Marijuana is the most overrated 'substance' on earth

[redsamurai]

I personally don't smoke pot because it makes me not want to do shit for 1-2 days after I use it. It's a massive demotivator for me.

As for other people, everyone knows someone who lost a year in college or who lost several years in real life with a wake-and-bake lifestyle.

And how can you miss the evidence? There are studies everywhere. Here are four that show pot to have an adverse effect on developing brains:

Block, R.I., and Ghoneim, M.M. Effects of chronic marijuana use on human cognition. Psychopharmacology 100(1-2): 219-228, 1993.

Brook, J.S.; Rosen, Z.; Brook, D.W. The effect of early marijuana use on later anxiety and depressive symptoms. NYS Psychologist January:35-39, 2001.

Wilson, W.; Mathew, R.; Turkington, T.; Hawk, T.; Coleman, R.E.; and Provenzale, J. Brain morphological changes and early marijuana use: A magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography study. J Addict Dis 19(1):1-22, 2000.

Brook, J.S.; Balka, E.B.; and Whiteman, M. The risks for late adolescence of early adolescent marijuana use. Am J Public Health 89(10):1549-1554, 1999.

Here are two articles demonstrating pot's diminishment of short-term memory:

Heishman, S.J.; Arasteh, K; and Stitzer, M.L. Comparative effects of alcohol and marijuana on mood, memory, and performance. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 58(1):93-101, 1997.

Fletcher, J.M.; Page, J.B.; Francis, D.J.; Copeland, K.; Naus, M.J.; Davis, C.M.; Morris, R.; Krauskopf, D.; and Satz, P. Cognitive correlates of chronic cannabis use in Costa Rican men. Archives of General Psychiatry 53:1051-1057, 1996.

This stuff is everywhere. How could anyone possibly miss it?

I've never had a problem with short term memory loss nor has it ever "demotivated" me for more than a day. But admittedly I'm already a low key "non type A" personality. So maybe it does calm some of those neurotic type A get a week's worth of work done in 2 days type people. I've found it balances me. I wish I would have done it during my first run through school. But I will also admit I don't have the "addictive" personality. There are some people who when they get on something they ride it into the ground. Normal weed though, not the chemically enhanced superpowers they're growing now.........it's just so pure.

 

[redsamurai]

and I don't buy medical studies anymore, especially when they have to do with a social more that a particular society has come to frown on. Like I'm sure you can find some study somewhere that portends pot use as dangerous to drive under as alcohol. Yet in europe a few TV shows have gone out and got people hammered and than high a week apart. They tested the groups driving abilities in both situation and also got a baseline under sober conditions. The high people not only drove better than when they were drunk, they drove better than when they were sober......that's been repeated a couple times now too. They all drove 5-10 mph under the speed limit when they were high and had quicker reaction times. WTF? that goes against everything that every study on mj that comes out here in the states. It's just all bullshit.

 

[mrplunkey]

and I don't buy medical studies anymore.

You don't believe in peer-reviewed, refereed professional medical studies but you believe in big-business conspiracy theories?

Check out those publication references again. Those were from people like JAMA and the American Journal of Public Health.

 

[mrplunkey]

I've never had a problem with short term memory loss nor has it ever "demotivated" me for more than a day.

Interesting that you brought that up. Here are two research studies that show pot users don't realize they are impaired while under the short and medium-term influences of the drug.

Ameri, A. The effects of cannabinoids on the brain. Prog Neurobiol 58(4):315-348, 1999.

Patrick, G., and Struve, F.A. Reduction of auditory P50 gating response in marihuana users: further supporting data. Clin Electroencephalogr 31(2):88-93, 2000.

 

[PICK3]

Interesting that you brought that up. Here are two research studies that show pot users don't realize they are impaired while under the short and medium-term influences of the drug.

Ameri, A. The effects of cannabinoids on the brain. Prog Neurobiol 58(4):315-348, 1999.

Patrick, G., and Struve, F.A. Reduction of auditory P50 gating response in marihuana users: further supporting data. Clin Electroencephalogr 31(2):88-93, 2000.

what kind of faggot code is that

 

[mrplunkey]

what kind of faggot code is that

It means teh smoke will make your brain work less gud and you won't even realize it.

 

[Alpha-Male]

Yeah, lets face it - weed fucking sucks

 

[binö]

Yeah, lets face it - weed fucking sucks

in your men drink like girls thread i spanked you pretty bad, waiting for your response.
ps i'm high off the weeds right now

 

[nimbus]

uppers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weed

 

[Lambruh]

no crash >>>> post binge zombie