Edgar

[Emperor]

Edgar asked me to find this piece of information, don't read it, I don't feel it appropriate to post this on a Cannabis forum but I was asked to and I like to always be right!

Cannabis Research (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050211/HTAYLOR11/TPHealth/)

Will the real dopes in this marijuana-use study please stand up?

How much marijuana does a research volunteer need to smoke to demonstrate that dope is bad for your brains? Apparently, up to 350 joints a week.

In a study financed by the U.S. government, scientists measured blood flow in the brains of volunteers who smoked different amounts of weed. So-called "light users" smoked from two to 15 joints a week; moderate users toked 17 to 70 joints per week; and heavy users puffed away at from 78 to 350 joints per week.

The researchers found regular pot use narrows blood vessels and restricts oxygen and other nutrients from getting to the brain, possibly explaining why dope seems to impair memory. Furthermore, heavy dope-users still had restricted blood flow a full month after they stopped smoking up.

"This study unequivocally shows that marijuana has adverse effects on the brain," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which commissioned the research. "You really do not want to jeopardize the circulation [of blood] in the brain."

But the scientists found that "light users," who smoked seven to 11 joints a week, showed no lasting ill-effects from their habit. Their blood flow returned to normal within a month of quitting.

In an interview, Dr. Volkow acknowledged that those who experienced the more serious effects did smoke "huge, huge, huge doses." And even some of the so-called "light-users" smoked up on a daily basis. But she insisted the study is realistic. "There are people who are taking these unbelievably huge quantities of drugs."

Still, it's hard to take a study seriously when the participants have to almost chain-smoke joints in order to produce negative clinical results. This is one study the occasional pot smoker can safely forget about. Those who took part in the study certainly won't be able to remember it.

[Edgar]

It's plenty appropriate if you are going to be making claims like the 1 below, but you didn't have to make a new thread.


Cannabis resticts the oxygen going to the brain this is why we slow down


The study mentioned in that article was dealing with smoked cannabis (in huge amounts) and it didn't say anthing about cannabis making us slow down. Though I'm not denying that it can make us slow down, I just think that lack of oxygen isn't the primary cause, or if it is, it's probably because smoking cannabis produces extra toxins that aren't there if you choose some other way to consume it, and because smoking anything restricts oxygen to the brain.

I have read of that study b4 in a different article. There were some other criticisms of the study, but i can't recall what they were. Thanks for taking the time to provide a link.

[Emperor]

I don't give a fu<k,

I suppose you will use the usual come back that you could get hit by a bus tomorrow!

That bus has Ghostoker's name on it!

[Edgar]

What? Why would i say that?

[Emperor]

because your an uneducated fool like your mate!

[Edgar]

Yeah and your education is really showing through...

[Edgar]

Maybe i should get educated so i can pull 'facts' out of my ass too.

[Emperor]

lol

I do talk shit but all the same it is true shit!

[Edgar]

:rolleyes: Some of it.

but oh well, it's cool :cool:

[thcbongman]

Given that fact that NOONE smokes 350 joints a week, this study is a load of bullshit. Seriously how many motherfuckers do you know that smoke 50 joints a day? Seriously ridiculous and does not apply real world variables. Note it did not denote the quality, nor the quantity of each joint. How am I suppose to take a study seriously without the variables listed? Givens the ones they did, its extreme bullshit from the sounds of it.

Infact, where is the results of the study where everyone can see? Not some article from some some politically left Canadian newsite. LOL.

[Emperor]

50 joints a day is excessive,

I would love to do it all the same,

were are these studies anyway, you get paid to smoke weed, easy money!


Sure to much salt is bad for you, even to many vitamins are bad for you, it'll not matter when your six foot under, so smoke up!

[thcbongman]

Before you reply, let me clarify: It's pretty damn obvious that marijuana "slows" you down. The methods of how weed slows you down I counter. What if we changed the method of consumption to a brownie? Would blood vessels restrict in the same way? Smoking increases your blood pressure by restriction of blood cells. I've read that a fatty lipids develop surfacing the brain, slowing down communication from the brain to nerves.

Sorry mate, I should've mentioned this the first time.

[GHoSToKeR]

Why the fuck did you even mention my name? Piss off.

[Emperor]

thcbongman

you have lost me now,

end of conversation,

i'm bored

[thcbongman]

thcbongman

you have lost me now,

end of conversation,

i'm bored

Narrow your blood cells man. It's all the rage.

[Emperor]

LOL,

see you do have the capacity to cunjure up humour.


I've missed this place, getting banned and all that.

[GHoSToKeR]

So who was this prick then? I gather Emperor is a new nickname..

[Emperor]

Ghostoker have you left the house yet today,

or are you having a bad face day

[GHoSToKeR]

Lol Oh wow

[Emperor]

You try and do better with out your bum fluff mates joining in.

[Caruso329]

....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This thread made me laugh.

[the last stand]

wtf mate, emperor, you seem to be a bit of a dick to me, i got banned, but i didn't come back and start shit, you need to chill....

[STDzRus]

Given that fact that NOONE smokes 350 joints a week, this study is a load of bullshit. Seriously how many motherfuckers do you know that smoke 50 joints a day? Seriously ridiculous and does not apply real world variables. Note it did not denote the quality, nor the quantity of each joint. How am I suppose to take a study seriously without the variables listed? Givens the ones they did, its extreme bullshit from the sounds of it.

Infact, where is the results of the study where everyone can see? Not some article from some some politically left Canadian newsite. LOL.

A majority of tobacco smokers don't even smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day so..

The government says that a "marijuana cigarette" contains three times the harmful content than a regular cigarette..why are these people smoking 3 TIMES THE FUCKING DOSE OF A REGULAR TOBACCO SMOKER!!

It is all bullshit.

[stonercarebare419]

A majority of tobacco smokers don't even smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day so..

The government says that a "marijuana cigarette" contains three times the harmful content than a regular cigarette..why are these people smoking 3 TIMES THE FUCKING DOSE OF A REGULAR TOBACCO SMOKER!!

It is all bullshit.


i totally agree!!

[Emperor]

the last stand

it's not about being a dick and starting shit,

it's not like we are really mates who are out for the night, it just won't be like this if we were,

but a bit of crack to me is winding your mates up, that is all it is,

I like a bit of being at each others throat, it is more interesting,

do you not think,

if I say to you, I have a match - your face and my ass, there is no need to cry about it, hit back after all there is no meaning to it cause I don't have a glue if you have a face like a back of a bus hit it or not,

just don't tell me to chill cause I am more chilled than you will ever be, I just laugh at how emotionally immature you really are.

[the last stand]

/\ lol, emotionally immature? i sit here, stoned, i don't even think about you after i've read one of your posts, as you sit cackling to yourself, and getting worked up over a cannabis forum....

[Emperor]

yawn

[GHoSToKeR]

Yawn is right.

[Whos Carl]

Wheres ghost gon? he replyed but he's offline but emperors banned and it says hes online. odd