Posted on 08/22/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Smoking cannabis ages the brain by an average of 2.8 years, new research suggests.
This is compared to four years in schizophrenia patients, according to the largest study of its kind. Brain ageing is defined as reduced blood flow through the organ.
Excessive alcohol also ages the organ by 0.6 years, the research adds.
Lead author Dr Daniel Amen, founder of Amen Clinics, said: 'The cannabis abuse finding was especially important, as our culture is starting to see marijuana as an innocuous substance. This study should give us pause about it.'
Reduced brain blood flow has previously been linked to stroke and dementia.
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Thank goodness there is no more organized crime nor political corruption - or else marijuana prohibition would be a spectacular circus, rather than having ended all marijuana problems.
Sounds fishy to me. Evidence?
The problem very well could have a relationship to the sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary habits of marijuana users. However, I have already told you in a previous post that heavy marijuana users have already been known to have circulatory problems. This study of circulation in the brain only reconfirms this known risk. At some point correlation does begin to have a strong association with causation.
The price of illegally sold marijuana here has dropped by 2/3rds since marijuana was legalized. This shows that price is a major consideration of users and the cartels have aggressively sought to maintain market share. Since marijuana is cheap to produce they maintain their profits be selling more.
The property next to my parents 40 acres has been planted with marijuana so many times in the past that it now comes back frequently as an unwanted weed. My dad has to spray it to keep his cows from eating it and getting sick.
None of which proves that they are selling more than ever before, as you claimed. To SEEK to MAINTAIN market share is NOT to SUCCEED in INCREASING market share.
Which could also be due to their sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary habits.
And like I said previously it also sometimes causes the cows and horses to get sick when they eat it.
Marijuana (Cannabis sativa)
• Dangerous, but uncommon
• Parts of Plant: leaves and stalks (most toxic)
• Poisonous Principle: resin tetrahydrocannobinol. Depression of central nervous system
• Animals Poisoned: cattle, horses
https://www.uaex.edu/farm-ranch/pest-management/weed/poisonous_weeds.pdf
Our area is awash in illegal marijuana... the illegal dealers may not be getting as much per ounce for their marijuana as they were, but they are making up for this by selling larger quantities. I know many marijuana users and this is what they are telling me. Law enforcement is paying almost no attention to illegal pot dealers so they feel more comfortable carrying larger amounts.
“So no, prohibition of alcohol would not be appropriate at this time.”
I get that, but then I look at the devastation caused by liquor and wonder. I know in my own family it has caused untold misery and deprivation. Far worse than most are able to comprehend.
And millions of others as well. 10s of millions.
I cannot imagine any substance that would even compare to such destruction of the human family and soul. Certainly in all of human history none has.
Yet the vast majority of folks are OK with it being legal.
I think that’s because they think it’s OK for people to choose. Right or wrong. Good or bad.
And they know the impact on Law and Order when the state tries, and is able, to prevent the people from making those choices. Gangs, corruption of LEO, dirty money and murder. And a litany of bad social impacts exacerbated by the information age and the surveillance state.
That’s why I choose full, nationwide legalization. People must be allowed to fail. And the rest of us have to pick up the pieces.
I see no other rational course. Even with first-hand experience with the death and destruction of liquor.
I am certain that my experiences are not unique. People I know who were active and then started smoking pot, typically become much more sedentary. It goes hand in hand.
There is no way for individual users to know whether dealers are selling more in the aggregate, much less whether that supposed increase is enough to maintain their profits.
The liberty-respecting answer is not to ban pot - no more than any of the many other entertainments that dispose one to being sedentary - but to require consumer warnings.
The common-sense-respecting answer is not to support legislation - that is known to increase a habit that has many negative consequences to individuals and to our society. Pot is something is not needed, corrupts our youth, is a proven health hazard to long term users, and contributes to the degradation of our liberty loving society.
Then you and I come from families with similar histories. I do not drink alcohol or take any mind altering drugs. Even when I was given pain medications for a ruptured appendix I began refusing them the following morning. I know that with my family history that I am very vulnerable to addiction. I could not adequately describe the devastation that drugs and alcohol have wreaked on good men and women in my family.
And that is why I take this issue extremely seriously and will fight you and others on this until my dying breath.
All true of alcohol - as is the case with the negative consequences of prohibition. In a liberty loving society, needs, negative consequences, and health hazards remain an adult's choice (with appropriate consumer warnings). And youth has been reporting since well before any state legalized pot that it was almost as easy for them to get as beer or cigarettes despite the latter being much more widely used among adults; prohibition has failed our youth. Regulated legalization turns the market over to sellers who have an economic incentive to not sell to youth.
Legalizing pot puts both our youth and our country at risk with basically no benefit. It is a substance that is far more caustic to our society than people who have never worked in public service have any concept of.
This is awesome news for those with newborn kids.
Walking, talking, potty training.. all in a week or two!
Hehehehehe....ok.
You should see how old my liver is.
Every single thing has become a circus.
That was funny tho.
My cousin just had a baby girl, first pics I saw was him holding “IT” and looking at it like....holy hell what did I do.....
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