Posted by detroitpistons on February 28, 2009, at 10:44:46
In reply to Re: In Defense of Cannabis » Garnet71, posted by SLS on February 28, 2009, at 6:26:28
Yeah, I don't see how marijuana can help to improve memory, but I guess anything's possible. Until I see lots more studies, I won't be too convinced. However, they used to (and some still do) say marijuana kills brain cells. I don't buy that. There's no credible evidence for it.
During the times that I have used marijuana heavily, I have to admit that my short term memory seemed to be affected a bit, but nothing dramatic.
I remember being "busted" in college once because we were smoking in our dorm room. I had to go through all this crap in order to get them off my back. I remember having to have a conversation with one of the graduate assistants in our dorm. He was telling me how I was destroying my life and yada, yada, yada. Then I showed him my grades and informed him that I was pulling pretty much all 4.0's and he shut up. It was quite hilarious. You should have seen him flounder.
> I wish they had bothered to identify the studies they were using as a platform to declare the contentions as fact. Only two studies? Firmly established?
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> I don't think so.
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> I've watched some of my best friends become dullards without memory due to chronic use of the stuff. There's a reason we called them "burn-outs".
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed&form=4&term=(cannabis+OR+marijuana)+AND+chronic+AND+memory&dispmax=100
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> - Scott
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