Obama’s must look like a Prune
This post will bring out the pot deniers in spades.
So a socialist on weed has the brain of a toddler?
One toke? Is there any harm after that first toke?
Wait, what?
But what about the gummies!?
Oh the GUMMIES!
Anything that relieves problems without having to go to a fancy clinic for their pills, etc must be bad for you.
If you read the article the term aging is interchangeable with the term damage. They used MRIs to look for identifiable brain damage in a huge number of people. It is interesting that among all external hazards to the brain marijuana was listed as number one in this study. Marijuana caused 2.8 years of brain damage in contrast to alcohol which caused .6 years of brain damage. But in 3 - 2 - 1... we will be having the regulars claiming that marijuana causes no harm and benefits all parts of the body.
From the article...
“Study author Sachit Egan, from Google, added: ‘This paper represents an important step forward in our understanding of how the brain operates throughout the lifespan.”
I wonder about peer review and cause-effect.
For your interest.
I have friends from high-school whose brains must be 150 years old by now.
Paranoid pot users will no doubt see this as a bogus study, because marijuana is a miracle drug. Except it’s not really a drug. It’s natural so it can’t be harmful. Plus it cures cancer, and everything else, blah blah blah. Trying to have a discussion with pot users about whether pot is harmful is like having a discussion with pot users about anything, pretty soon you realize their brains take a lot of detours and wrong turns. But they’re convinced that they are smarter than everyone else.
I don’t think the states, which many are bankrupt and looking at billions in unfunded pension liabilities, will give a care less what the consequences are or might be to the commoners.
Legalized sports betting, legalization of marijuana,...next will be legalized prostitution - just watch.
Remember - everything is illegal unless the state gets to skim off the top. Then it’s all well and good.
No wonder democrats have made it legal!
This will benenfit libs since they have the mentality of children.
Pot is a mild sedative which can lead to users being less active than average. People who are couch potatoes have lower brain bloodflow and increased risk of dementia.
Of course the same couch potato effect can be caused by drinking, video games, TV, sleeping too much, masturbation, etc, etc, etc. We can’t ban everything that encourages laziness.
Their comparison versus alcohol is ludicrous. Alcohol abuse directly rots every single organ in the body including the brain. I’ve volunteered in rehab clinics and seen alcoholics who permanently have the brains of stroke victims. Some even had livers that were swollen out of their bodies. Pot abusers never came close and even the heaviest abusers all returned to normal function after 1-2 weeks max. Pot doesn’t seem to have much long term effects after quitting but people who enjoy it will sometimes use 24/7 and be perpetually impaired.
Geez, people, a little healthy skepticism is in order here. Google Dr. Daniel Amen. The guy is a quack. A very rich quack whose SPECT brain scan isn’t supported by science. He gained notoriety by claiming that he can scan the brain and then prescribe supplements that will fix the “problem.” He even said his supplements increased his daughter’s intelligence. IOW, a nut.
I wonder how much smoking? Does it say (I am at work and it wont let me go there.)
Just smoking one joint 30 years ago is different than smoking all day, for 30 years.
--Dennis Leary
I’m pretty sure genetics’s play a big part of this....