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originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
You can find some positive, i can find some negative.
Who's right then?
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The study found that frequent marijuana users performed worse than non-users on tests of cognitive abilities, including divided attention (ability to pay attention to more than one stimulus at a time) and verbal fluency (number of words generated within a time limit). Those who had used marijuana for 10 years or more had more problems with their thinking abilities than those who had used marijuana for five to 10 years. All of the marijuana users were heavy users, which was defined as smoking four or more joints per week.
The study involved people ages 17 to 49 taking part in a drug abuse treatment program in Athens, Greece. There were 20 long-term users, 20 shorter-term users and 24 control subjects who had used marijuana at least once in their lives but not more than 20 times and not in the past two years.
The marijuana users performed worse in several cognitive domains, including delayed recall, recognition and executive functions of the brain. For example, on a test measuring the ability to make decisions, long-term users had 70 percent impaired performance, compared to 55 percent impaired performance for shorter-term users and 8 percent impaired performance for non-users. In a test where participants needed to remember a list of words that had been read to them earlier, the non-users remembered an average of 12 out of 15 words, the shorter-term users remembered an average of nine words and the long-term users remembered an average of seven words.
originally posted by: Biigs
What about the psychological effects?
Getting high could be slowly ruining your life if they are right about that.
Now i wont put my own opinion in here since thats against the forum rules.
originally posted by: Mianeye
There are pro's and con's, the effect wont show in 3 months, a year or 5 years, it's the long term effects that are going to tell if it's a good idea or a bad idea, i would guess thats in the range from 10 to 50 years.
If it's positiv, enjoy your freedom.
If it's negativ, good luck fixing it.
originally posted by: Biigs
What about the psychological effects?
Getting high could be slowly ruining your life if they are right about that.
Now i wont put my own opinion in here since thats against the forum rules.
originally posted by: Skywatcher2011
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
"Wished it Had Never Funded"????? LOL...that is a joke right?
The truth is I am sure quite the opposite...secretly they wanted to fund it and later on legalize it so more people would smoke it for 2 reasons...
1) Make it a taxable commodity
2) Make it legal so people who smoke it would get dumber over time with regular use
Think about it..if more people smoked pot, the dumber they get, the richer the rich get because they have no one to compete with them on a higher level thinking scale.
But I could be wrong, Snoop Dogg is a walking pot plant himself....
originally posted by: AfterInfinity
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Stoned spiders couldn't catch a fly if it gave them a lap dance.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: AfterInfinity
What's that supposed to mean? If you want to provide evidence that marijuana makes you dumber you need to show that decrease in intelligence over a lifetime, not while they are wasted.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: AfterInfinity
What's that supposed to mean? If you want to provide evidence that marijuana makes you dumber you need to show that decrease in intelligence over a lifetime, not while they are wasted.
originally posted by: Skywatcher2011
Also...marijuana is a drug...and people who use a drug regularly can become an addict...and addiction changes brain chemistry and function...
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Skywatcher2011
Wow you really have no clue do you... for the last century most governments of the world have done everything they can to keep cannabis illegal, there is a reason for that. If they wanted to make it legal and tax it they wouldn't bother conducting a bunch of studies to justify their position, they'd just do it like they do everything else without legitimate justification. They funded those studies because they were hoping to prove how bad cannabis is, but instead they got the opposite result and shelved these studies so they would be forgotten. Furthermore, cannabis can open your mind and let you think outside of the box, and there is no solid evidence is makes you dumber. One could easily argue that they keep it illegal precisely because it allows people to see through propaganda. Your entire premise is absolutely absurd and has no correlation to reality. You're painting a picture which is almost a mirror image of reality.