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Black Dog
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posted 14 October 2005 12:33 PM

Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads. It seems marijuana could be good for your brain.

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arborman
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posted 14 October 2005 12:47 PM

What was the question?

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belva
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posted 14 October 2005 02:46 PM

I haven't lost my mind--it's backed up on a disc somewhere around the office!

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arborman
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posted 14 October 2005 03:57 PM

Somehow I doubt the results of the study, just based on my personal experience. I don't know of any long-term damage, but when I was a 'chronic' my short-term memory and attention span were atrocious. So much so that it took me awhile to recognize it, and even longer to remember to get around to doing anything about it.

That being said, people do what they do, and pot's relatively benign. If people want to smoke it, it's their business. Why we feel the need to use law enforcement to criminalize people who don't harm others continues to escape me. I think 500 years from now people will equate our current legal behaviour with that of the Spanish Inquisition 500 years ago.

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nuclearfreezone
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posted 14 October 2005 05:29 PM

Kinda like a witch hunt.

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Brett Mann
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posted 14 October 2005 06:55 PM

A key point was made in the G&M article on this - cannibinoids, which produce the relaxing and mind-altering effects of cannibis, occur naturally in the human brain. How long before we all become criminals for possession of endocannibinoids?

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Fidel
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posted 14 October 2005 11:31 PM

SMI2LE

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mayakovsky
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posted 15 October 2005 12:50 AM

looney, Can you read while high?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor

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steffie
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posted 15 October 2005 08:57 AM

quote:
Cannabinoid receptors work by inhibiting adenylate cyclase and thereby inhibit production of the second messenger molecule cyclic AMP. They are activated by cannabinoids, found naturally inside the body or introduced as a drug (which may be a synthetic compound or a herbal extract.)

Even wiki seems to imply that cannabinoids occur "naturally inside the body". Or am I just high?

The study's author wants to make it clear that this study does not reflect the effects of smoked, inhaled, or ingested substances.

So why not blow smoke at the rats? Or give them some of a certain babbler's brownies?

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Sanitary Engineer
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posted 15 October 2005 09:54 AM

In a country with high drunk driving rates, cirrohhis, domestic violence, and other side-effects of alcohol, there is nothing wrong with a little toke or two.

Free Marc Emery!:StoptheDrugWar.org

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lagatta
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posted 15 October 2005 10:16 AM

Haven't drunk driving rates actually declined dramatically, except for a "hard-core" of serious abusers?

I'm sure in favour of a toke or two (though personally, I can't smoke anything, makes me cough)but don't particularly want to see stoners driving either.

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Sanitary Engineer
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posted 15 October 2005 10:22 AM

I agree, driving stoned is not a good idea.

However, I don't know many domestic assaults that marihuana played the powderkeg in igniting.

Mr. Molson, Mr. Labatt, are drug pushers, as sure as the local marihuana supplier.

The only thing they contribute to society, that the dealer doesn't, is the taxes their products generate.

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chubbybear
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posted 15 October 2005 10:31 AM

Now if I could only remember where I put those rolling papers...Anyway, cops don't care about wee bits of bud - they are too busy smacking crackheads.

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thwap
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posted 15 October 2005 10:38 AM

Sometimes pot makes me function better, sometimes it makes me function worse.

I remember some really really good times when high. It's habit forming, but not addictive.

One intense experience: reading Thucydides's account of the final defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse in The Pelopennesian War while stoned. Very intense.

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