Marijuana harms brain?

[Crispyfried]

Yeah alcohol makes you drunk because it is a poison. Marijuana merely binds to receptors in your brain that you already have, and you actually make your own cannabinoids, that's why people have those receptors. Opiates are similar, but of course too much heroin will kill you. But anyhow, alcohol is a toxin, plain and simple. And nicotine is officially classified as a poison by the way. Sure it's also a plant chemical, but it's a poison as well. Cannabinoids make a great drug because of their non-toxicity. And if you don't believe that alchohol is a poison, go slam a fifth of whisky and see how you feel.

[Crispyfried]

clearly you are a dubass

Here's how alcohol works. Yeast ferment sugar (they eat it to live), and excrete alcohol as a waste product. When the alcohol content in their environment becomes too great, the yeast die in their own excrement. That's why you don't see naturally fermented alcoholic beverages with over about 13 percent alcohol, the yeast can't live when the alcohol content ecxeeds this amount. Thus distilling alcohol is necessary to achieve higher concentrations of alcohol.

[beachguy in thongs]

^ i told my friend that, and he thought it was bullshit.

Tell him to check this site for references.
http://www.thc-ministry.net/cannabisinfo.htm

This is #6 on the list.
6. Cannabinoids do kill brain cells, but the brain cells they kill are called "Glioma" or Cancer of the brain(Tumor). All other brain cells are protected and healed by cannabinoids. (Glioma cells cannot tolerate the action of cannabinoids)

Actually, he call e-mail this guy, or call him, or whatever.
Dr. Robert J. Melamede Ph.D. Chairman of the Biology Department of the University of Colorado:
Conducting Scientific research on Cannabinoids
Phone: 719-262-3135
University of Colorado
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Room 232
PO Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
[email protected]

[WannaSmokePot]

It's called "dope" for a reason. Use weed too much...and it'll make you, like, um, dopey, bro. I don't think it causes chronic damage, unless you smoke it while you're too young and still developing. It's possible to get "burnt out" on the drug after a while, but if you quit you'll bounce back to good as new.

It's different for everyone. Look at how many brain cells George Carlin has barbequed over the years...he smoked weed starting when he was 13, and smoked every single day of his life, even when he was in the air force, until he was 42. He was a stonehead for THIRTY YEARS. Then he had a consuming cocaine addiction from 1972-1975. He did acid, I know, and recenlty just got out of rehab for addiction to alcohol (bottle and a half of wine a day, he went to rehab so it wouldn't get worse), and Vicodin. Now he is SIXTY-NINE years old, and look at what a genius he is...smarter, and more creative, than 99.99% of the people on this planet.

Then again, some people who do 1/10th as many drugs as he did are affected much worse. Especially with a very potent drug like LSD...I have a friend who has not really been the same since he got a hold of some bad stuff, or strong stuff or something.

Just use the drug judiciously, so that it DOES something for you, and not just to distance yourself from reality, and you'll be fine. Use it wisely and it won't make you dumber, it will enhance your life.

[Crispyfried]

Although the original dope is the stuff that you coat wooden model airplanes with.

[Maui Wowie]

It's fucked up my memory, all the enjoyable times I used to have no problem remembering, just instantly dissappear, and it's a damn shame.

Now it's hard to remember what I did yesterday, yet sometimes I can remember things from years ago, like I can be in the state of mind I was when I was 10.

But overall it really does affect me negatively, cause anything I do during the day, I can't remember, or enjoy a good moment like I used to... so time just zips by like nothing.

[WannaSmokePot]

In response to above post: Do you still smoke? If not, how long ago did you quit?

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

It's called "dope" for a reason. Use weed too much...and it'll make you, like, um, dopey, bro. I don't think it causes chronic damage, unless you smoke it while you're too young and still developing. It's possible to get "burnt out" on the drug after a while, but if you quit you'll bounce back to good as new.

It's different for everyone. Look at how many brain cells George Carlin has barbequed over the years...he smoked weed starting when he was 13, and smoked every single day of his life, even when he was in the air force, until he was 42. He was a stonehead for THIRTY YEARS. Then he had a consuming cocaine addiction from 1972-1975. He did acid, I know, and recenlty just got out of rehab for addiction to alcohol (bottle and a half of wine a day, he went to rehab so it wouldn't get worse), and Vicodin. Now he is SIXTY-NINE years old, and look at what a genius he is...smarter, and more creative, than 99.99% of the people on this planet.

Then again, some people who do 1/10th as many drugs as he did are affected much worse. Especially with a very potent drug like LSD...I have a friend who has not really been the same since he got a hold of some bad stuff, or strong stuff or something.

Just use the drug judiciously, so that it DOES something for you, and not just to distance yourself from reality, and you'll be fine. Use it wisely and it won't make you dumber, it will enhance your life.

i call bullshit, GWB was previously stupid before he started toking it up.

marijuana does not cause stupidity, or "dopyness", that is individual specific, and a previous condition, that is agitated by marijuana at most.

[halo]

The smartest kid in my school tokes all the time. He wins a bunch of chess and math competitions. Hes a junior and in calculus

[WannaSmokePot]

"Stoner Shadow Wolf"-- read my post more carefully. I was talking about GEORGE CARLIN, not our president. And I was saying drugs DIDN'T harm Carlin, not that they made him stupid. I'm saying Carlin was smart, before and after drugs. Or maybe you were making a stoner joke and acting dumb and *pretending* to misinterpret my post?