NBC News: "Chronic pot use may have serious effects on the brain, experts say"...Sessions warned you

[basquebromance]

Chronic pot use can have serious effects on the brain, experts say

you just didn't listen, did ya?!

 

[Moonglow]

Anything done to excess can have a negative aspect. Duh

 

[shockedcanadian]

I can smell this stuff on the streets constantly since it has been legalized here. They don't hide it anymore, it's like Vancouver now. Literally three times in the last month or so, I smelled it on the streets whereas in the past I wouldn't smell it at all. We live in a fairly mature area of town too.

There was a group of guys in High School and we all knew what they did when they got together. Constantly smoking this stuff and a few of them I believe, graduating to bigger issues. I knew one of the guys older brother but didn't really hang out much with them.

Maybe 10 Years after graduating High School I saw him and his brother and he sounded the same. Same vocabulary, same childish jokes and demeanour, it was like watching a Beevis and Butthead episode. I'm confident the stuff stunted his mental development/growth.

While in university, I recall studying a course on the brain and at that time, the long and short term effects of this stuff was unknown. I'm pretty sure after seeing some people that there are long term implications for addicts. I'm glad I stayed away from this stuff, not even having my first beer until I was 22 or 23, though I did drink socially too much in my 20's.

Yes, indeed, too much of anything is a bad thing. The mind is a terrible thing to waste though.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Chronic pot use can have serious effects on the brain, experts say

you just didn't listen, did ya?!

Chronic use of any drug.......

 

[MindWars]

lmfao, push the bs lies during mid terms they told ppl smoking one joint was like smoking a pack of smokes this as usual us pure bs and more lies just so big pharma can take control and make their weak pukes feel it's so much safer with BIG PHARMA pushing it. Never mind it's all about control and making billions off idiots. who need a GOV. Parent.

 

[there4eyeM]

Fake news.

 

[MarcATL]

Every. sip. of alcohol. kills. your. brain. cells.

So what's new?

 

[WillowTree]

Yep! Fake news! All ewe libtards need to keep smoking!

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yep! Fake news! All ewe libtards need to keep smoking!

dont forget the countless numbers of conservatards who also smoke the stuff...

 

[WillowTree]

Yep! Fake news! All ewe libtards need to keep smoking!

dont forget the countless numbers of conservatards who also smoke the stuff...

They should keep smoking too. Never stop!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Funny how it’s a drug known to be a carcinogen and cause mental health issues yet they refuse to have the FDA regulate it.

 

[edthecynic]

Chronic pot use can have serious effects on the brain, experts say

you just didn't listen, did ya?!

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'
Date:
April 20, 2009
Source:
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Summary:
Scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite and preventing marijuana abuse.

"Ideally, this development will lead to drugs that bind to and activate the THC receptor, but are devoid of the side effects that limit the usefulness of marijuana," said Lakshmi A. Devi of the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and one of the senior researchers involved in the study. "It would be helpful to have a drug that activated or blocked the THC receptor, and our findings raise the possibility that this will lead to effective drugs with fewer side effects."

Scientists made their discovery by first extracting several small proteins, called peptides, from the brains of mice and determining their amino acid sequence. The extracted proteins were then compared with another peptide previously known to bind to, but not activate, the receptor (THC) affected by marijuana. Out of the extracted proteins, several not only bound to the brain's THC receptors, but activated them as well.

 

[miketx]

Chronic pot use can have serious effects on the brain, experts say

you just didn't listen, did ya?!

Sessions warned us? So now a disgraced loser is giving his medical opinions? lol

 

[WillMunny]

As usual with NBC: fake news. I've smoked weed on a regular basis all my life and I still have a more powerful brain than any TDS liberal delirious dullard, mental unfortunate on this board. In fact, I'm currently smoking one of my joints so fat it resembles a tampon. Gotta smoke my extra-absorbent Tampax, whether anyone likes it or not.

 

[miketx]

As usual with NBC: fake news. I've smoked weed on a regular basis all my life and I still have a more powerful brain than any TDS liberal delirious dullard, mental unfortunate on this board. In fact, I'm currently smoking one of my joints so fat it resembles a tampon. Gotta smoke my extra-absorbent Tampax, whether anyone likes it or not.

Be careful not to light the fuse on that tampon!

 

[Crepitus]

Chronic pot use can have serious effects on the brain, experts say

you just didn't listen, did ya?!

I wasn't aware there was ever any doubt about this.

Overdoing anything is not good. You can actually get water poisoning if you work at it.

 

[Crepitus]

As usual with NBC: fake news. I've smoked weed on a regular basis all my life and I still have a more powerful brain than any TDS liberal delirious dullard, mental unfortunate on this board. In fact, I'm currently smoking one of my joints so fat it resembles a tampon. Gotta smoke my extra-absorbent Tampax, whether anyone likes it or not.

Dude, you're a conservative.

 

[Crepitus]

Every. sip. of alcohol. kills. your. brain. cells.

So what's new?

Sure alcohol kills brain cells.


But only the weak ones!