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Why Pot Smokers Are Paranoid
TIME ^
| 6 April, 2011
| Maia Szalavitz
Posted on 04/09/2011 3:34:13 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
Paranoia is one of the most unpleasant "side effects" of marijuana. It's also a key experience shared by marijuana smokers and people with schizophrenia. But exactly how does smoking a joint cause the feeling that dark forces are conspiring to do you wrong?
New research in rats may help explain the source of this distress. The study, led by Steven Laviolette at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, involved training rats to fear the scent of either almond or peppermint. The scents were delivered to rats in a cage either with black-and-white striped walls or with black polka dots on a gray background. (The rats were not pre-tested for their taste in interior design.) One scent was accompanied by an electric shock to the rodents' feet, while the other scent was not.
At the same time, researchers experimented with the activity of the CB1 receptors in a certain region of the rats' brains. These cannabinoid receptors are activated by the main psychoactive component of marijuana, THC. In some rats, the scientists blocked CB1-receptor activity; in others, they used a marijuana-like drug to enhance it.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthland.time.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libertarian; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; neuroscience; paranoia; pot; quitstaringatme; whosfollowingme
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http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/06/why-pot-smokers-are-paranoid/
To: AustralianConservative
What? You mean like one molecule in my finger could be a universe?
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:36:15 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: AustralianConservative
Potheads paranoid? I can't see how they have the reasoning left to be that.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:38:07 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: AustralianConservative
This is the third thread started by you in the last few minutes about marijuana...what gives?
Granted, FR has had posters like Willie Green and his trains, chet99 and his pit bulls and so on, so this isn’t all that unusual now that I think about it. Just curious.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:39:11 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: Lazlo in PA
Who are they talking about?
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:39:14 PM PDT
by
Free America52
(The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
To: mylife
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:39:23 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
To: AustralianConservative
Well, marijuana IS illegal, so powerful forces really ARE out to get you: the police, the DEA, etc.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:39:40 PM PDT
by
Mountain Troll
(My investment plan - Canned food and shotguns)
To: AustralianConservative
This is about the silliest study I’ve ever read about! Just dumb!
To: Mountain Troll
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:41:43 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: AustralianConservative
It’s all a government plot to enslave us!
See “Conspiracy Brother” played by Dave Chappelle in the movie “Undercover Brother”
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:42:10 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: AustralianConservative
SO...they put the rats in certain types of cages and then give them an electric shock.
The pot smoking rats are smarter than the ones who didn't smoke pot — they are the ones who remember which cages are dangerous.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:42:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: Mountain Troll
Or put another way, just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean there AREN’T people out to get you!
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:43:03 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: cdcdawg
Pot is pretty inane stuff.
Alcohol does far more damage. People get insane on alcohol.
The problem with pot is that people get complacent.
No one ever picked a fight smoking pot. Anyone ever OD on Pot?
Plenty of people let their lives slide by smoking pot.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:45:18 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: rlmorel
Pot fetish...lost his best girl to a pot head...
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:45:20 PM PDT
by
Crim
(Palin / West '12)
To: AustralianConservative
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:45:35 PM PDT
by
Drango
(NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
To: AustralianConservative
To: Free America52; Lazlo in PA
Really Free? Lazlo, where is Dave then? He’s not here either.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:48:39 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: Snickering Hound
What kind of person would sit and let somebody else use up a roll of film taking pictures of him?
A wannabe "male model"?
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:49:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:50:15 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: AustralianConservative
Really? Of all the people I have known who smoked pot, got lazy and fell asleep - that’s it.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:50:29 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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