420 Use and Health

[halocog]

I wonder who actually funded this study.

[Ansel]

wtf happened to smoking tabs, taking a bottle of your parent's wine or dodgy spirits and drinking it at a friends house and having a more innocent period of teenage years when growing up?

We did that too.

[Skell18]

wtf happened to smoking tabs, taking a bottle of your parent's wine or dodgy spirits and drinking it at a friends house and having a more innocent period of teenage years when growing up? No need to smoke that horrible shit, cocaine is waaaaaaay better

[Ansel]

I wasn't cherry-picking. More countering.

[Reynard]

you have to take some of these studies with a pinch of salt.

Very much so.

I will say, this lowering of IQ is only as the brain is developing.

[Ansel]

Why distrust this study and trust others? you can't pick and choose which facts to believe based on what you like lmao

No but whether a study in your favour or not in your favour it shows you have to take some of these studies with a pinch of salt.

[Reynard]

Why distrust this study and trust others? you can't pick and choose which facts to believe based on what you like lmao

Anyway the results of this study are a no-brainer. Hahaaaa...zing!

[Ansel]

:-)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22731735

[Premium Parrots]

I reckon we should load up and have a visit with that fellow. If I can remember the combination to my gun safe.

[Ansel]

New Study Shows Smoking Pot Permanently Lowers IQ

what do you reckon?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbr...tly-lowers-iq/

[Ansel]

Interesting study here...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22595870

Conversely, mainstream media outlets often turn a blind eye to scientific studies refuting the notion that pot causes psychosis or in any way exacerbates mental illness, such as a 2009 Keele University Medical School study which found that increased levels of cannabis use by the general public is not associated with proportionally rising incidences of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. This was the case, again, in May when an international team of investigators from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Inje University in South Korea determined that the use of cannabis is associated with lower mortality risk in patients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

Writing in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, investigators assessed the impact of a lifetime history of substance use on mortality in 762 subjects with schizophrenia or related disorders. Researchers “observed a lower mortality risk-adjusted variable in cannabis-users compared to cannabis non-users despite subjects having similar symptoms and antipsychotic treatments." They speculated that this association between marijuana use and decreased mortality risk may be because "cannabis users may (be) higher functioning" and because "cannabis itself may have some health benefits."

"To our knowledge, this is one of the first studies to examine the risk of mortality with cannabis and alcohol in people with PD (psychotic disorders),” the study’s authors concluded. “This interesting finding of decreased mortality risk ... in cannabis users is a novel finding and one that will need replication in larger epidemiological studies.”

[Crow]

Seattle Times Editorial: "Get real about initiative to legalize marijuana"

Seattle's Hempfest, held over the weekend, is tolerated because Seattle residents don't agree with marijuana prohibition. Voters should approve Initiative 502 to legalize marijuana.

Revelers at Seattle's Hempfest celebration of marijuana were offered a debate by supporters and opponents of Initiative 502. We hope they were sober enough to think through it.

For the first time, it is possible to envision an end to marijuana prohibition. That is a huge change -- a huge possible change that hasn't happened yet. But prohibition replaced by what? Any new regime will have to be acceptable to a majority of people -- and not just a majority of revelers at Hempfest or voters in liberal Seattle.

This fall, voters in Washington are being offered Initiative 502. For marijuana activists, it probably is not the ideal offer. The proposed law limits possession of smokable marijuana to one ounce. It has a blood-THC standard for driving a car, and no such standard exists now. It has heavy taxes. It doesn't allow private growing of marijuana plants except by medical patients.

All this has occasioned bellyaching among cannabis users.

Our advice: Get real. Voters in Washington are just now ready, for the first time, to allow marijuana to be grown, processed and used for recreational purposes.

They are not ready to do this without a standard of intoxication for driving, or without licensing and regulation of people in the business, or without taxing marijuana like tobacco and alcohol.

Hempfest revelers should remember: Your festival is tolerated because Seattle people don't agree with prohibition.

Nonetheless, state law still says possession of marijuana, except for medical patients, is punishable by fines and imprisonment.

In November, voters will be offered a law that declares possession of a limited amount of marijuana by adults is no longer punishable by fine or imprisonment.

Think carefully before rejecting the offer.

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[Mrobin52]

Seattle is my number one destination so I'll keep applying until it happens. I've got to get out of the backwards south. lol

I'm originally from the South, grew up in Atlanta. Seattle is the best city in the country imho.

[fleurdelisxliv]

i love the south and im no redneck new orleans is amazing! anyway, i watched a documentary on hempfest like a week ago and damn man seattle looks amazing. i will def have to plan a trip there for sure and i will def be making a trip to hempfest

[Crow]

Haven't heard too much back accept a bunch of recruiters trying to get me to apply with microsoft

Something to consider.

Seattle is my number one destination so I'll keep applying until it happens. I've got to get out of the backwards south. lol

I don't blame you. I would go crazy if I was stuck down there!