Marijuana has its positives, study shows.

The Daily Telegraph ^ | November 6, 2007 | Staff

[Loyalist]

A STUDY of more than 5000 youngsters in Switzerland has found those who smoke marijuana do as well or better in some areas as those who don't.

But the same was not true for those who used both tobacco and marijuana, who tended to be heavier users of the drug, said the report by Dr J.C. Suris and colleagues at the University of Lausanne.

The study did not confirm the hypothesis that those who abstained from marijuana and tobacco functioned better overall, the authors said.

In fact, those who used only marijuana were "more socially driven ... significantly more likely to practice sports and they have a better relationship with their peers" than abstainers, it said.

"Moreover, even though they are more likely to skip class, they have the same level of good grades; and although they have a worse relationship with their parents, they are not more likely to be depressed" than abstainers, it said.

It did not explain the reasons behind the apparent effect.

[Thermalseeker]

But it could be that unmotivated people are drawn towards marijuana rather than vice-versa.

I've always heard that a lot of time folks with high IQ's are drawn to MJ. I know had a prof in grad school at Ga Tech that was a real brainiac. IIRC, I think he held a PhD in electrical engineering. I'm all but certain this guy was a stoner to the extreme. I'd run into him several times off campus and he was blistered....

[Huck]

Restless leg syndrome is real? I saw a commercial the other day and thought the drug companies were getting creative inventing new syndromes. Never heard of that one before.

As for overdoing stuff, I say “All things in moderation—including moderation!” I think the lazy potheads are lazy AND potheads. They’re not achievers crippled under the haze of drugs. They choose to lay about, and the pot makes the laying about seem more interesting. But achievers can and do use drugs—pot, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol. It’s how and when that matters. If you’re an achiever, you don’t do things that are a detriment, and if you’re lazy, you don’t do anything period!

[Huck]

But it could be that unmotivated people are drawn towards marijuana rather than vice-versa.

Reminds me of a time when I was a line cook. I was having a cigarette break in the bar. The owner, a bitter, seething man, was watching me smoke, and said "One of these days I'm going to quit hiring smokers."

I said "You've got it all wrong. I don't goof off cuz I smoke. I smoke so I have something to do while I goof off."

[mysterio]

Pot should be legalized immediately.

[Badeye]

‘Will they be so cool when they’re 30, stoned, and too lazy to get out of their parents’ basements?’

One of the biggest myths ever created by propaganda in world history.

A casual glance at the numbers/percentage of Americans that have smoked marijuana at some point, and those that use it ‘regularly’ demonstrate it just isn’t ‘real’.

[CDHart]

I have a friend who is on chemo and he says it's a Godsend for the nausea from chemo or any other nausea, also.

Carolyn

[Huck]

I can see how it helps with appetite. I get the munchies something awful.

[Huck]

Er, I mean my friend gets the munchies.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

My monthly bill for pot is about $25.

I can think of no other vice that is less expensive.

And the "cleaning while high" stories are absolutely true. My kitchen sparkles and I get very focused on scrubbing it, until my cat does something adorable and funny, and I go play with her.

Pot is merely catnip for humans. Wait, what?

[varyouga]

Ok. A buddy of mine uses it 2-3 times a day and he’s a brilliant engineer and business owner. He comes up with more good designs and theories than everyone combined. His concepts are used in every team concept generation.

Says the only side effects are 1-being slow at math and 2-not being able to drive. But these sideeffects go away after a few hours.

The only other sideffect is trying to be an inventor instead of going to the ‘corporate’ world.

He uses an herb vaporizer so there’s no smell and his lungs dont get covered in tar.

99% of the ‘stoners’ I know are actually highly motivated

[april15Bendovr]

Marijuana Basics For Teens: Anti-Marijuana Video Educational

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzHTIQ5kIF0

[TKDietz]

And are they really friends, or just people that share the same bad habit? I talk with kids all the time I end up getting appointed to represent in juvenile court. Most all of the pot smoking kids will say that “everyone gets high,” or at least just about everyone they know gets high. Everyone doesn’t get high, they’re just hanging around all the people that get high. I can remember my days as a pot smoking teenager. When we’d ask “is he cool?” about someone new, we weren’t really asking if he was a good guy who would make a good friend, we wanted to know if he would tell on us. If he smoked pot, he wouldn’t tell on us, and he might even be able to help us find some if our sources were out. That made him “cool.” Never mind that a lot of these “cool” people were people we would have never hung out with if not for having marijuana in common. Looking back, some of these “cool” people were not so cool at all. Then again, most of the people I hung out with as a kid did great in life, even though most all of them smoked pot when we were younger and some still do. I was a teen in the late 70’s, early 80’s, and it really did seem like everybody smoked pot back then. I don’t know any who remained heavy users (wake and bake, smoke all day) that achieved any great success in life, although I do know of some who did just fine. Those who smoke pot who really excel throughout life tend to be those who set limits on how much and how often they’ll smoke it. Of course most drinkers who drink all day don’t exactly have great success in life either. Moderation is key. Most of us though stopped messing with pot a long time ago though. It just seems to lose its appeal for most who do it as they get older.

[TigersEye]

Nothing in this study I haven’t known for 30 years or more.

[TigersEye]

People who have emotional/mental issues overindulge in whatever things they like to indulge in. People who don't have problems discipline their indulgences whatever they may be.

Of course heroin, crack, meth and the like aren't forgiving of casual indulgence but pot is nothing like those things. Coffee and tobacco are far more like them than pot though still a far cry away.

[Max in Utah]

Restless leg syndrome is real?

It was for me. I'd go to bed, try to sleep, and have little rippling muscle spasms throughout my legs. I imagined it felt like worms squirming around in my flesh. It used to keep me up for hours, sometimes night after night.

If you move your legs the feeling goes away for a few seconds, but it comes right back. I've tried soaking in a hot tub, walking, kneebends, nothing helped except a few hits off the pipe. Pot put those leg worms to sleep.

[halfright]

Damn, you cost me money!! The over/under on your arrival on this thread was post 17 LOL