Posted on 11/27/2015 7:39:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
Dazzan said that when they looked at the corpus callosum of those who smoke high-strength cannabis, they found that there was a significant difference in the white matter compared to people who have never tried the drug, and people who smoke low-strength cannabis. The THC chemical acts on cannabinoid receptors which the corpus callosum contains.
The team utilized two scanning methods to examine the corpus callosum in the brains of 56 patients who reportedly experienced a first episode of psychosis, and 43 healthy participants from the local community. One method required the use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) while the other method used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), researchers said.
The scans discovered that people who used high-potency cannabis daily had a higher mean diffusivity -- a marker of damage in the white matter -- in their corpus callosum. Dazzan said it indicates a problem in the white matter of the brain and makes the corpus callosum less efficient.
"We don't know exactly what it means for the person, but it suggests there is less efficient transfer of information," said Dazzan.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Read that again, Tolerance....
A total of 56 patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) were recruited from South East London (UK). Also, 43 individuals without psychosis were recruited from the same geographical area; they were administered the Psychosis Screening Questionnaire (Bebbington et al.1995), and excluded if they reported any psychotic symptom or a history of psychotic illnesses. Exclusion criteria for all subjects included: history of head trauma or injury with loss of consciousness longer than 1 h; current or past organic psychosis; learning disabilities or lack of English fluency (for details, see Di Forti et al.2009, 2014).
I see no total numbers.
See 40.
Excellent
Actually, there are scores of different strains of pot. “Skunk” is merely one of them.
They smell like death.
Cannibis here in WA is available for recreational use. I am amazed at the marketing. Every product has analysis of cannibinoids to show whether more for healing or more for the head. They even identify the pesticide used, and generally use organic farming techniques.
There are 2 major strains of cannabis, sativa and indica. Sativa produces the time-altering and ‘focus’ effects of marijuana. The indica produces the ‘body buzz’ and generally more of the healing effects to deal with sleep and pain. This is generally the ‘skunk’ weed, and ‘diesel’ is a primary indica strain.
Hybrids are almost at a point of ‘trade mark’ status, e.g. google ‘platinum girl scout cookies cannabis’. Produced by several growers, the hybrid pedigree remains the same.
Additionally, under 50 people were studied and no controls set for what their brains were like before they smoked all this "skunk". [...]
All but three were taking antipsychotic medicine and it's marijuana that caused the results they garnered?!
Thanks, gents, for exposing the flaws of this "study." It never ceases to amaze that FReepers who can smell BS globull warming "science" a mile off also swallow this Reefer Madness rot hook, line, and sinker.
I know it may seem odd, but I actually like the smell of a dead Skunk.
Especially at a distance while driving on country roads.
“Modern” pot does in fact smell like a skunk.
Not a pot head.
Sorry, but I still like the smell.
For what it's worth, I smoked a LOT of grass in my college years. It was a life of getting stoned pretty much every day for about three years.
And after that I qualified for membership in Mensa. I joined it and then after a couple of years decided not to renew my membership.
I had a successful career as an accountant/analyst for around 30 years until I retired at age 51.
I turn 60 next year and I've only had a need to get healthcare once in the past fifteen years... a herniated disc needed treatment a couple of years ago.
Smoking dope in my younger years didn't contribute to my intelligence or good health but I don't see where it hurt those either. And as for the future, I expect that I'm more likely to suffer hits to my health from a 35 year, 2 1/2 pack a day cigarette addiction than I am from smoking dope for a few years.
Another prohibitionist study. Yawn.
I prefer to call him “demonic demented destructive deputy of the devil” ...
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