"Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds" via Fox News.

mrkane said:
weed can kill ambition
screw with your hormones
can become addictive
CAN BECOME A EXPENSIVE HABIT

Every now and then.....cool.......daily..... HELL NO
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Only agree with the last point, know very little about the second point although I have extreme doubt.
 
Damned1 said:
Vioxx, Vicofin, Xanex, Adderall. Just a short list of legal drugs that not only will change an MRI scan, theses are known to kill users. These drugs are still on the market today. There are many studies on the effects of Cannabis. It would be smart to familiarize oneself and get educated regarding what we consume.
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those drugs are big bank for the pharm industry though so you know how that goes.


meanwhile.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/04/01/what-eating-too-much-sugar-does-to-your-brain/
 
WATER said:
 
Team Sober 

Team Above the Influence 

Team Mental Strength 
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This. I was fine when I was smoking it occasionally in high school. After that, it just didn't jive well with my chemistry. Don't know why, it just wasn't for me. Nerves I guess.

To each his own though. Everyone's brain is different.
 
FuriousStylez23 said:
Marijuana only affects you when you smoke strains that don't fit you. If your an already lazy person you need not to smoke Heavy Indicas. If your an active person you should stick to Sativa's or indicas on certain days to relax and wind down.


I'm a sativa smoker. That couch lock life ain't for me.
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That's what I was getting at. Sativa all day and pull the g13 Out at night.
 
No, it is the study itself. I need peer review, a higher sample size, some explanation of how 'X caused Y' and 'X exists so Y is the cause' then we can talk.

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/sourcefiles/laguardia.pdf

This is a report on Marijuana, conducted by Mayor La Guardia. Results: no significant side effects

http://norml.org/news/2002/03/21/ni...tion-of-marijuana-celebrates-30th-anniversary

Here's anothe support, commissioned by President Nixon. Result: ought to be decriminalized.

Both peer reviewed, both. Extensive.


No junk science.
 
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JEWSEEJAY said:
SneakerHeathen said:
Y'know what? Don't write this off as a Fox News slander job.


As marijuana smokers we've got to be able to handle criticism, especially if that critique might be legitimate.


We talk often about the medicinal properties of marijuana, let's let the other side have its day. Why be ignorant? This isn't a FOX research study, this is a study that was done by Northwestern University and Dr. Hans Breiter.


Let's be objective here, and look at this with an open mind.
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You autistic?

Its 2014

Do you honestly believe this is the first time someone studied the effects of pot? For hundreds of years reports like this have been written... Yet theres never any conclusion that its harmful. Certaintly not to the levels of drugs like alcohol and tobacco
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The pot calling the kettle black.
 
from the journal of neuroscience site.


Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, but little is known about its effects on the human brain, particularly on reward/aversion regions implicated in addiction, such as the nucleus accumbens and amygdala. Animal studies show structural changes in brain regions such as the nucleus accumbens after exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, but less is known about cannabis use and brain morphometry in these regions in humans. We collected high-resolution MRI scans on young adult recreational marijuana users and nonusing controls and conducted three independent analyses of morphometry in these structures: (1) gray matter density using voxel-based morphometry, (2) volume (total brain and regional volumes), and (3) shape (surface morphometry). Gray matter density analyses revealed greater gray matter density in marijuana users than in control participants in the left nucleus accumbens extending to subcallosal cortex, hypothalamus, sublenticular extended amygdala, and left amygdala, even after controlling for age, sex, alcohol use, and cigarette smoking. Trend-level effects were observed for a volume increase in the left nucleus accumbens only. Significant shape differences were detected in the left nucleus accumbens and right amygdala. The left nucleus accumbens showed salient exposure-dependent alterations across all three measures and an altered multimodal relationship across measures in the marijuana group. These data suggest that marijuana exposure, even in young recreational users, is associated with exposure-dependent alterations of the neural matrix of core reward structures and is consistent with animal studies of changes in dendritic arborization.
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Meh, im convinced that even if it did harm people, the people who use it would still deny it.
 
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Damned1 said:
Vioxx, Vicofin, Xanex, Adderall. Just a short list of legal drugs that not only will change an MRI scan, theses are known to kill users. These drugs are still on the market today. There are many studies on the effects of Cannabis. It would be smart to familiarize oneself and get educated regarding what we consume.
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Interesting, I have a roommate (college) that consumes about 80-100 Mg of Adderall a day. My other roommates and I tell him that cannot be good for him. He gets about 2-3 hours of sleep at night, constantly addy'd out. What are the long term effects of taking Adderall?
-I've taken Adderall 4-5 times during college (senior now) and I absolutely hate it.
 
^^ those drugs have not been tested long term much like many other drugs. Every watch the commercials and think "why the majority of it is a disclaimer on possible side effects"?
 
BLASTERCOMBO said:
^^ those drugs have not been tested long term much like many other drugs. Every watch the commercials and think "why the majority of it is a disclaimer on possible side effects"?
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it's still an amphetamine though so I'm willing to bet cardiovascular damage and stunted growth are possible long term side effects, along with psychosis. And of course addiction.
 
RIP sleazyy said:
it's still an amphetamine though so I'm willing to bet cardiovascular damage and stunted growth are possible long term side effects, along with psychosis. And of course addiction.
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That's my point. The lack of testing leaves everything up in the air. Nobody knows what the long term effects are for all these new drugs
 
My cousin is in pharm school right now and has been using adderall for a while to help him study. He says that it makes him focus intensely but has told me to use it sparingly for studies because the zone that it puts you in is intense. Have yet to try it and I don't know if I want to...

But typed this while :nthat:
 
You cannot use adderall daily and get off it clean. Don't believe me try it. Your life will be hell for days. All you will do is sleep. Shhh is for the birds. Find another way to study. My roommate got hooked on it in college. He still has a script so he's still on them.
 
I use addys to study all the time. I think all that addiction stuff is more about the person than the drug.

I stopped drinking for a while, no issues.

Stopped smoking for a while, couldn't sleep first couple of days, but after a few it was all good.

Use addys off and on for years, no worries.

It's all about the person.


Drug addiction is a symptom of an unhappy person, I've known more addicts than most care to speak with and they'll all tell you that.
 
paidingumm said:
Interesting, I have a roommate (college) that consumes about 80-100 Mg of Adderall a day. My other roommates and I tell him that cannot be good for him. He gets about 2-3 hours of sleep at night, constantly addy'd out. What are the long term effects of taking Adderall?
-I've taken Adderall 4-5 times during college (senior now) and I absolutely hate it.
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FDA has received a number of reports of Adderall heart attack, Adderall stroke, and even Adderall death in both children and adults, and the numbers are likely to increase as more children are prescribed Adderall for ADHD. Adderall heart problems are also reported in people prescribed the drug for bipolar disorder and in college students who buy it as a street drug, mistakenly believing Adderall is a “smart drug”.
 
Lots of people putting their fingers in their ears and going "LALALALALA!" in this thread.

I like weed too, but the idea that it's "fine"/immune to criticism is pretty juvenile.
 
MPLSdunk said:
You cannot use adderall daily and get off it clean. Don't believe me try it. Your life will be hell for days. All you will do is sleep. Shhh is for the birds. Find another way to study. My roommate got hooked on it in college. He still has a script so he's still on them.
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I have a few friends who went to St. Thomas. Freshman/Sophomore year, they started taking Adderall for tests and projects. 4 years later, they all have prescriptions for something they started on "recreationally."

I tried Adderall one time in college. I completed a study guide, sent it to the entire class, typed my final paper, and read Genesis in its entirety over the course of 5 hours (the class was Theology, Old Testament.) Slept for like 10 hours. After that I said never again. :lol:

But I mess with the :pimp: If y'all been in any of the previous threads y'all know :lol: Hell, I just sparked one to Fifth Element.
 
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Damned1 said:
paidingumm said:
Interesting, I have a roommate (college) that consumes about 80-100 Mg of Adderall a day. My other roommates and I tell him that cannot be good for him. He gets about 2-3 hours of sleep at night, constantly addy'd out. What are the long term effects of taking Adderall?
-I've taken Adderall 4-5 times during college (senior now) and I absolutely hate it.
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FDA has received a number of reports of Adderall heart attack, Adderall stroke, and even Adderall death in both children and adults, and the numbers are likely to increase as more children are prescribed Adderall for ADHD. Adderall heart problems are also reported in people prescribed the drug for bipolar disorder and in college students who buy it as a street drug, mistakenly believing Adderall is a “smart drug”.
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I keep telling my friends, it's an amphetamine. if you abuse it, you're essentially getting speed from a doctor.
 
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