Posted on 06/06/2005 7:16:18 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Per Fox News:
The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.
Again read the evidence: the dangers physically and mentally of pot are there in front of you but you are so obsessed with the culture of pot you cannot see it.
Oh stop the hysterical exaggerration. You sound like you are coming down from a high...short term effect of use.
Really??? Since you never smoked Pot, how would you know
if someone was high on Pot? or Bananas Peels?
Pot Doesn't Cause Permanent Brain Damage
Your Guide, Buddy T From Buddy T,
Your Guide to Alcoholism / Substance Abuse.
Researchers Find Minimal Long-Term Effects of Marijuana Use
An analysis of research studies with long-term, recreational users of marijuana has failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect on the neurocognitive functioning of users. According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, the only deleterious side effect found was a minimal malfunction in the domains of learning and forgetting.
The findings were particularly significant considering the movement by several states to make cannabis (marijuana) available as a medicinal drug, and questions regarding its potential toxicity over long-term usage.
Published in the July issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the study involved a quantitative synthesis of 15 previously published research studies on the non-acute (residual) effects of cannabis on the neurocognitive performance of adult human subjects.
The studies included 704 long-term cannabis users and 484 non-users.
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The neurocognitive performance measurements included simple reaction time, attention, verbal/language, abstraction/executive functioning, perceptual/motor skills, motor skills, learning and forgetting.
"Surprisingly, we saw very little evidence of deleterious effects. The only exception was a very small effect in learning new information," said Igor Grant, M.D., the study's senior author, a UCSD professor of psychiatry, and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), a collaborative, state-supported program between UCSD and UC San Francisco, that oversees 11 studies of the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis to treat certain diseases.
In describing the negative effects in the study, the research team said the problems observed in learning and forgetting suggest that chronic long-term cannabis use results in selective memory defects. They added that "while the results are compatible with this conclusion, the effected size for both domains was of a very small magnitude."
Grant added that the minimal side effects seen "raised the question of practical significance. If we barely find this tiny effect in long-term heavy users of cannabis, then we are unlikely to see deleterious side effects in individuals who receive cannabis for a short time in a medical setting."
In addition, Grant said that heavy marijuana users often abuse other drugs, such as alcohol and amphetamines, which also might have long-term neurological effects. This raises the question of the extent to which the other drugs contributed to the minimal problems found in learning and forgetting in the marijuana users.
The paper's authors also noted that many of the research studies examined had significant limitations, either with small numbers of subjects or insufficient information about potential confounding factors, such as exposure to other drugs or presence of neuropsychiatric factors such as depression or personality disorders.
They noted that only studies that begin with the examination of children and young adolescents before they enter the period of risk to cannabis exposure, can sufficiently reduce the influence of these additional factors.
In addition to Grant, the paper's authors included doctoral students Raul Gonzalez, M.S., and Catherine L. Carey, M.S. and Loki Natarajan, Ph.D., UCSD HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC) and UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Tanya Wolfson, M.A., UCSD HNRC.
Source: University of California - San Diego News Release.
Someone earlier today was asking if Thomas was a pothead. Duh. Lotta folks just can't get past the weed aspect long enough to recognize what this case is actually about.
"the federal government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives and potluck suppers throughout the 50 states."
Spot on.
Meanwhile, Granny, of the Beverly Hillbillies, has finally found a real medicinal use for the stuff in her latest "poultice" for the family dog's leg. There are side effects, though.
I don't now how buddy T is or those with masters degrees pontificating on the dangers of cannabis but i do know the national institute of health and you should too.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html
Now that's funny. Don't care who y'are.
REally! I have had family members die horrible deaths due to Alcoholism to bad they weren't Potheads they would be alive today.....
I don't know if you know this, but people die. Sometimes of diseases. And no matter what you do, whatever magical weed you dig up, it will always happen.
Your first-day of registration and immediately you post a non-sequitur.
The potheads secreted away in your medicinal marijuana trojan horse are anxious for your success.
A. Scalia. "Congress need not accept on faith that state law will be effective in maintaining a strict division between a lawful market for ?medical? marijuana and the more general marijuana market. See id., at 26?27, and n. 38. To impose on [Congress] the necessity of resorting to means which it cannot control, which another government may furnish or withhold, would render its course precarious, the result of its measures uncertain, and create a dependence on other governments, which might disappoint its most important designs, and is incompatible with the language of the constitution.?"
I'm very happy the potheads got stuffed today.
Well, if you grew your own pot for, say, pain, you really wouldn't have a need for Advil, now would you?
That doesn't affect commerce? You and a million other dopers wouldn't have an effect on commerce?
Not only hysteria but increased depression and schizophrenia...symptoms I thought were associated mainly with being a Lieberal.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0503c.shtml
Yeah, really makes a bunch of sense.....they perscribe me 270 Percocets for a three months supply no sweat....
Wont let me use the weed as it will violate terms of my retirement (its illegal) and adversely effect my income.
Go figure.....
Semper Fi
FYI on some effects of marijuana for those of us who haven't experienced them (but have seen):
* It obviously turns people into leftist whackos who want to legalize drugs and to help their nearest national socialist lawyer party...er, liberaltarian Party, that is.
* It smells like boar pee when it's burning.
* It makes its users very paranoid.
* It inhibits logic thinking.
* It allows drunks to drink far more alcohol (remember those who smoked, drank and died).
...
Well, at least Clarence Thomas gets it. It's about the "CONSTITUTION". Unfortunately the majority of the "conservatives" here think it's about dope. We "CONSERVATIVES" are going to have to put our dogma aside or we're all doomed.
He signed up, grew his allotted share of wheat, took the government-subsidized price (3X world market), then grew more wheat to consume at home, rather than buying it on the market.
He could have grown his allotted share, sold some to market and kept some for home use. But he got greedy.
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