Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
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Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
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Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#2I wonder how many of these 'researchers' actually smoke marijuana on a regular basis. I definitely found that a prolonged use had the complete opposite effect of "reducing anxiety and depression".
I understand that many professionals use marijuana, but how many marijuana users are able to maintain a professional career?
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#3I'm glad this article actually presents both sides. The latter paragraphs talk about another study in which THC did nothing to cell growth, and makes it pretty clear that the entire affair's still really uncertain. I don't think this shows up in many of the pro-marijuana (pseudo-)scientific articles on the web.
Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#4I wonder how many of these 'researchers' actually smoke marijuana on a regular basis. I definitely found that a prolonged use had the complete opposite effect of "reducing anxiety and depression". I understand that many professionals use marijuana, but how many marijuana users are able to maintain a professional career?
How many alcohol users are able to maintain a professional career? How many caffeine users?
It may be that drug use and maintaining a professional career are simply not related.
Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#5I'm glad this article actually presents both sides. The latter paragraphs talk about another study in which THC did nothing to cell growth, and makes it pretty clear that the entire affair's still really uncertain. I don't think this shows up in many of the pro-marijuana (pseudo-)scientific articles on the web.
FWIW, the anti-marijuana articles tend to be just as pseudo-scientific.
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#6This is great news for the pharmaceutical industry. The successful testing was done with a synthetic chemical very much like THC while real THC failed to get results. Sounds like a good way to monetize to me.
Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#7I wonder how many of these 'researchers' actually smoke marijuana on a regular basis. I definitely found that a prolonged use had the complete opposite effect of "reducing anxiety and depression". I understand that many professionals use marijuana, but how many marijuana users are able to maintain a professional career?
More than you think. In my experience the professionals who use marijuana keep it under the radar. They have too much to lose. As such the whole stereotype of marijuana users is based around the people who are public about it. If you look at the amount of marijuana coming into this country, and being grown here, it's just so much product that it has to cover a pretty massive demographic. There just aren't enough unemployed Phish fans to account for all of it.
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#8I would love to see a study that adjusts for the effects of inhaling carbon monoxide and other byproducts of plant combustion. Much cannabinoid research concerns THC-similar compounds that are directly applied to the research subject; conventional recreational use is at best tangential to the method at hand.
Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#9I wonder how many of these 'researchers' actually smoke marijuana on a regular basis. I definitely found that a prolonged use had the complete opposite effect of "reducing anxiety and depression". I understand that many professionals use marijuana, but how many marijuana users are able to maintain a professional career?
I smoke every morning before shower and ever evening before bed. I've done so for many years now and it's helped reduce my depression (inherited) and keep my GAD under control. It's been much more successful than traditional treatment regimes (SSRIs et al - tried it all) I'm currently running a successful business and have never been in any trouble with the law. Without marijuana I'd never have been able to achieve what I did.
(Posting under a throwaway account)
Re: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
#10The title of this post is clearly misleading, even with the word 'might' in it. Neurogenesis in mice was detected when the mice were given Prozac or HU210, a cannabinoid different from the active ingredient in marijuana.
The article then goes on to describe another experiment in which mice dosed with D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (the cannabinoid in weed) did not show any signs of neurogenesis, no matter what dose was used.