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Regular marijuana use muddles your brain more than you think: Study
Tech Times ^ | 11 Nov 14 | Rhodi Lee

Posted on 11/11/2014 8:22:52 AM PST by elhombrelibre

Researchers from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas have found evidence that the effects of chronic marijuana use may depend on when a person started smoking pot and for how long.

For the study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 10, Francesca Filbey from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, and colleagues involved 48 adult marijuana users who started to use weed when they were between 14 and 30 years old.

The participants smoked pot thrice a day on average; most admitted that they had been using weed for 10 years. Some participants reported they had been using marijuana for 30 years.

The researchers had the participants take an IQ test and undergo MRI scans. They then compared the results with those of 62 individuals who were nonusers and found that in cognitive tests, marijuana users had lower IQ compared with those who did not smoke pot.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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KEYWORDS: brain; braindamage; cannabissativa; choom; ganja; libtardians; marijuana; obama; pot; potheads; weed
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To: elhombrelibre

You obviously don’t understand the comparison of alcohol Prohibition to pot prohibition at all. It doesn’t make other people stupid just because you can’t understand the simple concept.


81 posted on 11/11/2014 1:24:27 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Yeah of they are measuring gray matter, I’d like to see the before and after. I’m betting pot doesn’t cause smaller brains, I’m betting smaller brains are using pot.


82 posted on 11/11/2014 1:27:47 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
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To: dowcaet

It’s a destructive drug and I suspect we’ll see reams of medical research the next few years that will bear this out. Sorry potheads. The stuff is not good for you. OK duuuuuude!

I collect data from medical records for research, and everyone needs to know that we are told not to gather data on drug use because of HIPPA medical records privacy directives. So, once again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Anecdotally I will tell you we see a large correlation between pot use and head and neck cancers, and lymphoma in patients with heavy opiate (legal and illegal) use.


83 posted on 11/11/2014 3:43:26 PM PST by binreadin
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To: fr_freak

What’s your point? You sound like a liberal when all you can do is call names. Alcohol prohibition and pot prohibition have similarities. That’s true. Both drugs do harm to those who use them, and the more they’re used the more harm they do. I think this is obvious.


84 posted on 11/11/2014 11:39:16 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Really? I sound like a liberal because of insults? All I see from posters like you are name-calling (the potheads, druggies, dopians, etc.) and silly strawmen that either ignore or trivialize the very real issues surrounding the War on Drugs in favor of smug self-righteousness.

There are two main arguments presented here constantly against the WoD: 1) the WoD has exceeded its Constitutional boundaries (asset forfeiture, no-knock raids, violations of states' rights, etc.), 2) the WoD has produced a mentality towhich violates the very concept of individual liberty upon which this country and its laws were supposedly based. In both cases the history of alcohol in the USA is an EXACT PARALLEL to marijuana prohibition, which is why it is constantly referred to.

Address those arguments and you might be taken seriously. Otherwise, it is just the usual inane jackassery.
85 posted on 11/12/2014 9:58:09 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Are you on dope now?


86 posted on 11/12/2014 12:06:55 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Screw you too.


87 posted on 11/12/2014 7:42:30 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Oh, you are using now.


88 posted on 11/12/2014 10:31:57 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Yeah, and you’re just trolling, as I suspected. Badly, too.


89 posted on 11/13/2014 10:24:24 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: Lazamataz

“I went on to crack.”

Hey, that’s better than Meth.


90 posted on 11/13/2014 10:27:47 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: elhombrelibre

I have tried it recently, and can tell you that it muddles your brain just as much as you can think.

Wait....What?


91 posted on 11/13/2014 10:29:57 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: fr_freak

In your pot-filled brain, I began trolling here two years before you to denounce the folly of marijuana? Is that what you’re saying between bong hits, maaaan?


92 posted on 11/13/2014 11:44:50 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Lol - this has to be the lamest attempt at trolling I've seen in a while. The funniest part is that you seem enough of a goofball to think you're actually being clever.

Heck, maybe you are actually a Freeper and not some loser nutbag who managed to log on to an old account. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen a Freeper go full retard and troll a particular thread or two, using the usual troll tells: ignoring logical points and just tossing out silly non-sequiturs and lame insults. Either way, you're still an ass. Ha
93 posted on 11/13/2014 5:42:38 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Your argument is with medical science, not with me. It’s not giving you the pro-pot conclusions you want. So you call me a troll instead of coming to grips with the fact that pot, like alcohol, has effects harmful to our health, which is actually a pretty common sense observation anyway. It’s your cognitive dissonance that makes you so angry.


94 posted on 11/13/2014 10:13:47 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Geez - again you miss the point entirely. Our little discussion, such as it is, started with your flippant remark about how “dopers” have some weird fixation on comparing pot to alcohol. That’s got nothing to do with medical science - it’s merely Constitutional Law and general legal principles. You’re all over the map, imagining that each of your random thoughts is pure genius that is beyond the understanding of anyone who disagrees with you. Truth is, those who support the police state via the War on Drugs, of which marijuana is its own little niche, have no rational basis for their position, which is why, as you did, they so often resort to arrogant name-calling and condescension.


95 posted on 11/14/2014 5:42:05 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Are you a drug user?


96 posted on 11/15/2014 2:02:11 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

lol - there you go with your impressive debate skills again.


97 posted on 11/15/2014 7:15:41 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: elhombrelibre

They don’t call it “dope” for nothing....


98 posted on 11/15/2014 7:17:01 PM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: kjam22
They don’t call it “dope” for nothing....

Any idea how much we're paying for them to do that?

99 posted on 11/15/2014 7:22:51 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: fr_freak

Thanks. Good luck getting off of dope.


100 posted on 11/15/2014 10:41:16 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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