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- lazybuoy, on 04/20/2009, -17/+137No problem. Make the legal age 21. Kids shouldn't smoke pot anyways. They should be doing homework.
- mjk340, on 04/20/2009, -7/+12235 days of development for a rat is roughly equivalent to 12 years of development in a human. The rats where exposed to a dose of THC, amount unspecified by the article, chronically (non stop) for 40 days. Using linear extrapolation, this is the equivalent of keeping a teenager chronically stoned for 13.7 years of their life and then subjecting them to a complicated task. I would be willing to wager a bet that the dosage of THC given to the rats was far beyond the mg/kg dosage typically ingested during a round with a bong. Were the rats given enough time to clear marijuana metabolites left in the system, which take a notoriously long amount of time to be cleared from the body (30+ days for humans)? The article makes no mention. These are critical experimental variables.
A study done by the International Neuropsychological Society showed that there is no discernible difference in neuropsychological function in lifetime heavy human users of marijuana after a sufficient period of abstaining. Here's a link to an article about the INS article: http://www.chanvre-info.ch/info/en/Minimal-Long-Te ... - falsekarass, on 04/20/2009, -15/+83Well, wasn't this already common knowledge?
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -7/+74Excessive use of Twinkies may result in heart disease via obesity! MAKE TWINKIES ILLEGAL. I DONT EVER want to have my kids walk down a street and see a man eating Twinkies. ITS IMMORAL. TWINKIES MAKE YOU FAT.
- chesterogilvie, on 04/20/2009, -6/+63I agree but why not make the age 18? An adult is an adult - 21 doesn't make any sense.
- Justavian, on 04/20/2009, -12/+64Kids have a harder time getting alcohol and cigarettes than marijuana. Legalization and regulation will actually reduce the availability for teens.
- mjk340, on 04/20/2009, -1/+39After reading the article again, I see it states that the the tests are administered the day after the exposure period. This could mean that the results do not reflect a permanent change in brain chemistry, but rather they reflect the results of someone attempting the test while currently under the influence.
This small change in semantics makes a big difference when interpreting the results. Isn't intellectual honesty fun, kids? - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -5/+33Because body chemistry and development doesn't change at an arbitrary date?
- cosinezero, on 04/20/2009, -2/+28Umm, I forget.
- mediaphile, on 04/20/2009, -11/+36First it says it makes them less sensitive to the negative effects, then it says it makes them more sensitive. Good job UPI.
- zjbird, on 04/20/2009, -4/+27Who the ***** cares, just legalize it. Make it 30 for all I care, just don't put me in jail for 5 years for smoking it.
- gabbagabba, on 04/20/2009, -14/+33quit trying to ruin my 4:20
- m4ttGT, on 04/20/2009, -1/+19In other news, water is wet....
- wentwhere, on 04/20/2009, -5/+22Wow young children shouldn't smoke marijuana what a revelation this has been
- psychohog, on 04/20/2009, -1/+18If you're old enough to live on your own, get drafted, smoke cigs, watch porn, etc. You should be able to smoke this plant as well.
- NaziHatinChimp, on 04/20/2009, -3/+19One more reason to legalize it. Do you think your local drug dealer gives a ***** how old the person he is selling to is? If it was legal and regulated it would be harder to get for minors.
I used to live in city where alcohol wasn't sold on sundays. That made people's weed consumption go up on sundays. Why? Because it wasn't regulated. - xeemo, on 04/20/2009, -1/+16so does alcohol, and tobacco, and most other drugs.
- shauntacular, on 04/20/2009, -6/+21Yeah, sure, what are you going to tell me next? That cigarettes are bad for me too??
- sockpuppets, on 04/20/2009, -1/+15Oops.
- Frankyfan3, on 04/20/2009, -4/+18Alcohol is still worse for teen brains than cannabis.
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If we want to keep it away from kids & teenagers we need it under the control of legally operated business owners who have an incentive to only sell to adults, and we need REAL education on the subject.
900 Thousand teenage drug drug dealers in the USA, but the "war on drugs is a success" /s - StankInTheBank, on 04/20/2009, -1/+13I don't believe in age limits. They encourage more use and create a culture of disobedience for its own sake.
The real issue is that THC does harm to the brain and we should be investing money in investigating the extent of the damage caused, so people can make informed decisions, instead of bashing down doors and arresting people for a victimless crime. - enevitable, on 04/20/2009, -0/+12I was thinking along the same lines. This is exactly like the experiments in the 70s where they put gas masks on monkeys and exposed them to chronic amounts of marijuana, then autopsied them to count their brain cells. Their findings stated that the monkeys who inhaled the pot had lost brain cells, of course they didn't tell you that they pumped so much smoke through the masks, they were literally asphyxiating the monkeys. Later government trials could never reproduce the effects.
As for this trial, perhaps it would have been more scientific had they done it multiple times, with multiple days AFTER the period of exposure and with a more controlled "chronic " dosage. More transparency into their methods wouldn't hurt either. - BionicAntboy, on 04/20/2009, -1/+12Funny thing how these 'studies' always crop up when pro-legalization issues garner national press. If I were a conspiracy minded guy, I'd say that someone is trying to hijack keywords...
http://digg.com/world_news/First_Ever_Nationwide_P ... - thayanmarsh, on 04/20/2009, -2/+13FTA- "[having ovaries] made adult rats exposed for the first time to THC, the primary ingredient in marijuana and hashish, *less* sensitive to THC's negative effects on tests of learning and memory."
All this article really adds to our knowledge is that being a woman (or more so anyone with increased estrogen in their body) prevents some of the ill effects of chronic marijuana use. - thayanmarsh, on 04/20/2009, -1/+12Pot can mess with your brain... o rly?
I thought that was why people used it. - Chooxo, on 04/20/2009, -3/+13"What if the study was about chocolate"
Amazing scientific reasoning. - FelixDrylock, on 04/20/2009, -1/+11we stop wanting to smoke it at 21? that's news to me.
- smemily, on 04/20/2009, -2/+12"I'm a pretty huge stoner, smoked on average once every day or two since i was about 16. I also happen to be graduating from a top 20 university as a double major. Therefore, weed has in no way made me "stupider.""
I don't know, that logic doesn't make a good case for your smarts. You have no way of knowing how much more (or less!) potential you might have had without the weed.
Your "therefore" is completely out of place since there is no way to conclude from your anecdote that weed hasn't affected your brain development. - OneRottenTomato, on 04/20/2009, -0/+9Or, maybe most grown ups learn to keep their mouths shut because they value the jobs, homes, and families they risk losing.
- Velvolver, on 04/20/2009, -0/+9They were tweaking the experiment to get the results wanted obviously.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+9but people start wanting to smoke it in their 40's on up to ease their aching feet/back and to help get to sleep at night
- evilunleashed, on 04/20/2009, -1/+10I forgot what I was going to say.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -3/+11Anyone that's ever known a 30-year-old Pothead already knows how pot effects a person's brain over a long period of time. For one thing, you remain under the delusion that Kevin Smith and Seth Rogan are hilarious.
- brokenex, on 04/20/2009, -2/+10The brain doesn't stop developing until the mid 20's.
- mjk340, on 04/20/2009, -2/+10I work all day and have a job in a professional environment and I don't know any drug dealers. I have to ask my 16 year old brother to get ***** for me.
- bengoza, on 04/20/2009, -1/+9No *****? Altering your brain chemistry repeatedly before your brain fully develops could affect the development of said brain? Ace reporting, kid.
- jp2535, on 04/20/2009, -1/+8Thank you for your life story..........ahhh? WTF?
- Opiate, on 04/20/2009, -6/+13Kids may question authority before they are fully indoctrinated, can't have that.
- fallore, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6...I love you. Great comment, great debunking. <3
- phatal67, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7I think UPI was emphasizing that THC has increased negative effects on Adolescent femal rats and less negative effects on Adult female rats.
- AGONYTUESDAY, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6This is what a REAL Digg comment should look like.
thank you, mjk340. - geoman2k, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7when i was in high school, it was easier to get a bag of weed than a pizza. and you didn't have to tip the guy who brought you your pot.
finding alcohol, on the other hand, was a bitch. - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7And since when do you pay for my health care? Who the ***** told you that? Are you making this ***** up?
- DankBuddz, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6Hahaha, yeah and what happens to teen kids when they eat McDonalds chronically for 40 days? This study is such crap.
- murrdpirate, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6So then why is alcohol harder to get than marijuana if it's more plentiful?
- sodade, on 04/20/2009, -1/+6Too bad can't openly ask your co-workers - chances are that at least 25% of them smoke, but you just don't know it.
- wrubrecht, on 04/20/2009, -6/+11"Using pot as a teen may affect thinking" - I should hope so, else you got yourself some ***** weed, son.
- m3th0dm4n, on 04/20/2009, -2/+7I talk with one all the time; he's a senior project manager of a major university.
- Mental, on 04/20/2009, -5/+10This report reeks of bad semantics.
How long did the rats have to recover from 40 days of chronic exposure? If they did not get ample time to metabolize and come down from the ridiculous amount of THC pumped into them, of course they are going to be worse at cognitive tests than the ones that were not smoked out for most of their life (40 days of exposure after being alive for 35 days). - seangdude87, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5hahaha 13.7 years! Not even Snoop Dogg could do that.
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