Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn't Damage Brain. Analysis of Studies Finds Little Effect From Long-Term Use Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. July 1, 2003 -- Long-term and even daily marijuana use doesn't appear to cause permanent brain damage, adding to evidence that it can be a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of diseases, say researchers. The researchers found only a "very small" impairment in memory and learning among long-term marijuana users. Otherwise, scores on thinking tests were similar to those who don't smoke marijuana, according to a new analysis of 15 previous studies. In those studies, some 700 regular marijuana users were compared with 484 non-users on various aspects of brain function -- including reaction time, language and motor skills, reasoning ability, memory, and the ability to learn new information.
Continue reading below... Surprising Finding 10 States OK Marijuana Use. Canadians Love Pot. 10 Reasons Pot Is Better Than Alcohol. MAP Questions for Our Leaders. S Marijuana Health Mythology. Worldwide Marijuana Travel Guide. Marijuana May Stall Brain Tumor Growth. Active Ingredient in Marijuana Inhibits Cancer Growth in Early Study Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Aug. 15, 2004 -- The active ingredient in marijuana may help fight brain tumors, a new study suggests. Researchers say the cannabinoids found in marijuana may aid in brain tumor treatment by targeting the genes needed for the tumors to sprout blood vessels and grow. Their study showed that cannabinoids inhibited genes needed for the production of vascular growth factor (VEGF) in laboratory mice with glioma brain tumors and two patients with late-stage glioblastoma multiforme, a form of brain cancer.
VEGF is a protein that stimulates blood vessels to grow. Continue reading below... Guzman says the findings suggest VEGF may be a new target for cannabinoid-based treatments. The results of the study appear in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research. Marijuana Facts & Fact. 1.Cannabis and hemp are the same. "Marijuana" was the Mexican name given to cannabis. The word `marijuana' is a Mexican slang term which became popular in the 1930's in America, during a series of media and government programs which we now refer to as the `Reefer Madness Movement.' It refers specifically to the medicine part of cannabis, which Mexican soldiers used to smoke. 2.Cannabis was first cultivated in China around 4000B.C. According to the Chinese historic records and archeological data, the history of Chinese hemp cultivation and use spans approx. 5,000 to 6,000 years 3.The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper. 4.One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees. 5.Hemp is a source of fiber for cloth and cordage for rope. 6.George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp. 7.Hemp seed is natures perfect food. 8.Sterilized hemp seeds are often sold a bird food. 9.Rolling papers, like Bambu, are made from hemp paper.
If you support keeping drugs illegal… By Tom++, June 27, 1995 From the Talk.Politics.Drugs Usenet newsgroup You support robberies and assaults on innocent people. The high prices of drugs caused by prohibition force many drug addicts to turn to robbery in order to pay for their drugs. Legalization would drop drug prices. You support clogging our prisons and jails with nonviolent people. Nearly 50% of all people in prison and jail are serving time for nonviolent drug charges. You support organized crime and drug cartels. Huge drug cartels and criminal organizations thrive off the enormous profits caused by drug prohibition. You support environmental destruction. Underground cocaine and methamphetamine labs use toxic chemicals to produce those drugs—the wastes are recklessly dumped in forests and streams. You support drug dealers and street gangs. Drug dealers and street gangs fight over drug territories. You lure thousands of young people into quitting school. You do nothing to keep drugs away from kids or out of schools.
Email destroys the mind faster than marijuana - study. High performance access to file storage Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, according to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London. And the curse of 'messaging' is to blame. Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users, in a clinical trial of over a thousand participants. Doziness, lethargy and an inability to focus are classic characteristics of a spliffhead, but email users exhibited these particular symptoms to a "startling" degree, according to Dr Glenn Wilson.
The deterioration in mental capacity was the direct result of the trialists' addiction to technology, researchers discovered. Email addicts were bombarded by context switches and developed an inability to distinguish between trivial and significant messages. Wilson's research is no flash in the pan. Awash with facts, we've forgotten how to think. Related link Emails 'pose threat to IQ' Related stories. Francis Crick's discovery of DNA helix while on LSD.
Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London), August 8, 2004 FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.
Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize. Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs. By David Gutierrez | A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death. An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines put together. According to state law enforcement officials, this is a sign of a burgeoning prescription drug abuse problem.
“The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.” In 2007, cocaine was responsible for 843 deaths, heroin for 121, methamphetamines for 25 and marijuana for zero, for a total of 989 deaths. Alcohol directly caused 466 deaths, but was found in the bodies of 4,179 cadavers in all. It’s not hard for teens to come by prescription drugs, according to Sgt. “All this stuff is poison,” Crow said. The Netherlands Compared With The United States. 10 Pot Studies Government Wished it Had Never Funded. How Dangerous is Marijuana?