APIPHONY!

[daZenfmeister]

Holy fucking hell. Drugs are good, they are the best thing in life. They make "real" life alot easier because you become "wise" to the ways of the world. Cannabis gives you a great deal of understanding: My friend hates me now cause im a pothead. This is the way i used to feel about my other friends who didn't do pot. But then parents split and i put less of a value on the things in life and decided to try weed. Now I think I'm alot smarter than my friend (im in college 1 year early) and just more wise in general. But the reason he hates me is because the public schools and people in general ignore the fact that SO MUCH of the history of the world is deeply rooted in drugs and divination and spiritualism.

I guarantee that whoever invented catholicism was really on a drug Trip when they did. I swear to everything that I believe in drugs have been around forever and now the pussy ass government is blinding us to truth because its not fit for us to know. I think that if we educate people:
1. Tell them about how drugs affect the mind (con's AND pro's)
2. Give them the history of drugs.
3. And for God's sake let people make their own fucking decisions in life.
4. If you educate people entirely about a subject then they will be able to make an INFORMED decisions about how they want to take their lives.

I for one am going to keep my shit together, but I'm going to continue using drugs for spiritual philosophical and recreational uses.

Salvia Divinorum saved my life!

daZenfmeister Reviewed by daZenfmeister on 10-20-2005. APIPHONY! Holy fucking hell. Drugs are good, they are the best thing in life. They make "real" life alot easier because you become "wise" to the ways of the world. Cannabis gives you a great deal of understanding: My friend hates me now cause im a pothead. This is the way i used to feel about my other friends who didn't do pot. But then parents split and i put less of a value on the things in life and decided to try weed. Now I think I'm alot smarter than my friend (im in college 1 year early) and just Rating: 5

[HeLTeR.SKeLTeR]

I dont think drugs make you wiser, I know many people who smoke who are just as idiots as they were before, and then theres people who are smart who never done any drugs. I think drugs enhance your thinking... but not always in a good way, it just depends on who you are

[Blaze420]

i was smart before i did drugs
im still smart
but ive deffinately lost a brain cell or 2

[CocaCola]

Your friend hates you know because you smoke pot? Good. Who needs friends like that, anyway?

EDIT: See, this is the extent of pots damage to me and my precious brain. I fuck up sometimes... so what?

[beachguy in thongs]

Here ya go:

From Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/heal...out528519.html

Health
Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
By Alan Mozes - HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to the controversy surrounding medical marijuana, an international team of researchers is busy stirring the pot by releasing findings that suggest the drug helps promote brain cell growth while treating mood disorders.
According to the study in rats, a super-potent synthetic version of the cannabinoid compound found in marijuana can reduce depression and anxiety when taken over an extended period of time.
This mood boost seems to be the result of the drug's ability to promote the growth of new brain cells, something no other addictive drug appears able to do, the researchers say.
The findings, which appear in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, remain preliminary, however.
"Our results were obtained from rats, and there's a big difference between rats and humans," said study co-author Dr. Xia Zhang, of the neuropsychiatry research unit in the department of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. "So, I don't really don't know yet if our findings apply to humans. But our results indicate that the clinical use of marijuana could make people feel better by helping control anxiety and depression."
The new findings come on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June granting federal authorities the power to stop doctors from prescribing marijuana. That decision also bars individuals from cultivating the herb for medical purposes.
The decision overrides laws currently on the books in 11 states which had legalized the use of marijuana for patients receiving a doctor's approval. According to the ruling, the Supreme Court justices made their decision on the basis of interstate commerce regulations rather than on an evaluation of the pros and cons of medical marijuana use.
But does medical marijuana work? To help settle that question, Zhang's team focused on the potential of a synthetic laboratory-produced form of the cannabinoid compound naturally found in the marijuana plant.
Humans and other animals also naturally produce the compound, and are known to have cannabinoid receptors lying on the surface of cells in the nervous system and the immune system.
Prior research has shown that, when exposed to cannabinoids, these receptors can provoke an anti-inflammatory and anti-convulsive response. They can also instigate a range of psychotropic effects such as euphoria.
The current study focused on a particular formulation of synthetic cannabinoid known as HU210 -- a compound which Zhang described as the most powerful cannabinoid in the world.
The authors explored both the short-term and long-term effects of exposure to HU210 in rats.
To measure the drug's short-term response, they gave adult rats a single injection of HU210. To study the same drug's effect over the longer term, the researchers gave a separate group of adult rats twice-daily injections of the cannabinoid over a two-week period.
Autopsies revealed that by the end of the 10-day HU210 treatment regimen, new neurons had been generated and integrated into the circuitry of the hippocampus region of the rat's brains. This process, known as neurogenesis, was still in evidence a full month after treatment had been initiated.
Neurogenesis was not triggered in response to brain cells being killed through cannabinoid exposure, the researchers add. In fact, HU210 injections did not appear to prompt any loss of neurons in the hippocampus.
Cannabinoid use appeared to boost mood, as well: According to the scientists, behavioral tests suggest that long-term treatment reduced the rodent's anxiety- and depression-linked behaviors.
For example, one month post-treatment, treated rats deprived of food for 48 hours were quicker than similarly deprived, non-treated rats to begin eating food when it was finally offered to them in an unfamiliar environment.
The researchers believe treated rats may have been less anxious in the manner they handled this novel situation. They stress the results were not related to cannabinoids' appetite-stimulating effects, since the treated rats' eating behavior was similar to that of untreated rats when they were offered food in a familiar setting.
Treated rats also responded in a less anxious manner to swimming and climbing tests, and displayed shorter periods of immobility compared with untreated rats. The latter finding was interpreted to mean that HU210 had an antidepressant effect on rats receiving the cannabinoid over the longer term.
However, while long-term administration of higher doses worked to reduce anxiety and depression, lower doses did not appear to have the same effect, the researchers added.
Zhang and his associates credit cannabinoid-linked neurogenesis with the apparent mood shifts seen in the animals.
The hippocampus area of the brain where the neuronal growth occurred is key to the regulation of stress and other mood disorders, Zhang's team point out. This region is also important to the control of cognitive processes such as learning and memory.
Among the common addictive drugs, marijuana alone appears able to promote neurogenesis when used over time and in the right dosage, the researchers say. In contrast, prior research has demonstrated that chronic administration of cocaine, opiates, alcohol and nicotine inhibits brain cell growth.
"If our results can be confirmed in humans, we should anticipate the chronic use of marijuana as a medical treatment for anxiety and depression," Zhang said.
However, he cautioned that "this treatment is not the same as smoking marijuana. Whether smoking marijuana can produce the same effect, we just don't know."
Dr. Perry G. Fine, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine Pain Research Center, said more than enough data has already been gathered to confirm medical marijuana's potential benefits.
"It's great that there's new science, but to me this is no longer an epiphany," he said. "It's just proving what's been long-suspected. We're behind the curve with the cannabinoids largely because of the stigma of marijuana going years and years back."
"I think most people with clinical expertise in the area of palliative medicine know that if patients had access to all the tools we currently have, we could certainly do a whole lot better to help people live with multiple chronic diseases," he added. "The social policies are way behind our technology, and that's where we need some catching up."
More information
For more on the medical marijuana debate, check out the Medical Marijuana ProCon.org.

[Ganj]

Holy fucking hell. Drugs are good, they are the best thing in life. They make "real" life alot easier because you become "wise" to the ways of the world. Cannabis gives you a great deal of understanding: My friend hates me now cause im a pothead. This is the way i used to feel about my other friends who didn't do pot. But then parents split and i put less of a value on the things in life and decided to try weed. Now I think I'm alot smarter than my friend (im in college 1 year early) and just more wise in general. But the reason he hates me is because the public schools and people in general ignore the fact that SO MUCH of the history of the world is deeply rooted in drugs and divination and spiritualism.

I guarantee that whoever invented catholicism was really on a drug Trip when they did. I swear to everything that I believe in drugs have been around forever and now the pussy ass government is blinding us to truth because its not fit for us to know. I think that if we educate people:
1. Tell them about how drugs affect the mind (con's AND pro's)
2. Give them the history of drugs.
3. And for God's sake let people make their own fucking decisions in life.
4. If you educate people entirely about a subject then they will be able to make an INFORMED decisions about how they want to take their lives.

I for one am going to keep my shit together, but I'm going to continue using drugs for spiritual philosophical and recreational uses.

Salvia Divinorum saved my life!

there are people who feel knowledge is power, and those who could give two shits about it. drugs has definitely opened my head to many views, and i'm grateful for the choices i've made. though there are it's faults, i'm willing to cope with them for what i desire.
props to beachguy, for filling my head with a lot of interesting information in the past week, i'll try to return the favor.

[mrdevious]

drugs didn't seem to help you spell "epiphany" right.

[daZenfmeister]

thats just cause im stoned. who needs proper spelling and grammar, also im an idiot. ps its an online forum. very few people have good spelling or grammar....

[Lily420]

I've definitly gone a long way from where i was at wince i started smoking weed daily. I do well in school, im social, i got lazy but then i got off my ass and got 2 jobs, i appreciate what god and my parents have given me, and i started taking my lifestyle serious (religion). And im a hell of a better person i think.

All thanks to cannabis

I got da power, mang!

Oh fuck your friend,mang! He oviously doesent know anything about weed. Toke up and then laugh at those who frown upon you for smoking da reefer. Fuck polotics, fuck grammer! Its all melting your mind into nothingness. Fuck dat! Ima smoke sum weed mang, peace!

[Ousted]

I agree daZenfmeister. I think pot has made me more willing to be accepting and open to new ideas and thoughts. It allows me to explore a thought further even if it doesn't necessarily make sense right away. When sober, if I get or hear a thought or idea that is out of the ordinary or defies my own rules of logic, I'll dismiss it right away rather than explore it further, and miss the opportunity to break it down, analyze it, and possibly open my eyes to a new awareness that could be very beneficial to my life or my way of thinking and processing.


I also agree with HeLTeR.SKeLTeR, Ive known many a'people who view smoking weed like getting drunk. Its for partying, its for getting smashed, its "look how stoned I am dude!" Or simply its used to escape and not think at all.

I firmly believe that you get out of pot what you ask of it. It you want heightened awareness, you'll discover it when you smoke. If you want to escape, you'll feel emotionless when you smoke. If you want to get tore up and eat the entire contents of your fridge and watch trippy stuff on the tube or 'puter, thats what you'll get. If you want help in aiding a physical pain, thats what you'll get. If you want to use it to help focus (like when you clean house or are at work) thats what you'll get.

I also think thats why so many people often just get a headache or fall asleep the first time they experiment with pot. They dont know what to expect, or they may already have a bad attitude about trying it or the effects.


I love to play around with my mindset before smoking. If I have the day off and I know I need to clean house, I will smoke beforehand because I know that smoking will make the experience much more enjoyable and easier for me to stay focussed on the task. But I also can have the midset like after a hard day of work "Im going to smoke, laugh and watch cartoons with ass parked on the couch", and lo and behold, pot delivers.


That could also be why some people have no problems being aggressive or violent after smoking, while others feel that pot makes them non-violent and non-aggressive.

Its all in your attitude, and what you want to accept from weed...in my humble opinion, lol. Im sure many might disagree with me here.