Posted on 08/18/2014 6:28:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Brain imaging studies of regular marijuana users have shown significant changes in their brain structure, particularly among adolescents, Lisdahl said. Abnormalities in the brain’s gray matter, which is associated with intelligence, have been found in 16- to 19-year-olds who increased their marijuana use in the past year, she said. These findings remained even after researchers controlled for major medical conditions, prenatal drug exposure, developmental delays and learning disabilities, she added.
“When considering legalization, policymakers need to address ways to prevent easy access to marijuana and provide additional treatment funding for adolescent and young adult users,” she adivsed.
Lisdahl also recommended that legislators consider regulating levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the major psychoactive chemical in marijuana, in order to reduce potential neurocognitive effects.
Current treatments for marijuana addiction among adolescents, such as brief school interventions and outpatient counseling, can be helpful, said Alan Budney, PhD, of Dartmouth College.
Start Fresh Program (www.startfreshprogram.com), an alcohol and opioid addiction therapy licensed to rehab clinics by BioCorRx Inc. (OTCQB: BICX), can be considered in treating marijuana addiction. The program has two components, medication through biodegradable Naltrexone implant and life coaching.
The implant, which is embedded under the patient’s skin through a medically-supervised outpatient procedure, successfully curbs the patient’s physical cravings to alcohol and opioids. The implant prevents addicts from experiencing a euphoric high during a relapse, discouraging them from taking alcohol or prescription opioids in the future.
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Oh, well PCP is completely different from Marijuana. They should totally ban that shit or something. Ain't that right "ConservingFreedom" otherwise known as "Mr Consistency?"
So is pot - at least 43% of Americans have used it.
As a percentage of Humanity throughout time
Be realistic - we're not making laws for Humanity throughout time.
No, but we are comparing it to something which has been used by Humanity throughout time
Which has no relevance to what is or isn't "here". Sorry to see that yet another of your attempts at logic has blown up in your face.
Your illustrations only works if you score a hit, which you haven't.
Your bluster doesn't trump logic.
Im fine with people buying booze and pot as long as they dont receive a penny of government assistance. If you submit yourself to weekly drug tests then yes, here are your food stamps if you need them etc.
I draw a good salary as a military officer. All paid for by your taxes. In my 19 year career so far I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve been drug tested. At least 30 times at minimum.
Wanna get stoned? Just do it on your own dime.
You should ping me if you want my answer. Meth is worse than the legal drug alcohol - so laws against meth, unlike marijuana, pass that consistency test.
Works for me.
Well thank you for that. I figured a doctrinaire libertarian would insist on the consistency of letting every possible poison onto our streets in the name of "freedom" or some other glommed onto noble sounding cause.
So now you have acquiesced to the usage of the entire drug war in all future responses to you, because you have now made it clear that you support the legalization of all drugs.
But let me ask you something. Just how much experience do you have with drugs other than Marijuana? How many formerly alive people do you know who bought their ticket into the next world with drugs?
Well when you put forth some, we'll see if that's true.
I could go along with that but for one thing. If they have dependents, they no longer get to do just what they want. They have to act in the best interest of their dependents too.
And now you are going to backtrack? How does that position square with "We have a right to put whatever we want into our bodies"?
So now you are sending mixed signals. Do we or don't we have a right to take anything we want?
I've used some of them - including the drug alcohol. Why do you ask?
How many formerly alive people do you know who bought their ticket into the next world with drugs?
I personally know several people who have lost friends and family to alcohol - and a few to other drugs. Why do you ask?
Cannabis has been around since The Creator created it!
Feel free to murder anyone you find growing PCP in their garden though.
Fine. We'll send the bills for his children to you. Thanks for your contribution to the cause.
And now you are going to backtrack? How does that position square with "We have a right to put whatever we want into our bodies"?
It's a fact so doesn't need to "square" with anything. There are degrees of objectionability - and laws against a widely used drug that is less harmful than the legal drug alcohol are more objectionable than laws against much less widely used drugs that are more harmful than alcohol.
Because you act like someone who has never seen people kill themselves with drugs. You act like a neophyte who has no clue about what he is tampering with.
I hear you, but that can send you down a rabbit hole. Some father may spend all his extra time playing video games and ignore his kids. That’s just as bad. maybe not a good example, but you get my point.
If some private business man makes a good salary, owns a home, pays his/her taxes, etc, but wants to get stoned in their backyard around a campfire every weekend - it’s on them.
I’m a father of 3 boys age 9,8 and 3. I never smoked pot. Not once. Yeah, drank some beer in High School, went to keg parties in College, etc. I knew plenty of people who smoked pot, most turned out fine. But no, I don’t want my sons to touch pot. I will always vote against legalization.
Legalization for adults is the most effective way to reduce access to marijuana by young people, through harnessing the power of the market: young people report that they can currently get illegal-for-all pot more easily than legal-for-adults beer or cigarettes.
I also agree with you about using the fact that alcohol is legal to justify legalizing pot is absolutely ridiculous. It is certainly a child’s argument...
Oh, so philosophical consistency is NOT important? Funny, cause earlier I thought you said it was. You were all on about plumbing my motivation because "consistency" or something.
So if consistency is not important per you, then your argument of pointing to alcohol really is nothing more than
"I want my weed because Alcohol!" 
I guess that stuff really DOES cause brain damage.
So is pot - at least 43% of Americans have used it.
As a percentage of Humanity throughout time
Be realistic - we're not making laws for Humanity throughout time.
No, but we are comparing it to something which has been used by Humanity throughout time
Which has no relevance to what is or isn't "here". Sorry to see that yet another of your attempts at logic has blown up in your face.
Your illustrations only works if you score a hit, which you haven't.
Your bluster doesn't trump logic.
Well when you put forth some, we'll see if that's true.
Aren't you the clever one.
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