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Greek philosopher Socrates might disagree.williatw wrote:Stubby wrote:The onus (aka burden of proof) is on the one making the claim. I am however not surprised you don't know this, self professed critical thinker you claim to be.
Meaning what ?paperburn1 wrote:Greek philosopher Socrates might disagree.williatw wrote:Stubby wrote:The onus (aka burden of proof) is on the one making the claim. I am however not surprised you don't know this, self professed critical thinker you claim to be.
You need to start brewing some hamlock?Stubby wrote:Meaning what ?paperburn1 wrote: Greek philosopher Socrates might disagree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HallucinogenStubby wrote:YOU made the claim that THC is a hallucinogen. . .
Man up and present your evidence.
One might wonder also how much in the way of "hallucinations" would occur with legal licensed pot provided there were regulations on THC content and allowed contaminates? People could then more accurately judge their reactions to especially pot "edibles"; which my understanding are difficult for particularly novice users to gauge. Too bad we didn't stick with the 0.74% THC pot (as opposed to >13% now) we had before the WOD; wonder how many issues would disappear at that much lower concentration? If illegal providers keep jacking up the THC content (& lord knows whatever other contaminates) you might eventually end up with something little better than cocaine or meth.Stubby wrote:So you be afraid to answer the question?
Interesting.
Alcohol does have a relationship with hallucinations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_hallucinosis.
Your argument is that pot users can sometimes have hallucinations therefore all pot usage is bad and/or evil therefore war on drugs.
Alcohol users can sometimes have hallucinations therefore ... you will buy the next round?
Interesting hypocrisy as Simon have often noted about you.
My point is that Cannabis is an hallucinogen and alcohol is not. These have different effects and Cannabis' effects are obviously vastly more destructive. We have been over this dozens of times and no one here appreciates your obtuse responses.Stubby wrote:Your argument is that pot users can sometimes have hallucinations therefore all pot usage is bad and/or evil therefore war on drugs.
In one case, a man in Florida ran naked down the street and then tried to have sex with a tree before being arrested. He told cops he was Thor — yes, the mythical god of thunder.
Palm Springs, Fla. — A Florida principal has been arrested after she was caught partially unclothed in a marijuana-filled car with a student.
"He was sick and out of his head and I tried to get him some help," she said on the steps of the Forrest County Courthouse, where she had gone to find out more information about her sons' arrest.
Marvin Banks had been smoking synthetic marijuana, known as spice, every day.
"He was on that spice. He was on every drug there was. Spice, powder, marijuana, drinking," she said.
Marvin Banks is accused of shooting officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate. The officers died Saturday after Deen was shot in the face, and Tate in the back.
Diogenes wrote:Marijuana users may have ‘false memories’: Brain scans reveal how cannabis smokers can live in their own reality
So the "harm" is apparently dose dependent, you could say the same for any drug including of course alcohol. Maybe if pot were legalized and regulated as to concentration say closer to the 0.74% THC content of the '70's and before rather than the >13% THC we have around now.COULD LOW LEVELS OF MARIJUANA BE GOOD FOR MEMORY?
The latest study contradicts research last year which claimed marijuana, in some ways, may be good for memory.
U.S. researchers said that extremely low levels of the compound THC, the active ingredient in the drug, may slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
At the low doses studied, the therapeutic benefits of THC appear to outweigh the associated risks of THC toxicity and memory impairment, they found.
Professor Chuanhai Cao, lead author of the study and a neuroscientist at the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute in Florida, explained that THC decreases the amount of amyloid beta in the brain.
Amyloid beta is one of the factors that leads to Alzheimer’s and researchers are currently attempting to create drugs that could help stop the production of this protein
Every day for three years of probably >13% THC pot is pretty heavy use; (imagine getting blotto on Jack Daniels every day for three years sure it would have similar deleterious effects on young brains/bodies) hardly typical for most users, and not really an argument for continuing your beloved WOD.In a similar study earlier this month, researchers found that teenagers who smoke cannabis for just three years could be damaging their long- term memory.
Participants in a study who had used the drug daily for around three years in their teens had an abnormally shaped hippocampus by the time they were in their early 20s.