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Marijuana Use Causes Brain Damage Confirmed
Medical Daily ^ | August 9, 2012 | Christine Hsu

Posted on 11/23/2012 7:07:00 AM PST by lbryce

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To: lbryce

I can attest to... wait... what?


22 posted on 11/23/2012 7:36:56 AM PST by WSGilcrest (/s)
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To: lbryce
A third to a half of the adult population is functionally illiterate. Instructional material that was written for a sixth grade reading level now has be dumbed down even more.

And getting a “good” education doesn't seem to help. I saw a picture here on FR of a college senior carrying a sign saying she couldn't find a job in her “feild”. Feild? Feild?$40,000 paid out for instruction and she can't spell?

Hundreds of tons of pot being smoked each year is not without effect on society.

23 posted on 11/23/2012 7:38:48 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: lbryce

Just don’t bogart!

LLS


24 posted on 11/23/2012 7:40:25 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: lbryce

TOTAL ABSORPTION


25 posted on 11/23/2012 7:50:25 AM PST by dontreadthis
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To: WVKayaker
...celebrate "420," in which marijuana smokers gather each April 20 to smoke pot at 4:20 p.m.

Like, wow, that 420 thing is SO damn clever, only why don't they do it at 4:20 a.m.? And 420 degrees is the temperature at which zig-zag paper ignites. And there were 420 people there, too. And next year they are going to have "421" and "422" and "423" and a whole bunch of other ones.

26 posted on 11/23/2012 8:07:51 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: lbryce

marijuana ,Brain Food for Liberals


27 posted on 11/23/2012 8:12:28 AM PST by molson209
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To: lbryce

Based on his pot-addled brain, obama should be removed from office for medical reasons and replaced with pot- and alcohol-addled Joe Biden.


28 posted on 11/23/2012 8:13:47 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: lbryce

It’s why I stick to Tequila and Wild Turkey, as it make me feel smarter, more alert, refreshed and makes me more aware when I drive. In fact, I feel wide awake in the morning, and no longer have the urge to drink coffee. Instead I just have a couple cups of Wild Turkey and I’m ready for the day! It’s good for the brain.


29 posted on 11/23/2012 8:21:36 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: lbryce
Wonder why Soros is pushing legalization of pot?
30 posted on 11/23/2012 8:27:26 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: count-your-change
There was a contestant on Jeopardy the other evening who stated she is employed as a ninth grade reading teacher. Reading classes were completed in the second grade where I went to school but then we thought "pot" was a cooking utensil.
31 posted on 11/23/2012 8:27:56 AM PST by shove_it ( No representation without taxation.)
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To: txrefugee

There is good evidence as well that emotional memories are hardest hit. The laying down of such memory traces is, of course, a key step in the process of emotional learning, ie emotional maturation, ie growing up.

This is evident in the myriad adults who began their MJ habit in their mid teens, and are emotionally stuck there decades later.

It is also the reason why, if a patient comes to me (a shrink) and wants psychotherapy/counseling, and is smoking even a little bit of MJ, I tell them they can have psychotherapy or they can have psychotherapy (emotional learning), but they cannot have both, at least not from me. For me as a doctor, it’s not not at all a legal or even a moral issue - the two are simply incompatible. Psychotherapy simply won’t work in someone using MJ. It also presents a complicating factor if I prescribe meds. In private practice, I have the luxury (at least for now) of selecting who I will and who I will not work with, and if a patient is using MJ and won’t stop, I simply refer them on.


32 posted on 11/23/2012 8:28:58 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: lbryce

Well, that certainly helps explain why my two uber lib brothers think and act the way they do. I put down the herb in 1971, but they’re still ‘bogarting that joint’.


33 posted on 11/23/2012 8:36:31 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: lbryce

Choom this!!!!


34 posted on 11/23/2012 8:37:38 AM PST by dennisw ( The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: shove_it

The ninth grade sounds like a good place to learn second or third grade reading. What did they learn in second or third grade?


35 posted on 11/23/2012 8:39:49 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Sex ed and why I have two mommies.


36 posted on 11/23/2012 8:42:53 AM PST by shove_it ( No representation without taxation.)
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To: lbryce

I think the “Great Election of 2012” proved this.


37 posted on 11/23/2012 8:45:53 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Amnesty - Obama's bailout of Mexico. Barry sticks it to America again!)
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To: lbryce

The picture of Obama draggin on weed should have been the GOP campaign poster - but then, that probably would have just gotten him MORE votes with the upstanding citizens we have.


38 posted on 11/23/2012 8:49:23 AM PST by rusty schucklefurd
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To: dagogo redux

In the 1930s into the 1950s the only people who smoked pot were some blacks, some Mexicans, and some jazz musicians. Pot is a 3rd world intoxicant and suitable for the 3rd world where it is natively from. You should smoke pot if you want to have a 3rd world mentality. If you want to participate in traditional European civilization that advances in science and technology then alcohol is your intoxicant plus it has a history going back to the Hebrews and the Bible. Where wine is often mentioned but (so so sad is it not?) marijuana is never.

By way of contrast, hashish smoking has been common is many Muslim cultures, helped along by the Koranic ban on alcohol


39 posted on 11/23/2012 8:50:54 AM PST by dennisw ( The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: lbryce
researchers found that long-term heavy cannabis users had disruptions in their white matter fibers.

So short term infrequent use is just fine and has been found it "may" increase your IQ by 7.83%...

MaryJane will always be safer than alcohol ever was...no matter how strong it gets.

40 posted on 11/23/2012 8:55:02 AM PST by BreezyDog (PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
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