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Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds

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Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News

Casual marijuana use may come with some not-so-casual side effects.

For the first time ever, researchers at Northwestern University have analyzed the relationship between casual use of marijuana and brain changes – and found that young adults who used cannabis just once or twice a week showed significant abnormalities in two important brain structures.

Duh.

I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol. No one can possibly believe marijuana is the least bit harmless.

I had a buddy in high school that was probably the brightest guy in our class, and he was extremely outgoing. He found pot, and within a year, he had no gleam in his eye. He became this blank, empty loner of a guy that I could hardly recognize.

It eats your brain, folks. Legal or not, it destroys who you are.

On a selfish note, it culls the herd for my kids, whom I'm confident find potheads to be as pathetic as I do.
 
Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News



Duh.

I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol. No one can possibly believe marijuana is the least bit harmless.

I had a buddy in high school that was probably the brightest guy in our class, and he was extremely outgoing. He found pot, and within a year, he had no gleam in his eye. He became this blank, empty loner of a guy that I could hardly recognize.

It eats your brain, folks. Legal or not, it destroys who you are.

On a selfish note, it culls the herd for my kids, whom I'm confident find potheads to be as pathetic as I do.

Well your statement doesn't follow. Saying that marijuana is "harmless compared to alcohol" is comparing the damage done by alcohol to the damage done by weed. That statement in and of itself doesn't say that marijuana absolutely does no damage.

I know quite a few people who have and still do use pot and are PhD scientists and engineers, so I guess your little story there is, again, not an absolute.

Maybe some logic and math classes to understand how proper arguments are made?
 
If you read the link they only test 20 people. Its called genetic variation. Either way, it should be a personal choice to smoke. The government is not here to protect the people from themselves, it is here to protect individuals from each other.
 
Ahh, Fox News - the gold standard of scientific reporting
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I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol.

ALCOHOL'S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN

Up to 80 percent of alcoholics, however, have a deficiency in thiamine (15), and some of these people will go on to develop serious brain disorders such as Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) (16). WKS is a disease that consists of two separate syndromes, a short–lived and severe condition called Wernicke’s encephalopathy and a long–lasting and debilitating condition known as Korsakoff’s psychosis.
 
Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News



Duh.

I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol. No one can possibly believe marijuana is the least bit harmless.

I had a buddy in high school that was probably the brightest guy in our class, and he was extremely outgoing. He found pot, and within a year, he had no gleam in his eye. He became this blank, empty loner of a guy that I could hardly recognize.

It eats your brain, folks. Legal or not, it destroys who you are.

On a selfish note, it culls the herd for my kids, whom I'm confident find potheads to be as pathetic as I do.



It is not at all surprising since the same damaging effects were found in the use of tobacco in young people 40 years ago.
 
If you read the link they only test 20 people. Its called genetic variation. Either way, it should be a personal choice to smoke. The government is not here to protect the people from themselves, it is here to protect individuals from each other.

No way, Erod totally heard about this dude who smoked pot and then died, so pot causes everyone who uses it to die!
 
If you read the link they only test 20 people. Its called genetic variation. Either way, it should be a personal choice to smoke. The government is not here to protect the people from themselves, it is here to protect individuals from each other.



Yeah 30 people is conclusive all right
 
Everyone has a right to be a burnout... but yes, more frequent use and how it's used certainly does put a damper on intelligent conversation.
 
Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News
I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol. No one can possibly believe marijuana is the least bit harmless.

That's 'compared to alcohol', and it is true. Breathing foreign **** into your lungs and killing brain cells is never completely harmless. Alcohol is still way more of a mind and body **** than marijuana, by a long shot.
 
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Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News



Duh.

I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol. No one can possibly believe marijuana is the least bit harmless.

I had a buddy in high school that was probably the brightest guy in our class, and he was extremely outgoing. He found pot, and within a year, he had no gleam in his eye. He became this blank, empty loner of a guy that I could hardly recognize.

It eats your brain, folks. Legal or not, it destroys who you are.

On a selfish note, it culls the herd for my kids, whom I'm confident find potheads to be as pathetic as I do.

Maybe you should have read the entire article and understood what it actually meant instead of the headline. This stupid ex-pothead named Verax was able to, why couldn't you?

Although Breiter’s team members did not examine the patients’ cognitive symptoms, they do believe that the brain abnormalities seen in their study could lead to substantial effects on brain development and behavior, especially given the young ages of the participants. Breiter also acknowledged the problems of analyzing a very small study sample – but said that their findings should still serve as a wake-up call to others.

So in other words it could possibly have negative effects that have of yet been quantified. Personally I'm interested in what the risk factors may be, perhaps I'd be a little smarter now if I hadn't smoked all that weed. Unfortunately though you mischaracterize this study as evidence pot makes you stupid and use it as a feather in your agenda cap.
 
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Friggin Pop and Cheetos do more damage than weed.
 
Maybe you should have read the entire article and understood what it actually meant instead of the headline. This stupid ex-pothead named Verax was able to, why couldn't you?



So in other words it could possibly have negative effects that have of yet been quantified. Personally I'm interested in what the risk factors may be, perhaps I'd be a little smarter now if I hadn't smoked all that weed. Unfortunately though you mischaracterize this study as evidence pot makes you stupid and use it as a feather in your agenda cap.

He may have just hit the bong too hard and temporarily forgot how to read.
 
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Anyone who thinks marijuana is harmless is a fool. Alcohol and marijuana are both equally dangerous drugs. The latest thing I read concerning marijuana is that it slowly breaks down the body's immune system.
 
No way, Erod totally heard about this dude who smoked pot and then died, so pot causes everyone who uses it to die!

My sister injected two marijuanas and died of a pot overdose
 
Anyone who thinks marijuana is harmless is a fool. Alcohol and marijuana are both equally dangerous drugs. The latest thing I read concerning marijuana is that it slowly breaks down the body's immune system.
I just read a study that it's beneficial for diabetics as it's been found to control blood sugar.
 
Anyone who thinks marijuana is harmless is a fool. Alcohol and marijuana are both equally dangerous drugs. The latest thing I read concerning marijuana is that it slowly breaks down the body's immune system.

So then you also believe alcohol should be illegal?

Tylenol slowly rots a person's liver, and it doesn't even make you feel good in the process. :dunno:
 
I laugh every time I hear from pot smokers that marijuana use is completely harmless compared to alcohol.

Like any other mind altering substance there can be negative aspects to it's consumption.

Even Coffee can have negative consequences if consumed too much.

I worked over night shift at hotels for 2 years in a ski resort and I can tell you first hand that I'm getting to the point where I wish alcohol would be banned and I enjoy a beer more than anyone.

So many people, throw their dignity away, these are good people, quite reasonable in everyday life that get wasted and think they can just do whatever they want, whenever they want regardless of how negatively they affect others.

I have had to have so many intoxicated people arrested I lost count because they became incredibly abusive and in a couple of cases violent...

Every single society, EVERY SINGLE ONE has had a drug, or a release, a vice that blows the steam off of society, in the Western World it's alcohol for the most part... but after my experience I've always said that I wish weed would become the mainstream... because then people would just eat chips and go to bed instead of trying to fight me because I asked what their last name was.
 
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