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What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years
The Washington Post ^ | February 1st, 2016 | By Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 02/01/2016 12:39:58 PM PST by Mariner

New research published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed -- like a lot of it -- it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.

Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period. At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities -- memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.

The study found that people who smoked marijuana on daily basis for a long period of time -- five years or more -- had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn't smoke, or who smoked less. This association remained even after researchers controlled for a variety of other factors known to affect cognitive performance -- such as age, education, use of other substances and depression.

Auer and his team measured lifetime marijuana exposure in a fantastic new unit of measurement they call "marijuana-years." Essentially, if you smoke pot every day for a year, that equals one marijuana-year of use. Ditto if you smoke every other day for two years, or once a week for seven years.

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To: samtheman
Many pot smokers do tend to smoke every day, and start early in the day, because it is not like evil alcohol but *healthy* and *natural*.

The stoners I knew in school would get high several times a day. I'm guessing they qualified for their full marijuana-year in February or March.

41 posted on 02/01/2016 12:55:03 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: EEGator

There’s a difference between having a drink daily vs getting drunk daily.
AFAIK nobody smokes weed just for the taste without significant “effects”.


42 posted on 02/01/2016 12:55:34 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: CommerceComet

The stoners I knew in school would get high several times a day. I’m guessing they qualified for their full marijuana-year in February or March.


That matches my experience.


43 posted on 02/01/2016 12:56:12 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: EEGator

We don’t have a problem recognizing problem drinking. I wish the smokers would stop deluding themselves.


44 posted on 02/01/2016 12:56:12 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Mariner

I forget? What was the question?


45 posted on 02/01/2016 12:56:46 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: jessduntno
So.....maybe Willie Nelson isn’t a tax cheat, he just like...forgot...to pay hi his taxes?

You.. can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes!

You say.. "Steve.. how can I be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes?"

First.. get a million dollars.

Now.. you say, "Steve.. what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, 'You.. have never paid taxes'?"

Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language: "I forgot!"

How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don't say "I forgot"?

Let's say you're on trial for armed robbery. You say to the judge, "I forgot armed robbery was illegal."

Let's suppose he says back to you, "You have committed a foul crime. you have stolen hundreds and thousands of dollars from people at random, and you say, 'I forgot'?"

Two simple words: Excuuuuuse me!!"

46 posted on 02/01/2016 12:57:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mariner

My sister smoked daily from her HS sophomore year until halfway through her dual Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Biology at a top-tier Engineering school, carrying a 3.8+ GPA the entire time. Everybody is different.


47 posted on 02/01/2016 12:57:31 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Mariner

So, that’s like 3 joints???


48 posted on 02/01/2016 12:58:11 PM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: samtheman

Been there, done that, got a whole lot of t-shirts that don’t fit anymore. So glad I walked away from that $#!t.


49 posted on 02/01/2016 12:58:12 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Mariner

“The Scythians put the Seeds of this HEMP under the bags, upon the burning stones; and immediately a more agreeable vapor is emitted than from the incense burnt in Greece. The Company extremely transported with the scent, howl aloud.”

- Herodotus, “Histories” CA 425 B.C.


50 posted on 02/01/2016 12:58:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Populism is what Populism does.)
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To: dfwgator

Heh heh heh ...


51 posted on 02/01/2016 12:59:14 PM PST by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

If you smoke a lot of weed — like a lot of it — it can potentially do permanent damage to your I could totally go for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right now.


52 posted on 02/01/2016 12:59:36 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Populism is what Populism does.)
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To: samtheman

Fair enough. I don’t advocate either as well. Some people do smoke weed every couple of months, and not daily. IMHO, alcohol has more deleterious effects on society than weed.


53 posted on 02/01/2016 1:00:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: PGR88
"Don’t you realize - its a MIRACLE DRUG????"

All available evidence suggests it is, just not the cannabinoids that make you high.

CBD is proven to reduce a type of epilepsy seizures in children by 80%.

Others have a proven benefit for Glaucoma patients. Others in boosting natural compounds in the body which fight cancer.

It's also been used effectively to treat PTSD and Depression.

But it's not harmless.

54 posted on 02/01/2016 1:00:01 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yeah, man. What kinda jelly you got?


55 posted on 02/01/2016 1:02:16 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Teacher317
"Everybody is different."

Everybody starts with a different set of tools.

56 posted on 02/01/2016 1:03:05 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: dfwgator

The dude is stoned in that foto.


57 posted on 02/01/2016 1:03:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

58 posted on 02/01/2016 1:04:17 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Populism is what Populism does.)
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To: EEGator

IMHO, alcohol has more deleterious effects on society than weed.


Before socialism completely took over the Western World, the consensus in that world was just the opposite, that alcohol was the only recreational drug to legalize.

I am just pointing that out, not saying it *proves* anything one way or another.

And certainly, whatever the evils of pot (and I do believe that there are many, especially for young brains in school), they pale in comparison to the evils of the War on Drugs which has become a fast-track to giving the very worst elements in our society incredible amounts of power.

I wish people didnt want to smoke pot, but there is no way I want to militarize my local police and turn the courts into a property-confiscation conspiracy just to stop people from smoking pot.

I dislike pot. I *hate* doors being smashed in by goon squads and houses being confiscated by effete elite fascist judges.


59 posted on 02/01/2016 1:06:54 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: Mariner
What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years

Not much...

60 posted on 02/01/2016 1:07:40 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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