BREAKING: Pot smoking leads to INCREASED brain capacity
 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...icle319502.ece

Cannabis, the third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and tobacco, yesterday won an unlikely accolade from scientists who said that it could boost brain power.

Experiments on rats given a potent cannabinoid have shown the drug stimulates the growth of new brain cells. Canadian researchers found that the drug caused neurons to regenerate in the hippocampus, an area that controls mood and emotions, after one month of treatment.

Its effect was similar to that of the antidepressant drug Prozac, which also stimulates nerve growth in the hippocampus. The rats were less anxious and more willing to eat in a novel environment that would normally make them fearful.

Most drugs, including alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine, have been shown to destroy nerve cells in the hippocampus, the researchers from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, say. "The present study suggests that cannabinoids are the only illicit drug that can promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis following chronic administration," they write in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The finding runs counter to previous research highlighting the risks of cannabis use

sure, but it doesn't mention the other areas of the brain where cells are destroyed and permanently altered.

SAY NO TO POT

time to toke then

posted already so I guess you had too much pot...

some of the most creative and intelligent people in the world smoke weed...

yeah, like drinking booze is any better...

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names :question

Bill Maher is without question one of the most articulate people around & he puffs 24-7.

fuck you want a history lesson?

S. Freud shot up cocaine every day, & prescribed it to his depression patients, & every pyschologist has to study his work as if it were ground breaking.

and we all know coke destroys far more brain cells than pot

GOOD NEWS ! . . I always thought Mary Jane made me more cerebral :1orglaugh

I guess that's just choice of every human being to take or not to take

you're to decide , not your goverment or your neighbourhood

and some don't

I don't care what people do to themselves and I think it should be legal but you can say the same about both sides.

Carl Sagan was a stoner, I guess that makes sense.

Pot is a real gift from the nature.
Just dont smoke it too much and choose the natural and high sorts of it. And dont mix with tobacco.
Way better then alcohol or all kind of energy drinks.

because they had the munchies... they'd eat anywhere... :2 cents:

lesson 1:
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lesson 2:
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lesson 3:
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lesson 4:
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Bill Maher - You have got to be joking. That self absorbed asshole is the best example you could come up with.

lesson 5:
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If we speak about lessons , so this is how it should be :)

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great photos diesel! :)

ohh ok well i guess i dont buy that

Thanks mate :)

Wahaha .. Good example

Damn, that last girl is cute !!!

Anyway... this discussion is going nowhere like many others threads on GFY...

Personnaly, i smoke pot, sometimes...not everyday. When i want to be creative in front of my computer, like programming stuff or designing some webpages, i smoke weed. Also when i want to play guitar, it just do well and i usually increase my skills....

but, like everything, abusing of something isn't good at all !!!

I know some guys that are smoking a lot everyday, and i can assure you that they are less smart than before the've started to smoke marijuana. Smoking too much marijuana get you also antisocial and non-motivated to do something.

Ivana from ww.ivanafukalot.com :)

I agree with you on not smoking daily, been there done that, and it wasn't good. I didn't want to see my friends, even a phone call from anyone would piss me off. Let's not go into regular daily responsibilities like grocery shopping ,or grabbing necessary essentials. I just wasn't feeling it. And yes at the time I was abusing it on a daily basis, and not just 1-2 tokes, I'm talking bowls and bowls daily. Even reading a book that I once enjoyed turned into a fiasco, of me getting impatient that I wasn't reading fast enough, etc. Getting out of bed in the morning became a fuckn chore, I would just lay there.

Now I've completely split my dosage in half (like we are discussing prescription drugs or some shit HA!) and I'm fine now. But yeah agree, don't overdo that shit or BAM!

http://parascope.com/articles/0897/timeline.htm

That outline above lays out clearly why marijuana is outlawed. Not because it gets you high, because it's easy to grow, and you can make damn near anything cheaply with it including fuel, medicine, food.

Cheap, better is not what the Evil Overlords want.

dumb fuck. pot doesnt kill brain cells

it helps me get through designers block sometimes lol

im already anti social from workin online all the time.

anyways, when i used to smoke weed (on and off for years), everytime i started smokin it again, i lost ALL my weight but i was eating all the time (damn munchies lol) an old friend of mine used to be overweight to till he started smokin weed.

so, in short, i think fat people should be prescribed weed. lol :thumbsup

I could of told you that ages ago!

tony

i knew i was getting smarter.

very interesting.

if it's true, that's awesome. :thumbsup

Hehe, what was your indication? :1orglaugh

4:20 :stoned

EDIT: 4:24 on the board :uhoh