does pot kill brain cells

[MRB041]

iv been doin some research, and i learned about thc recepters, at least im tryin to, im no chem major haha but it got me thinkin, ppl always say that pot kills brain cells, but i cant find any information to support or oppose it. So does pot kill brain cells or not? Links of sites that explain this would be greatly appreciated

MRB041 Reviewed by MRB041 on 11-24-2004. does pot kill brain cells iv been doin some research, and i learned about thc recepters, at least im tryin to, im no chem major haha but it got me thinkin, ppl always say that pot kills brain cells, but i cant find any information to support or oppose it. So does pot kill brain cells or not? Links of sites that explain this would be greatly appreciated Rating: 5

[king cola]

most substances destroy brain cells or its bad for u, i would say that smoking loadsa weed does fuck with your head, i have jus finished off my half bar of weed i grew, and i didnt sell any and once that ran out and i went back to not smoking as much, my body jus fucked up for a while and my head was mad, and also smoking loadsa of the really potent shit not jus your average weed, you know what i mean, but that makes you feel confused in the head when your not smoking it,

anyways who needs braincells?

as for websites try www.erowid.com look at cannabis, mite have summit bout killin braincells there.

[juanskee]

loadsa, sounds about right.
We only use like 10% of our brain anyways.

[thcbongman]

THC causes a fatty tissue to form around your brain, causing some brain cells to go dormant.

The brain cells that die, the rest get stronger.

[IntrepidS]

no it doesn't, it just fucks them up.

[thcbongman]

3) Doesn't Marijuana cause brain damage?
The short answer: No.
The long answer: The reason why you ask this is because you probably heard or read somewhere that marijuana damages brain cells, or makes you stupid. These claims are untrue.

The first one -- marijuana kills brain cells -- is based on research done during the second Reefer Madness Movement. A study attempted to show that marijuana smoking damaged brain structures in monkeys. However, the study was poorly performed and it was severely criticized by a medical review board. Studies done afterwards failed to show any brain damage, in fact a very recent study on Rhesus monkeys used technology so sensitive that scientists could actually see the effect of learning on brain cells, and it found no damage.

But this was Reefer Madness II, and the prohibitionists were looking around for anything they could find to keep the marijuana legalization movement in check, so this study was widely used in anti-marijuana propaganda. It was recanted later.

(To this day, the radical anti-drug groups, like P.R.I.D.E. and Dr. Gabriel Nahas, still use it -- In fact, America's most popular drug education program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, claims that marijuana ``can impair memory perception & judgement by destroying brain cells.'' When police and teachers read this and believe it, our job gets really tough, since it takes a long time to explain to children how Ms. Jones and Officer Bob were wrong.)

The truth is, no study has ever demonstrated cellular damage, stupidity, mental impairment, or insanity brought on specifically by marijuana use -- even heavy marijuana use. This is not to say that it cannot be abused, however.


4) If it doesn't kill brain cells, how does it get you `high'?
Killing brain cells is not a pre-requisite for getting `high.' Marijuana contains a chemical which substitutes for a natural brain chemical, with a few differences. This chemical touches special `buttons' on brain cells called `receptors.' Essentially, marijuana `tickles' brain cells. The legal drug alcohol also tickles brain cells, but it will damage and kill them by producing toxins (poisons) and sometimes mini-seizures. Also, some drugs will wear out the buttons which they push, but marijuana does not.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...faq1.shtml#3-6

[littlebud24]

just wondering.. so why is marijuanna illegal

my friend told me the it had something to do with back a long time ago black people smoked weed and tobacco was considered err classier(sp?)

[The C]

mabe long time ago there wer kings and shit who moked the cannibus, but they got overthrown by a nrighbouting power and then cannibus, there cluture was considered bad and negative.

The C

[The C]

cannibus was a prt of the pwther powers lifestyle, so itshuld be kept in check and hated, because those who smoked it came to revelation. Mabe Socratise was a stoner, how about Aristotle and Plato.

Pot heads, socailists, and when capitalists/conservatives take over they shove it in the face of true socailism.

The C

[kr1Nx01]

just wondering.. so why is marijuanna illegal

my friend told me the it had something to do with back a long time ago black people smoked weed and tobacco was considered err classier(sp?)

"a long time ago" (the early decades of the 20th century) the government had a thing against chinese and "their opium," blacks and "their cocaine," and mexicans and "their marijuana." it had to do with the fact that they needed a scape goat for the crime rate and the minority jobs being created and so on, so they chose to control those popular substances used by minorities, citing their drug use as the underlying problem with what was going on at the time with the rise in whatever bad shit they could make up. so yeah first went opium, then coke, then marijuana. but not alcohol or tobacco... too many "white people" used those "social enhancers."

stupid morons back then, it's a wonder we got as far as we did with shite politics like that.