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veggie

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Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking
#10910721 - 08/22/09 09:48 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking August 21, 2009 - HealthDay News
Marijuana may buffer the brain against the damages of binge drinking, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, used high-tech scans to compare microscopic changes in brain white matter in teens aged 16 to 19 who were divided into three groups: binge drinkers (boys who consume five or more drinks at one sitting, and girls who have four or more drinks); binge drinkers who also smoked marijuana; and a control group with little or no experience with either alcohol or drugs.
As expected, the binge drinkers showed signs of white matter damage in all eight brain regions examined by the researchers. But the binge drinkers/marijuana users had less damage in seven out of the eight brain regions than the binge drinkers did. And compared to the control group, the binge drinkers/marijuana users had more white matter damage in only three regions.
The researchers wrote that brain white matter tracts were "more coherent in adolescents who binge drink and use marijuana than in adolescents who report only binge drinking." They said it's "possible that marijuana may have some neuroprotective properties in mitigating alcohol-related oxidative stress or excitotoxic cell death."
The study appears in the current issue of the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology.
"This study suggests that not only is marijuana safer than alcohol, it may actually protect against some of the damage that booze causes," Steve Fox, director of state campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a news release from the project.
"It's far better for teens not to drink or smoke marijuana, but our nation's leaders send a dangerous message by defending laws that encourage the use of alcohol over marijuana," he added.
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Nymphaea
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: veggie]
#10911201 - 08/22/09 11:14 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cannabis is safer and should be legal.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Nymphaea]
#10911229 - 08/22/09 11:19 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nymphaea said: Cannabis is safer and should be legal. 
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: veggie]
#10911399 - 08/22/09 11:43 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is pretty good news for me specifically.
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Dr.Myco87
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#10911444 - 08/22/09 11:50 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Weird, but interesting nonetheless. I just can't understand why alcohol is legal and taxed and pot isn't, no sense at all.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: veggie]
#10911589 - 08/22/09 12:10 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Time to go get plastered and then smoke a white matter restoration bowl.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: wildchild68]
#10912120 - 08/22/09 01:08 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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haha I think it may be because you cant drink quite as much when you are smoking that night....
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: 2859558484]
#10912511 - 08/22/09 01:58 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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lol. Are you serious? Not true from my experience. In fact, it seems easier for me to drink in excess in the presence of cannabis. Nice smoke break to chill out, let the stomach ease a bit, and then back at destroying my body with poisonous liquor!!!
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Dr.Myco87]
#10913370 - 08/22/09 03:42 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dr.Myco87 said: I just can't understand why alcohol is legal and taxed and pot isn't, no sense at all.
Christianity. Pot isn't legal because minorities use it and mexicans profit from it, both of which white christians don't want. Many laws are written based on moral or religious ideology, not logic. Especially drug laws. Because all cultures have this certain quality of enshrining a substance into their culture no matter how toxic, and demonizing all others. Western scientific predominately christain culture chose alcohol.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#10913459 - 08/22/09 03:57 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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FUCKING CHRISTIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Coaster]
#10914455 - 08/22/09 06:44 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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One more amazing thing Cannabis can do.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Coaster]
#10914515 - 08/22/09 06:54 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Coaster said: FUCKING CHRISTIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Ojom]
#10915328 - 08/22/09 08:37 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ojom said:
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Coaster said: FUCKING CHRISTIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: Moronicus]
#10915678 - 08/22/09 09:14 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alcohol is soooo 19th century.
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Re: Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking [Re: EdgeChaos]
#10916431 - 08/22/09 11:00 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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so thats why i always yack when i drink and smoke.
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