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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Are you on dope now?
Screw you too.
Oh, you are using now.
Yeah, and you’re just trolling, as I suspected. Badly, too.
“I went on to crack.”
Hey, that’s better than Meth.
I have tried it recently, and can tell you that it muddles your brain just as much as you can think.
Wait....What?
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?
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.
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.
Are you a drug user?
lol - there you go with your impressive debate skills again.
They don’t call it “dope” for nothing....
Any idea how much we're paying for them to do that?
Thanks. Good luck getting off of dope.
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