This Just In: Marijuana Use and the Brain

[emilynghiem]

Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of stoners

This just in:
Research on marijuana users show a reduction in the brain region for "decision making."

But as for a causal relationship, or correlation, this still remains unproven.
Without further studies, researchers can't seem to "make up their minds!" ;-)

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"In another 2014 study also by Dr. Filbey, she and her team found that, compared with people who didn't use pot, long-term, heavy users tended to have a smaller orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region critical for processing emotions and making decisions.

And, interestingly enough, the heavy users also appeared to have more cross-brain connections. Scientists think regular users may develop these links as a means of compensating for the difference in size. The regular pot users also had lower IQ scores overall when compared with the people who didn't use the drug.

To arrive at their results — one of the first comprehensive, 3-D pictures of the brains of adults who'd smoked weed at least four times a week, often multiple times a day, for years — the researchers used a combination of MRI-based brain scans.

Still, that study did not show that chronic weed use caused certain regions of the brain to shrink, or that pot use caused lower IQ scores — it simply showed a relationship among those factors.

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

 

[Blackrook]

Well, it's street knowledge that dope makes people stupid. We don't really need scientists to tell us that.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Kasich is signing a bill for the legal medical use in vapor form in Ohio.

 

[Blackrook]

Kasich is signing a bill for the legal medical use in vapor form in Ohio.

Kasich acts like a dopehead himself, so I'm not surprised.

 

[Kosh]

Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of stoners

This just in:
Research on marijuana users show a reduction in the brain region for "decision making."

But as for a causal relationship, or correlation, this still remains unproven.
Without further studies, researchers can't seem to "make up their minds!" ;-)

=================
"In another 2014 study also by Dr. Filbey, she and her team found that, compared with people who didn't use pot, long-term, heavy users tended to have a smaller orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region critical for processing emotions and making decisions.

And, interestingly enough, the heavy users also appeared to have more cross-brain connections. Scientists think regular users may develop these links as a means of compensating for the difference in size. The regular pot users also had lower IQ scores overall when compared with the people who didn't use the drug.

To arrive at their results — one of the first comprehensive, 3-D pictures of the brains of adults who'd smoked weed at least four times a week, often multiple times a day, for years — the researchers used a combination of MRI-based brain scans.

Still, that study did not show that chronic weed use caused certain regions of the brain to shrink, or that pot use caused lower IQ scores — it simply showed a relationship among those factors.

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

This is why the far left does not want this regulated just like voting!

 

[emilynghiem]

Well, it's street knowledge that dope makes people stupid. We don't really need scientists to tell us that.

Street knowledge may be enough for some people to know better.
But others are arguing up and down that pot has no ill or addictive effects.

In order to put warnings required on cigarettes and alcohol,
these have to be studied and reviewed, and can't just be assumed.

If pot is going to be legalized for marketing for consumer use, are the same
studies and warnings going to be required as well? With prescription drugs,
people can sue unless there are adequate disclaimers. Is this going to apply to pot?

 

[emilynghiem]

Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of stoners

This just in:
Research on marijuana users show a reduction in the brain region for "decision making."

But as for a causal relationship, or correlation, this still remains unproven.
Without further studies, researchers can't seem to "make up their minds!" ;-)

=================
"In another 2014 study also by Dr. Filbey, she and her team found that, compared with people who didn't use pot, long-term, heavy users tended to have a smaller orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region critical for processing emotions and making decisions.

And, interestingly enough, the heavy users also appeared to have more cross-brain connections. Scientists think regular users may develop these links as a means of compensating for the difference in size. The regular pot users also had lower IQ scores overall when compared with the people who didn't use the drug.

To arrive at their results — one of the first comprehensive, 3-D pictures of the brains of adults who'd smoked weed at least four times a week, often multiple times a day, for years — the researchers used a combination of MRI-based brain scans.

Still, that study did not show that chronic weed use caused certain regions of the brain to shrink, or that pot use caused lower IQ scores — it simply showed a relationship among those factors.

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

This is why the far left does not want this regulated just like voting!

Voting rights like gun rights both have their own amendments,
because both have been traditionally threatened by govt as a means of forced submission to govt power.

I don't think drug use falls under the same level of rights.
Drug use is like abortion choice where people don't want govt telling them what to do with personal choices.

I think it especially causes problems if govt is going to "make people pay for other people's health care"
but then not charge money to the people pushing drugs that damage brains, health and ability to work!

 

[Kosh]

Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of stoners

This just in:
Research on marijuana users show a reduction in the brain region for "decision making."

But as for a causal relationship, or correlation, this still remains unproven.
Without further studies, researchers can't seem to "make up their minds!" ;-)

=================
"In another 2014 study also by Dr. Filbey, she and her team found that, compared with people who didn't use pot, long-term, heavy users tended to have a smaller orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region critical for processing emotions and making decisions.

And, interestingly enough, the heavy users also appeared to have more cross-brain connections. Scientists think regular users may develop these links as a means of compensating for the difference in size. The regular pot users also had lower IQ scores overall when compared with the people who didn't use the drug.

To arrive at their results — one of the first comprehensive, 3-D pictures of the brains of adults who'd smoked weed at least four times a week, often multiple times a day, for years — the researchers used a combination of MRI-based brain scans.

Still, that study did not show that chronic weed use caused certain regions of the brain to shrink, or that pot use caused lower IQ scores — it simply showed a relationship among those factors.

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

This is why the far left does not want this regulated just like voting!

Voting rights like gun rights both have their own amendments,
because both have been traditionally threatened by govt as a means of forced submission to govt power.

I don't think drug use falls under the same level of rights.
Drug use is like abortion choice where people don't want govt telling them what to do with personal choices.

I think it especially causes problems if govt is going to "make people pay for other people's health care"
but then not charge money to the people pushing drugs that damage brains, health and ability to work!

It is funny the far left wants guns heavily regulated if not do away with the second amendment.

The only two things the far left does not want to regulate is voting and Mary J.

And this study proves why.

 

[irosie91]

Pot heads get fat and diabetic ---<<<< the pot
creates in them, a DESIRE for sweets ------
twinkies are at the root of all crime

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Wow dudes !

 

[Mudda]

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

So your premise is totally douche. Epic fail.

 

[midcan5]

For people in severe pain and mental states does it really matter. Consider most meds and alcohol are worse over time. Marijuana is some complicated stuff, check it out.

www.leafly.com
www.shiftcannabis.com
www.en.seedfinder.eu

 

[emilynghiem]

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

So your premise is totally douche. Epic fail.

Dear Mudda ^ I emphasized this as the punchline! ^
That is the whole joke!

But the connection is still proven, just not the RELATIONSHIP.
What scientists haven't proven yet is "cause and effect"
because it could be CORRELATION. They are not negating the studies.

But they haven't studied yet:
* if people who ***ALREADY HAVE*** reduced regions for decision making
are the ones with greater percentages of pot smokers among them
* or if people who smoke pot regularly end up reducing that part of their brains

^^^ LOOK AT THESE TWO CHOICES THAT COULD BOTH
EXPLAIN THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN REDUCED BRAIN FUNCTION AND POT ^^^

THAT'S WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWED, IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER
THAT EXPLAINS THE FINDINGS OF REDUCED BRAIN AREA
FOR DECISIONMAKING IN POT USERS

IS POT SMOKING CAUSING A SMALLER REGION FOR DECISION MAKING IN THE BRAIN?
OR DOES A SMALLER DECISION MAKING REGION IN THE BRAIN PREDICT POT SMOKING?

BOTH EXPLANATIONS STILL SERVE TO DISCREDIT DRUG LEGALIZATION ARGUMENTS AND STILL PROVE THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM MISSING FROM THOSE ARGUMENTS!

Another Note: I would also study the brains of people like monks so openminded they no longer respond to LSD and other "conscious opening drugs": Could it be that the smaller region means those people make decisions intuitively "on some higher spiritual level" and don't need to use the same part of the brain? If the highly focused and enlightened monks who didn't become that openminded using drugs ALSO had a "reduced brain area for decision making" it could be they are using a different part of their brains to make decisions using other means.
Just because a brain area is reduced may not mean a bad thing. If it also "correlates" with a higher dependence on using a different region of the brain to make decisions, then this could be good or bad: What if the pot smoking brains don't have the enhanced shift to the intuitive focused region that monks are using if their "NORMAL decision making region is reduced."
So this is an example of how further studies could show a difference between people who open up their minds NATURALLY without using drugs.

There could be other factors. For example, there have been studies showing similarities between the brains and faster reaction time of sociopathic people and monks with highly disciplined minds. It is still possible for positive qualities to be associated and not just negative.
But clearly there is a difference between monks/saints who override emotional distraction to do what helps others without delay, and psychopaths who override emotions to do what hurts others. That they both have "reduced emotional reactions" doesn't explain the difference.

 

[irosie91]

"We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here," Filbey told Business Insider in 2014."

So your premise is totally douche. Epic fail.

Dear Mudda ^ I emphasized this as the punchline! ^
That is the whole joke!

But the connection is still proven, just not the RELATIONSHIP.
What scientists haven't proven yet is "cause and effect"
because it could be CORRELATION. They are not negating the studies.

But they haven't studied yet:
* if people who ***ALREADY HAVE*** reduced regions for decision making
are the ones with greater percentages of pot smokers among them
* or if people who smoke pot regularly end up reducing that part of their brains

^^^ LOOK AT THESE TWO CHOICES THAT COULD BOTH
EXPLAIN THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN REDUCED BRAIN FUNCTION AND POT ^^^

THAT'S WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWED, IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER
THAT EXPLAINS THE FINDINGS OF REDUCED BRAIN DECISIONMAKING IN POT USERS

IS POT SMOKING CAUSING A SMALLER REGION FOR DECISION MAKING IN THE BRAIN?
OR DOES A SMALLER DECISION MAKING REGION IN THE BRAIN PREDICT POT SMOKING?

BOTH EXPLANATIONS STILL SERVE TO DISCREDIT DRUG LEGALIZATION ARGUMENTS
AND STILL PROVE THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM MISSING FROM THOSE ARGUMENTS!

I would leave it to Mayor Bloomberg-----who
OBSESSED over supersized soda policies
The good mayor should be advised of the well known and ESTABLISHED FACT OF
SYNDROME OF MARIJUANA MUNCHIES

 

[Michelle420]

Issues Berkeley Medical Journal

Carl Sagan, Salvador Dali, and William Shakespeare all smoked cannabis. In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Lady Gaga—former NYU Tisch student who took home three awards at the Grammy’s this year—admitted to her artistic relationship to the drug, claiming bluntly: “I smoke a lot of pot when I write music.” Medicinal marijuana ameliorates nausea and vomiting, stimulates hunger in chemotherapy patients, alleviates back pain and lowers intraocular eye pressure. Considering the drug’s many benefits, we may pose the same question the journal Clinical Addiction Psychiatry asks, “One purpose of medicine, in addition to the alleviation of suffering, is to improve the quality of life. A question that arises in this context is: if we could enhance cognition in disease, should we do it in health?” If yes, we might bring the aforementioned artists back into the discussion, asking whether their relationships with marijuana enhanced, if only even partly, their cognitive creative processes. Research concerning both the neurophysiological effects of marijuana on the brain and the neurophysiological tendencies found in creative individuals brings to light the ways in which marijuana may act as a muse to bolster individuals to creative genius.

 

[Michelle420]

Scientists Discover Another Way Marijuana Helps The Brain Grow

What the scientists found was that CBD, just like THC, also causes brain cells in the hippocampus to grow. This, they say, could explain why previous studies identified CBD as an effective treatment for mood disorders.

“Our results indicate that chronic CBD administration, by promoting neurogenesis, favours a similar anxiolytic response in stressed mice.”

 

[Michelle420]

Active Component Of Cannabis Can Regrow Brain Cells

In the past, there has been a lot of propaganda designed around criticizing the use of marijuana, and scaring people away from even trying it. It is interesting to consider that no one has ever died from the use of marijuana alone, in fact the health concerns of marijuana are extremely minimal when compared to the extremely popular use of alcohol, cigarettes, and the increasingly worrisome use ofpharmaceutical drugs. What do those 3 things have in common? They are legal, almost everywhere around the world. Something is missing here…

According to the following study, published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, a compound that is found in marijuana known as cannabidiol (CBD) can actually help your brain grow.

Researchers, who were looking to investigate the effects of CBD on anxiety and depression in rodents went right to the source, a part of the brain called the hippocampus. This is the area of the brain that regulates emotion and cognitive function and is the only area of the adult brain that can grow.

 

[irosie91]

Issues Berkeley Medical Journal

Carl Sagan, Salvador Dali, and William Shakespeare all smoked cannabis. In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Lady Gaga—former NYU Tisch student who took home three awards at the Grammy’s this year—admitted to her artistic relationship to the drug, claiming bluntly: “I smoke a lot of pot when I write music.” Medicinal marijuana ameliorates nausea and vomiting, stimulates hunger in chemotherapy patients, alleviates back pain and lowers intraocular eye pressure. Considering the drug’s many benefits, we may pose the same question the journal Clinical Addiction Psychiatry asks, “One purpose of medicine, in addition to the alleviation of suffering, is to improve the quality of life. A question that arises in this context is: if we could enhance cognition in disease, should we do it in health?” If yes, we might bring the aforementioned artists back into the discussion, asking whether their relationships with marijuana enhanced, if only even partly, their cognitive creative processes. Research concerning both the neurophysiological effects of marijuana on the brain and the neurophysiological tendencies found in creative individuals brings to light the ways in which marijuana may act as a muse to bolster individuals to creative genius.

Yeah? and cocaine makes people more energetic------so why not hand it to every farm hand? Paxil relieves depression----lace the water supply with it

 

[Michelle420]

60 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Medical Marijuana - Medical Marijuana - ProCon.org

Smoked cannabis relieved chronic neuropathic pain in patients with HIV

Cannabis extracts improved intractable neurogenic symptoms such as pain, impaired bladder control, muscle spasms, and spasticity

Oncologists have favorable opinions on the use of marijuana to prevent vomiting in cancer chemotherapy patients

Cannabinoids have pain relieving effect in cancer patients and may inhibit the growth of tumor cells

Cannabidiol inhibits proliferation of breast cancer cells

 

[Michelle420]

Issues Berkeley Medical Journal

Carl Sagan, Salvador Dali, and William Shakespeare all smoked cannabis. In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Lady Gaga—former NYU Tisch student who took home three awards at the Grammy’s this year—admitted to her artistic relationship to the drug, claiming bluntly: “I smoke a lot of pot when I write music.” Medicinal marijuana ameliorates nausea and vomiting, stimulates hunger in chemotherapy patients, alleviates back pain and lowers intraocular eye pressure. Considering the drug’s many benefits, we may pose the same question the journal Clinical Addiction Psychiatry asks, “One purpose of medicine, in addition to the alleviation of suffering, is to improve the quality of life. A question that arises in this context is: if we could enhance cognition in disease, should we do it in health?” If yes, we might bring the aforementioned artists back into the discussion, asking whether their relationships with marijuana enhanced, if only even partly, their cognitive creative processes. Research concerning both the neurophysiological effects of marijuana on the brain and the neurophysiological tendencies found in creative individuals brings to light the ways in which marijuana may act as a muse to bolster individuals to creative genius.

Yeah? and cocaine makes people more energetic------so why not hand it to every farm hand? Paxil relieves depression----lace the water supply with it

If you're anti-drug I hope you are consistent and against these dangerous prescription opiates that damage the brain and internal organs and are highly addictive.

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