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g00ru
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Grylls]
#7679830 - 11/25/07 08:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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So basically smoke weed everyday is what im getting from all this.
 
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Sell Your Soul]
#7679831 - 11/25/07 08:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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THC binds to cannabinoid receptors in your brain and plays with them. No brain cells are killed. This is really something that should do further research on if your a fan of cannabis.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: wendel]
#7679836 - 11/25/07 08:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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wendel said: THC binds to cannabinoid receptors in your brain and plays with them. No brain cells are killed. This is really something that should do further research on if your a fan of cannabis.
The fact that there are Cannabinoid receptors in the brain would indicate that some type of cannabinoids are supposed to take part in the brain's functionality, which would further indicate that cannabinoids are not harmful.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Serdal]
#7680258 - 11/25/07 11:57 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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There's no evidence that pot does anything to your memory that isn't reversed completely when you abstain for a prolonged period. Granted, the longer you smoke, the longer it will take for your memory to get back to normal capacity. Although I've read that people who smoke a lot tend to eventually have the same memory capacities as they do when sober because the brain rewires itself to compensate for what the weed is doing.
Smoking anything causes lung problems, but weed tends to be nearly benign compared to Tobacco. However, this is definitely something people who smoke long-term should be aware of and look into.
Pot doesn't cause psychosis. It can cause paranoia, and a severe panic attack may trigger psychosis. Professionals are still baffled by what causes psychosis. Some say it's genetic, others say it's stress, others say anxiety/panic attacks, others say all of the above, others say one has to be genetically predisposed but also have it triggered somehow.. the term schizophrenia is a fuzzy label with a hundred subtypes.
I personally believe that 1) somebody has to be predisposed to it, and then 2) something VERY stressful has to occur to trigger it. Usually very prolonged anxiety/stress. Therefore I advise that anyone predisposed NOT use pot or other psychedelics if it makes them paranoid. I wouldn't call this a "long term effect."
The worst effect from my experience is that pot really reduces your quality of sleep. This has catastrophic results in the long term. Chronic fatigue, brain fog, ADD, irritability, etc. I also miss dreaming.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Quake3]
#7680591 - 11/26/07 04:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If I could get medical marijuana prescribed for anxiety, I would. It's more efficient to me than my zoloft or benzo medication I'm currently taking. The only time I had anxiety from marijuana was the first time I smoked... and I have never smoked that much since then - even if I tried to...I'd fail.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: g00ru]
#7680753 - 11/26/07 07:12 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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guruu said: So basically smoke weed everyday is what im getting from all this.
 
Yes haha
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7681330 - 11/26/07 10:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Caribou_Lou said: That's ridiculous that because this happened to one person you know you blame it on weed. Dude people like that are like that from the start, drugs don't change you like that they just bring out your true colors.
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Thats why I say if you want to get to know a person A LOT better, smoke with them.
Edited by theinneRme (11/26/07 10:53 AM)
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: theinneRme]
#7681433 - 11/26/07 11:20 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Laziness.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: MindGorilla]
#7681466 - 11/26/07 11:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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what do they blame when somebody who doesnt smoke drugs goes insane?
i mean i hear all this drugs makes you go crazy bullshit, but i really think if ur gonna lose it ur gonna anyway, no matter how sober or fucked up u are.
to the OP
higher tolerance = more money spent, or more lbs smoked.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: pong]
#7681524 - 11/26/07 11:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think the general consensus is that weed impairs your short-term memory, to the point that it's affected even when you're sober. But if you stop it will recover.
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That's such a small price to pay. And think about this, even if you didn't smoke pot you would still forget things. Because you smoke pot, and you can't remember certain things you automatically blame it on the weed.. when in reality it might have nothing to do with the weed. I think the memory thing isn't as bad as people think, my memory is definitely not as good but only by very little.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7681921 - 11/26/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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My memory sucks, but it sucked way before I started toking. I'm an absent-minded dude, and I don't think the weed makes it much worse.
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Tchan909 said: My memory sucks, but it sucked way before I started toking. I'm an absent-minded dude, and I don't think the weed makes it much worse.
haha same here.
only the momry argument can apply because sometimes when ur really high its hard to remember certain things. as soon as the high subsides though everything comes flowing back.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7682239 - 11/26/07 03:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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blah blah blah
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Sell Your Soul]
#7682699 - 11/26/07 05:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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what happened to the video??
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The fact that there are Cannabinoid receptors in the brain would indicate that some type of cannabinoids are supposed to take part in the brain's functionality, which would further indicate that cannabinoids are not harmful.
Yes, I believe natural cannabanoids type molecules are in the body, and they work similarly to cannabanoids. Some people though, actually try to use this fact to assert that cannabanoids latch onto the receptors like a "parasite".
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Walker concluded that this experiment appears to show electrical stimulation caused the release of a marijuana-like drug from the brain, which acted as a natural painkiller. "Under natural circumstances these cannabinoids are reaching the cells and keeping pain in check," he said.
Scientists have known for many years that the human body also uses a morphine-like substance to dampen pain. Some scientists believe marijuana may be an even more effective painkiller because the level of cannabinoid receptors in the spinal cord is 10 to 50 times higher than that of opiate receptors which respond to such legal painkillers as morphine.
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/pot.html
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Grylls]
#18549479 - 07/12/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Grylls said: MJ slows down the brain's metabolism (oxygen); mostly in the temporal lobes. Cessation will return the brain back to its normal metabolic functions.
Makes sense it prolongs recovery from DP/DR.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: necrobytez]
#18550598 - 07/12/13 08:35 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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And what's even more interesting is that the Endocannabinoid system does not have receptors in the heart, such as on the smooth muscle tissue.. That's why you can't overdose on it.. No amount of MJ could ever give you a heart attack. Now contrast this with the receptors for cocaine and opioid receptors for heroin. If you cross this very thin line you win I guess, but ur also dead.
It's even trippier to think that we have evolved such a specific host of mechanisms as to how to deal with these cannabinoids. This might mean, that sometime during the course of our evolution there was a period of co-existence and utilization of these cannabinoids.
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Re: Long term effects of marijuana? [Re: Serdal]
#18551577 - 07/13/13 02:34 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ive been smoking medical marijuana daily since i was 14,im now 19 i have bronchitus 3-5 times a year.I have to take steriods for my lungs now but i have chronic wheezing and bronchitus Also i have the short term memory of an 80 year old,it affects my work and everything. However i used to take 12-16 pills a day without effects i was miserable and throwing up all the time from chronic nausea.Now i take maybey 6 pills a da.Im now an active healthy part of society.I owe it all to medical marijuana but theres no denying it in countries where some people chronicly use marijuana like india you'll find lots of casses of chronic bronchitus.When using excess amounts of marijuana over a long period of time can do theese things
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Anandamide, first endogenous cannabinoid known to science, implicated in feelings of relaxation and hunger:

THC:

AFAIK they're called cannabinoid receptors because they are targeted by cannabis molecules and this is how they were discovered. Endogenous cannabinoids, themselves, weren't discovered and characterized until very recently. I'd wager that if dopamine was unknown to scientists before amphetamine's CNS effects were discovered, it would be called an "endogenous amphetamine" (endorphetamine? I like it!) and instead of the dopamine system we'd be talking about the amphetamine system.
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Downregulation of cannibinioid receptor expression. That's about it really
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