The problem is that “light” marijuana use leaves a much more lasting impact on the brain than light or even heavy alcohol use. Especially the adolescent brain.
Very few people become alcohol dependent as teenagers. It usually takes a long, sustained period of use to achieve that state. Pot, on the other hand, is pretty fast, and now that it’s legal, you’re going to see that percentage soar.
Look it up.
Very few people become alcohol dependent as teenagers. It usually takes a long, sustained period of use to achieve that state. Pot, on the other hand, is pretty fast [...]
Look it up.
YOU made the claim, YOU look it up.
You've been mushroomed by the same people that gave us the ERA EPA DEA and all the other alphabets of tyranny.
Sell your reefer madness BS somewhere else please. No one here is buying it anymore!
I looked it up:
‘A recent publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Scripps Research Institute in California investigated the effects of binge alcohol consumption upon the adolescent brain. Many recent studies have already demonstrated that adolescence is a time of increased vulnerability of the brain to chemical insults. Furthermore, to make this issue even more timely, binge alcohol consumption by teenagers is increasing. The neuroscientists at Scripps discovered that binge alcohol consumption is particularly injurious to a region of the brain called the hippocampus. The hippocampus plays a critical role in learning and memory. Within the hippocampus are a group of cells that continually produce new brain cells, called neurons, throughout our life. This process of cell renewal is called “neurogenesis;” whenever this process is impaired we have trouble forming new memories and we develop the symptoms of depression, to mention just two consequences.
‘The Scripps scientists discovered that eleven months of binge alcohol consumption that produced a blood alcohol level sufficient to be considered intoxicated decreased neurogenesis by more than fifty percent! Furthermore, the decrease in neurogenesis lasted for many weeks of abstinence. You might think that alcohol binging also caused more cells to die; actually, this did not happen. That old urban myth is simply not true. The only change observed was a decrease in the production of new neurons. The authors suggested that these changes might produce a long lasting vulnerability within the hippocampus that may well predispose these young adults to neurodegeneration later in life.
‘In contrast to the effects of alcohol, a series of publications during the past few years suggest that stimulating the brain’s marijuana neurotransmitter system appears to have the exact opposite effects upon neurogenesis in the hippocampus of both young and old laboratory animals and humans, i.e. neurogenesis is increased by stimulation of our brain’s marijuana receptors.’
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201012/alcohol-vs-marijuana-in-the-brain