Brain Cells??

[Belleza]

i know smoking weed kills brain cells or whatever, but which ones? or what type of brain cells does it kill? thanx, just want to know. :D

[kyle]

i dont think it kills brain cells, lemme find a link

Kay heres the deal, ic ant fine ne sites that say it doesnt kill brain cells, BUT, there are none that say that it does, i keep looking tho

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/1732

Thats the best so far, cehck it out

[dylan]

hey Belleza, cannabis does not kill brain cells. it attaches to them.

here's a link (http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/cannabis/effects.htm) just scroll down to the "in the brain" section.

[MiNdYoU]

i believe even somewhere in erowid it even says it "tickles" the brain cells, maybe i was high when i read it but i thought it was cool
tickle away mothafuckas, tickle away

[Euphoric]

Myth - Marijuana causes brain damage

FACT - The most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of Dr. Robert Heath, done in the late 1970s. This study was reviewed by a distinguished panel of scientists sponsored by the Institute Of Medicine and the National Academy Of Sciences. Their results were published under the title, Marijuana And Health in 1982. Heath's work was sharply criticized for its insufficient sample size (only 4 monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged". Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of brain damage. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal Of The American Medical Association (JAMA), showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect if the AMA thought marijuana damaged the brain.
http://www.thechronicsjoint.4mg.com/pages/marijuanamythsandfacts.html

[Nullific]

Cannabinoids are neuroprotectants. They do not kill brain cells, just the opposite.

http://www.cannabis.net/cannabinoids/neuroprotectant.html
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_science1.shtml

http://www.aesnet.org/Visitors/pdf/currents_pdf/epc_42013.pdf

[Bluntman21]

cannabis makes you smarter lol it doesnt hurt you trust me i started and it turned my life around

[icedguardian1]

people just try too find somehting wrong with Weed so they can have an excuse to say something bad about it because its illegal. If thats the case i guess alcohol is great for the body...KEEP Lighting up all over the world!

[Not Enough Herb]

yep ppl just make shit about weed so they can bad mouth it

how can u bad mouth the greatest herb on the planet? sum ppl..............

later

[Phresher than it Got]

look, weed doesnt make you smarter, it doesnt change you, it does NOTHING, weed can get you high, then it sticks to your fat cells doing more NOTHING, some peoples pupils get bigger, which really does NOTHING to your eyes, weed is harmless, and not good for you, but not bad for you

[Euphoric]

look, weed doesnt make you smarter, it doesnt change you, it does NOTHING, weed can get you high, then it sticks to your fat cells doing more NOTHING, some peoples pupils get bigger, which really does NOTHING to your eyes, weed is harmless, and not good for you, but not bad for you

i read something about weed making it easier for you to see in the dark. ill try to find the study i was reading..i was pretty stoned at the time :D

update..found it. oh yeah :cool:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1255752,00.html?=rss

[NODIE]

i think some people that smoke weed have diferent effects. i think to sum people it helps them concentrate on sum things and others cant do anything while they are high.

[newgroweroldsmoker]

i think some people that smoke weed have diferent effects. i think to sum people it helps them concentrate on sum things and others cant do anything while they are high.






I believe that it all depends on the type of strain (celebral or body high, thc & cbd levels) that you smoke/consume at any given moment ie...sativas are energetic meanwhile indicas are lethargic....like the one i grow (100% indica)....reading reviews about it , I discovered that when I smoke it, will be impossible to do anything....just get couchlocked....yeah! :)

[Euphoric]

I believe that it all depends on the type of strain (celebral or body high, thc & cbd levels) that you smoke/consume at any given moment ie...sativas are energetic meanwhile indicas are lethargic....like the one i grow (100% indica)....reading reviews about it , I discovered that when I smoke it, will be impossible to do anything....just get couchlocked....yeah! :)

enviroment makes an impact on the quality of your high, too :)

[Belleza]

hmm...for me i think don't think it kills my brain cells but damn, i do get tired and i do feel stupid, like im not educated. lol

[littledopey]

can some one help me

[BudBuddy]

hmm...for me i think don't think it kills my brain cells but damn, i do get tired and i do feel stupid, like im not educated. lol


Marijuana protects brain cells from damage. Cannabinoids provide protection against nerve gas, lack of oxygen, damage after strokes, and a variety of other things.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1418.html

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2138.html


Some studies also show that moderate pot use actually increases your IQ score!

http://www.cannabisculture.com/news/iq

[larry]

Ya maybe you are stupid.

[Darkneon420]

hmm...for me i think don't think it kills my brain cells but damn, i do get tired and i do feel stupid, like im not educated. lol

We arent perfect :D

[Encatuse]

Ya maybe you are stupid.

I know cannabis doesn't kill braincells.. but then I hear that people like Larry here smoke it.. and I have to wonder.

[Darkneon420]

Doesent it stop chemicals that make you happy from going to your brain? I dunno but I heard this from a teacher of mine from school and I find it hard to believe...or maybe I dont want to believe it.

[Gothen]

It's made me a 10000x happier, even when I'm not stoned. My IQ has gone up 17 points since before I smoked, I've been sick a lot less (though I doubt that has anything to do with it), and I concentrate a lot better when I'm stoned.

I suck at math, I'm in Geometry. I am sober and don't understand a word, I get stoned, go in for a test, and at least I get a passing grade.

It's a wonderful thing.

[Hardbud]

Doesent it stop chemicals that make you happy from going to your brain? I dunno but I heard this from a teacher of mine from school and I find it hard to believe...or maybe I dont want to believe it.
You are stupid.

[Hardbud]

hmm...for me i think don't think it kills my brain cells but damn, i do get tired and i do feel stupid, like im not educated. lol
You might be a retard.

[chris420]

its bs that ganja kills brain cells. i heard somewhere that cannabis unlike alcohol just bends your brain cells and thats when ur high they straighten back out when your back to base. now alcohol destroys every single brain cell it comes across hence the terrible headache when ur hungedover, taking it days even weeks to regain ur lost brain cells

[Mr. Purple]

its bs that ganja kills brain cells. i heard somewhere that cannabis unlike alcohol just bends your brain cells and thats when ur high they straighten back out when your back to base. now alcohol destroys every single brain cell it comes across hence the terrible headache when ur hungedover, taking it days even weeks to regain ur lost brain cells

Dude,
i love your signature.

[beachguy in thongs]

[COLOR=DarkGreen][B]i read something about weed making it easier for you to see in the dark.

Just ask the Jamaicans, out there, fishing at night with spears.


I'm not sure if it's been said, but, Cannabis kills the dying cells.

That's how they found it that it cured three types of cancer, in mice, in the 70's.

[birdgirl73]

Beachguy's right. What cannabis does is assist with a natural cell-pruning process called apoptosis. That's basically the process through which cells kill themselves off when their business is finished. So while the anti-cannabis propagandists like to interpret that negatively to mean "Cannabis kills brain cells," what most research in animal studies and in vitro studies on neurons has shown is that the active compounds in cannabis aid apoptosis in a beneficial way, helping with the natural pruning process and sparing (and even helping proliferate) the cells that aren't pre-programmed for natural destruction.

You can read some abstracts about cannabis and brain function here in this sub-forum. Look for the sticky containing health-related abstracts from Storm Crow. Or you can also do a Google on "cannabis apoptosis" and read what you find there. Just be aware that abstracts are only brief summaries and that the vast majority of the research that's been done has been about the effects of THC compounds on rat or mouse brains.

Here's some more info:
Cannabis Research Library - Apoptosis and Proliferation (http://www.druglibrary.org/crl/proliferation/default.htm)