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Smoking cannabis ages the brain by an average of 2.8 YEARS
Daily Mail ^ | August 22, 2018 | Alexandra Thompson

Posted on 08/22/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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Smoked a lot of weed Yoda must have. :P
1 posted on 08/22/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Obama’s must look like a Prune


2 posted on 08/22/2018 8:17:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EdnaMode

This post will bring out the pot deniers in spades.


3 posted on 08/22/2018 8:21:31 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: butlerweave

Ages the brain? I thought weed turns it into a 14 year old’s brain.


4 posted on 08/22/2018 8:22:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: EdnaMode

So a socialist on weed has the brain of a toddler?


5 posted on 08/22/2018 8:22:52 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: EdnaMode

One toke? Is there any harm after that first toke?


6 posted on 08/22/2018 8:23:45 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: EdnaMode

Wait, what?


7 posted on 08/22/2018 8:24:11 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: EdnaMode

But what about the gummies!?

Oh the GUMMIES!


8 posted on 08/22/2018 8:25:44 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: EdnaMode

Anything that relieves problems without having to go to a fancy clinic for their pills, etc must be bad for you.


9 posted on 08/22/2018 8:27:16 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: EdnaMode

If you read the article the term aging is interchangeable with the term damage. They used MRIs to look for identifiable brain damage in a huge number of people. It is interesting that among all external hazards to the brain marijuana was listed as number one in this study. Marijuana caused 2.8 years of brain damage in contrast to alcohol which caused .6 years of brain damage. But in 3 - 2 - 1... we will be having the regulars claiming that marijuana causes no harm and benefits all parts of the body.


10 posted on 08/22/2018 8:28:43 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: EdnaMode

From the article...

“Study author Sachit Egan, from Google, added: ‘This paper represents an important step forward in our understanding of how the brain operates throughout the lifespan.”

I wonder about peer review and cause-effect.


11 posted on 08/22/2018 8:28:54 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“Marijuana caused 2.8 years of brain damage in contrast to alcohol which caused .6 years of brain damage.”

Anyone who has been close to an alcoholic questions this assertion.


12 posted on 08/22/2018 8:30:42 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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This post will bring out the pot deniers in spades.

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I guess that’s me. I limit my drugs to those that keep me alive.

I was going to comment about the brain aging from pot as an explanation of why there are so many Democrats. But maybe that might not go over so well here at Good Old FR.

Oops.

😎

13 posted on 08/22/2018 8:32:06 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
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For your interest.


14 posted on 08/22/2018 8:34:06 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: fireman15

“Marijuana caused 2.8 years of brain damage in contrast to alcohol which caused .6 years of brain damage.”

I’ll drink to that!


15 posted on 08/22/2018 8:35:33 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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“Ages the brain? I thought weed turns it into a 14 year old’s brain.”

Post of the day.


16 posted on 08/22/2018 8:36:33 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: EdnaMode

I have friends from high-school whose brains must be 150 years old by now.


17 posted on 08/22/2018 8:40:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

Paranoid pot users will no doubt see this as a bogus study, because marijuana is a miracle drug. Except it’s not really a drug. It’s natural so it can’t be harmful. Plus it cures cancer, and everything else, blah blah blah. Trying to have a discussion with pot users about whether pot is harmful is like having a discussion with pot users about anything, pretty soon you realize their brains take a lot of detours and wrong turns. But they’re convinced that they are smarter than everyone else.


18 posted on 08/22/2018 8:41:23 AM PDT by robel
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To: Mariner

True.

If this article makes so stupid a mistake as to the effects of alcohol, then how can we take seriously their claims of marijuana?


19 posted on 08/22/2018 8:42:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Mean, hostile, agressive people own mean, hostile, agressive dogs.)
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Image result for homer simpson brain i don't like you

20 posted on 08/22/2018 8:44:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Mean, hostile, agressive people own mean, hostile, agressive dogs.)
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