Distant receptors from cannabis?

[lemonboy]

He wasn't talking about brain damage necessarily but changes that take places within the brain after using marijuana for extended periods of time. These changes could be good, bad, or totally imperceptible. I thought it was a good read myself.

[likemclever]

say to them...I'm MJ is harmful.....explain Willie Nelson....jk.

I don't know what your parents are thinking....maybe they didn't read the stuff they gave you (don't know.)

[oncea420alwaysa420]

Yes. marijuana has a more psycological addiction rather than a physical addiction. Some people just "enjoy smoking." Yes, there are benefits, cancer grows in an acidic environment (body) and the alkaloids in pot actually slow down the growth of certain typs of lung cancer and kill cancer cells of other types of lung cancer while leaving the healthy non-cancer attacked cells intact. as far as the effects on the brain go, Your dopamine receptors are effected. They get blocked and it basically gives you a calmer state of being. Just like it was stated earlier " your body is like its own methadone clinic" slowly releasing THC that is stored in fat cells. As far as the studies about this long term brain damage goes, there is no evidence that it will effect your brain long term. silia (little micro like hairs in your bronchial tube) are lost by any type of smoke inhalation, this is what causes smokers cough ( constant phlem). intact silia will naturally remove this from your lungs and it is then swallowed. when the silia is lost, it causes us to have a build up of oxygen robbing fluid that make it allowable for cancer to grow. I could keep going on and on but I'll stop here.

[lemonboy]

Well... that is kind of disturbing.

[oncea420alwaysa420]

Well... that is kind of disturbing.

Which part?

[lemonboy]

The build up of oxygen-robbing fluid leading to cancer. Certainly something to think about.

[daZenfmeister]

Well think about who hasnt inhaled smoke? I dont know if its just heated smoke, or what but seriously who here has never in their life inhaled smoke? Even indirectly! Ever burn some popcorn and get a big whif of that smoke? Uh oh where did all your cillia go?

[oncea420alwaysa420]

I was refering to smoke inhalation by being in a house fire, smoking cigs, smoking weed, ect. That would be direct inhalation. I guess large amounts of "popcorn smoke" (guess someone didn't pass Home EC, needless to say biology either) could potentially do the same thing if you smoked your popcorn. And i was also refering to long term (daily basis or all day) even common sense will tell you that is harmful to the lungs.

[oncea420alwaysa420]

Looking at the age not even passed highschool. maybe the biology course will come this semester

[beachguy in thongs]

as far as the effects on the brain go, Your dopamine receptors are effected. They get blocked and it basically gives you a calmer state of being.

Pot has been called "dope" by many people and wrongly called that because it doesn't even affect (note the correct spelling of the word) your dopamine receptors. Research marijuana and dopamine.