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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Wed 30 Nov 2016, 20:18:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'M')arijuana not only offers solutions to intractable medical problems, but it also gets people high. Which is a good thing. We all need to stop running around expelling CO2 from our discharge ports. We, the planet, our descendants demand we take up more contemplative sports. Getting high is one of them.


There is nothing wrong with getting high, and marijuana does indeed help with some medical problems. However, like many drugs marijuana has side effects.

Its long been know that marijuana increases the risk psychotic episodes in pot smokers. More recent studies show that marijuana reduces IQ and diminishes initiative in young people.

What is new is the MRI studies and other imaging studies that show that marijuana causes severe brain damage. Parts of the brain actually shrink in pot smokers. Now this latest study shows that blood flow to the entire brain is diminished in pot smokers, and the lack of blood is most severe to the hippocampus---the part of the brain involved in Alzheimer's disease.

"Published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a sophisticated imaging study that evaluates blood flow and activity patterns, demonstrated abnormally low blood flow in virtually every area of the brain studies in nearly 1,000 marijuana users compared to healthy controls, including areas known to be affected by Alzheimer's pathology such as the hippocampus. According to Daniel Amen, M.D., 'Our research demonstrates that marijuana can have significant negative effects on brain function. The media has given the general impression that marijuana is a safe recreational drug, this research directly challenges that notion."

The new research shows that marijuana is unsafe---it causes brain damage.

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sat 29 Apr 2017, 12:31:34

Here's an interesting study on marijuana and brain damage.

New research shows that marijuana with higher THC levels causes higher levels of brain damage,

high-potency-pot-smokers-show-brain-fiber-damage

The more THC---the more brain damage.

The next time you go into a pot dispensary pay close attention to the THC analysis of the products. The bigger that THC number, the more white connective tissue in the brain that will be shredded.

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sat 29 Apr 2017, 19:10:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '.').. TSKTSK...

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TSKTSK is something you made up.

The medical research done at top universities and medical research centers showing marijuana causes brain damage is real.

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Sat 29 Apr 2017, 23:13:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'H')ere's an interesting study on marijuana and brain damage.

New research shows that marijuana with higher THC levels causes higher levels of brain damage,

high-potency-pot-smokers-show-brain-fiber-damage

The more THC---the more brain damage.

The next time you go into a pot dispensary pay close attention to the THC analysis of the products. The bigger that THC number, the more white connective tissue in the brain that will be shredded.

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So we have to subscribe to read it, no thanks. Can you cut & paste key parts?

(From what I've seen the so called science in this direction has truck sized holes- tiny samples, limited or no double blind testing, limited or no coefficient element risk assessment.)
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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 01 May 2017, 20:20:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'H')ere's an interesting study on marijuana and brain damage.

New research shows that marijuana with higher THC levels causes higher levels of brain damage,

high-potency-pot-smokers-show-brain-fiber-damage

The more THC---the more brain damage.

The next time you go into a pot dispensary pay close attention to the THC analysis of the products. The bigger that THC number, the more white connective tissue in the brain that will be shredded.

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So we have to subscribe to read it, no thanks. Can you cut & paste key parts?

(From what I've seen the so called science in this direction has truck sized holes- tiny samples, limited or no double blind testing, limited or no coefficient element risk assessment.)


Empirical evidence would seem to indicate that THC is bad for folks, outside of a few possible tradeoffs of medical benefit where the resulting '"stoner" effects are judged to be less damaging than necessary pain relief of some sort. But I always figured all drugs kick in that "stoner" effect, and that always appeared to be dosage dependent, be it alcohol, opiates or reefer.
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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 01 May 2017, 20:51:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Adam, you have your Tesla Model S and Plant his seemingly monthly vacations....anything to escape....


Peter----are you comparing your pot addiction to Adam's interest in solar power and electric cars and my adventures traveling the world travel for fun and science as being just another means of "escape"? Sounds like you are intimating that you smoke pot to find "escape" from the vicissitudes of living in a McMansion in a poshy area along the California coast?

If so, then I have a suggestion for you----Maybe if you sold off your 3 million dollar McMansion and moved to an 7 million McMansion you could find the solace and peace you seek? After all, you would then be living in a much more expensive McMansion ---surely that would bring would you peace and happiness!!!

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 02 May 2017, 22:43:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')t's convenient for you and Plant to be irrationally anti-drug and totally unscientific.


You might not have seen the horrors of reefer madness, but I have. Nowadays, it is more prescription pain killers and meth, but the reefer still appears to be some sort of gateway into other addictions. And munchies.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Adam, you have your Tesla Model S and Plant his seemingly monthly vacations. Anything to escape that frozen hell lol


I don't own a Tesla. The wife owns a Ford EV, not some fancy pants rich man's toy. She drives a working woman's EV.
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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 04 Sep 2017, 20:21:11

A new study shows that marijuana use is associated with a higher risk of stroke and heart attacks

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The risk of stroke is especially high---about 25% increased risk of stroke in pot users. And thats assuming the scientists correctly identified all the pot users---the actual increased risk of stroke might be even higher.

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Ibon » Mon 04 Sep 2017, 20:30:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A') new study shows that marijuana use is associated with a higher risk of stroke and heart attacks
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Why the hell would you want to inform pot smokers about this if you are interested in the effects of climate change and over population? Increasing the death rate is the only real solution to our dilemma.

Next you will want the Chinese to stop smoking Tobacco.

Or the Russians to stop drinking Vodka..

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Cog » Mon 04 Sep 2017, 23:56:47

Just because we can artificially enhance people dying doesn't mean we should. We could start randomly putting cyanide in kid's breakfast cereals but I don't think even the most hard core doomer would want to do that. The sugar is poisonous enough. Drugs are bad ok. Plant is trying to save lives. Who knows? Perhaps the next Al Gore is out there somewhere.
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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 05 Sep 2017, 01:14:33

IMHO Ibon is humorously making an important point here, as he often does. His point is larger then just marijuana.

How should those of us who believe the Earth is overpopulated feel about medical efforts that save people? Does't it just add to overpopulation?

Well....yes.

Logically, if the earth is overpopulated, then having ever more humans is a bad thing.

One of the main cause of the population explosion seen around the world, and especially in places like India and Africa, is better medical care which arrived in the mid-20th century.

If the mortality rate was higher, whether due to marijuana smoking or massive outbreaks of things like cholera and bubonic plague, then population levels would be much lower.

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Re: Harvard study: casual marijuana use causes brain damage

Unread postby mmasters » Tue 05 Sep 2017, 20:16:40

Plant I think you're off base on this one. Most the funding for pot studies are anti-pot studies because it's still schedule 1.

Marijuana is safe for most people. Yes, it can be bad for some people with a mental illness like schizophrenia but that's only a couple percent of the population at most.

I'm a writer and frankly I get some of my best ideas while smoking. The only thing I have noticed is some memory problems. If you have a demanding life it is probably best not to partake, but if you have an easy going life then it is fine.

I think you should try it before lecturing about it. I'm not sure if they're selling it yet but it is legal in Alaska IIRC.
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