What Crap!

"Nost notably, cannabinoids acumulate in the area of the brain where short-term memories are sorted. Every experience we ever have goes through this center. Some things- the image of a sidewalk crack you saw on a morning walk, say-get thrown out. other experiences, like your first date, get filed away into long term memory storage. Cannabinoids disrupt this filing system so that memories are not sorted appropriatley. In addition, people under the influence of cannabinoids may have a distorted of time and unclear thoughts. Another effect of caanabinoids is unrestful sleep. The brain sorts through memories during a phase of sleep marked by rapid eye movement (REM). people who smoke marijuana lose REM sleep time, which results in irritability the following day. Once the memory filing center is cleared of the drug, which may take days or even weeks, the brain makes up for lost time by having extra long periods of REM."

yeah,,,maybe 2 things are true in there but the rest is complete crap!

I sleep better and feel more refreshed when I go to bed stoned.

Where did you get this from?

i believe it, i can't remember hardly anything from when i used to toke, and i dunno if this is relevant or not, but i never remembered my dreams when i smoked.

Man i remember everything and sleep like a angel(haha).

I've heard that bit about REM before...and I'm inclined to believe it too. REM is really interesting in itself too because it's when we have all our dreams. But it's also a lot easier to wake up during these periods of sleep for various reasons, so wouldn't that in itself make us "lose" sleep by waking up??

Haha I dunno I'm STONED cold and stuff. ~

I got it from my chemistry book but the point was for me that my sleep isnt affected at ALL from my smoking. And ive been smoking for yearsssss and my memory is still sharp.

Well I dunno if mine is completely unaffected because if for some strange reason I don't smoke before I try and go to sleep, it's like an ongoing struggle to nod off...Where as smoking puts me right to sleep most times lol...

I think the chem book might have SOME truth in it...

Yeah SOME but I made a post a while back about this book hang on ill link it,

http://boards.cannabis.com/cannabis-...sor-rocks.html

Its THIS bullshit that their teaching in our schools. No wonder nothing gets done.

Lol I don't know. I mean every thing has a side effect. Sometimes I feel like that stuff happens to me. But it's not like it's not my fault, if I didn't smoke as much as I do I'm pretty sure my memory would be good and work well. Maybe it's true with some people. And maybe it is the weed but lately I am just not a morning person. I am so grumpy in the morning. But then again every time I wake up in the morning it's by some one shaking my shoulder waking me up out of my good stoned sleep to go to school lol!

I know short term memory is something that effects alot of weed smokers, and it did me too but not anymore. My memory is fine, i sleep well, i'm happy and they're wrong and dont know what they're talking about. I also dont belive the stuff about disrupting filing bullshit.