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"Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage"
#18634224 - 07/30/13 02:39 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Not sure if this is really newsworthy, it's just another uneducated blog mom quoting chosen tidbits from a scientific study about mice.
There's something wrong with hyperlinking the link, just highlight it and select "open in new tab".
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http://healthyliving.msn.com/blogs/daily-apple-blog-post?post=3e023b74-3f7a-4a3e-baee-ed52039eb258&_nwpt=1
By Sally Wadyka Thu 7:43 PM Sure, there are plenty of jokes about the effects pot can have on you -- making you paranoid or causing sudden cravings for pizza and Doritos. And anyone old enough to remember those anti-drug ads from the '80s knows that "your brain on drugs" apparently resembles an egg frying in a very hot pan.
But the topic of marijuana's long-term effects on brain function has been controversial. The most recent news, though, is not good for kids who smoke pot.Researchers at the University of Maryland studied mice to look at how marijuana use during adolescence impacts those still-developing brains. A group of adolescent mice were exposed to low doses of the active ingredient in marijuana for 20 days, then returned to their sibling groups to continue maturing.
When the mice reached adulthood, the researchers examined cortical oscillations (patterns of neuron activity in the brain) and found that the mice who had been exposed to marijuana had greatly altered cortical oscillations and impaired cognitive abilities. The researchers then exposed adult mice to the same levels of marijuana's active ingredient. Surprisingly, the adult mice didn't show the same alterations in cortical oscillations and had no changes in their ability to perform cognitive behavioral tasks.
These results don't bode well for teenagers who decide to dabble in drugs. "The striking finding is that, even though the mice were exposed to very low drug doses, and only for a brief period during adolescence, their brain abnormalities persisted into adulthood," said the study’s lead author, Sylvina Mullins Raver.
Why are teens so much more affected over the long term by using pot than adults are? The researchers did some deeper brain examinations of the mice in the study to try to figure that out. It appears that the frontal cortex of the brain is still developing during adolescence, and that is the part of the brain is most affected by drugs. Put those two findings together and you end up with a teenage brain that has the potential to be permanently changed by drug use.
It looks like maybe those "this is your brain on drugs" ads had it right all along. Especially if that egg is a teenager's brain.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: Synthe]
#18634273 - 07/30/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hm, well, I smoked weed as a young teen and I managed to later go on to get a bachelor's degree.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: Le_Canard]
#18634317 - 07/30/13 02:57 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yea....because baby mice are a PERFECT analog for how human children develop and learn
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: funkerdslr]
#18634326 - 07/30/13 02:58 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes they are.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: Sham87]
#18634344 - 07/30/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Marijuana smoke contains carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide causes cell death in the brain when inhaled.
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Synthe
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: SmOakland]
#18634355 - 07/30/13 03:06 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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SmOakland said: Marijuana smoke contains carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide causes cell death in the brain when inhaled.
Maybe so, but I really dislike when people present that as a good reason not to toke when they're exposed while driving to work every day.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: SmOakland]
#18634358 - 07/30/13 03:07 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Duh, that is why you vape it! All kids should know this by now.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: Sham87]
#18634399 - 07/30/13 03:13 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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one of many paid shills with science distortions. id expect to see lots more of this wacky grass roots propaganda, as the corporati occupied gubbamint slowly continues to implode.
peeps should bombard her site with demands , to know wich alphabet group paid her.
alot of bloggers , are merely paid filth.
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Re: "Pot smoking may cause permanent brain damage" [Re: anne halonium]
#18634639 - 07/30/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sham87 said: Duh, that is why you vape it! All kids should know this by now.
Vapes are considerably expensive, and "kids" are usually not intelligent enough to make edibles correctly. 
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anne halonium said: one of many paid shills with science distortions. id expect to see lots more of this wacky grass roots propaganda, as the corporati occupied gubbamint slowly continues to implode.
peeps should bombard her site with demands , to know wich alphabet group paid her.
alot of bloggers , are merely paid filth.
At least it's not fooling anybody... well, most people. If you read the comments on the "story", you'll see that some of the top rated, 80% yes to 20% no rated comments actually disagree with her silly story.
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