that
> drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> have some yet unproven negative impact on the body
> but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> mames.
>
> So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of
> conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more
> of hard liquor and something like a year a
> six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> stuff.
>
> Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> Get real about alcohol.
That's all BULLSHIT man...
Prohibition was NOT the cure, it made things WORSE...
Ever since alcohol was legalized, it has been HARDER for young people to get because there are better controls..
Education and prevention programs have been hugely successful too!
I mean, really... No one dies of cirrhosis and DWI's are pretty rare now that alcohol is legal.
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> Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
> My conservative friends are quite correct that
> drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> have some yet unproven negative impact on the body
> but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> mames.
>
> So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of
> conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more
> of hard liquor and something like a year a
> six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> stuff.
>
> Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> Get real about alcohol.
That's all BULLSHIT man...
Prohibition was NOT the cure, it made things WORSE...
Ever since alcohol was legalized, it has been HARDER for young people to get because there are better controls..
Education and prevention programs have been hugely successful too!
I mean, really... No one dies of cirrhosis and DWI's are pretty rare now that alcohol is legal.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
yep...
()
Date: April 16, 2014 01:27PM
I used to be very pro-marijuana. Not anymore. There are a very small handful of people with very high IQ's and strength that can use marijuana without much harm. Usually computer guys, they are unemotional which helps too. However had they never smoked marijuana they could have been like Steve Jobs. It kills your fight.
Remember Amanda Bynes? That was marijuana in an already screwy girl.
You never forget how wonderful it feels and a part of you is constantly craving to experience that again and everything else in life seems to not compare.
It raises the schizophrenic centers in your brain and makes it spin a million miles a minute yet you're ability to speak is greatly hindered.
Strong marijuana too often turned me into Natalie Portman in The Black Swan just about a few years ago. It was very scary and terrible for my family.
You actually look much uglier after smoking too much pot.
Potheads are all assholes and never true friends except for small groups of buddy guys who can't get laid and hate women.
After saying that and I could say way more but my brain and attention span is too fried I still crave it- It becomes a natural urge just like sex.
Remember Amanda Bynes? That was marijuana in an already screwy girl.
You never forget how wonderful it feels and a part of you is constantly craving to experience that again and everything else in life seems to not compare.
It raises the schizophrenic centers in your brain and makes it spin a million miles a minute yet you're ability to speak is greatly hindered.
Strong marijuana too often turned me into Natalie Portman in The Black Swan just about a few years ago. It was very scary and terrible for my family.
You actually look much uglier after smoking too much pot.
Potheads are all assholes and never true friends except for small groups of buddy guys who can't get laid and hate women.
After saying that and I could say way more but my brain and attention span is too fried I still crave it- It becomes a natural urge just like sex.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
64V7e
()
Date: April 16, 2014 01:50PM
So what? There's plenty of stuff that's way worse for you and legal too. Marijuana should be sold right by liquor in ABC stores. There's no good reason for it NOT to be. You contards are just brainwashed into thinking weed is some sort of devil drug.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Conserva-tards!
()
Date: April 16, 2014 01:51PM
The government shouldn't bother me when I wanna take huge rips off my bong in my mom's basement.
Conserva-tards!
LoLz!
Conserva-tards!
LoLz!
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
asdfadfdasfdsaf
()
Date: April 16, 2014 02:14PM
triage Wrote:
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> Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
> My conservative friends are quite correct that
> drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> have some yet unproven negative impact on the body
> but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> mames.
>
> So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of
> conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more
> of hard liquor and something like a year a
> six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> stuff.
>
> Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> Get real about alcohol.
Alcohol will kill you.
Weed will make you want to kill other people.
-------------------------------------------------------
> Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
> My conservative friends are quite correct that
> drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> have some yet unproven negative impact on the body
> but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> mames.
>
> So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern of
> conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or more
> of hard liquor and something like a year a
> six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> stuff.
>
> Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> Get real about alcohol.
Alcohol will kill you.
Weed will make you want to kill other people.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
()
Date: April 16, 2014 02:18PM
Republicans say they are for less regulation but this thread is a perfect example of how much bullshit that is.
They are only for less regulation when it comes to corporate profitability in the face of protecting health and the environment.
When it comes to the liberty and regulating the personal lives of individuals. They are the biggest big government police state fascists this world has ever known.
They are only for less regulation when it comes to corporate profitability in the face of protecting health and the environment.
When it comes to the liberty and regulating the personal lives of individuals. They are the biggest big government police state fascists this world has ever known.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
LIBTURDSSSSS
()
Date: April 16, 2014 02:21PM
Enjoying your spring break Gerry?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
()
Date: April 16, 2014 02:22PM
very much so, thanks for asking.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
libturd
()
Date: April 16, 2014 02:34PM
Smoking pot at your mothers home in Marumsco Hills?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
MNNbw
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:02PM
seems to be
take me to court honey lets see you prove you defamations to anyone who isn't taking fact served with agenda
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bitch is getting harvard / democrat money to defame others so the gov looks good kicking heads and walking all over people
and the alcohol bitch ? the improperly prescribed meds bitch ?
give my damn money back for the school loan and grant studies how about ?
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in the 80's we found out gov lied when they said they'd done research proving small ammounts of marajuana were worse than equivalent ammounts of alcohol
in the 90's we found out the brain does heal, that the damage was no more permanent than for alcohol was permanent
in the 2000's we found out harvard is intently mis-educating judges to favor gov in all persuits (after warnings by scholars to stop persisting to do so, in their own library), importing illegals to sign loans, allowing illegals channels to control gov funds grants, etc etc
what next harvard ? did you want to tell me about another "study" ?
let me get online maybe if i get a gov job i can afford to order some
take me to court honey lets see you prove you defamations to anyone who isn't taking fact served with agenda
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bitch is getting harvard / democrat money to defame others so the gov looks good kicking heads and walking all over people
and the alcohol bitch ? the improperly prescribed meds bitch ?
give my damn money back for the school loan and grant studies how about ?
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in the 80's we found out gov lied when they said they'd done research proving small ammounts of marajuana were worse than equivalent ammounts of alcohol
in the 90's we found out the brain does heal, that the damage was no more permanent than for alcohol was permanent
in the 2000's we found out harvard is intently mis-educating judges to favor gov in all persuits (after warnings by scholars to stop persisting to do so, in their own library), importing illegals to sign loans, allowing illegals channels to control gov funds grants, etc etc
what next harvard ? did you want to tell me about another "study" ?
let me get online maybe if i get a gov job i can afford to order some
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
svennestle was a pothead
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:04PM
^ Is exactly what happens when you smoke to much pot.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
go away moron
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:06PM
svennestle was a pothead Wrote:
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> ^ Is exactly what happens when you smoke to much
> pot.
^ exactly what happens when you are a retarded moron with nothing to offer
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> ^ Is exactly what happens when you smoke to much
> pot.
^ exactly what happens when you are a retarded moron with nothing to offer
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
permafried stoner
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:11PM
go away moron Wrote:
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> svennestle was a pothead Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > ^ Is exactly what happens when you smoke to
> much
> > pot.
>
> ^ exactly what happens when you are a retarded
> moron with nothing to offer
derrrpp take another rip of the bong, son.
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> svennestle was a pothead Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > ^ Is exactly what happens when you smoke to
> much
> > pot.
>
> ^ exactly what happens when you are a retarded
> moron with nothing to offer
derrrpp take another rip of the bong, son.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
LOL AT THE ILLITERATE
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:15PM
LOL at the losers who can only speak with pictures, they never learned to read or write.
The pokemon generation are a bunch of pathetic losers
The pokemon generation are a bunch of pathetic losers
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Urine Idiot
()
Date: April 16, 2014 09:42PM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Republicans say they are for less regulation but
> this thread is a perfect example of how much
> bullshit that is.
>
> They are only for less regulation when it comes to
> corporate profitability in the face of protecting
> health and the environment.
>
> When it comes to the liberty and regulating the
> personal lives of individuals. They are the
> biggest big government police state fascists this
> world has ever known.
You are, as always, an idiot.
There are as many if not more Republicans advocating for decriminalization than there have been Demwits.
Until he retired a few years back, the major supporter and only one who'd ever submitted a bill re decriminalization in the VA legislature was a Republican.
Republicans had a presidential candidate who ran almost entirely on a platform for decriminalizing.
Dems on the other hand including Obama's own DOJ are the ones shutting down the clinics in CA and enforcing Federal actions against people in more permissive states.
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> Republicans say they are for less regulation but
> this thread is a perfect example of how much
> bullshit that is.
>
> They are only for less regulation when it comes to
> corporate profitability in the face of protecting
> health and the environment.
>
> When it comes to the liberty and regulating the
> personal lives of individuals. They are the
> biggest big government police state fascists this
> world has ever known.
You are, as always, an idiot.
There are as many if not more Republicans advocating for decriminalization than there have been Demwits.
Until he retired a few years back, the major supporter and only one who'd ever submitted a bill re decriminalization in the VA legislature was a Republican.
Republicans had a presidential candidate who ran almost entirely on a platform for decriminalizing.
Dems on the other hand including Obama's own DOJ are the ones shutting down the clinics in CA and enforcing Federal actions against people in more permissive states.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Cheech
()
Date: April 17, 2014 10:05AM
Wait. What was this thread about again?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
libs suck it
()
Date: April 17, 2014 10:09AM
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Attachments:
Attachments:
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
uNctP
()
Date: April 17, 2014 10:15AM
asdfadfdasfdsaf Wrote:
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> triage Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> > Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
>
> > My conservative friends are quite correct that
> > drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> > have some yet unproven negative impact on the
> body
> > but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> > mames.
> >
> > So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern
> of
> > conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> > like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> > caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> > time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or
> more
> > of hard liquor and something like a year a
> > six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> > stuff.
> >
> > Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> > Get real about alcohol.
>
>
> Alcohol will kill you.
>
>
> Weed will make you want to kill other people.
You have clearly never smoked pot or seen anyone high. Pot makes you want to kill a can of Pringles - people, not so much...
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> triage Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> > Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
>
> > My conservative friends are quite correct that
> > drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> > have some yet unproven negative impact on the
> body
> > but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> > mames.
> >
> > So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern
> of
> > conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> > like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> > caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> > time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or
> more
> > of hard liquor and something like a year a
> > six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> > stuff.
> >
> > Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> > Get real about alcohol.
>
>
> Alcohol will kill you.
>
>
> Weed will make you want to kill other people.
You have clearly never smoked pot or seen anyone high. Pot makes you want to kill a can of Pringles - people, not so much...
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
uNctP
()
Date: April 17, 2014 10:15AM
asdfadfdasfdsaf Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> triage Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> > Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
>
> > My conservative friends are quite correct that
> > drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> > have some yet unproven negative impact on the
> body
> > but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> > mames.
> >
> > So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern
> of
> > conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> > like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> > caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> > time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or
> more
> > of hard liquor and something like a year a
> > six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> > stuff.
> >
> > Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> > Get real about alcohol.
>
>
> Alcohol will kill you.
>
>
> Weed will make you want to kill other people.
You have clearly never smoked pot or seen anyone high. Pot makes you want to kill a can of Pringles - people, not so much...
-------------------------------------------------------
> triage Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Lets focus on the truly deadly drugs first.
> > Alcohol for example is poison and will kill you.
>
> > My conservative friends are quite correct that
> > drugs kill - drugs like alcohol. Marijuana may
> > have some yet unproven negative impact on the
> body
> > but the jury is in on alcohol - it kills and
> > mames.
> >
> > So if genuine (and I know its not) the concern
> of
> > conservatives should be outlawing alcohol much
> > like marijuana is outlawed in most places. Get
> > caught with or selling alcohol and do some hard
> > time. Id say 10 year minimum for a case or
> more
> > of hard liquor and something like a year a
> > six-pack/bottle of wine for the less potent
> > stuff.
> >
> > Get real about saving our youth conservatives.
> > Get real about alcohol.
>
>
> Alcohol will kill you.
>
>
> Weed will make you want to kill other people.
You have clearly never smoked pot or seen anyone high. Pot makes you want to kill a can of Pringles - people, not so much...
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
SugarKILLS
()
Date: April 17, 2014 11:36AM
Here is what SUGAR does to your brain
"Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our brains." http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/04/01/what-eating-too-much-sugar-does-to-your-brain/
Should we send people to jail for selling this stuff?
"Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our brains." http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/04/01/what-eating-too-much-sugar-does-to-your-brain/
Should we send people to jail for selling this stuff?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Bill.N.
()
Date: April 17, 2014 12:45PM
We need to cut the crap. Pot is damaging. BTW so are alcohol, tobacco and a number of legal food products. The reason for legalizing pot has nothing to do with it being harmless or safe. The reason for legalizing pot is because the cost to society from outlawing it has proven to be far greater than the cost to society from its use.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Jail sux
()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:09PM
SugarKILLS Wrote:
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> Here is what SUGAR does to your brain
>
> "Overeating, poor memory formation, learning
> disorders, depression – all have been linked in
> recent research to the over-consumption of sugar.
> And these linkages point to a problem that is only
> beginning to be better understood: what our
> chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our
> brains."
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/04/0
> 1/what-eating-too-much-sugar-does-to-your-brain/
>
> Should we send people to jail for selling this
> stuff?
^ yup....
Everything we do/ingest cheanges/affects our brain.
Humans are going to do what humans are going to do. Lets stop locking people up for things they do that does not hurt others, that is silly.
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> Here is what SUGAR does to your brain
>
> "Overeating, poor memory formation, learning
> disorders, depression – all have been linked in
> recent research to the over-consumption of sugar.
> And these linkages point to a problem that is only
> beginning to be better understood: what our
> chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our
> brains."
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/04/0
> 1/what-eating-too-much-sugar-does-to-your-brain/
>
> Should we send people to jail for selling this
> stuff?
^ yup....
Everything we do/ingest cheanges/affects our brain.
Humans are going to do what humans are going to do. Lets stop locking people up for things they do that does not hurt others, that is silly.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
wrongg
()
Date: April 18, 2014 11:26AM
Re: Topic
Isn't that what a weed smoker is after?
Isn't that what a weed smoker is after?
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
Oopsies
()
Date: April 18, 2014 11:59AM
Jail sux Wrote:
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>
> Humans are going to do what humans are going to
> do. Lets stop locking people up for things they do
> that does not hurt others, that is silly.
POLICE: MAN ATE POT CANDY BEFORE SHOOTING WIFE
BY SADIE GURMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Apr 17, 11:17 PM EDT
DENVER (AP) -- A Denver man accused of killing his wife while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher ate marijuana-infused candy before the attack, according to search warrants released Thursday.
Denver police are investigating if the pot influenced his behavior and also whether officers responded quickly enough to pleas for help from the woman, who was shot to death 12 minutes into the 911 call she made Monday.
Officials said Thursday that a dispatcher has been placed on paid leave during the investigation.
Kristine Kirk, 44, told dispatchers her husband bought and ate the marijuana candy and may have also taken prescription pain pills before he started hallucinating and frightening the couple's three children, the warrants state.
She pleaded with dispatchers to hurry and send officers because her husband, Richard Kirk, 47, had asked her to get a gun and shoot him. She said he was talking about the end of the world and she was "scared of what he might do."
Richard Kirk could be heard in the background of the 911 call talking about the candy he legally bought from one of Denver's pot dispensaries earlier that night, and surveillance footage from the shop captured the transaction, police said.
Detectives found a receipt for items such as "Karma Kandy Orange Ginger."
A detective who interviewed Richard Kirk after the killing noted that he appeared to be on drugs, based on his speech and inability to focus, according to the warrants. Police said he was rambling and confessed to killing his wife.
Investigators were analyzing blood samples to see whether he was under the influence of any other substances.
Richard Kirk does not remember anything of the incident, his brother, Lance Kirk, told KUSA-TV Thursday.
"He's hurting. He's hurting real bad," Lance Kirk said.
Authorities have said Richard Kirk shot his wife in the head about 12 minutes into her call with 911, after she frantically told dispatchers her husband was getting a gun from a safe.
Police Chief Robert White held a news conference Thursday but refused to provide details about the shooting or the internal investigation, nor would he say whether he thought officers took too long to respond.
"This is an ongoing investigation, and I just cannot get into anything that would remotely compromise it," he said. "Obviously something went wrong because somebody lost their life."
Officials have not released the 911 call or dispatch records publicly, but the search warrants offer new glimpses into Kristine Kirk's panicked final moments. Dispatchers could hear her telling her husband to stay down and yelling for her three young boys to go upstairs.
"At one point she tells the 911 operator to `please hurry' because he was scaring the kids and he was `totally hallucinating,'" the documents say.
Moments later, Kristine Kirk sounded "panicked" as she told dispatchers her husband was retrieving a gun from a safe.
"She next related that he had the gun and she did not know where to go," the warrants say. Within a few seconds, dispatchers could hear her screaming. There was a single gunshot before the line went quiet.
Officers arrived just after the shooting and found her dead of a gunshot wound to the head.
The Denver Police Department has struggled with slowing response times in recent months as the number of officers has decreased due to retirements, departures and budget cuts that kept the department from hiring for five years.
Disagreement exists about the reasons for the delays. The police union has said White's staffing changes and sweeping reorganization of the department have worsened the problem. White denied that claim Thursday and said he expects response times to improve as newly hired officers hit the streets.
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>
> Humans are going to do what humans are going to
> do. Lets stop locking people up for things they do
> that does not hurt others, that is silly.
POLICE: MAN ATE POT CANDY BEFORE SHOOTING WIFE
BY SADIE GURMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Apr 17, 11:17 PM EDT
DENVER (AP) -- A Denver man accused of killing his wife while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher ate marijuana-infused candy before the attack, according to search warrants released Thursday.
Denver police are investigating if the pot influenced his behavior and also whether officers responded quickly enough to pleas for help from the woman, who was shot to death 12 minutes into the 911 call she made Monday.
Officials said Thursday that a dispatcher has been placed on paid leave during the investigation.
Kristine Kirk, 44, told dispatchers her husband bought and ate the marijuana candy and may have also taken prescription pain pills before he started hallucinating and frightening the couple's three children, the warrants state.
She pleaded with dispatchers to hurry and send officers because her husband, Richard Kirk, 47, had asked her to get a gun and shoot him. She said he was talking about the end of the world and she was "scared of what he might do."
Richard Kirk could be heard in the background of the 911 call talking about the candy he legally bought from one of Denver's pot dispensaries earlier that night, and surveillance footage from the shop captured the transaction, police said.
Detectives found a receipt for items such as "Karma Kandy Orange Ginger."
A detective who interviewed Richard Kirk after the killing noted that he appeared to be on drugs, based on his speech and inability to focus, according to the warrants. Police said he was rambling and confessed to killing his wife.
Investigators were analyzing blood samples to see whether he was under the influence of any other substances.
Richard Kirk does not remember anything of the incident, his brother, Lance Kirk, told KUSA-TV Thursday.
"He's hurting. He's hurting real bad," Lance Kirk said.
Authorities have said Richard Kirk shot his wife in the head about 12 minutes into her call with 911, after she frantically told dispatchers her husband was getting a gun from a safe.
Police Chief Robert White held a news conference Thursday but refused to provide details about the shooting or the internal investigation, nor would he say whether he thought officers took too long to respond.
"This is an ongoing investigation, and I just cannot get into anything that would remotely compromise it," he said. "Obviously something went wrong because somebody lost their life."
Officials have not released the 911 call or dispatch records publicly, but the search warrants offer new glimpses into Kristine Kirk's panicked final moments. Dispatchers could hear her telling her husband to stay down and yelling for her three young boys to go upstairs.
"At one point she tells the 911 operator to `please hurry' because he was scaring the kids and he was `totally hallucinating,'" the documents say.
Moments later, Kristine Kirk sounded "panicked" as she told dispatchers her husband was retrieving a gun from a safe.
"She next related that he had the gun and she did not know where to go," the warrants say. Within a few seconds, dispatchers could hear her screaming. There was a single gunshot before the line went quiet.
Officers arrived just after the shooting and found her dead of a gunshot wound to the head.
The Denver Police Department has struggled with slowing response times in recent months as the number of officers has decreased due to retirements, departures and budget cuts that kept the department from hiring for five years.
Disagreement exists about the reasons for the delays. The police union has said White's staffing changes and sweeping reorganization of the department have worsened the problem. White denied that claim Thursday and said he expects response times to improve as newly hired officers hit the streets.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
3mJKn
()
Date: April 18, 2014 12:15PM
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> We need to cut the crap. Pot is damaging. BTW so
> are alcohol, tobacco and a number of legal food
> products. The reason for legalizing pot has
> nothing to do with it being harmless or safe. The
> reason for legalizing pot is because the cost to
> society from outlawing it has proven to be far
> greater than the cost to society from its use.
This. Like I said earlier: it should be sold in ABC stores, right alongside liquor.
-------------------------------------------------------
> We need to cut the crap. Pot is damaging. BTW so
> are alcohol, tobacco and a number of legal food
> products. The reason for legalizing pot has
> nothing to do with it being harmless or safe. The
> reason for legalizing pot is because the cost to
> society from outlawing it has proven to be far
> greater than the cost to society from its use.
This. Like I said earlier: it should be sold in ABC stores, right alongside liquor.
Re: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes
Posted by:
GUeMw
()
Date: April 18, 2014 08:18PM
> after she frantically told dispatchers her husband was getting a gun from a safe.
When this happens, GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE AND RUN.
Yeah, I saw the tree falling on me, so I called 911. The cops didn't respond in time though and it hit me.
When this happens, GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE AND RUN.
Yeah, I saw the tree falling on me, so I called 911. The cops didn't respond in time though and it hit me.