Marijuana makes smart

[Muzk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QviG1NLbd0A


So that's why the government illegalizes it! They don't want us to become smart and eventually look behind the failures of the government to give everyone on this planet a good life!

Let's all grab some pot and get high (excluding hayenmill and Bud Struggle)

[Nwoye]

"Marijuana makes smart"

nice

[JazzRemington]

I think I read the details for that study, and that it was only true for older mice than younger one. In younger mice, it didn't encourage brain cell development but retarded it to some degree.

[Tjis]

I think I read the details for that study, and that it was only true for older mice than younger one. In younger mice, it didn't encourage brain cell development but retarded it to some degree.

Well that makes sense. The brain develops differently in different stages of life. For example, newborn babies can't even see yet. The brain needs to develop first. Using some psychoactive substance while the brain is making those connections would influence such development. Not a good idea.

[Canadian Red]

lmao I couldnt stop laughing at the name of this thread.

[Orange Juche]

It does make smart. It makes smart very good.

[Misanthrope]

I thought this was pretty common knowledge. Marijuana is a wonderful plant, it fights cancer, and promotes new cell growth. Why is marijuana illegal? Because capitalism is legal.

[LOLseph Stalin]

I thought this was pretty common knowledge. Marijuana is a wonderful plant, it fights cancer, and promotes new cell growth. Why is marijuana illegal? Because capitalism is legal.

It also helps people with epilepsy to control their impulses to have seizures.

[Decommissioner]

It also helps people with epilepsy to control their impulses to have seizures.

it also makes smart and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Chambered Word]

it fights cancer, and promotes new cell growth.

Source on this? :confused:

[Coggeh]

It also helps people with epilepsy to control their impulses to have seizures.
I would be interested in a source because when i had a seizure the doctors first 3 questions were lack of sleep ? alcohol ? cannabis ? . People with epilepsy according to my gp and the doctors who treated me are far more at risk of seizures if their using marijuana.

Also if one is using weed for long periods it may dull the effects of epilepsy ( less seizures) but studies have shown when they come off it they the epilepsy gets far worse than it ever has , which can also result in cluster seizures (which are a b*ll*cks)

[Axle]

I've heard this claim rattled off a lot, but I've also heard so many other claims of incredible potential health benefits...but the evidence behind a lot of these claims is always very spotty.

This could be because, since its illegal, most cannibis testing remains incomplete, although my guess is that most of the outlandish marijuana health claims have been blown way out of proportion by organizations like NORML.

I don't disagree that marijuana has health benefits. In fact I think it has incredible health benefits for those with serious illnesses like cancer. But I do take issue with pot being heralded as this wonderful, magical cure-all.

[Decolonize The Left]

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[AerodynamicOwl]

It also helps people with epilepsy to control their impulses to have seizures.

It Also helps cease nerve spazzes caused by Cerebal Palsy, and of course it makes smart. :)

[AerodynamicOwl]

Source on this? :confused:
Here's something



THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy in which cells feed upon themselves, according to a study conducted by Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain. Using mice designed to carry human brain cancer tumors, the researchers found that the growth of the tumors shrank when the animals received THC. The study also involved two patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. Both patients had been enrolled in a clinical trial designed to test THC's potential as a cancer therapy. The researchers used electron microscopes to analyze brain tissue taken before and after a 26- to 30-day THC treatment regimen. They found that THC eliminated the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. In addition, in what they described as a "novel discovery," the specific signalling route by which the autophagy process unfolds was isolated.
"These results may help to design new cancer therapies based on the use of medicines containing the active principle of marijuana and/or in the activation of autophagy," says Velasco. The findings were published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
According to Dr. John S. Yu, co-director of the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program in the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, "The findings were not surprising. There have been previous reports to this effect as well. So this is yet another indication that THC has an anti-cancer effect, which means it's certainly worth further study."
Dr. Yu warns cancer patients that they should not consider marijuana a potential cure for cancer and urges that people "not start smoking pot right away as a means of curing their own cancer." However, Dr. Paul Graham Fisher, the Beirne Family director of Neuro-Oncology at Stanford University, says that's precisely what many brain cancer patients are doing. "In fact, 40 percent of brain tumor patients in the U.S. are already using alternative treatments, ranging from herbals to vitamins to marijuana," says Dr. Fisher. "But that actually points out a cautionary tale here, which is that many brain cancer patients are already rolling a joint to treat themselves, but we're not really seeing brain tumors suddenly going away as a result, which we clearly would have noticed if it had that effect."

[Red Saxon]

According to my cousin who has a severe of ADHD, Marijuana helps him focus to prepare for exams.

[lines]

The idea that marijuana makes people smart is being promoted as a capitalist ploy to distract people from being politically active and electing candidates who represent the interests of the people. During the 60's the idea that marijuana was a good thing to do was promoted heavily to the antiwar movement as a means of pacifying resistance to the war.

[cop an Attitude]

Does anyone find that study after the pot smoking mice more interesting. Yes, yes we all know weed's great and can be used in biodegradable pastics, pill replacments, clothing, fuel, farm feed, roadtrips and thousands of more applications. That aside, I think that study after, about how a web search causes "ADD" like mindsets in our culture is more of an insight. Even the anchor instanly said "yes, absolutly!". I think this may help explain today's modern apathy and nearsighted goals. When you don't step back and study the bigger picture then you'll be distracted by everything presented inside.

[AerodynamicOwl]

The idea that marijuana makes people smart is being promoted a capitalist ploy to distract people from being politically active and electing candidates who represent the interests of the people. During the 60's the idea that marijuana was a good thing to do was promoted heavily to the antiwar movement as a means of pacifying resistance to the war.

Are you serious? Nobody gets high off weed because it is supposed to make smart. They get high off of weed because IT GETS YOU HIGH.

[Black Star]

The idea that marijuana makes people smart is being promoted a capitalist ploy to distract people from being politically active and electing candidates who represent the interests of the people. During the 60's the idea that marijuana was a good thing to do was promoted heavily to the antiwar movement as a means of pacifying resistance to the war.

...or not. Yeah, let's go with that.

[Black Sheep]

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