brain damage

[quantumdream]

So i've been trying to figure out if marijuana destroys brain cells. Usually i'll get pretty burnt out for a few days after smoking but then i'll be pretty much back to normal, and i was arguing with someone today saying that is doesn't do brain damage. So, how exactly does marijuana effect your brain and does it destroy cells?

[MacWQ33]

No it doesn't 'kill brain cells'...that's just propaganda...it just tickles them. How would it do brain damage...people smoke thier entire lives, and their brain's are the same as every elses.

[PotHeed420]

they had munkeys smoke a bitch load of bud in an enclosed area and compared their brain cell count to a munkey who has never smoked. the one that smoked the weed had a smaller amount. however what people don't seem to see is that the munkey didn't loose the brain cells due to weed, but because of oxygen depravtion. there wasn't enough oxygen getting to its brain which caused it to loose brain cells. WEED DOESN'T MAKE YOU LOOSE BRAIN CELLS, people who preech it do.

[JaggedEdge]

Look even if some brain cells are lost it is certainly no more than would be lost from a night of drinking. There is nothing to worry about. We have a bunch and some of them will die. You do not have to worry about killing so many that you can no longer talk.

[MegaOctane12]

Yeah course you lose brain cells but you lose brains cells if you hit yourself in the head. Decide how much you like pot and approach it with moderation at the forefront.

[TheFatKid]

Idk what it does. Back before I started smoking I was doing fine in school, and I could pay attention all class. That was 6th grade. Now I'm in 9th and I find myself dozing off when the teacher is talking, and my grades have gone down.


I think the grade part is just school getting harder, but i really don't know about the dozing off part.

[aeonblue11]

Idk what it does. Back before I started smoking I was doing fine in school, and I could pay attention all class. That was 6th grade. Now I'm in 9th and I find myself dozing off when the teacher is talking, and my grades have gone down.


I think the grade part is just school getting harder, but i really don't know about the dozing off part.

you might have ADD. a prescription for adderall could make all the difference.

[Reefer Rogue]

So i've been trying to figure out if marijuana destroys brain cells. Usually i'll get pretty burnt out for a few days after smoking but then i'll be pretty much back to normal, and i was arguing with someone today saying that is doesn't do brain damage. So, how exactly does marijuana effect your brain and does it destroy cells?

No, cannabis does NOT kill brain cells. It does kill cancerous cells i believe. How does it affect your brain? Well, the thc is absorbed, the thc receptors in your brain are activated, you get high. It does not make you dumb...

[PotHeed420]

yeah people who act like they are the biggest stoner in the world and i fail all my classes cause i smoke soooo much weed give us real smokers a bad name

[Storm Crow]

Read these- you might want to make copies to show friends (and maybe the parents when/if you get caught)

http://www.medpot.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=27460
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/bc-its050206.php
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6812
(and my personal favorite)
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887 :stoned:

[delusionsofNORMALity]

as usual, there is no answer. any experimentation on the subject is always clouded by an agenda. ask 20 different "authorities" and you'll get 20 different answers. make your own decisions based on your own experience and don't expect some lab coated fool to give you any truth. for myself, i choose to believe that a few brain cells here or there are no big deal. after decades of getting high my iq is still in the high 140s so if i'm missing a few cells -who gives a shit. brain cells die every day of their own accord so if you kill a few on purpose and improve your enjoyment of life along the way, i'd say that's an even trade. but what the fuck do i know, i'm just an aging hippie with delusions of normality!!

[dryst]

i was gonna say u kill brain cells when u hit your head or go swimming...(holding ur breath)

[aeonblue11]

Don't brain cells die and regenerate all the time on their own?

[biker6403]

you might have ADD. a prescription for adderall could make all the difference.

The major drug companies use anti -deepressants to steer us away from the magic herb.:smokin: it's all about the benjimans$

[phytokind]

Cannabis doesn't kill brain cells, but may "shrink" some types of brain cells. Alcohol does kill lots of brain cells though.

[phytokind]

And neurons do not regenerate, once they're gone they're gone.

[Storm Crow]

Cannabis can create neuroregeneration! Read these and rejoice! http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6812&wtm_format=print
http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCI25509v1
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/canbnqabinoids_and_neurogenesis
http://jpetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/2/780

So cannabis CAN regenerate neurons and even reverse some of the brain damage done by alcohol! :thumbsup: :dance: :stoned: Add this to the recent news about cannabis preventing amaloid plaques (Alzheimer's cause) and the FDA can no longer say it is without medical benefit! Free the weed and you free yourselves! "Can hippies get Alzheimer's?" is my question!

[iwantFUEGO]

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm

This is all you need my friend....

[Reefer Rogue]

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm

This is all you need my friend....

That link rules :D

[LIP]

THC kills glioma [cancerous cells] but does absolutly nothing to healthy brain cells.

[big smoke07]

Idk what it does. Back before I started smoking I was doing fine in school, and I could pay attention all class. That was 6th grade. Now I'm in 9th and I find myself dozing off when the teacher is talking, and my grades have gone down.


I think the grade part is just school getting harder, but i really don't know about the dozing off part.

Same here. I started in i think 7th or 8th and now in 10th that happened to me to.

[phytokind]

Cannabis can create neuroregeneration! Read these and rejoice! http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6812&wtm_format=print
http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCI25509v1
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/canbnqabinoids_and_neurogenesis
http://jpetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/2/780

So cannabis CAN regenerate neurons and even reverse some of the brain damage done by alcohol! :thumbsup: :dance: :stoned: Add this to the recent news about cannabis preventing amaloid plaques (Alzheimer's cause) and the FDA can no longer say it is without medical benefit! Free the weed and you free yourselves! "Can hippies get Alzheimer's?" is my question!

In terms of neuroregeneration studies, it is important to differentiate between in vivo and in vitro studies. Neurons can be regenerated in vitro, but probably not in vivo, at least in terms of humans.

[Dutch Pimp]

Don't brain cells die and regenerate all the time on their own?

...my memory cells..do that...but ..when they regenerate...they get ..the story..all fucked up...

[xcrispi]

what's the dif. everyones got a lil DAIN BAMAGE anyways .
peace