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What reason do you have besides second hand smoke & people driving while stoned?..... (Which I am sure will still be illegal).........
The pot that is being consumed today is very strong. It has a negative impact on mental illness.
The pot that is being consumed today is very strong. It has a negative impact on mental illness.
So far it is slightly over four to one here in favor of legal pot.
It makes me proud to be an American.
I would like to also say that American pot growers have been trailblazers (especially california) in growing even better pot than any where in the world.
Thank you Calfornia.:2wave:
The pot that is being consumed today is very strong. It has a negative impact on mental illness. Here is an article by the National Institute of Drug Abuse
"THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the “high” that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thoughts, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.1
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that marijuana’s adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.2 As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
Research on the long-term effects of marijuana abuse indicates some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs. For example, cannabinoid withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system3 and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine.4 Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse
Marijuana - InfoFacts - NIDA
When I was in school,.. stoners used to gather and invite me along with invites like,.. "hey man,.. you want to to get stupid with us?"
Seeing what their grades and learning habits were at the time,... I decided early on that it wasn't the right path for me.
The results of this poll tells me that there are still a lot of people "getting stupid" these days.
Oh well,... it is what it is.
When I was in school,.. stoners used to gather and invite me along with comments like,.. "hey man,.. you want to to get stupid with us?"
Seeing what their grades and learning habits were at the time,... I decided early on that it wasn't the right path for me.
The results of this poll tells me that there are still a lot of people "getting stupid" these days.
Oh well,... it is what it is.
Do you have anything to back that up?......
I've never seen anyone go into a pot induced rage......
Booze, coke & meth, I've seen people get out of control on them lots of times.....
EDIT: Thanks for the link.......
People that disagree with your positon aren't neccessarily stupid......
I disagree. I think it could be used in mental illnesses especially for people who have lost their appetites.
Pot gives you the munchies.
The pot that is being consumed today is very strong. It has a negative impact on mental illness. Here is an article by the National Institute of Drug Abuse
"THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the “high” that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thoughts, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.1
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that marijuana’s adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.2 As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
Research on the long-term effects of marijuana abuse indicates some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs. For example, cannabinoid withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system3 and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine.4 Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse
Marijuana - InfoFacts - NIDA
I know from personal experience that marijuana is not addictive as the article in the link asserts. It's a complete fabrication, a total lie.
In my fifty years of smoking pot there were many marijuana droughts. Sometimes I would go a month without pot. I never had any withdrawal symptoms whatsoever except for maybe eating less.
If organizations like the dea claim it is addictive they lose all creditability with me.
I took morphine (prescription) for a few years for back pain. When I quit it I went through about a month of hell on earth. Now, that's addiction.
It's not a gateway drug, in that smoking marijuana doesn't lead to abuse of other drugs,...
I'm more concerned with people who have severe mental illness attempting to self-medicate their psychosis with marijuana.
America tried to ban alchohol but it proved impossible.
Alchohol can be a dangerous drug but we must accept that we cant ban it.
We know about the long term effects of alchohol abuse and we know and can define what alchohol abuse is.
Cannabis can be a dangerous drug and it is already 'banned'.
We know that both drugs are dangerous so what good would it do us to have two dangerous legal drugs.
There is agreat deal of evidence to show that cannabis can exacerbate mental illness but there is not a great deal of evidence of the total effect of long term use and the health problems that it may bring.
It took quite a few years for the full evidence of how destructive tobacco was to health..those people today who say how dangerous tobacco is probably had fathers or grandfathers that thought smoking 30 a day was fine!
I never said that smoking a low thc spliff would get you just as wasted as smoking a high thc spliff..just the opposite.
I said that if we have to legalise cannabis then a compromise would be to make a lower thc bud legal but ban the high thc bud or hash because this is far more dangerous.
This has caused much consternation in one poster who seems to think a nice
bit of lower thc hash the same that was about say in the 60s or 70s(enough to get you mellow and a little high) is far more dangerous than white widow or chronic( enough to get you wasted if you either dont know what you are doing or are a heavyweight toker).
Marijuana is a cash crop in our county, and it is easy for anyone to obtain a permit to grow and smoke 'medical marijuana.' At the same time, we have huge pot farms grown on National Forest and BLM land, with armed guards which makes hiking and back packing in some areas dangerous.
My concern is people driving while stoned and exposing babies and young children to secondary marijuana smoke. For these reasons I'm not in favor of legalizing marijuana.
Some say it would benefit the government to tax pot, but my feeling is the big pot farms would still avoid taxes.
I'm talking about exacerbating existing mental illness. I used to work for a program that served mentally ill offenders with substance abuse problems.
It's not a gateway drug, in that smoking marijuana doesn't lead to abuse of other drugs, however for meth addicts, relapse often begins with marijuana use, which alters judgment and makes returning to the drug of choice more likely.
Keep it illegal.
Kids are gonna get high while driving. And they're going to talk on their cell phones. And all that texting. We need to keep a very serious attitude about drugs and safety at least for the sake of the kids. No legal marijuana, no way.
"So far this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, federal agents have raided 487 pot farms on forest-service land, where they destroyed 2.6 million marijuana plants, seized 138 firearms and made 369 arrests on felony drug charges," writes Simon.Medical marijuana is only legal in certain states. I haven't heard of these National Forest pot farms, but this sounds a little farfetched...do you have a source? Well, actually I don't think it's relevant at all, so don't bother.
The pot that is being consumed today is very strong. It has a negative impact on mental illness. Here is an article by the National Institute of Drug Abuse
"THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the “high” that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thoughts, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.1
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that marijuana’s adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.2 As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
Research on the long-term effects of marijuana abuse indicates some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs. For example, cannabinoid withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system3 and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine.4 Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse
Marijuana - InfoFacts - NIDA
Keep it illegal.
Kids are gonna get high while driving. And they're going to talk on their cell phones. And all that texting. We need to keep a very serious attitude about drugs and safety at least for the sake of the kids. No legal marijuana, no way.
And no cell phonesKeep it illegal.
Kids are gonna get high while driving. And they're going to talk on their cell phones. And all that texting. We need to keep a very serious attitude about drugs and safety at least for the sake of the kids. No legal marijuana, no way.
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