Posted on 04/04/2019 1:01:56 PM PDT by kaehurowing
“common sense would tell us the body wasn’t designed to inhale air filled with foreign matter without plugging up or curtailing it’s natural function. “
Agreed, but realize with vaping there is no combustion, just vapor, and common sense would tell you this is an improved situation.
I see mental cases on the street outside my office every day. Dozens of them. Brain damaged zombies.
Burned their brains out on drugs, including marijuana.
People who smoke cigarettes are 300-500% more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Yet those studies do not make the claim that cigarettes CAUSED it. It simply means the mentally ill are more likely to use drugs and smoke.
There has not been a single controlled twin study that shows ANY long term differences when one twin is incroduced to cannabis at ANY dose. These correlation studies do not prove any cause
Had a girlfriend once who abused drugs, claimed she needed pot for her stomach.
Called her up one time and arranged a date. She told me where her apartment was and, on the day of the date, I picked her up and took her to a nice dinner then went to the mall and helped her shop for her nieces. Then I drove her home and she invited me in for awhile.
The next time I saw her she was like “How did you know my number? How did you know where I lived?” I said, “Because you told me”.
She practically accused me of stalking her so I backed out of the relationship big time.
I realize it’s anecdotal but it’s my only sustained experience with a pothead.
This was the same girl who once claimed she was “drug-free”. “Really?”, I thought. “Oh, from time to time I smoke some pot,” she continued, “and occasionally some uppers but I’ve quit the hard stuff for an entire month!”
I suggested she work at the Clinton White House.
As long as we're trading personal anecdotes, I know people who've smoked marijuana for half a century, who show no signs of impaired mental faculties or anything else.
I have seen lives torn asunder by other street drugs, but I don't know a single person whose life was destroyed by smoking marijuana.
Show me someone who was driven psycho by marijuana, and I'll show you someone who was mentally unstable long before they ever smoked their first joint.
People seem to be able to handle it and enjoy it in controlled low dosages. But that's not what I was getting at. People get lung cancer from the tar and other additives in cigarettes. They don't appear to get lung cancer from nicotine, whatever its other effects may be.
Therefore, Juul is good! And, I don't use it myself, or other nicotine products, so I'm not talking my book with respect to my own nicotine addiction.
Smoking anything is not healthy.
Mentally ill people do tend to drink alcohol and take drugs, duh!
Do a search on what alcohol and antidepressants do to brains, far more severe damage than cannabis.
Medical cannabis oil is an amazing medical drug.
My wife says they showed her Reefer Madness in Health Class in the 60's.
“I do CDB oil in the morning and at night. I never thought 40 years later, I would be drinking bong water.”
That funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
Oh, it pretty much comes down to what’s on sale. I do not notice a huge difference between strains, even indica vs. sativa.
Perhaps you need to familiarize yourself with the recent reports on vaping.
To my class still in the early 70’s.
Close... for her it would have been late 60’s.
I notice a bigger difference between the same strain, even same lot, at different times than between different strains. Have never understood this.
I’ve only seen reports that they occasionally blow up, and many non-cig places now say no vaping.
What have you seen?
THC in marijuana pretty strongly increases dopamine in the brain, causing people to feel good and eat more.
Dopamine disruption is characteristic of schizophrenia, specifically excess dopamine. Most anti-psychotic drugs have their effect by working against dopamine.
People who are psychotic (see, or hear things that are not there), or people who are close to that state in terms of their dopamine system, are really vulnerable to bad effects from marijuana use. It is not for everyone.
If people take enough concentrated THC extracts, almost everyone will experience psychotic symptoms.
In low doses, for most people, occasional use of marijuana, or THC extracts, is safe, and effective for several uses. For psychotics, or borderline psychotics however, THC is strongly contra-indicated.
Chronic heavy use of Marijuana/THC presents separate problems, even in those with no psychotic issues. Gradual changes to the brain, personality (loss of motivation) and dopamine regulation tend to occur.
Example , Obama/Trudeau
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