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Marijuana and the Brain!

October 28th 2007 04:47

Marijuana and the Brain

After smoking pot cognitive abilities decline for abour 24 hours, then they return to normal.

Long term regular heavy smoking leads to cognitive impairment.

It has an intoxicating effect working on cannaboid receptors in the brain causing various reactions.

These receptors act on memory, pleasure, appetite, concentration and perception. When you smoke marijuana every day you are never as smart as you could be.

The usage diminishes memory, concentration and responses. It affects academic performance.

Abstention in the long term can re-instate some of these deficiencies.

Professional help can be beneficial for those wishing to give up the habit.

Your brain is precious, look after it.

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Comment by Kleonaptra

October 28th 2007 11:48

Kalikapsychosis

I like this.
Can we get something on the affects of Alcohol or Caffiene?

Comment by Always Eighteen

October 28th 2007 13:03

Always Eighteen

Good research katy.

If only people listened to what they inherently know is right. This goes for me, too

Comment by Michaelie

October 28th 2007 13:17

Flick Wit

Good post!

I hate it when people think marijuana has no effects - apart from good ones.

Michaelie

Comment by Miswanderlust

November 2nd 2007 03:54

Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy

Katyzzz
I wished more folks would abide by this research and stop killing their brain cells
Mis

Comment by Anonymous

November 4th 2007 06:17

Some people could benifit from the loss of a few brain cells. Such as those who believe that pot smokers are intellectually inferror to those sober folks.

Comment by Anonymous

February 18th 2008 03:16

I received a score of 30 on my ACT and I have been a heavy marijuana smoker for nearly 6 years. The negative effects of marijuana are hardly notable compared to the droves of the chemicals and so called benign substances people pump into their bodies daily. Pot isn't illegal because it is bad for us, it is illegal because big business can not cash in on it as heavily as say... oxycontin.

Comment by Anonymous

February 21st 2008 19:18

hey maryjane is GREAT!!!

Comment by Anonymous

March 1st 2008 23:37

smoking weed is a good thing for most people, specially those that a hyper active because it is like a sedictive and it relaxes you...it's good for you so toke up

Comment by Anonymous

March 3rd 2008 17:09

arguing about the benefits of pot is ridiculous. i understand pot being illegal for the greater good of our economy. but honestly. there are milllions and millions of other things that cause defficiencies such as memory loss, many of which are comopletely natural. The choice should be left up to the smoker or nonsmoker to make; not an overly qualified scientist in need of an excuse to blow trees.

Comment by Anonymous

March 3rd 2008 17:11

Comment by Drug rehab

April 1st 2008 16:46

As far as I know marijuana also can induce schizophrenia and memory loss. In addition it is an addictive drug, I still don't understand why many people consider it inoffensive. The fact that she is common doesn't make it harmless.

Comment by Anonymous

April 3rd 2008 19:41

You're stupid. People who suggest that smoking marijuana affects academics are like people who blame crop failure on sodomy.

Comment by Anonymous

April 3rd 2008 19:41

You're stupid. People who suggest that smoking marijuana affects academics are like people who blame crop failure on sodomy.

Comment by Anonymous

April 9th 2008 14:23

i am a heroin addict and need help my name is craig lacey age 16

Comment by Anonymous

May 1st 2008 18:54

i tell you what. I attend a school that demands much more out of me than most places would, as a matter of fact, most people fail. I am a regular pot smoker with a cumulative GPA of 3.95 and perfect attendance. I am also prescribed to xanax for post dramatic stress disorder. To be honest, pot affects different people in different ways, but its pure ignorance to say its bad for you. Xanax is highly addictive, 2 of my friends have died from it, and it rots your brain; and most importantly, its legal. Legality of a substance does not give the claims a legitimate value. Not to mention the medical benefits weed contains. Dont let the media control your mind, do some research of your own, and have a backbone and make your own decisions.

Comment by Anonymous

May 1st 2008 18:54

Comment by Anonymous

May 6th 2008 12:44

dude, people who just assume marijuana is bad for you are completely ignorant, in the correct definition of the word. you do NOT know about the medicinal affects of it, and you do not ATTEMPT to know them. grow the fuck up.

Comment by Anonymous

May 17th 2008 13:27

Tards. The lot of you.

Comment by Anonymous

May 24th 2008 15:53

WEEED RULES, SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY

Comment by Anonymous

May 30th 2008 19:43

I am a 17 year old who has smoked marijuana heavily for a year, but for medicinal reasons.The medicinal value of marijuana is quite remarkable.My doctors were extremely puzzled by how my sedrate(inflammation levels) dropped from a high dangerous level to below levels of normalicy in the span of 4 months.The mistake I made was continuing the heavy usage of pot.I soon found that my old intellectual,witty,confident, charismatic self had been turned into a passive anxiety ridden mess.The reason for me not abiding to regular,western ,orthodox medicine like steroids was because I had been steroid dependent throughout my life and anyone that knows the harmfull affects of long term steroid use knows that it far surpasses the adverse cognitive effects of Marijuana.

Comment by A Stoner

June 9th 2008 10:32

There is an old saying, “We live on the ghosts of the past.” meaning that every thing that we do is made possible by the ideals and actions of those before us, however what if dose those same ideals and actions were made hinder us? Such as Amendment Eighteen of the United States of America constitution , the prohibition of alcohol ratified January 16, 1919. When consuming of alcohol was made illegal its uses where still rampant and demands for it on the black market where strong even after all the native propaganda and arrests of alcohol related gangs. Amendment twenty-one ratified in December 5, 1933, fourteen years later allowed the possession and distribution of intoxicating liquors. Creating new jobs, increasing tax revenue, and freeing jail space, and overall allowed one to drink. But we the people are still oppressed by the people of 1930’s for they give one right to take one away with the marijuana Tax of 1937. After the Pancho Villa incidents Mexican-Americans immigrants where being identified and stereotyped as marijuana users do racism and negative propaganda that named marijuana not by its English name by its Spanish name, “marihuana”. When “marihuana” was outlawed in Texas in 1919 the same time as Prohibition a senator said on the floor of the Senate, “ All Mexican are crazy, and this stuff (Marihuana) is what makes them crazy.” If America is willing to give her people the opportunity and responsibility to drink by way of the Repeal of Prohibition, then I do believe that the Marijuana Stamp Act should to be repealed, to the same effect of creating new tax revenue, opening jail space, and permitting the possession and distribution of marijuana. As in the Prohibition of alcohol the marijuana usage is now rampant and the black market demand for it is also strong. We the people are willing to run the risk that come with alcohol such as alcohol poisoning, blackouts, and drink drivers to which of one I have lost a family member. Yes, I have a dream that just as this deadly drug known alcohol has been legalized for recreational uses that one day marijuana will be the same. For all the bad one can say about marijuana, there’s way more bad that can be side about alcohol. With heavy drinking cirrhosis of the liver, Alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, increase risk of cancer, pancreatitis, epilepsy, alcoholic dementia, heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, sex dysfunction, death. This is what the worst they have to say about heavy smoking or consumption of marijuana increased hart rate, lowers sperm count, suggested but not proven to cause lung cancer and repertory infections, impairs concentration, lowers the immune system, may cause anxiety, however compared to a cigarette still believed to be safer. For every drink an alcoholic takes, an pothead will take a puff and at the end of the night I bet you the pothead will walk a straight line, he might be laughing but he’ll walk it. Some might say that marijuana has medical benefit, I dare you to say that to a kid too sick to eat basically dieing of cancer, but after he smokes that join he’ll ask, “Daddy make me a sandwich!”. My two favorite stoner quotes from former President of the United States of America Bill Clinton, “ I put it to my mouth, but I did not inhale!” and , “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!”

Please read, thank you!

Comment by Anonymous

June 10th 2008 18:16

personally i love weed. i do agree that you could lose some memory by smoking it but not enough to cause a seriouse problem. now i have been smoking pot everyday multiple times a day for 3 years and the only bad thing i get out of smoking is i might need a nap or get really hungry....now that doesnt sound that bad to me. weed makes me overlly happy, i become such a nicer person (im bipolar), i have a more artistic mind. i really dont think pot makes someone become stupid, im still going to be starting college in october sooo.

Comment by Anonymous

June 10th 2008 18:16

Comment by Anonymous

June 11th 2008 23:21

you are all blibbering idiots. you apparently know nothing. Close minded morons

Comment by Anonymous

July 10th 2008 02:14

I think, If you haven't smoked weed before, you don't need to disrespect us, you obviously don't know what its like to be high. Its really not that huge of an illegal thing.... Haha, that said i'm going to go roll myself a blunt =]

Really Long Link

Comment by Anonymous

July 10th 2008 23:32

i agree with the stoners. i only ever tried once, but i know a lot of people who smoke every day and they are the nicest, happiest, smartest people i know.

smoke away!

Comment by Santiago,

July 11th 2008 08:41

Santi Stoner, lol read this I’m smoking weed as I type this. Cons addictive if you believe Marry Jane is addictive then you can believe anything addictive life, sex, and the internet! Should I go to rehab for these as well? Smoking weed hinders one thinking abilities? Living, sex, surfing the internet, and according to you smoking declines the thinking process, but I’m doing it all right now, except the sex! But I think roll another joint. I think I feel the fuzzy head your talking about but keep in mind that I played a entire college level chess tournament while high and won undefeated. I think I’m thinking straight. Quit? Are you thinking straight, are you on drugs? Why quit, this stuff grows trees! Should I quit life, sex, and the internet, wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all quit these things. Lol.

Know your rights. Know by who and why those rights where given by the rulers before us, or should I say taken away? Its just been less then a decide or a live time since civil rights movements, women’s suffrage, and etcetera. Think about that! Why is it that someone in the law making body of government would first make a law just to have it recanted later on? Laws such as inequality for women, only land owning men can vote, and segregation where these laws made to protect us!?
There is an old saying, “We live on the ghosts of the past.” meaning that every thing that we do and done is made possible by the ideals and actions of those before us, however what if dose those same ideals and actions were made hinder us? Such as Amendment Eighteen of the United States Constitution, the prohibition of alcohol ratified January 16, 1919. When consuming of alcohol was made illegal its uses where still rampant and demands for it on the black market where strong even after all the native propaganda, associated health risks, and publicized bloody arrests of alcohol related gangs. My great grandfather was know for at the time of prohibition for making alcohol out of corn and using the corn ear or leaf to sample his fresh distilled alcohol. Amendment twenty-one ratified in December 5, 1933, fourteen years later allowed the possession and distribution of intoxicating liquors. Creating new jobs, increasing tax revenue, and freeing jail space for the true criminals, and overall allowed one to drink. But we the people are still oppressed by the people of 1930’s for they give one right to take one away with the Marijuana Tax of 1937.
After the Pancho Villa incidents Mexican-Americans immigrants where being identified and stereotyped as marijuana users do to racism and negative propaganda that named marijuana not by its English name by its Spanish name, “marihuana!” When “marihuana” was outlawed in Texas in 1919 the same time as Prohibition of alcohol a Texas senator said on the floor of the Senate, “ All Mexican are crazy, and this stuff (Marihuana) is what makes them crazy.” If America is willing to give her people the opportunity and responsibility to drink by way of the Repeal of Prohibition, then I do believe that the Marijuana Stamp Act should to be repealed, to the same effect of creating new tax revenue, opening jail space for the true criminals, and permitting the possession and distribution of marijuana. As in the Prohibition of alcohol the marijuana usage is now rampant and the black market demand for it is also strong. We the people are willing to run the risk that come with alcohol such as alcohol poisoning, blackouts, and drink drivers to which of one I have lost a family member.
Yes, I have a dream that just as this deadly drug known alcohol has been legalized for recreational uses that one day marijuana will be the same. For all the bad one can say about marijuana, there’s way more bad that can be side about alcohol. With heavy drinking cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, increase risk of cancer, pancreatitis, epilepsy, alcoholic dementia, heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, sex dysfunction, and death. This is what the worst they have to say about heavy smoking or consumption of marijuana increases hart rate, lowers sperm count, suggested but not proven to cause lung cancer and repertory infections, impairs concentration, lowers the immune system, may cause anxiety to an inexperienced smoker, however compared to a cigarette still believed to be safer. For every drink an alcoholic takes, an pothead will take a puff and at the end of the night I bet you the pothead will walk a straight line, he might be laughing but he’ll walk it.
When marijuana was made illegal there was only two doctors who spoke in front of the congress one doctor said, “marijuana was among the safest recreational drug know to man, if you eat too much salt you’ll die, if you drink too much water you’ll die, if you eat a pound of raw potatoes you’ll die…”, but they didn’t want to hear it. Instead they listened to the other quack who said, “I injected the active ingredient THC directly into the brains of five dogs, and all five dogs died!” I’m no doctor but if you inject something as harmless as air the brain of a dog, you’ll not doing the dog any favors. Some might say that marijuana has no medical benefit, I dare you to say that to a kid too sick to eat basically dieing of cancer, but after he smokes that join he’ll ask, “Daddy make me a sandwich!”.
Some propaganda videos like “Reefer Madness” might say you become a killer if you smoke weed, but people have killed without using drugs, this an other anti marijuana videos says that if you smoke marihuana you’ll go crazy. Again I’m no doctor, but I do believe people have gone crazy without the use of drugs. Henry Ford made the Model-T car out of nothing but marihuana. The plastic made from marijuana Ford clamed was ten times stronger then steal and the gas it ran on was also made from marihuana, ahead of his time Henry Ford was already thinking green! The first drafts of the U.S. Constitution was written on hemp papers, U.S. paper currency was at one time made of hemp, the Untied States at one time even accepted hemp as a from of tax payment, and at one time United States would arrest farmers for not growing hemp. When the Marijuana Tax Act was sighed many of the congress men at the time had stalk and shares with the biggest crop at the time which was cotton and especially when nylon was just being made from cotton they wanted to see cottons main rival the “hemp industry” which second biggest crop of the time wiped out. Cotton was not the only industry treated by the hemp empire, plastic, gas, paints, tiles, clothing, paper, alcohol, and yes even the big tobacco companies wanted marihuana out of the picture.
Yes, Mary Jane was not made illegal to protect you and I, for if that where the case they would have done the same to alcohol, tobacco, and all proscription drugs which kill more Americans then all illegal drugs combined, but instead they did it to protect big corporations from, the true “Reefer Madness” and keep money in there pockets. Now tell your children, tell everyone! May I quote my two favorite quotes former President of the United States of America Bill Clinton, “ I put it to my mouth, but I did not inhale!” and , “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!”. We know Bill be lying!

Did you know you naturally have cannabinoids an active ingredient of marijuana in your brain along with opioids found in opium, its all in your head. Are you starting feel what you don’t want to feel, do you fell any dumber? You can quit all you want, but you can not live a whole life without the drugs that that have helped you live life as you know it. So are you addicted, cause you can not quit. Where all addicted! Food themselves are drugs, lol please quit.

Showed my academic performance for Marry Jane, and you said smokers can not reach they full cognitive abilities! This blog says that ones abstention may re-instate memory, concentration, and responses. I may try that one day, however I don’t think they fully aware of the burdens that we stoners carry walking around with such a big brain chaffing our shoulders and weighing us down. I’ll say its save to say that I may have burnt glial cells smoking weed then what this writer of this blog have in his or her entire brain, and I still have plenty more then they do. Smoke’em if you got’em!

Comment by Anonymous

October 20th 2008 05:40

close minded and stupid. 'with marijuana you'll never be as smart as you can be'??? are you kidding me! some of the most important people in our history have smoked weed, and you're going to call them stuipd? like abraham lincoln, or duke ellington, edgar allen poe, or hemmingway, how about picasso, and queen victoria? or van gogh and winston churchill!

i can keep going.

jesus christ. open up your minds people.

smoking weed does not affect your intelligence or lack of. YOU affect it. YOU control your life. YOU have the ability to let or NOT LET something [whether it be a drug or what not] control YOUR LIFE.

Comment by Anonymous

October 20th 2008 19:32

SMOKE WEED ERYDAY

Comment by Anonymous

October 20th 2008 22:15

i say if you don't let it control your life, then there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to smoke. it's like any other drug, it's fine in small doses, but it's a bad idea to OD.

Comment by GR@C!E

October 23rd 2008 03:48

I think that marijuana should be legal because some people only do it because it is againest the law so it should be legal, but just harder to buy

Comment by GR@C!E

October 23rd 2008 03:48

I think that marijuana should be legal because some people only do it because it is againest the law so it should be legal, but just harder to buy

Comment by Anonymous

December 26th 2008 07:02

k so i've been smoking weed many times a day for about 2 years now. i have argued both sides of smoking pot and in my experience its not some super drug that's going to fuck up your life. it doesnt fuck up your brain and there is nothing wrong with smoking pot. ultimately, you make the choices to slack off in school or not pay attention and anyone who blames their problems on pot simply doesnt know what the fuck they are talking about.

after all, you know yourself better than anyone else knows you... so just ask yourself, is smoking pot right for you?

Comment by Anonymous

December 26th 2008 14:08

its a victimless crime when i smoke i am only doing harm to myself if any im doing well in school and still smoking pot everyday now how can you tell me pot fucks up your life because so far its helped me relax in stressful situations and have a good time

Comment by Anonymous

March 19th 2009 21:18

There are actually plenty of studies out there that have shown marijuana actually has protects and even promotes the growth of neurons in the brain. The only negative effect on the brain is during usage, after that things go back to normal.

Comment by Anonymous

March 21st 2009 15:34

that seems about right to me. it's about time someone stood up and said something about it. when will someone get something started that will help weed be decriminalized?

Comment by boogie

April 6th 2009 20:48

It does less harm than beer so why not legalize them both to be fair it is the ppls choice to smoke or not so don't choose for them

Comment by Anonymous

May 5th 2009 10:42

mmm drugs are bad mmmm.....ok

Comment by Anonymous

June 2nd 2009 13:17

I have been smoking for a few years and I would have to say that I am doing well. My band is playing at many festivals and I went through school with good grades. Mary J has done nothing to make me stupid.

Watch the movie super high me...he takes tests ( ACT, a creativity test) and in the end it turns out that he does better on them after a month of strait smoking.