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Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests
NBC News ^ | December 16, 2013 | Brian Alexander

Posted on 12/16/2013 9:17:13 AM PST by Zakeet

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21 posted on 12/16/2013 9:39:41 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: trisham

No reasoning,mmmmm sounds like everyone in Washington, if they were honest you would find the majority of them were not light users of the drug.


22 posted on 12/16/2013 9:41:14 AM PST by easternsky
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To: ifinnegan
. . . hurt brain and memory . . . ?

Sounds like the perfect drug to turn otherwise normal and intelligent people into liberals.

23 posted on 12/16/2013 9:43:03 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: greene66

See my post #23.


24 posted on 12/16/2013 9:44:44 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: easternsky

Yes, and not just this one. That’s the biggest problem with mood-altering drugs. People who use them are able to avoid facing and coping with reality.


25 posted on 12/16/2013 9:45:01 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: PapaNew

“Those that smoke weed generally vigorously deny this.”

Because it’s simply not true.


26 posted on 12/16/2013 9:45:24 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Vigilanteman

It is.

Dope is the great liberal maker.


27 posted on 12/16/2013 9:50:09 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: pfflier
I bring this out in my Psych classes, also the growing connection between pot use on the still developing teen brain (and other legal drugs) and the later development of mental illness especially schizophrenia.

Not much debate about it in my AP Psych class but in general psych there is always at least 1 defender of pot.

28 posted on 12/16/2013 9:51:11 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: ifinnegan

The head of Student Health Services at UC Berkeley came to this same conclusion in 1963 — just from observation.

Everything I’ve observed around me in the intervening years has backed that conclusion.


29 posted on 12/16/2013 9:52:27 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Ueriah
“Those that smoke weed generally vigorously deny this.”

Because it’s simply not true.

Yes it is.

30 posted on 12/16/2013 9:52:45 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: ifinnegan

Yep. We have all seen pot smoking burn outs.


31 posted on 12/16/2013 9:53:07 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: fungoking

The defenders always compare pot use to alcohol abuse. Both do great harm. Funny how they rationalize that away.


32 posted on 12/16/2013 9:54:15 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Vigilanteman

“Sounds like the perfect drug to turn otherwise normal and intelligent people into liberals.”

You will find amongst cannabis users both the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the talented and intelligent as well as the ignorant unwashed masses.

Likewise, you will find people of all sides of the politicial spectrum who smoke pot. I think that most conservatives tend to be quieter about their pot use than liberals are, as a general rule.

I find it interesting that you can go to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes once you are 18, yet it has been proven beyond any reasonable measure that cigarettes have a _provable_ correlation to cancer, but you can’t buy cannabis, which does not have a proven correlation.

There is a difference between research suggesting something, and research proving something.


33 posted on 12/16/2013 9:55:25 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: PapaNew
MJ causes memory loss and psychosis - the severity depends on the person. Those that smoke weed generally vigorously deny this.....

.....when they remember the question, that is.

34 posted on 12/16/2013 9:57:41 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Venturer

“We have all seen pot smoking burn outs.”

There are pot smoking burn outs. I also know many pot smokers who have achieved remarkable things with their careers. You can’t really say that everyone who smokes cannabis turns into a burn out any more than you can say “anyone who drinks beer beats their wife.”


35 posted on 12/16/2013 9:59:36 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Ueriah

“I also know many pot smokers who have achieved remarkable things with their careers. “

Clinton and Obama?


36 posted on 12/16/2013 10:00:28 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Jeff Chandler

“That’s just nasty.”

Truth to tell, I find everything about Miley Cirus in that photo to be extremely repellent. I think I’d rather spend time with him, perhaps playing checkers.


37 posted on 12/16/2013 10:01:31 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: pfflier

“The defenders always compare pot use to alcohol abuse. Both do great harm. Funny how they rationalize that way.”

Excellent point, although I disagree with you on pot doing damage to people’s lives in the manner that alcohol does.


38 posted on 12/16/2013 10:01:50 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Ueriah

“I find it interesting that you can go to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes once you are 18, yet it has been proven beyond any reasonable measure that cigarettes have a _provable_ correlation to cancer, but you can’t buy cannabis, which does not have a proven correlation.”

Cannibis cures cancer.


39 posted on 12/16/2013 10:02:18 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

“Clinton and Obama?”

Lol!


40 posted on 12/16/2013 10:02:28 AM PST by Ueriah
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