sciam.com— Ahh good, we're startin em' young these days. Natural marijuanalike chemicals may direct key brain cells to make proper connections while in the womb, according to a new study.
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@logicbombIve had this argument many times with people that I consider to be intelligent. You get nowhere, fast! Most of these people have just had it belted into them their entire life, that weed is a horrible, life destroying, addictive, cancer-causeing narcotic. It gets to the point where you just walk away and have a cone. You tell them that weed has no recorded deaths throughout its thousands of years of use. It has been proven NOT to be a 'gateway drug'. It is less addictive and less harmful than cafine. It seems to have medicinal benefits. I ask them "when your out in the city having a night out, and some idiot wants to pick a fight. Is this guy A) Drunk B) On heroin or ice or something like that, OR C) Stoned on pot." You never hear them say (C). I then ask why we shouldnt ban alcohol because it seems to have more death attributed to it, is more harmful to your body and more addictive. But, I have yet to convince anyone who has never actually smoked the stuff that its not the 'green devil' that its made out to be.My main argument is that 'drugs' are made in labs. The fact that I can plant a seed and smoke what grows AS IS means that its natural. ITS NOT A DRUG.
@davev (#6870118)I use the highly concentrated stuff on a weekly basis in a plant watering mixture for my veggies. I still have no idea what your point is. Are you for some reason likening smoking cannabis to drinking h2o2?
@davev:Exactly the same with Cigarettes. You ban them in public buildings and sheltered outdoor areas and make it so the only place you can smoke ANYTHING is outdoors or in your home.Also, having been a non-smoker for YEARS while hanging around regular marijuana smokers (in enclosed areas) I can tell you it is VERY hard to get high by second hand smoke. Just like it's very hard to get your nicotine fix by hanging around cigarette smokers.If you are going to bring up a social comentary on smoking, you had better compare it to cigarettes unless you want to seem one sided and bias.
@logicbomb:I do apply it to all smokers. I don't care what someone is smoking. Be it pot, cigarettes, cigars, or whatever, one person's privilege (because that is what it is, after all you don't have to smoke, but everyone has to breath) to smoke ends where someone else's right to breath clean(er) air begins. I don't want anyone smoking around me because I don't like to breath tobacco or pot smoke. I should not have to breath someone else's smoke because they are stupid, rude, and addicted.
@member57"I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, I have seen too much heart ache and misery associated with all of them to fall into that."So what your saying is you have absolutely no experience to base your words on? Smoking weed and doing drugs like cocaine, speed, or heroine are two competely different things. Of course, someone who's never tried would never understand.
I was a pot smoker for 20 years straight until giving up entirely recently. Since then, my focus has been sharper, my patience has been longer, my motivation is through the roof and I am out exercising twice daily. I am no longer coughing up black mucus and can actually 'feel' my brain functioning far more efficiently.But most importantly, everyone around me says I am far easier to get along with now than they have ever known me to be. For a stoner, who believes they are 'passive' in their behaviors, why don't you sit down with those close to you and ask them for an opinion? Ask them if they think you are passive or aggressive overall. I think you will be shocked at the responses you get. After I gave up pot, I realized that it was the chemicals in the pot itself that were distorting my point of view as to the damage it was doing to me. However, for every long term smoker out there, see if you can give it away for a few weeks and if you don't feel significantly better both mentally and physically then go back to smoking it; it's your choice after all.
as canaduh has stated, this does suggest a long evolutionary history with the compound......inless this exact compound evolved twice for different reasons one in the animal kingdom and the other in the plant....very high probability against that...there are only two type of cannibinoid receptors on the body CB1 and CB2. CB1 is primarily in the central nervous system and CB2 only found within the immune system. therefore, for at least 6 million years if you want to take the evolutionary perspective of hominids (but it is found in other/most other mammals (again to be conservative) so it should be older than that).....but 100% sure since at least 8000 BC humans have had a relationship with the molecule...and for what the last 60 years it has been deemed illegal and know we have to wait for the gov't let pharma tell us it "might, could, possiblity" have some benefits? 9947 years on a evolutionary relationship conservativly is enough evidence for me. not to mention that this role in facilitating synaptic connections could explain why people formulate, manipulate and create while high...
as canaduh has stated, this does suggest a long evolutionary history with the compound......inless this exact compound evolved twice for different reasons one in the animal kingdom and the other in the plant....very high probability against that...there are only two type of cannibinoid receptors on the body CB1 and CB2. CB1 is primarily in the central nervous system and CB2 only found within the immune system. therefore, for at least 6 million years if you want to take the evolutionary perspective of hominids (but it is found in other/most other mammals (again to be conservative) so it should be older than that).....but 100% sure since at least 8000 BC humans have had a relationship with the molecule...and for what the last 60 years it has been deemed illegal and know we have to wait for the gov't let pharma tell us it "might, could, possiblity" have some benefits? 9947 years on a evolutionary relationship conservativly is enough evidence for me. not to mention that this role in facilitating synaptic connections could explain why people formulate, manipulate and create while high...
rooster99May 25, 2007
@logicbombIve had this argument many times with people that I consider to be intelligent. You get nowhere, fast! Most of these people have just had it belted into them their entire life, that weed is a horrible, life destroying, addictive, cancer-causeing narcotic. It gets to the point where you just walk away and have a cone. You tell them that weed has no recorded deaths throughout its thousands of years of use. It has been proven NOT to be a 'gateway drug'. It is less addictive and less harmful than cafine. It seems to have medicinal benefits. I ask them "when your out in the city having a night out, and some idiot wants to pick a fight. Is this guy A) Drunk B) On heroin or ice or something like that, OR C) Stoned on pot." You never hear them say (C). I then ask why we shouldnt ban alcohol because it seems to have more death attributed to it, is more harmful to your body and more addictive. But, I have yet to convince anyone who has never actually smoked the stuff that its not the 'green devil' that its made out to be.My main argument is that 'drugs' are made in labs. The fact that I can plant a seed and smoke what grows AS IS means that its natural. ITS NOT A DRUG.
iancgiMay 25, 2007
Its a f**king plant people how do you make mother nature illegal?
kspongeMay 25, 2007
@davev (#6870118)I use the highly concentrated stuff on a weekly basis in a plant watering mixture for my veggies. I still have no idea what your point is. Are you for some reason likening smoking cannabis to drinking h2o2?
Closed AccountMay 25, 2007
@davev:Exactly the same with Cigarettes. You ban them in public buildings and sheltered outdoor areas and make it so the only place you can smoke ANYTHING is outdoors or in your home.Also, having been a non-smoker for YEARS while hanging around regular marijuana smokers (in enclosed areas) I can tell you it is VERY hard to get high by second hand smoke. Just like it's very hard to get your nicotine fix by hanging around cigarette smokers.If you are going to bring up a social comentary on smoking, you had better compare it to cigarettes unless you want to seem one sided and bias.
Closed AccountMay 25, 2007
@logicbomb:I do apply it to all smokers. I don't care what someone is smoking. Be it pot, cigarettes, cigars, or whatever, one person's privilege (because that is what it is, after all you don't have to smoke, but everyone has to breath) to smoke ends where someone else's right to breath clean(er) air begins. I don't want anyone smoking around me because I don't like to breath tobacco or pot smoke. I should not have to breath someone else's smoke because they are stupid, rude, and addicted.
meatmakerMay 25, 2007
Woo Hoo my mom smoked pot when she was pregnant with me
exec721May 26, 2007
@member57"I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, I have seen too much heart ache and misery associated with all of them to fall into that."So what your saying is you have absolutely no experience to base your words on? Smoking weed and doing drugs like cocaine, speed, or heroine are two competely different things. Of course, someone who's never tried would never understand.
aussiesteveMay 30, 2007
I was a pot smoker for 20 years straight until giving up entirely recently. Since then, my focus has been sharper, my patience has been longer, my motivation is through the roof and I am out exercising twice daily. I am no longer coughing up black mucus and can actually 'feel' my brain functioning far more efficiently.But most importantly, everyone around me says I am far easier to get along with now than they have ever known me to be. For a stoner, who believes they are 'passive' in their behaviors, why don't you sit down with those close to you and ask them for an opinion? Ask them if they think you are passive or aggressive overall. I think you will be shocked at the responses you get. After I gave up pot, I realized that it was the chemicals in the pot itself that were distorting my point of view as to the damage it was doing to me. However, for every long term smoker out there, see if you can give it away for a few weeks and if you don't feel significantly better both mentally and physically then go back to smoking it; it's your choice after all.
joebob404May 31, 2007
Its 11:32 thats almost 5 hours away from 4:20.:0|
cachatjJul 18, 2007
as canaduh has stated, this does suggest a long evolutionary history with the compound......inless this exact compound evolved twice for different reasons one in the animal kingdom and the other in the plant....very high probability against that...there are only two type of cannibinoid receptors on the body CB1 and CB2. CB1 is primarily in the central nervous system and CB2 only found within the immune system. therefore, for at least 6 million years if you want to take the evolutionary perspective of hominids (but it is found in other/most other mammals (again to be conservative) so it should be older than that).....but 100% sure since at least 8000 BC humans have had a relationship with the molecule...and for what the last 60 years it has been deemed illegal and know we have to wait for the gov't let pharma tell us it "might, could, possiblity" have some benefits? 9947 years on a evolutionary relationship conservativly is enough evidence for me. not to mention that this role in facilitating synaptic connections could explain why people formulate, manipulate and create while high...
cachatjJul 18, 2007
as canaduh has stated, this does suggest a long evolutionary history with the compound......inless this exact compound evolved twice for different reasons one in the animal kingdom and the other in the plant....very high probability against that...there are only two type of cannibinoid receptors on the body CB1 and CB2. CB1 is primarily in the central nervous system and CB2 only found within the immune system. therefore, for at least 6 million years if you want to take the evolutionary perspective of hominids (but it is found in other/most other mammals (again to be conservative) so it should be older than that).....but 100% sure since at least 8000 BC humans have had a relationship with the molecule...and for what the last 60 years it has been deemed illegal and know we have to wait for the gov't let pharma tell us it "might, could, possiblity" have some benefits? 9947 years on a evolutionary relationship conservativly is enough evidence for me. not to mention that this role in facilitating synaptic connections could explain why people formulate, manipulate and create while high...
amazoncaJul 9, 2008
I've read so many bad things about marijuana, that I think I have to give up reading...my space: (c) <a class="user" href="http://www.cigbrands.com/">http://www.cigbrands.com/</a>