[Thane_Banquo]

Typical liberal scientist and media spin. Real headline should be, "Marijuana causes memory loss."

[WriteOn]

Makes you stupid, too.

[A CA Guy]

Reduces traumatic memories, like that of a users first drug bust I guess? LOL

Come to think of it, it reduces all memories, doesn't it?

I don't know how we get pro-illegal-drug crowds here at FR.

Is this now the choice of all pushers and drug lords?

I'm just amazed how hard a few push the illegal drugs here. It seems an un-Godly vice. I don't see a conservative connection to drugs at all.

Is this being done in some bent version of a warped view of freedom? If so, how sad!

[Conagher]

Memory loss is most profound in the presence of police.

"Wh . . . how'd that weed get in muh pocket?"

[Chess]

" It's possible that the cannabinoids are important for the ability to relearn and readjust in a number of situations. "

I think this is an important find. When I first smoked weed, I was in college and it seemed to help me understand the world around me. It also helped me understand calculus. I loved doing calculus when I was stoned.

Now It makes a little more since. Weed helped me readjust to my new life away from home and to relearn mathematical theories studied but not understood in HS.

[Rebel_Ace]

Honestly, there are things I wish I could forget. Things that produce nightmares. If further research could identify a chemical "tag" for stressful memories, and thereby produce a treatment for culling them out, I would take it in a heartbeat, even if it meant having to re-learn a lot of stuff. I post a lot of flippant things on FR, but I am certainly not joking here.

By the way, I really get a kick at all the knee-jerk reactions I see here on FR to any post at all concerning any drug (legal or not). Obviously, if you post anything to do with a drug, you MUST be a pot-smokin', 60's lovin', Godless drug crazed hippie (or worse, a "Libertarian").

I'll go on the record with the following:

(1) I never have, nor will I ever take any drugs for recreational purposes. It seems wasteful and dangerous to me. I would advise anyone asking me to avoid doing so as well.

(2) As long as you do not bother me, my family, or my livelihood, I don't care if you lock yourself up in your basement and get as high as a kite. Commit a crime against me or mine, whether you are high or not, then you get my attention in a most negative fashion.

(3) The "Legalize Drugs and the Profit will Disappear" argument would only work IF (and this is a BIG IF) the companies producing and supplying the drugs to the consumers were FREE FROM LAWSUITS. Sure, coke would be cheap to grow and refine, but the cost would still be very high (no pun intended) if the price had to include the cost of defending against lawsuits of unhappy customers or their families. Just look at the lawsuits now against Cigarette makers and even fast food joints. (Sorry, used the word "joint", I must be a pot smoker to some of you now)

(4) The theraputic effects of many substances are discovered either by accident, trial and error, or by some studies such as this. Inital use of opiates as pain relivers led to much better drugs later. You can't just dismiss basic research on it's face, just because it is looking at something you don't approve of.

Well, there, I'm off my rant.

-Rebel Ace

[A CA Guy]

Have a great day and week-end.

Drug threads don't deserve any more time.

[uncbob]

Last statistic I read was that a shot of booze destroys a couple million brain cells

Alcoholics have a term called Wet Brain

[unitedwestand]

"In certain situations, being able to forget is very important for emotional survival," said George Kunos, a neurobiologist at the National Institutes of Health.


Hence the popularity among Viet Nam vets.

[hinckley buzzard]

Stupidity and lies reach new high-water marks.

I worked with combat VN-Vets for 20 years who used marijuana heavily and daily for decades, only to come into treatment because by 1989, 1969 was like yesterday.

The brain is designed for endogenous OPIOIDS, not cannabinoids. This is the bald-faced lie part.

Unless pot-freaks are willing to admit their "benign" pot is really the same as heroin after all.

[Mr. Mojo]

I don't know about traumatic memories, but I know for certain that the good weed eases just plain memories....or is that erases?

...I forget ;o)

[TigersEye]

Good post.