Posted on 12/12/2024 4:58:54 AM PST by yldstrk
Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function.
"We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time," explained epidemiologist Lifang Hou from Northwestern University when the research was published in 2023.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Take a look at kamala’s recent “fundraiser” speech— she is drunk as hell and completely stoned on heavy weed, and a lot else.
She never was very bright in the first place and this habituation enhances her inability to speak in cogent sentences and also make logical decisions of any correct nature. Decisions that are in agreement with the legions of her followers who are all stoners and losers like her.
Not for the first time the clinician press has identified her schizophrenic behaviours and patterns. And Obamau’s as well (and we ought to include Billy Cokenose Clinton in these observations. He, after all had to have plastic surgery to replace his nasal septum back in Arkansas!).
If us taxpayers are on the hook for someone messing themselves up and/or being too drugged up to work, it's our business. Get rid of welfare (including taxpayer funded health care) and it's just your business. Not only will that reduce how much we argue about it, it'll make the drug users experience enough of the real world pain to increase the odds that they get off of it. It'll also increase the odds that observers will decide not to try drugs in the first place and wind up in the gutter themselves.
But as long as us taxpayers keep bailing out the drug users, the drug users have less incentive to either avoid drugs or use them in moderation. People are always more reckless when other folks foot the bill.
John, thank you for your observation today on this thread. Legal pot is not good for individuals or the society as a whole!
After using enough pot, the kids won’t care.
Thanks for those links. Interesting information.
“We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time,” explained epidemiologist Lifang Hou from Northwestern University”. I wonder if Lifang was smoking some ganja when he did the research?
Eating carrots and watching TV cause epigenetic changes too. Everything does. It’s easy to revise gene expression. We do it every day ....and we pass the changes off to our offspring.
This is not some special sinister case.
I’m old enough to remember when grifting Republicans were against health destroying drugs.
I’m not old enough to remember but have studied enough history to understand the use of propaganda to make it illegal...
Just go watch Reefer Madness and you will see how it makes black men rape white women!
Yeah but it’s a harmless little drug that gives you the munchies..so let’s legalize an9ther trap for human beings...like the harmless porn.
With the legalization of pot and its derivatives (gummies) here in Michigan, I suspect more and more people are going to indulge in it who wouldn’t normally because it was illegal.
30+ years for me. My good friend, a man I loved and called brother, was an alcoholic. 2 years ago, he went on a binge that ended with him stringing himself up in his garage on Memorial Day. What's interesting is that attributing schizophrenia to cannabis use doesn't make sense. I don't hear voices or see things that ain't there after 30+ years. My buddy, on the other hand, spoke often in the year leading up to his suicide about the people he used to see coming out of his bathroom sink drain.
Cannabis prohibition is proof positive that "Conservatives" LOVE big government, just as long as it is THEIR big government.
“30+ years for me.” 48 for me, but I’m like Billy Clinton, I never inhaled!
First they say...
“Multiple epigenetic changes associated with cannabis use had previously been linked to things like cellular proliferation, hormone signaling, infections, neurological disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders.”
And right after...
“It’s important to note that this study doesn’t prove that cannabis directly causes these changes or causes health problems.”
Wouldn’t want to offend all the dopers, would we?
I recently had a protracted discussion about the risks of marijuana with someone who is a heavy habitual user.
I gave three major reasons why I encouraged him to reduce consumption with the goal of quitting/overcoming dependency.
1. It affects memory.
2. I forgot #2.
2. Just kidding. Tolerance leads to greater and greater dependency (although tolerance does not appear to be permanent). That is, if the goal is to feel better, you will need to continually increase the regular dosage.
3. Being high, especially as a way to cope with unhealed trauma and emotional pain, inhibits healing by keeping you from being present. When you aren’t present you cannot process and heal from past hurts. You also cannot be present to experience the proper emotions necessary for relationships. So, things like empathy or gratitude may be lacking or absent.
A lot of people might add to this list the financial and legal implications.
Spiritually, I consider it to be a lot like alcohol. I think that is a fair comparison even if there are some major differences in how these substances affect people.
Well said! Couldn’t agree more!
“I don’t hear voices or see things that ain’t there after 30+ years.”
If you’re hallucinating, how would you know if things are REALLY there or not?
Or take regular "tolerance breaks" which most stoners I know, myself included, do from time to time.
Being high, especially as a way to cope with unhealed trauma and emotional pain, inhibits healing by keeping you from being present.
To an extent, you are right about keeping one "present", and that is the point. I have been through a lot of loss in life, and I've raw dogged the emotions while other times I've checked out for a bit with cannabis until I could be at a point where I could deal with the loss without the excruciating pain and constant wondering if I'm going to make it through this loss.
Spiritually, I consider it to be a lot like alcohol.
Alcohol is addictive. I've watched it several times throughout life. Don't get me wrong, I also enjoy a good drunk from time to time, but the folks I know that forgo the devil's lettuce for alcohol all seem to be heavily addicted to it, to the point that they shake and, in one friend's experience, she almost died from the withdrawals of alcohol. I've gone plenty of stretches without the jazz cabbage (and alcohol, for that matter) and do not suffer any negative affects, physically emotionally or mentally.
And not once has the ganja ever had me thinking, "Gee, I should vote for a democrat!" Not ever.
You don't hallucinate off a bong rip or doobie. You just don't. Anyone says they have, they are lying.
We aren’t allowed to post things critical of marijuana.
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