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Rats taking cannabis get taste for heroin
news@nature.com ^
| 5 July 2006
| Michael Hopkin
Posted on 07/07/2006 8:13:38 PM PDT by neverdem
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"The receptor molecule to which THC binds is also found on brain cells in the opioid system, Hurd adds." That's new to me. It might explain results such as
these.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:13:42 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
the bs meter went offscale
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:16:00 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: BipolarBob
the bs meter went offscale Why so? Marijuana seems to work for neuropathic pain. Check the link in comment# 1.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:20:45 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Boy those Democrats really like their drugs. Oh, these are the other kind of rats...
To: neverdem
Oh no, now you done it.
Dopers Inbound.
Duck and Cover, People!
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:23:39 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: neverdem
Rats taking cannabis get taste for heroin
Yeah, but only those rats who screwed up in high school and spent all their free time either hanging out at the all night convenience store or watching cartoon network...
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:23:59 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: neverdem
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:25:01 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
To: USNBandit
Thanks for the early evening laugh :)
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:25:37 PM PDT
by
ECM
(Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
To: USNBandit
Thanks for that pic. It almost seems a more innocent time.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:26:30 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:28:34 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
File this article under the "DUH" heading.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:32:21 PM PDT
by
keithtoo
(The GOP is fortunate that the Dim's are even more spineless and disorganized.)
To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
Don't forget to give em' some smack! And I heard they love shrooms and hash.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:33:06 PM PDT
by
Ultra Sonic 007
(Conservatives teach you how to fish. Liberals give you the fish by stealing it from the fisherman.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:33:52 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: neverdem
Did the rats start asking for heroin?
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:36:29 PM PDT
by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: neverdem
Sativex has a high concentrate of alcohol. Any result might be skewed by the presence of the alcohol to this study.
To: streetpreacher
No, but pythons prefer rats on cannabis.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:48:01 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(The real problem stems from people who don't know how to take real vacations.)
To: neverdem
Over-stimulation of these receptors through exposure to cannabis may alter these cells so that the brain either feels intensely rewarded by subsequent heroin exposure, or needs an ever-increasing dose to feel the same pleasure — both of which could lead to addiction.So any drug is a gateway to any other drug, including alcohol and tobacco.
She adds that two other drugs that also stimulate opioid cells, and could therefore also feasibly cause a gateway effect, are nicotine and alcohol. "If we turned back the clock with the knowledge we have now, these two drugs would never have been legalized," Hurd says.
"Gateway" or not, Prohibition was a ringing failure ... as is the war on drugs.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:53:15 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: BipolarBob
BS is right. Alcohol and tobacco are gateway drugs.
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:54:53 PM PDT
by
Clock King
("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
To: neverdem
So lab rats kept in captivity will take the opportunity to get high. That's not a real surprise, ya know.
"Well, I can sit here staring at this f*****g wheel until the next time they poke me stuff, or I can sit here staring at this f*****g wheel until the next time they poke me stuff and feel really good doing it."
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:57:28 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: neverdem
Watch out! Here come the liberaltarians!
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