Memory Going To Pot?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

The potentially positive effects of cannabis for dementia:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1087544/Cannabis-stop-dementia-tracks.html

[OldGit]

D'you think it'd be too late for me?

[Too Few Lions]

D'you think it'd be too late for me?

you could always have a toke on one of these magic sticks and see



Interesting post Bruce, but I can't quite get over the irony of a pro cannabis story in the Daily Heil. You folks in the US or other non-UK countries might not know quite what a nasty small-minded right wing rag the Daily Mail is, normally they take any opportunity they can to scaremonger about drugs, sex, Europe, atheism, immigration, Islam, lefties, liberals or anything else they seem petrified of, while promoting some supposedly idyllic dream of a right wing conservative Christian Britain, just like it used to be in the good old days

Looking at other stories they've run recently, you may be less likely to get dementia if you take cannabis, but the downside is you may not reach an old enough age to suffer from dementia as you're far more likely to get cancer, suffer from schizophrenia, suffer from depression, have a poor memory etc...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2053486/One-cannabis-joint-bring-schizophrenia.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2047879/Smoking-cannabis-make-depressed-depending-genes.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-146853/Why-cannabis-greater-cancer-risk-tobacco.html

http://ukcia.org/wordpress/?p=963

my girlfriend's a nurse who works with people with dementia, I might have to suggest that she takes a few joints round to her clients next week...

[Too Few Lions]

I just found this amusing 'The Daily Mail song' on youtube, it sums the paper up rather nicely;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

[Ecurb Noselrub]

D'you think it'd be too late for me?

No - now - right NOW - is the time you need it most.

[Asmodean]

Bleh... I'll stick with my nicotine. 

[DeterminedJuliet]

Would it still work as well if you made brownies?

Er, uh, I mean, what is marijuana?

[Asmodean]

It's a weed, apparently.

One I, for one, have never tried smoking and have no real interest in trying.

[DeterminedJuliet]

It's a weed, apparently.

One I, for one, have never tried smoking and have no real interest in trying.

To each their own. Personally, I don't find it has a big effect on me beyond making me obnoxiously giggly.

[The Magic Pudding]

There's a skeletal female on that linked page, apparently her form is what all woman should be aiming for.
No doubt there's some fat male, sitting on his fat ass making these judgements while chewing on a doughnut.
Someone should give the woman some dope to get her appetite working.

[Tank]

It's a weed, apparently.

One I, for one, have never tried smoking and have no real interest in trying.

To each their own. Personally, I don't find it has a big effect on me beyond making me obnoxiously giggly.

Now that I would like to see 

[Siz]

I can't condone cannabis use as I believe it has had a detrimental effect on my own brain. After years of use (I cant stand the word 'abuse' *) I think my brain has lost its sharpness as a direct result.

That's not to say that I care for its criminalisation - we all should have the choice. I know many prolonged users who are clever, upwardly-mobile citizens and enjoy it immensely. I wouldn't take it away from them.

For teenagers, though, the culture of cannabis smoking can be a very unhealthy environment. Factors to note include (but are not limited to):
Apathy
Lack of excercise
Bad eating habits
Antisocial
Tobacco dangers
Dulling of brain function
A block to other healthy experiential exploration.

Now, that said, I do have a positive view of LSD use. I sincerely believe that everyone should have the opportunity to be exposed to LSD in a controlled environment. The 'mind expanding' moniker is not baseless - but not necessarily in a spiritual sense. It really opens up your mind to altered perspectives which I have found valuable in eveyday decision-making and personal interactions. A '4d' view, if you will.

'Class A's' (as they call them in the UK) - Well, they're just for fun and raping your wallet!

* Drug 'abuse'? - I thought getting stoned is what they're designed for. Their use is not abuse. It's just another provocative phrase used by the media to express disapproval of 'use'.

[Asmodean]

* Drug 'abuse'? - I thought getting stoned is what they're designed for. Their use is not abuse. It's just another provocative phrase used by the media to express disapproval of 'use'.

When the use of narcotics negatively impacts the user's economy, quality of life and social interactions, why is it wrong to call that "abuse"?

You can use heroin and function well enough. Write some cool songs while at it too. And then, you can use heroin and be a street corner junkie. I'd say therein lies the differene between use and abuse for that particular drug.

[Crow]

Bleh... I'll stick with my nicotine. 

I'm with you on that one.

[Siz]

* Drug 'abuse'? - I thought getting stoned is what they're designed for. Their use is not abuse. It's just another provocative phrase used by the media to express disapproval of 'use'.

When the use of narcotics negatively impacts the user's economy, quality of life and social interactions, why is it wrong to call that "abuse"?

You can use heroin and function well enough. Write some cool songs while at it too. And then, you can use heroin and be a street corner junkie. I'd say therein lies the differene between use and abuse for that particular drug.

I understand how and why it's used, I just find it an obnoxiously emotive phrase used politically by people with an anti-drug agenda. The same people that would describe ANY drug use as abuse. You're not one of them are you, Asmo?

It's a little trite and subject to ... er ... abuse.