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>Smoke too often, cut down and get sharp again. Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain. Also, let's not forget our friend lung cancer.
And also let's not forget that about everyone with big psychological problems in my peer group started to smoke early on (and developed mental health problems later).
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To a lesser extent, that's part of what hospice / palliative care is. Not to the extent that it's purely recreational, but often involve continued use of opiods for pain management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care#Physical_pain
Sadly there's still some prohibition on giving the patient enough to comfortably OD and voluntarily end their suffering in a lot of places. I've heard nurses say that they're instructed to try and keep the patient optimistic, even when all that life means to them anymore is continued suffering. Gotta squeeze every last dollar out of them or something I suppose.
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Weed is very natural. Very old. Alcohol is responsible for many illnesses. It is NOT 'just another nutrient'. There is a difference between a few slight trails of alcohol vs. what we drink.
"It's very natural" is utterly irrelevant to the question of whether (or to what degree) it may be harmful. Belladonna salad, anyone? Mushroom & pepperoni pizza made with Amanita phalloides?
The effects of alcohol, on the other hand, is mainly a result of it causing havoc on our bodies.
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There is nothing wrong. It's just that they don't contribute to success. Now you might ask, what's wrong with not striving for success? Nothing, I suppose. It's nice however to be able to reach one's fullest potential.
That's such a proud and confident thing to say. No need for a throwaway account. I would argue that striving for success is often the best way to actually not reach one's fullest potential.
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Legalization mostly works in the way that more people consume it. (punishing the use does not lead anywhere either).
This was proven false by the Portuguese drug decriminalization program.
Not that it's especially hard to buy pot in Portugal, but still, can't exactly get it at the corner store.
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Most people say that weed helps them be more creative, which is the opposite of the South Park quote. Having creative thoughts and dreams but not acting on them can lead to depression. "Being in the moment" is doing what you are thinking, and not letting worry or doubt stop you. Hence the creative energy people often get when high.
Maybe weed only helps them feel more creative.
Nothing news here. We all know kids recover quickly. Their minds are still developing and they can shake off whatever bad effects they have accumulated. Title might as well be: When Adolescents Give Up Pizza, their health quickly improves. When Adolescents Give Up bad habits, their behavior quickly improves. When Adolescents Give Up Facebook, their social circle quickly improves.
What are you talking about? That's a ridiculous overgeneralization. There are plenty of things that kids do NOT recover from and we now know that moderate marijuana use is NOT one of them. edit: emphasized the double negative to prevent further confusion. It could have been phrased better.
That is a ridiculous overgeneralization.
This article supports the opposite.
While it is never good for kids to do drugs (including alcohol, smoking/nicotine or too much caffeine), the article takes the reverse point that you are taking here, cognition quickly improves after which is obvious as it would with alcohol, eating less fast food, doing more homework/study etc.
Also, that is a broad generalization to say kids never recover... kids were doing more marijuana in the counter culture of the 60s, did those kids never recover who are now adults? You would be hearing about that if so.
What needs to happen to protect kids is full decriminalization and legalization because the legal/regulated market handles harm reduction better than the black market, and does a better job of keeping drugs (including alcohol) away from kids. Alcohol for instance would be more dangerous if it was still black market for both kids and adults.
Marijuana is a rare drug in that for users tolerance completely resets as the CB receptors are blocked during heavy usage.
> If you continue to consume THC, it will have less of an effect on brain functioning because there are fewer receptors for it to act on
Those receptors repair themselves after tolerance reset.
> Compared to other recreational drugs, cannabis is unique in the speed at which the brain “recovers” following a period of abstinence. Recovery is notably difficult to measure, but we can look at changes in behavior, brain function, and brain chemical receptor levels as a proxy.
> A study of daily cannabis users reported that users had reduced CB1 receptors compared to non-users, which increased to around-normal after just two weeks of abstinence. Importantly, this study didn’t assess whether CB1 receptors remained desensitized. However, additional studies demonstrated that withdrawal is more intense when there are fewer available CB1 receptors for THC to bind, suggesting that tolerance is indeed the internalization of CB1 receptors.
> Since internalization of CB1 receptors is the predominant consequence of excessive THC consumption, it helps explain why there’s faster brain recovery with cannabis abstinence than many other drugs of abuse. At worst, CB1 receptors become internalized and broken down, in which case they must be reproduced and sent back up to the cell’s surface to recover normal brain function (it should be noted that there can be additional repercussions with substantial use on other brain chemical systems).
Alcohol and fast food cause permanent damage to liver and circulation as well as contribute to obesity.
Additionally, cannabis may also help against fatty liver diseases [2] and fatty alcohol liver diseases [3].
[1] https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/thc-tolerance-heres...
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There is nothing wrong. It's just that they don't contribute to success. Now you might ask, what's wrong with not striving for success? Nothing, I suppose. It's nice however to be able to reach one's fullest potential.
That's such a proud and confident thing to say. No need for a throwaway account. I would argue that striving for success is often the best way to actually not reach one's fullest potential.
I gave up pot and switched to hashish. Big difference for me. Is hashish commonly available in the US? I get the impression all discussions are about weed/pot.
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Nope. ADHD is a spectrum. Often times it was/is misunderstood and its victims would feel isolated from the world. Marijuana would make that worse on certain vectors. It is not a silver bullet. It is a role of the dice. And the condition of the moment that you take it in decides the fate of the drug's effects on you. Could be good or bad.
I have diagnosed ADD/ADHD. Would hardly consider myself a "victim." It has pros and cons just like everything else in life. Personally I don't take medication and am totally sober. Mindfulness meditation helps tremendously