Marijuana FAQs

[DjSkizzle]

ok look guys and girls i need your help, does or doesn't marijuana kill brain cells.. my girlfriend keeps saying it does.. she said docotors have told her that, and i've showed her tons and tons of stuff!, but she still thinks it does...

SIMPLE ANSWER YES OR NO!?

god im really starting to get mad with people saying it does and doesn't fuck..

[bman420]

it kills them but they are always regrowing so if you stop smoking theyll grow back theres billions of them and we dont use 90 % of them so its cool

[BUZz UK]

it kills a lot less than alcohol

[GHoSToKeR]

probably

[koshea]

marijuana kills brain cells, that is not a myth, the myth is that brain cells dont regrow, every cell re grows, it is their nature, so yes, smoking kills brian cells, so does thinking, being in hot or cold temperatues, hitting your head, or drinking alcohol, so i guess football, school, alcohol, and weather are bad too!

[BUZz UK]

i won't argue with that... :D

[A Foo Says]

Doesn't Marijuana cause brain damage?

The short answer: No.

The long answer: The reason why you ask this is because you
probably heard or read somewhere that marijuana damages
brain cells, or makes you stupid. These claims are untrue.

The first one -- marijuana kills brain cells -- is based on
research done during the second Reefer Madness Movement. A
study attempted to show that marijuana smoking damaged brain
structures in monkeys. However, the study was poorly
performed and it was severely criticized by a medical review
board. Studies done afterwards failed to show any brain
damage, in fact a very recent study on Rhesus monkeys used
technology so sensitive that scientists could actually see
the effect of learning on brain cells, and it found no
damage.

But this was Reefer Madness II, and the prohibitionists were
looking around for anything they could find to keep the
marijuana legalization movement in check, so this study was
widely used in anti-marijuana propaganda. It was recanted
later.

(To this day, the radical anti-drug groups, like P.R.I.D.E.
and Dr. Gabriel Nahas, still use it -- In fact, America's
most popular drug education program, Drug Abuse Resistance
Education, claims that marijuana ``can impair memory
perception & judgement by destroying brain cells.'' When
police and teachers read this and believe it, our job gets
really tough, since it takes a long time to explain to
children how Ms. Jones and Officer Bob were wrong.)

The truth is, no study has ever demonstrated cellular
damage, stupidity, mental impairment, or insanity brought on
specifically by marijuana use -- even heavy marijuana use.
This is not to say that it cannot be abused, however.

[Reefer Rogue]

^^ What he said.

[Mojavpa]

it kills them but they are always regrowing so if you stop smoking theyll grow back theres billions of them and we dont use 90 % of them so its cool

When a brain cell is dead, its dead. Nerve cells do not continually reproduce. We have a finite number of brain cells(neurons). However, if a brain cell is damaged, it may be able to repair itself. Brain cells are not like skin cells which continually undergo cell division.

Because brain cells are continually dying, other neighboring cells compensate by forming more cell connections. The mother nerve connections, the better. An adult is more intelligent than a 12 year old not because he has more brain cells, but because through reading, experience and other forms of learning he has formed more neural connections.

Even if marijuana actually does kill brain cells, the effect is really minor if you think about it. As long as we continually keep our mind sharp by reading, learning new instruments, languages and any other activity that forms more "bridges" in our brain, then we wont become "stupid" no matter how much we smoke.

[dylan]

no, thc does not kill brain cells, yet attaches to cannabanoid receptors in the brain. the assumtion that thc kills brain cells comes from an outdated study on monkeys.

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