Very Heavy Pot Use Clouds Mental Function: Study

Yahoo News ^ | 11/29/02 | Very Heavy Pot Use Clouds Mental Function: Study

[WaterDragon]

LOL! Great photos and comment!

[wardaddy]

That would make about the biggest bale I've ever seen X8.

[Torie]

Is it easier to quit than smoking

It most certainly is. I don't know about permanent brain damage though. In my era, the stuff was of poor quality by and large.

[coloradan]

Actually, incarceration provides a clarity unmatched by much outside of combat.

It's a pity that there are so few great works of literature, music, science, math and engineering to show for this clarity of which you speak, coming from the nation's enormous prison population.

[meyer]

Well, back in my younger years, I would have qualified, at worst, as a very light smoker. A couple of tugs on the weekend was about all I ever found to be enjoyable. Any more than that and I just didn't feel in control.

But, those days are long gone. Too many responsibilities and no desire to lose my job or end up in the slammer.

[Willie Green]

Let me make this perfectly clear - I've never ONCE called Liberteens - mice...

Well it's a darn good thing you clarified that.
I think they could've refuted the following statement:

"In mice, excessive marijuana use might damage parts of the
brain and "knock out certain kinds of neurons," said Bolla."

More research needs to be done, of course,
but I'm pretty certain that liberteens don't have neurons.

[wardaddy]

That's simple Coloradan, those who go to prison are disproportionately inarticulate and uneducated and ill disciplined to begin with.

Clarity does not equate with creativity.

[stands2reason]

I'm thinking the same thing. I think 13 joints a day would be enough for at least four or five potheads....

[HairOfTheDog]

...People who smoked unusually large amounts of marijuana performed worse on tests of mental function than their peers who smoked less pot...

Yeah... What was the question again?

[Johnny Shear]

Yes indeed, there was decent pot around in the 70s my man...and lots of black hash as well and honey or red hash oil too. All very very stone-worthy. There was always lots of seedless Thai around as well.

I'm 38...Grew-up in Indiana. I was 12 in 1976. Obviously, I didn't really become "Aware" of the ins-and-outs of the dope scene until I got a little older but even then, the pot that was around was just OK...

All I remember was Columbian Gold and Mexican Brown. Both of which could be rolled into a cigarette sized doobie and give 4 people a light buzz...

Bags cost either 25 or 30 dollars. Quarter Pounds cost 90 dollars...You bought one, sold 3 ounces for 30 bucks apeice and got a free ounce for yourself.

Yeah, I heard about some good pot being around...Maybe I was too young to have one of the older guys share the "Good Stuff" with me...That wouldn't surprise me. But still, the pot that was around was leafy, brown and NASTY (As compared to what's around today).

As for Hash...It's odd...I've NEVER gotten a buzz on Hash. Don't know why.

I still remember the summer that pot went "Green" and EXPENSIVE!!! The town (And all of Indiana) was DRY!!! Dry for the entire summer. Then people started showing-up with this green stuff that cost TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS FOR A QUARTER OUNZE!!! That was the summer of 1981. Since then, Green (Stink, Skunk Weed) has been the norm. And it's stayed at approximately the same price...It's risen a bit. Maybe another price increase is in the works as we speak...I guess it's pretty dry out there (I keep a pretty good stock so I don't normally notice the dry periods anymore). I just paid $120.00 for a Quarter Ounze. It's pretty good but not THAT good!

Anyway...That's my Stoner Story.

And on this note...I just found out "What" I am (Politically). I'm a Broken Glass Republican but not a Te-Totaler...So, I've never really known what to call myself...Then I saw the post about "South Park Republicans". Fits me to a T!!!

[stands2reason]

I had no idea that 1 1/2 joints a day was "light smoking." Cool.

[coloradan]

Maybe the clarity of which you speak is root cause for the high rates of recidivism? In any case, whatever ills heavy marijuana use is alleged to cause, I don't see that incarceration results in improvement.

[CWRWinger]

BTW wonder what the result would be if the subjects drank 91 sixpacks a week, or 21 bottles of Jack Daniels per week?

Chelsea Clinton.

[Johnny Shear]

Is marijuana addictive?

Some would say it is. I don't think so.

Are there any withdrawl problems going cold turkey?

No. I've done it numerous times.

Is it easier to quit than smoking?

YES! YES!! YES!!! NO comparison!

[Lady Jag]

Well, if he drank 91 gallons of water of week he'd be dead...a reason to be thankful it's only pot.

[stands2reason]

Mexican's still Mexican....but then there's B.C. bud (British Columbia)...hoo boy.....

[CWRWinger]

Hhmmm. You stated it's not addictive, but you've gone "cold turkey" on it several times. Which means you got off it and then started again.

Did you go back to it for social reasons or was it mildly addictive physically or psychologically? Thanks for the feedback.

[u-89]

I used to know a guy that bought a bag every week and rolled it all up and allotted four joints per day. One before work, one at lunch, one on the way home and one after dinner. Maybe a couple more in the evening or on the weekends or if company came by. None of these joints was smoked by himself, all were shared. But 13 per day by yourself? I think acedemia clouds mental ability more than any drug could.

P.S. This guy was a very good carpenter, worked fast and was also a foreman.

[uncbob]

What are they going to discover next , that heavy use of booze causes the DTs and liver damage ?

[Fintan]

I forgot what I was gonna say....