Posted on 08/18/2014 6:28:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Brain imaging studies of regular marijuana users have shown significant changes in their brain structure, particularly among adolescents, Lisdahl said. Abnormalities in the brain’s gray matter, which is associated with intelligence, have been found in 16- to 19-year-olds who increased their marijuana use in the past year, she said. These findings remained even after researchers controlled for major medical conditions, prenatal drug exposure, developmental delays and learning disabilities, she added.
“When considering legalization, policymakers need to address ways to prevent easy access to marijuana and provide additional treatment funding for adolescent and young adult users,” she adivsed.
Lisdahl also recommended that legislators consider regulating levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the major psychoactive chemical in marijuana, in order to reduce potential neurocognitive effects.
Current treatments for marijuana addiction among adolescents, such as brief school interventions and outpatient counseling, can be helpful, said Alan Budney, PhD, of Dartmouth College.
Start Fresh Program (www.startfreshprogram.com), an alcohol and opioid addiction therapy licensed to rehab clinics by BioCorRx Inc. (OTCQB: BICX), can be considered in treating marijuana addiction. The program has two components, medication through biodegradable Naltrexone implant and life coaching.
The implant, which is embedded under the patient’s skin through a medically-supervised outpatient procedure, successfully curbs the patient’s physical cravings to alcohol and opioids. The implant prevents addicts from experiencing a euphoric high during a relapse, discouraging them from taking alcohol or prescription opioids in the future.
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BING-BING-BING! There's the baseless accusation of drug use. Your John Walters kewpie doll is in the mail.
Yes, it is a great stretch of the imagination to suppose that someone who is constantly posting about the beneficial effects of marijuana and how it should be totes legalized could somehow be offended at the suggestion that they might toke a bit.
That would beat the Hell out of the status quo.
It is a measure I could support. Arguing that there is no vested public interest in regulating the consumption of narcotics is not a position I can support.
As I've explained to you more than once, the point is to see if what you posted was a principle or merely a rationalization - if the former, you'll apply it consistently, including to the drug alcohol.
Who said re-criminalize booze? I certainly didn’t.
I don’t think we should legalize another intoxicant. You may feel otherwise. My point is - use a better argument than alcohol is already legal so pot should be too.
It’s a childish argument.
When have I done that? I've occasionally noted that it has some medical uses, nothing more.
and how it should be totes legalized could somehow be offended at the suggestion that they might toke a bit.
I'm noting your attempt to discredit me with sleazy ad hominems.
I’ll listen to an argument about potential tax revenue generated from pot sales. Maybe an argument about jobs created by a legal distribution system, etc. I may not agree, but I’ll read it.
I know many pot smokers are responsible. I get it. I’ve seen it. It’s the same with booze. Where does it end though? I’m sure there are functioning heroin users too.
Wherever we say it does - and the fewer the responsible users left under the ban, and the narrower and thus more enforceable the ban, the less support there will be for further legalization.
Those are temporary systems.
Unless you're willing to murder people for the content of their flower gardens. Which explains the current system.
Once again, what kind of person MURDERS someone else over their CHOICE in drugs or treatments? Yes Cannabis is medicinal! Just because a lot of people take it purely for one of the side effects does NOT mean it isn't a medical CHOICE!
Do the sick and dying deserve to be treated like a Jew on krystalnacht?
One can only hope.
Well said. Criminals are criminals b/c they want something for nothing. And they will figure a way to get it.
Mob rumrunners wanted something for nothing - but the end of Prohibition nonetheless drove them to the fringes, if not entirely out, of the alcohol market.
Must be true. Look at the living example we have in the Whitehouse.
Everyone is different.
Michael Browns brain was semi functional at best due to smoking all those marijuana blunts. This fat arse, flabby giant thought he could push anyone around to get his candy as in drugs as in marijuana. He found out too late you cannot push around an armed policeman. Without the gun this policeman Darren Wilson would be in the hospital
Guns are the equalizer
And they went into gambling dope loan sparking bank robbery etc. until they settled on dope predominantly. The will find some way to profit.
What they didn't do was move into domestic production as Resolute Conservative claims drug cartels would under relegalization.
(And notice how much of what they did move into involves voluntary adult acts - laws against which are by the nature of the act much more difficult to enforce than laws against real crimes with actual victims.)
We will see where they go. What the criminals decide to do. IMHO it is a sure bet criminals won’t move into productive work
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