"Brain scans showed the hippocampus and amygdala were smaller in men who were heavy marijuana users compared to nonusers..."

were there baseline scans of the heavy marijuana users?? you know - scans taken BEFORE they began using to PROVE that marijuana CAUSED the "shrinkage"? of course not...therefore there is no way to know if pot caused the changes in the hippocampus and/or amygdala IF they are even changes...perhaps these men just have smaller brain areas normally...or maybe the non-users were women who are known to have larger hippocampi than men...

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Gee, I fed my pet rat a gallon of milk a day and he got sick.

But aside from that, how can I get into one of these studies? Do I have to supply my own rolling papers? What was the question again?

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More propaganda secretly paid for by the NIDA. Search terms, "Yurcel NIDA". Nuff said.

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...has shown for over 5,000 years that there have been no deaths or actual proof that smoking or ingesting cannabis has any deleterious effects on the human organism, not to mention the many animals that graze on it or consume the seeds (birds). The current spate of propaganda is an effort by those under the thumb of the status quo (governmental elitists) to keep 'Marijuana Madness' alive so that the incarceration and enforcement industries ever expansive and entrenched within the human experience. And it is clear to me that there are an awful lot of easily influenced persons in society at large (sheeple, if you will) that will listen to any clap-trap and buy into it. The same herd-like mentality exists for the concept of war.

Judge me if you must, but I have 12 years of higher education, do not currently smoke cannabis, but did for 25 years and have been a substance abuse counselor for 20 years and a nurse for 40. I've also been an explosives expert for 39 years, but you won't find me proposing the use of them, however when it comes to the use of cannabis I find no fault or harm in it and see it as a very useful medicine. It's uses are numerous beyond the entertainment value it has.

Don't listen to this current junk journalism.It is generated by the same type of parasites that would and do promote war, torture, and death penalties. We must evolve mentally past their efforts and I believe with every cell in my body that we can.

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I smoke pot every day, all day. I work a full time job as a network administrator, I'm building a company on the side. I host and maintain 20 websites, I'm a DJ and producer, recently I offered my free services to a local politician in order to help stream line his online campaign - I hope I'm going to dumb down at some point because it would be a nice way to relax, it's getting hectic in my life.

The truth of the matter is this: nearly every problem this country faces comes down to one thing: Lobbies and their constituents. The beer and lumber lobby will not allow for commercial hemp production, and certainly not the production of real herb, because that amounts to one thing: loss of income. The energy lobby won't let us do anything other than use carbon products because of the same reasons - loss of income. In the capitalistic society we live in, nothing has value other than the bottom line. Our economy is based on growth and everything short of that is considered a failure. As a part of keeping everything the way it is, corporations spends millions to put out misinformation. Let's not forget how MJ got banned in the first place - in it's early stages it was claimed that marijuana was keeping people from working and that workers were becoming violent. A bunch of bad press was put out and shortly after it was taxed to death, and thereby finished as a product. Since then, Lobbies have done their part in ensuring that any kind of research, goes directly to the pharmaceutical companies. I forget when it was, but at some point the government actually passed legislation that universities had to hand over their research on Hemp to the pharmaceutical companies. The reason: because big pharma was going to determine which medicinal use Marijuana might have. Needless to say very little research has been released since that.

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Did you know that drinking water 1 ,8 oz. glass after another all day [24 hrs.] could kill you? did you know that eating all day 24 hrs.could give you a heart attack? do you realize how stupid these tests are getting to try prove a point that smoking pot could be dangerous? ah duh! how dumb can these testers get? who's paying for these tests? and how much in our tax dollar!??? I can't get over the brazin stupidity illustrated in these tests, a pot smoker would never think of doing something so stupid as orchestrate such tests!a pot smoker would never smoke all day 24 hours,they'd fall asleep long before that!!

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Fifty joints, about 2 ounces, about $800/day.

Who the hell could afford that even if you could actually smoke that much.

On another angle.

If you need that much weed, 2 joints an hour, to maintain a high, you need to find a new source!

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PROHIBITION never works it just CAUSES CRIME & VIOLENCE. Illegal drugs are way easier for kids to get than legal ones. The USA spends $69 billion a year on the drug war, builds 900 new prison beds and hires 150 more correction officers every two weeks, arrests someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds, jails more people than any nation and has killed over 100,000 citizens because of the drug war. In 1914 when ALL DRUGS WERE LEGAL 1.3% of our population was addicted to drugs, today 1.3% of our population is STILL ADDICTED TO DRUGS. The only way to control drugs is to REGULATE THEM AND END THE PROFITS AVAILABLE TO CRIMINALS just like ending alcohol prohibition did. There’s only been one drug success story in history, tobacco, THE MOST DEADLY and one of the MOST ADDICTIVE drugs. Almost half the users quit because of REGULATION, ACCURATE INFORMATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT. No one went to jail and no one got killed. JOIN EMAIL LIST, WATCH VIDEOS:
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Pot has been around for some time and is not going away regardless of enforcement and/or research.

Its a perference for many who want to avoid the harmful effects of daily misuse of alcohol: Pot is a healthy choice for many.

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Hey, I have studies alleging that drinking 50 oz. of alcohol 24/7 will definitely clean your clock, too! Drinking 2 gallons of high power coffee each day will turn your liver into a prune! Let's get real and use things in moderation. And while we're at it, lets not foul up the net with bogus junk journalism like this.

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Where do I get it?

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